"Mayday!": Camera captures huge wave snapping cargo ship in 2 off coast of Turkey
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- Опубліковано 29 січ 2021
- Onboard cameras captured the shocking moment a cargo ship was broken in two by a huge wave off Turkey's Black Sea province of Bartin earlier this month.
Three sailors died when the Ukrainian-owned Arvin sank in heavy seas on Jan. 16 after the wave snapped its keel near the bow.
The Turkish Maritime Authority released the video, which also recorded crew members making a mayday call for help on the voyage between Georgia and Bulgaria.
A search operation rescued the other members of the mainly Ukrainian crew.
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"Mayday, mayday mayday. My vessel broken." is an understatement. The waves weren't terribly big either. Seems like it outlived its service life a few years ago.
They sure got all the good out of it.
Which is why we have regulations to prevent these kinds of things
The ship was 46 years old and in very bad shape.
@@jpjpjp453 clearly lol interesting to know it was that old
@@Lilbebee07 Stretching the service life out of that vessel to the fullest, 35 years would have been the absolute latest that it should have been sent to the breakers IMO. And that's really pushing it.
They need to investigate who paid off the inspectors because no way in hell should that thing have still been sailing.
Inspectors? Lmao.
ship couldve simply not been built for open ocean, some boats are built and designed just for channels and rivers
@@eriksimca9409
"In this video, we see how the lives of seafarers are played with by going through surveys even though the sheet metal of a 46-year-old ship has reached the breaking point. Just as it was certain that the MV Bilal Bal ship would sink four years ago, it was certain that the MV Arvin would sink," said the Turkish maritime union Platform of the Sea Workers.
A port state control inspection in Georgia last year found extensive deficiencies on board the Arvin, including deck corrosion and ill-maintained weathertight hatches, according to her Equasis record."
@@jpjpjp453 thank you its so nice when people put legit info on yt 🙏
C'mon we're talking about Turkey... It's most likely inspector, not inspectors and he's probably never even been to the ocean. He just has a P.O. box you mail your licencing fee to :)
The last words the captain will ever want to say: “my vessel broken.”
He died
@@himhim3344 captain died?
@@himhim3344 so sad
@@himhim3344 Did he really?
Almost as good as an airline pilot saying "oops"
"We are sinking!" German coast guard: "What are you sinking about?"
This is terrible, take my like and go!
God damnit lmao
Heheheheh haaaaa may day we are sinking about 2 fathoms a minute..
I'm sinking worst (best) joke of the day
Am I going to hell for laughing way to hard, for way too long, over this comment?
That was not a huge wave. That ship was ready to break if someone kicked it
Ha ha 😁😂so right!!
jajaj
civilian ships are not subject to the same sort of maintenance and inspection military ones are. This seems like a neglect issue on an old boat.
modern russian tech lol
It was obviously in disrepair. I would've liked to see more. Like did it sink? If so, how long did it take? This video leaves me wanting more for sure!!! Snarf snarf!
For all those that say “why scrap perfectly good ships,” here’s why
@Bønzëaux Błëuxgrēn hes just talking about people who dont know what they are talking about, "good looking" ships can be absolutely awful.
@Bønzëaux Błëuxgrēn you got to remember this is a bulk carrier soo when waves hit it front of the hull causing stress but there's a certain point when the bow of the ship snaps
@Bønzëaux Błëuxgrēn Learn to read b4 you embarrass yourself further.
@Bønzëaux Błëuxgrēn you are not the sharpest tool in the toolbox are you?
@Bønzëaux Błëuxgrēn 🤦♂️
In fairness, that thing looks like it was built to snap in half.
Calling the wave "huge" is an insult to huge waves.
It was not built to snap in half. The nature of waves that is crests and troughs create hogging and sagging moments on every ship. This ship must be quite old and dry docking and surveys were not carried out efficiently. Hence the result
@@abhi9167, allow us our fun, it appeared to deal well with the snapped section.
@@yourworstnightmareiscathoc7015 No, she sank with loss of life!
@@abhi9167 I think it is one of those segmented jitterbug hulls👍
That was not a huge wave; that was just a crappy vessel.
