Walter J. McCarthy Jr. Under Aerial Lift Bridge

a quick shot of the Walter J. McCarthy Jr. underneath the Aerial Lift Bridge

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Autos & Vehicles

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• shipping
• duluth
• superior
• lake

[garbon2535]

First off, why is it sad? Second, The ship did not sink. The stern of the ship is mearly aground. There is a difference. The side of the ship is 56' from keel to deck. Saying that a ship has "sunk" implies that it is submerged. This is not the case. 36' of the ship is above the surface of the water. The ship's maximum draft is 35'11". Much deeper than the ship is in the water right now.

[ohnoanotherputz]

I suppose it doesn't meet the nautical definiton of being sunk, but it did take on water, and is no longer bouyant enough to be floating above the bottom, close enough I say!

[MLCxHcG]

Cool to see a video of the ship. I was out on the Detroit River today and saw it. Got some cool photos of the Walter J. McCarthy Jr,

[Troop1415]

A the captian was misguided by the person on the dock. Had he stopped where he wanted too all would have been ok. B the item that was hit was either illegaly dumped concrete or a concrete piling that fell away from the dock. this particular dock had never been used for this size of ship and a dredging barge hit the same thing last year. One would think that they would learn.

[drail80s]

Extension 35271 for that phone number

[drail80s]

PS I was the first one to post to try to let everyone know what happened. I chose this video to do so and I thank the owner of the video for this.

I really dont think its needed to bash someone for their choice of words they use, at the time of the incident three weeks ago they were the words the media used first.

Also I spoke to Tom Holden 218 720-5260 at the US Army Corps. of Engineere and they will use the term settle on the bottom in the reports coming out now.

So sorry.

[drail80s]

I just happened to use the term sad because of what happened. Its going to cost alot of money to fix and other obvious things so the whole incident is sad. No one was hurt the enviroment is safe so when a tree falls on your car accidently,and causes alot of damage I bet your neighbors will be happy for you.

[drail80s]

If you google "ship sank in Duluth" you will see an article from Minnesota Public Radio that describes the The Walter J. McCarthy Jr. sinking. Another article put out by the American Shipper Journal of International Logistics also mentions the words "partially sunk" to describe the incident. This is why I originally used the term sunk in my first post three weeks ago when the incident happened. These are also the terms used in the news media to describe the event.

[garbon2535]

First off... Why isnt it sad? Why is it sad? What about a hole torn in steel is sad? In 100 years ain't no body going care. Please tell me why this is sad. No one was hurt. In fact, no one was even in immediate harms way. There was not any environmental harm. Why is this sad?

Second off... explain why the ship "did sink". Besides the actual definition of the word "sink", explain to me how the ship sank.

[garbon2535]

Sink - Verb.

1. to displace part of the volume of a supporting substance or object and become totally or partially submerged...

By definition the ship "sank"; However, by defintion every time you load a ship it "sinks". One does not refer to loading a ship as sinking a ship. When one refers to a sinking ship they refer to a ship that is or will soon be FULLY submerged. Given the avalible water depth the McCarthy was not allowed to fully sink; however, she would not have in deeper water.

[drail80s]

First off, why isnt it sad? Socond the ship did sink. You must think that the word sink means the entire ship underwater.

[garbon2535]

"I don't know exactly how much ballast might be aboard but it's probably about 30,000 tons of water ballast," says Sharrow. "When you create a hole that down-floods the engine room, then as you raise the ship just by pumping the ballast out, the water that's in the engine room would just seek its own level as the ship comes up." That also releases water from the flooded engine room, which will flow back through the breach and into the harbor.