Saturday, 12 September 2009

Live WebCam of beached ship in Bloubergstrand – updated every 2 minutes

Here’s a webcam that’s updated every 2 minutes (during the day):
http://www.tablemountainview.com showing the ship (and Table Mountain).

The ship had 25 Turkish crew members on board.

From www.iol.co.za
“
The ship, Seli 1, ran aground just before midnight on Monday after massive swells and gale force winds sent waves crashing over the bow of the 77 metre Panamanian-registered coal bulk-carrier, which rolled and listed in the rising tide.
Twenty-five Turkish crew members had to be rescued. One of them was treated for mild hypothermia.
”

Here are some close-up pics of the cargo ship and rescue operation (from Aki Anastasiou’s blog – the presenter from Talk Radio 702) taken by Clinton Geyser:  http://aki702.posterous.com/incredible-pictures-of-the-turkish-ship-that

Update on 30Nov2009:
Well done Darren Rahme – he’s decided to rescue the coast line by investing over R3m Rands to salvage the stricken ship and its contents: Developer buys coal from wrecked cargo vessel




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