That's what I thought too. Looked it up she was 45 years old and probably never saw a dry dock - falling apart before her back broke
@@erichammond9308 common in that industry
I don't have any pirating knowledge by any means, but I thought the same
Made in China lol
@@olias2716 😄
The ship was in trouble BEFORE the waves...should have been scrapped years ago.
Francis Delaney results of using glue 🤭
A little FlexSeal and she'll be as good as new.
Recycled metal
This is nothing to the Iowa-Class
The owners probably hoping it would sink for insurance money
Engineer, “she’s fine, in heavy seas she will hinge like that.”
100% there exposed to flex like that but in that video shows the boat not moving so it can have a effect to on the vessel with tons of weight I’ve seen that happen
@@mikeoliveira6905 it was a joke...
The Edmond Fitzgerald wasn’t 😳
Are sure abt that my engineer? I think she is not feeling well 😅😅
Reading this with a russian accent. LOL
“Well to begin with, the front’s not supposed to fall off”
I guess it depends on what it's made of :)
@@BM22TechReview Cardboard is right out!
That's a feature....not a bug!
Can someone please call me a taxi?
@@Nick_Jones okay, "You're a taxi!"
In case anyone is curious the reason that happened is because this is coastal cargo vessel. They are designed longer and narrower so they can essentially ride the types of waves you find in the shallower areas of the ocean or even the Great Lakes. The waters are normally much calmer and the ships aren’t designed to pitch and roll as aggressively as a Blue Water cargo vessel which would be wider and better able to handle the stresses. It’s a case of wrong place wrong time in the wrong ship type.
Well if that's the case. Should have made it stronger. Large lakes and inland sea's have the bathtub affect. Which produces stronger heavier waves from different directions, and more rogue waves. No, this ship sank because of age. It was well past it's service life.
Not the Great Lakes.
Great Lakes are WAY MEANNER THAN THE OCEAN
NOT the Great Lakes for chrissake, they have HUGE waves in the Great Lakes. Never forget the Edmond Fitzgerald and HUNDREDS of others. Hundreds is not hyperbole either.
@@guydaley Witches of November
The wave wasn't that massive- the ship must have already been structurally compromised.
thats a fair assumption.
Я так понимаю это Украинское судно, класс река-море для него море губительно , корпус думаю был ослаблен коррозией.
@@user-tt5ym6ig5w ?
100 % agree
Ummmm yeah ❗️🙄
The ship looked like a bucket of rust.
This ship should not have been sailing. Built-in 1975. Tankers are built in sections . Many times when breaking the mid-ship can add a line to the aft part and drag it along!! This ship should have been scrapped. I sailed in the merchant marine a long time and was many sea accidents. The worst fear upon a ship is a fire onboard !!!
Please remember 6 died of a crew of 12, I doubt they wanted to be on the ship that old.
Looked like? It was a bucket of rust
Isn’t the name Rust Bucket apart of something? Like from spongebob?
Old ship forced to sail
Arvin was 46 years old. She was a pretty old river cargo ship. Six sailors died. RIP
"Not to worry, we're still sailing half a ship."
I get that reference
Hello there
@@kevinm.n.5158 General Kenobi
“Time to abandon ship”
@@stCOMMANDER_TE *cough cough*
"Oh they're built to be very rigorous to strict maritime standards." "Well obviously not this one, because a wave hit it and the front fell off."
No cardboard or cardboard derivatives, minimum crew of 1 😂😉
It was out past the environment
Not wave
To be fair it probably was built to strict maritime standards - those in force when it was built, 45 years ago. It's how it's been maintained and surveyed more recently that is the key issue here.
🤣 love that interview
This ship was originally designed for rivers and canals not for seas
Yeah teh wave wasn't that big
The ship's history dates back to 1975 and was in very bad shape. The design was adequate, the ship just should have long been scrapped or hulked.
Many vessels like this from Russian are on duty in open sea.🎳🎳🎳🎳🎳🎳🎳🎳🎳🎳🎳🎳🎳🎳🎳🎳
Exact: belongs to a diverse class of river-sea cargo ships built for the Soviet Union in great numbers. They are not designed for unrestricted navigation and a few have sunk in heavy weather.
