Surfing Waves

A large container ship is sinking off Lizard Point in this storm. 75 containers listed as "Dangerous Cargo" on board, but the coastguard dont know what the cargo is yet!

Something to keep an eye on, maybe, if you're planning on a surf once this storm blows over

Lets hope its nothing too toxic....

yeah i just head that on the news it sucks

do'ya think they'll tell us what it is at some point?

sounds skeery!

Here is the bbc news article

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/6274625.stm

By dangerous cargo do they mean they had King Kong in the hold??? Just asking

"There are no communications with the lifeboat but they appear to all be on board. At the moment the lifeboat is heading north."

Or which ever way they're blown.



Hope all the crew are ok, and that there isn't anything nasty in the containers.

They've rescued all the crew members, which is a big relief.

I wonder if we'll ever find out what the cargo was.....

Four people have now died today in this storm.

My Surfboard that hangs over the shop door blew of about 20metres away, good job no one was in the way of that.

northswell wrote:My Surfboard that hangs over the shop door blew of about 20metres away, good job no one was in the way of that.

a 6ft length of our shop window frame ripped off and was dangling by a nail, good thing it didn't land on someone's head!

what I don't get is why this one has been so extreme... its smaller and less severe than the 3 we had before xmas.... and yet then there wasn't really anything major happening.

Maybe its becuase this has been a Due west wind whrere as the others where the usual SW ans S winds.

Yeah, a load of trees have fallen around where I am today, its a right mess.
And that 'danerous cargo' sounds wierd, looks like I wont be surfing this weekend.

they are now towing the cargo ship to france, the cargo was pesticides and insecticides, woohoo for the lifeguards, 40ft waves too

sal wrote:

northswell wrote:My thing that hangs over the shop door blew off

a 6ft length

I wish

Two helicopters from RNAS Culdrose airlifted all the crew in the French co-ordinated rescue.

French co-ordinated rescue? - "I repeat, we have the vessil in sight, now... retreat!"

PapaWoolacombe wrote:what I don't get is why this one has been so extreme... its smaller and less severe than the 3 we had before xmas.... and yet then there wasn't really anything major happening.

Maybe its becuase this has been a Due west wind whrere as the others where the usual SW ans S winds.

Yeah, I thought that. The charts made it look (to me, anyway) like it should be 'pretty breezey' but nothing outstanding

But even in town, the wind was enough to knock you off your feet. And the railway station roof next to my work collapsed which I imagine was quite exciting for those inside

Well done to the coastguards, even the french ones!

LikeAGromit wrote:

Two helicopters from RNAS Culdrose airlifted all the crew in the French co-ordinated rescue.

French co-ordinated rescue? - "I repeat, we have the vessil in sight, now... retreat!"

ROFL

Do you know why the French wanted the Channel tunnel built so badly?
So if the Germans invade again they can be in London with their hands up a lot faster!

i can't believe how windy it's been. several local roads have been totally blocked by fallen trees and the trains were suspended all day yesterday we even had a powercut.

We had a power cut at work, only just come back on, had to sit in the dark for a while yesterday......