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Riverdance ferry ashore at blackpool....
Range Rover Blues:
They don't lash the lorries down then?
strapping young lad:
how do they propose to get the cargo off it?
imagine your prize car or smoething is balancing warily on the riverdance!
you'd be camped out in blackpool keeping a beedy eye on the container!
Disco Matt:
They do usually lash them down, but to get a list that serious the cargo would have to have shifted. I can't see what else on a RoRo could cause it assuming the watertight doors held (which they did). Certainly I've read reports that some of the lorries on deck have apparently fallen off, and shots from astern showed them all jammed against the starboard rail.
I really have no idea how they will unload this one! I can't see how it could be done until they deal with the list.
beast5680:
--- Quote ---They do usually lash them down, but to get a list that serious the cargo would have to have shifted
--- End quote ---
presumably it listed as the hurricane force winds and high seas drove it onto the beach and rolled it over then the cargo would have moved? not the other way round surely
waveydavey:
They do lash them but the chains are to stop them shifting in heavy seas not to hold the weight of the truck bodily.
The trucks are a small problem for the list; Fuel and ballast (Sea Water) are the only things with the the weight to make a worthwhile difference.
Basically they prepare it and get it ready then when the next spring tides are due get as much weight as possible off and take it out on the high water. - don't forget the pictures are all on low tide; high tide gives a lot more water and spring high lots more still.
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