But in the cas e was not heavy weather
that wasn't even much of a wave, but then my old Ford Pinto did the same exact thing on a speed bump after 25 years of rust.
I’m sorry about your car but damn that’s funny 😂
At least it didn't explode.
My old Ford Pinto sank in the lake and I didn't even hit a speed bump or a wave.
The ship was the MV Arvin, anchored on the Turkish coast....it was 46 years old and had previously failed safety inspections in the Georgian Republic for extensive deck and hull corrosion, as well as insecure water tight hatches.
That's horrendous that it was allowed to be in service, what were the officials thinking about I wonder? I think I know, it talks!!
I have been a welder, a ship repair welder, for almost 40 years. It is amazing how one section of the cargo hold can have no corrosion but on the other side of the same cargo hold, there are rust holes so bad that product is falling into the double bottom.
If the bad spots of an aging ship are repaired when found, that ship can have a much longer life. Sure the ship starts to look bad to the untrained eye with soft patches and inserts all over the place, but those patches and inserts put strength back into the hull. My shipyard has replaced 5 tonnes of hull plate on a single overtime weekend. I show up, back gouge the hull plates from the ribs, run a gouge line down the welded seams, crane in a new hull plate section, get inside the weld the hull plate back to the main ribs and weld up the bull weld seams all by using .045 and .52 flux-cored welding wire. The hull only needs an 8 millimeter weld to pass inspection, so it's not a big process to do repairs that this ship needed. The only bad part of doing this fix is going into the double bottoms, but that is where we send the new guys, that need the experience and are to dumb to know they got the worse job onsite. I'm 63, I don't climb in double bottoms anymore, I paid my dues.
"old ship 50years after being sold for scrap finally snaps in two."
That's how you double your investment.
that ship is built in three sections to be able to bend like that. maybe lol
Nom d'une pipe! Je dirais même plus: "Old ship, 50 years after being sold for scrap, finally snaps in two."
@@nduwingoma well maybe the safety chains let loose on the front section
50 years doesn’t necessarily mean much. Those ships aren’t made for open, rough seas and more for rivers
There was no wave. That’s called “literally just being at sea.”
The title of the video says, "huge wave", which is one of the greatest exaggerations I've seen in the past decade or so. Typical sensationalist media. "Just being at sea", as you put it, is far more accurate.
that was the wave of chuck Norris jumping in the sea and it wasn't even touching the ship - it was merely looking at it
The odds of a wave hitting a ship at sea? Chance in a million!
waves look much smaller on camera
It was Godzilla
So sorry to hear three sailors lost their lives that day. 💔 May their families find comfort.
6 of the 13 survived !! I bet they survived !!
Looks like they would have had plenty of time to board the safety boats.
@@jdtown6585 Depends where you are. On the bridge, everything is sort of calm, and you can comfortably pick up your jacket, tie your shoes, and head for the life boat.
But imagine you are a sailor under deck, close to where the ship snapped in half. You hear metal screeching, the lights go out when the cabling snaps, and then the water comes in. If you don't get knocked out right away, you find yourself in the dark, disoriented and under water, with no idea what just happened, and the ship you are in slowly on its way below the waves.
Who else is going through the comments to understand what’s going on here??
Me 🙋🏾♂️
It should be a criminal offence to let such unseaworthy vessels go to sea!
It'll buff out...
Thats how they collect insurance,and sink it as well. 2 jobs done...
I think it is
I won’t comment on “buffing something out” as I think souls were lost... as far as it being illegal, it very well might be but find me the cases were it actually gets a sentence and prosecution. Maritime law is very lax in many countries.
it is....
In the words of Obiwan Kenobi: “Not to worry, we are still flying half a ship.”
Dang! You beat me to it! Now I have to delete my comment. XD
This is where the fun begins!
Hello there
I'm more reminded of the Pakleds from StarTrek after hearing that Mayday.
"We are Pakleds. Our ship is the Mondor. It is broken."
Just like Ukraine itself...cut in half. RIP three brave sailors.
