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Problematic Ships and Problematic Ship Accessories
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The wreckage from the cargo ship Dali and the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge
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Not gonna lie, I thought that anon asking about ships was talking about relationships.
relationships can also benefit from maintenance
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How can ships last for decades, if not a century? How do they not rust away or start falling apart?
maintenance
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It’s a given in a certain type of media, but you do still hate to see the beautiful ships injure each other with cannonballs
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Today's Problematic Ship is the MV Dali, pictured above
The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, collapsed early this morning after it was struck by a large container ship. The 1.6-mile bridge, which crosses the Patapsco River and is part of Interstate 695, broke to pieces and fell into the river below. Several vehicles were plunged into the water; two people have been rescued and crews continue to search for others. An estimated 11.5 million vehicles crossed the bridge annually in recent years.
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Source imagery: WBAL-TV
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Maersk ship causes bridge collapse in Baltimore
Photo: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Ritzau Scanpix
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Maersk ship causes bridge collapse in Baltimore
Photo: Mandel Ngan, AFP via Getty Images
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Today's problematic fictional ships are...
Every now and then I get asked about ships, and I usually avoid the question both because I think it's obvious what will win and because "ship wars" just aren't fun. But, fine. Just this once, in honor of Valentine's Day, ~let the ship wars rage~. Hopefully no one sails too far west and triggers the sinking of Númenor.
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Ship suggestion: Ferry Sewol
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bold of this spambot to run their crypto scam on a post about the terrible no good very bad bitcoin boat
Today's Problematic Ship is the Satoshi
The Satoshi was a cruise ship owned by Ocean Builders, a company dedicated to "seasteading," an attempt to create a seabourne community free of laws imposed on dry land, with strong ties to the cryptocurrency movement.
The 1991-built ship, originally named Regal Princess but renamed Pacific Dawn in 2007, was purchased by Ocean Builders in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The idea was to permanently anchor the ship in Panamian waters, as the central hub of an eventual community of "SeaPods", essentially individual houses at sea, which would be arranged around the Satoshi in the form of a Bitcoin B.
It quickly became evident that the people running Ocean Builders had no understanding of how to operate a ship: they initially failed to ensure their ship had certificate of seaworthiness to allow it to sail to Panama (where the venture was to be based), and even after this no-one was willing to insure the ship, making it impossible for passengers to live onboard. They also planned to re-engine the ship while it was out at sea, a physically impossible task to accomplish without sinking the ship in the process.
The leadership of Ocean Builders blamed all this on shipping being "plagued by over-regulation." (Many of our entries here at Today's Problematic Ship demonstrate those regulations exist for a reason). The end result was predictable: by the time the Satoshi arrived in Panama it had been sold to an Indian shipbreaker.
Except Ocean Builders had signed a contract they could not honour: according to the Basel Convention, which covers the disposal of hazardous waste, they weren’t allowed to send the ship from a signatory country (Panama) to a non-signatory country (India). Thus the sale was cancelled, and subsequently the ship was arrested by Panamian authorities.
Eventually, the Satoshi was sold in 2021 a different startup company, Ambassador Cruise Line. The new venture, who actually knew how to operate a cruise ship, started successful operations with the former Satoshi, now renamed Ambience, in 2022.
The Guardian has a detailed article about the saga of the Satoshi and the seasteading movement.
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Today’s problematic ship is the SS El Faro
The SS El Faro was a 241-meter container ship. She was forty years old and in extremely poor repair when on October 1st, 2015, she was caught in Hurricaine Joachim off the coast of San Salvador. She sank along with all 33 hands.
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great time to start working on a series of six or so super deep ports running from Anchorage down to Manzanillo, so we can efficiently send ultra large container vessels across the pacific
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Case Study: Liberty Ships Failure
In the 1940s, the US built over 2700 vessels referred to as the Liberty Ships. While it was far from the majority (most of the sunken Liberty ships were a result of German attacks), several of the Liberty ships suffered sudden, catastrophic failures that would go on to change the field of failure analysis. Examples include that of the Schenectady, pictured above cracked in half. These ship failures are perhaps some of the best well known examples of materials failure, often taught (or at least mentioned) in introductory classes.
While there were a number of mechanisms that led to the failure of the ships, one of the most cited causes is the ductile to brittle transition temperature (DBTT). Once the ships entered colder waters the structure of the steel changed and fracture occurred. The DBTT was actually discovered as a result of these failures by metallurgist Constance Tipper, of Cambridge. As expected, the thousands of Liberty ships had a significant impact during World War II, but, more unexpected, they had a significant impact on physical metallurgy.
Sources/Further Reading: (Image source - 2016 article) (2015 article) (University of Cambridge)
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@bellejolras said:
case study of calling the titanic “unsinkable” suggests it would not have helped :/
hold on sorry you're telling me the name of the boat was "the terror"?? i always assumed that was a retroactive name! did they WANT things to go horrifically awry???
obsessed with the implication that nominative determinism could have saved them
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hold on sorry you're telling me the name of the boat was "the terror"?? i always assumed that was a retroactive name! did they WANT things to go horrifically awry???
obsessed with the implication that nominative determinism could have saved them
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