It’s not the size of the waves, it’s the wavelength. If the length between crests equals the length of the ship, it’s going to flex. It’s age and condition are factors too, but Great Lakes carriers have this same flaw.
"Well what happened."
"The front fell off."
I hate it when the front of my boat falls off, usually it is at a very inconvenient time
Not to worry, we are still flying half a ship
Ahhh a man of culture I see
@TheLambo2 yes it is
Yeah right. "Welders weld that gaping hole shut right now & we be fine."
We lost something!
werts18 I hope you know that people died when that ship sunk. Think about that for a minute.
To those who lost their lives I send my love to you and your families ❤️
Chief E did some not make it then?
Just read three passed. Brave people who do these jobs on the high seas.
May their spirit journeys be swift and true.❤
"Don't worry captain we can buff out those scratches."
No need, captain Vitaly Golenko, who you can hear over the radio, was one of the 6 dead
Should have got all the crew together and headed straight to the life raft.
They probably did...there are crew that work below decks that most likely regrettably got trapped Immediately...that damn ship snapped in half.
@@pwnerpinistic what the video DOESN'T show is the captain or deck officer grabbing the camera and then the crew on the bridge getting into survival suits. 6 crewmembers were trapped inside the vessel near the rupture and lost their lives.
You can search on UA-cam for the full version of the video.
@@PaulCashman That is so very very sad. R.I.P. to those poor crewmembers.
Life raft?
Sending my deepest condolences to the families and friends of the three sailors who died when this ship broke up and sunk. This should never have happened, so I hope they can receive the justice they deserve.
Any survivors?
There were two other ships in plain view, the sailors would have had plenty of time between the total sinking of their ship to be rescued.
@@GaisSacredCreations What if you're below deck? Rescue is not a easy as it seems. First get on deck, Second get in the water. Third get picked up ou tof cold seas from a boat with a side half as long as a football field. I've done sailboat racing rescues in WARM seas. Swimmer still had hypo. only in the water for ten minutes, IF THEY KNOW how to swim.
@@jessecantrell1820what you've said is correct but that's also why survival suits and life rafts are a mandatory on commercial vessels. Not much hope if below deck sadly. Jumping into the sea goes against 99% of any sea survival training. After putting out a successful mayday I'd imagine crew thats able would be putting on survival suits and deploying life rafts. Not a situation anyone wants to be in. That ship would of being going down scary fast .
Three died? They called *"mayday mayday mayday"* I in the video there were at least 2 other ships less than 2 miles, if it sank why was the video saved? Are you sure anyone died?
That was a calm day.....looks like that ship shouldn't have passed inspection.
" shouldn't have...."
The magic of corruption
It was not a calm day. She had been at anchor for two days just outside Bartin in a storm. When the accident happened, no other vessel in the vicinity could come to her rescue, even the Turkish Coast Guard had a hard time operating.
@@martin3203 I see two other ships in the video so there were other ships in the vicinity. It's not normal for a ship to snap in half no matter what storm it seen.....that old ship belonged in a scrap yard.
@@exroyalcanadian according to the sources, the sea state were so severe that the other vessels anchored in the area could not come to _Arvin's_ rescue.
Yes, the ship was old, built in 1975, and somebody else who have found better sources that I (Russian? Ukrainian?) said, that there were multiple code violations in recent years.
And she was a river-sea cargo vessel, so she should probably not have been on that route at all.
This cargo ship just felt the aftershocks of the Godzilla vs. Kong trailer.
@Nichen Fauster
Shut up.
How horrible for crew. Glad another vessel in sight. Sad for 3 lives lost.
God bless those sailors that lost their lives in this incident and God bless their families.
Did people actually die?
@@smurphy2146, yes that is what they said. I imagine a great deal of water came inside very fast when it broke.
@@eugenecbell rip to them
@@smurphy2146 6 people of 12 died
Your magical god didn't save them. Think long and hard about that.
This is the river ship mv Arvin, in the black SEA. It's not an ocean going vessel. Its was sailing with a shallow draft due to no cargo in a sea state it was never designed to operate in. It was a matter of time before she snapped the trapped air in the holds helped keep her afloat if not she would have sank in moments. The captain should have called mayday then have the crew put on survival suits on ready to abandon ship.
That ship was 46 years-old and at anchor at the time. There were 12 crewmembers on board, including two Russian nationals and 10 Ukrainian seafarers. The rescue was hampered by heavy weather, but six survivors were rescued. The bodies of three more were recovered from the wreck and three crewmembers remain missing. A port state control inspection in Georgia the year before found extensive deficiencies onboard the Arvin, including deck corrosion and ill-maintained weathertight hatches.
Its a lot about what the company can afford here. Its not about its damage.
Edward Straka: It must be classed as a criminal act to put a river-going ship to sea. Those who are responsible should be put behind bars.
Captain should have called mayday - we hear him doing that seconds after it broke.
@@justinchristoph3725 Why did they drown? What is the story? Could they not all stay together as a group with the survivors in lifejackets and life rafts?
-"She's broke her back"."She'll never be able to transport cargo again"
-"So wherever we are,we're going to stay."
-"Where have you taken us, navigation officer?"
-"I don't know,it was just a dream i had before."
Battlestar Galactica
That was the first thing I thought of. "She's broken her back. She'll never Jump again."
That's what happens when you slap random coordinates into a jump drive!!!!!
@@thegreatbamboozler4837 Nahh, the Galactica had been ill-used as a battering ram and had made a jump into and out of atmosphere by that point. She was tired out.
@@PaulCashman yeah, well, there was that too
Captain: "Huh, that never happened before."
Probably should have. That wasn't that much of a wave....
Those relatively calm sea's. That ship had been bent and torqued over many years and was certainly not inspected.
Those waves are _not_ a relatively calm sea. Never judge the see state from a video, especially if you are not a marriner. According to the sources, it was storm condition and _Arvin_ had been at anchor outside of Bartın for two days. The conditions were such that none of the other vessels anchored in the vicinity were able to come to her rescue. Even the Turkish Coast Guard had a hard time operating.
The ship had had regular inspections, but apparently also had multiple code violations in recent years, and it was quite old, ~46 yo, built in 1975. As a river-sea cargo vessel, it should maybe never had been out on a route like this from Georgia to Bulgaria, even if it was new and up to code.
@@martin3203 I am a mariner and from a long line of mariners. Those seas were not any thing but moderate.
@@peekaboo4390 I doubt that. Read the sources.
@@peekaboo4390 same here and I agree with you. Martin Borg is one of those that barely make it on the water ,I know some Canadian military divers that quit off my boat cause they though were crazy but its how we urchin dive in the east coast 😁
Seas, with no apostrophe
the front fell off, i guess this ship wasn't as safe as the others
no cardboard derivatives involved?
@@justdoi8909 sounds like just a minimum crew of 1 to me...
Is that a Michael Scott and Mr house cross over profile picture? 😆
@@Ghost-gt2ez No cardboard, no cardboard derivatives
@@AdamGreen1 Don't worry though. They towed it outside the environment.
Even more alarming is that the ship was at anchor, not even underway, when it broke in two, according to a report in a maritime journal.
Are you sure? I don't see the black anchor ball hoisted and it seems the ship is making headway.
@@nunosantiago2273, Google M/V Arvin and search UA-cam. It looks to be making headway because the waves are on the bow.
@@aeronautee could be but the lack of the mooring ball says otherwise, although I wouldn't be surprised if they just didn't hoist it. The ship to starboard looks like it is under anchor and if this one was also, both should be aligned. Hard to tell.
@@nunosantiago2273, balls or no balls, multiple sources, including the Turkish Ministry of Transport, have reported the ship being anchored at the time it broke up.
Ощущение от диалогов, что все этого давно ждали и вот оно наконец-то свершилось )
Huge wave? What huge wave? That ship isn't sea worthy, its back was broken long ago.
The ghosts of those intrepid mariners who successfully sailed through the storms and actual huge waves of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in _wooden_ ships under sail power in past centuries are hanging their heads in shame that this not-so-huge wave snapped this modern ship into pieces.
Yeah time did the majority of the damage, should’ve been decommissioned years ago, the helmsman did sound Russian tho so no surprises there lol
but how do you know it’s not sea worthy? did you inspected that ship? I am sure thousands ships are in the sea that are older... I suspect construction problem
@@fpsdovah2572 what could he done different? what’s about being russian?
@@martinkulik9466 Russia is a third world country in ways; have you seen some of the vehicles on their roads etc? Wouldnt surprise me at all if the company/owner is russian
Imagine the stress on the hull when a ship of such length is on the crest of a large wave.
This makes me wonder why they can't engineer a transportation ship with movable sections, Centipede of the Seas... Not that it should be done, but probably could.
@@justsayin3600 Hard to transport cargo if you're compressing and expanding it all the time though.
@@justsayin3600 I don't know, the articulation would be incredible strong, and rustless, and in any case it would be a limit and on that point it would snap .... I guess. Anyway there must be another way, my bet would be a half submerged ship to go below the waves ducking like a surfboard. Anyone else with crazy ideas who like to join us ?
@@justsayin3600 there are strong reasons for having rigid hulls.
@@davidBarrel A conventional hull in seaworty condition, perhaps?
Just imagine being on that ship at that moment - absolutely terrifying!
Incredible, an average wave snapped this ship so effortlessly! May the lost sailors rest with their fellows of the sea 🌊
The wave did nothing. The ship broke itself
Ignorant nonsense. The structural damage is caused by the sea state in which the vessel was anchored.
@@martin3203 that sea state was not that bad.
@@jrfreki674 are you a marriner?
@Danny Capps ah, yes, a man who includes "bro" in his reply got to be right.
@@iammcwaffles5514 not salty at all, and you are correct: the vessel, a river-sea cargo ship, should not have been utilized on this route, and by all accounts, it was not even sea-worthy for the conditions for which she was built.
"Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?"
- Gordon Lightfoot
I love Gordon lightfoot's music 👍
I was thinking of that song as well!🗿
It's still there.
Being from Michigan the Edmond fitzgerald came to mind instantly
That event still haunts me, the sinking of the Fitz.
I SAWED THIS BOAT IN HALF.
AND Fixed it with Flex Seal.
WOW
Wheres the chicken wire?????🐔🐓🛶
Arvin was travelling from Ukraine to Bulgaria
She was sheltering from a storm at the Bartin anchorage, Turkey, as she is a river ship.
The waves were still strong enough to break her back. While at anchor. In a sheltered location.
6 crew died. Even though you can see two other vessels in the video.
None were under power. So could provide no assistance.
As a river ship she was too long and narrow for rough seas.
“Mayday mayday, my vessel broken” nah fam, she just doin the wave.
“ Ships snaps like a twig for absolutely no reason at all “
It broke because it should have been scraped 20 years ago...we can get waves that big near the beginning of Long Island Sound..
@@johndonahue3162 🥱””
Sir, that ship had no business on a flat lake.... nevertheless a moderate swell, it might have snapped in half in the Panama Canal, what’s the Q, they loaded incorrectly... wrong
It was 4 years old if I remember this does happen to long vessels riding two waves nothing in middle she drops thrn cracks
@@kingjames7273 Sadly not, checking the ship registration, launched in 1975
I have been working on the great lakes for 7 years and the the way the great lakes freighters are built they are built in great section and every like 4 cargo hatches there is a weak point and and i have seen ships do some really weird things at those weak points and one time a ship I was on but it is out of service now had a stress fracture to do the weak point and it is out of service
If you have ever watch Deadliest Catch, there is a video on here showing the Northwestern being hit by a rogue wave that actually partially collapsed the bow of the boat. That was a powerful wave!
Maybe you shouldn't leave port in a ship thats on the verge of snapping in two. Those weren't even rough seas.
Exactly !!
Were the ship's rivets Made in China?
Are you a sailor by any chance 🤔🤔
@@illestgod13 no but I use to fish commercially in Alaska.
I think it is because this ship is not meant to sail on these types of water it looks like ship meant for steady water like water cannals or so not open sea like where you saw so long and "low hight" ship of course this will happen
Ouch. That should have been beached at Aliaga years ago instead of all those lovely cruise ships...........
You mean Alang, right?
Lovely cruise ships. Those things are a plague on the seas.
You mean Alang. India 🇮🇳
Aliaga Turkey is the next major scrapping yard and a lot closer to where this ship is
God bless and keep those brave souls. 🙏
My heart and 0rayers go out to the families of those who didn't survive...as well as with all those who experienced such a frightening experience. God's speed in your healing.
As a young engineer my father was aboard Neptune Sapphire, a new (!) ship that lost her bow section outside South Africa 1973. The rogue wave hit the ship at night. My father has told me how it was to wake up to a great bang and how it took some time to really understand what actually had happened (he has great pics of the ship, too). The bow section sank, everyone was rescued. I think it was close to Durban, as some of the crew was evacuated by helicopter. The rest of the vessel didn't sink and was later rebuilt. It might still be out there, as Dragon Sumbawa, but I'm not sure, as I can't find it on Marine Traffic. Scrapped, maybe?
EDIT: Found this, "on passage Aarhus to Kobe with a cargo of cars, containers and paper, was struck by a monster wave about 95nm SE of Port St. Johns Read". Near Durban, as I thought.
Rogue waves are a bizarre and dangerous phenomenon. I only expericed 1 in the mediterranean. It was a pleasant summer afternoon and we we staging cargo on main deck. The sea was almost flat. Out of nowhere this thing was there starboard side midhip. It appeared at least 10-15 over our heads and on main deck it was 70' to the waterline so this had to be an 80'-90' wave. It slapped us midship so the wave went another 10 -15' more in the air. When all that water came back down myself and Crew about 5 people were driven to the deck like rag dolls. The force caused the ship to roll slightly to port side. So here we are laying on the deck like fish flopping around in a couple feet of water, disoriented and then the water all goes rushing to port side.i thought I was gonna get washed over the side. Once all the chaos calmed down everything was normal as it was right before it hit us. Absolutely bizarre
m/v Arvin. Built in 1975. Palau Flag. RIP to those who lost their lives.
If he had sounded the general alarm and immediately set to evacuate the crew they might have all survived
Not likely. The lost crewmen were inside the forward compartments.
"Her back's broken. She'll never jump again."
God i love that show!!
Captain: “This can’t be too bad.”
Ship: *Snaps in two.*
Captain: “Welp...”
I thought it was the new hinged ship design to smooth out rough seas
God one.. Hinged ship.. You are a great guy.
Not a bad idea actually.
My dear friend what do you think? What got into your mind i dont know to say such a thing. You dont know what kind of emergency it is...and even the sea is rough its even hard to launch the lifeboat also....you never know through what we seafarers go through . You should be thank full for us to bringing you your needs at your doorstep by risking our lives .
6 crew were rescued, 6 drowned. Among them, the ships captain Galenko Witaly, 37, a Russian citizen. Imagine being his son or daughter who comes online and reads comments like that.
@@martin3203 People die everyday for all kinds of reasons. Deal with it.
May God bless and rest the souls of all those five sailors that died that day in this shipwreck.
In 1965, I crossed the Atlantic in an Italian passenger ship built in the 1930s. We encountered waves much bigger than that with no problem at all. That ship was clearly not fit to leave port.
"Never travel with an empty cargo on rough seas"
- A wise captain
It was not empty. It was loaded with 2902 tons of urea.
Taking the piss..............literally.
well, the ship owner was probably in it for the insurance.
😂😂 long time ago that was possible and Captains decision but in those times you go home. And for sure you dont use cargo if there is no any. There is ballast for that kind of things
What a terrifying sight this must be to watch while being on the ship.
I'm sure those watching survived. The three who perished must have been down in the hold.
Yes
That's what I was thinking
Exactly why I would take one look at a ship like this, to home, and reevaluate my life choices.
I've seen much worse.
Lesson learned: never drink a quart of vodka then weld ship together.
yes. always drink half gallon vodka before weld
WOW! What a scary moment! I hope everyone made it safe!!
Cant believe that 3 Sailors died as this ship sank, and rest were rescued.
3 more are “missing”. And we all know what this means days after the vessel was lost near the shoreline.
Well, anyone down below at that moment...
My deepest condolences for the family of the 3 crew members that had died on this accident. May your soul rest in peace.
They took a ship designed for rivers to the ocean. What could go wrong.
Ship was designed for bath tubs.
@@StsFiveOneLima lmao
Buddy of mine is sailing out there right now, said that some survived and some died on this ship. He said the weather was too strong to conduct a rescue ops...
"Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?"
my exact feelings love the song
Love Gordon Lightfoot. RIP to the sailors aboard Edmund Fitzgerald and all the others lost to the deep
He’d have made whitefish bay if he’d put 15 more miles behind her...
You gotther there captain 👍
There is no we’re holding are own there! Lol
I've worked on ships and fishing vessels for years. The description of the video says "huge wave". NOT a huge wave. Actually looks like a nice day out on the open waters.
God rest the souls of the sailors who lost their lives this terrible day
They didnt even take water and you are here telling they drowned🤣🤣🤦🏼
@@Petri_Pennala read my friend. 3 drown
@@mattberg916 im guessing they drowned in the cargo hold that snapped
Gotta hand it to the crew for quickly responding to the emergency. They didn't waste a second in immediately calling "MayDay".
This looks like it was flying under A flag of convenience,Ukrainian-owned but registered in Palau.
like most ships, right?
Hunter Bidens all over this one
A ship not even sea worthy from kazarian, what a surprise.
i love how there are always so many "experts" in the comments section of youtube
Yes, yes...thanks for coming and have a seat.
That professional crew member cant even send a correct mayday call. Who are you, where are you, what's happening, how many people are at risk,. Useful and informative stuff like that get a speedy and appropriate response.
Let’s hope you will never have a chance to show us how you’re doing it in a proper manner in a real life situation.
@@dmytrogubskyi4355 If you drill though...it becomes second-nature. Willing to guess by the panic - they didn't safety drill often.
So much for expansion joints! When I served in the Navy one of the FFs I serve on began making it's own expansion joint under the forward portion of the deckhouse.
"vayday, rayday, i broke my veszel" as the ship groans in protest.
I am no expert, but this should not be happening to ships, IMHO! The wave wasn't even that big? 🤷🏼♂️ I feel genuinely sorry for the crew!
I agree
Especially if you have ever been to sea
When my dad was on the Newcomb (DD-586) he said the deck plates would slide over each other in heavy seas. So ships DO hinge (without breaking usually) when working in waves.
Well, everything was fine here. Except the keel.
I thought this was gonna be one of those situations like a bridge bending in the wind and being fine, but I'm not sure that's gonna work out here...
"A port state control inspection in Georgia last year found extensive deficiencies on board the Arvin, including deck corrosion and ill-maintained weathertight hatches, according to her Equasis record."
What a shame! I believe 6 people died. She was at anchor attempting to ride out the storm.
What huge wave? Rust bucket down. Mayday, my vessel is broken! 3 dead. Tragic, esp since another ship is just starboard.
These ships are huge, I think it skews the scale of the wave.
One Starboard , one port ...I guess they can't afford a safety raft ..Jesus !
>The front fell off
>A wave hit it
Once a joke now reality XD
At sea? A chance in a million!
That's not something you see very often. RIP to the sailors.
That thing should NEVER been allowed in the water 😩
Ships like this one were build in 1970s, they weren't designed to withstand heavy storms. It's Volgo-Balt "river-sea" class, they aren't supposed to move more than 20 miles away from coast. Nowadays sailors literally call them "rotten toadsqueezers".
Thank - you .
The floating rust bucket ship M/V Arvin was 46 years old no wonder it snapped, the waves weren't even that big compared to some really strong storms. RIP to the 3 Ukrainian sailors that died.
“ *Mayday Mayday criminal negligence in progress* “ ‼️
So… Almost another case of "The front fell off".
Just the tip!
@@stansmith4054 🤣
Yes, "The front fell off" was priceless indeed.
Good thing it was outside the environment.
A wave hit it. At sea? Chance in a million. Probably shouldn't have used cello tape to reinforce it, or cardboard.
I hope they all made it off, and are safe.
Snapped that keel like a twig. Heart goes out to the families of the three sailors that didn't make it.