SOME WELL PUBLICISED LOSS PHOTOGRAPHS RELATED WITH BAD

WEATHER.

Ital FloridaVessel name: Ital Florida. Type of ship: Containership, Date16~19-jul-2007, Location: Arabian sea, Indian Ocean, Remarks: Vessel hit by the Indian Monsoon, 3 containers lost overboard and stacks

collapsed. Vessel was hit by 7-10 meters high waves, ship was running with 16 knots.

NYK Antares09-nov-2007 04:40 am German Bight, North Sea, underway from Hamburg to Le Havre

Due to severe weather approx. 52 containers were lost overboard and resulted in a mess on deck. Rotterdam was the only port who could clean up this mess quickly for this case.

MSC NapoliDate18-jan-2007 Location English channel, South-West of England Remarks Grounded / crack in the hull.During a very heavy storm MSC Napoli's engine room was taking water by a hold in the hull (reason unknown or aground) English & French coastguard tried to pull the vessel to a port, however during This action the vessel almost capsized and was pushed aground. Many containers lost overboard and beached. Oil pollution. During May 2007 the last of 2199 containers onboard were discharged by Smit Salvage team. During refloating trials in June/July 2007, the ships' damage is severe than expected, therefore the salvage teams used explosives to break the ship in 2 before removal. In August 2007 the MSC Napoli was towed to Belfast, N-Ireland, to be demolished at the same wharf as the famous "Titanic" was built. The total salvage operation costs around 70 million Euro's. (Approx. USD 92 mln) This vessel also grounded in 2001 on a coral reef near Singapore, at full speed and fully loaded (as CMA CGM Normandie).

MSC Carlanov-1997 Vessel broke in 2 parts during heavy water. Forepeak sank, aft-Peak floated and was towed to the Canary islands thereafter. Just after the accident sources said

the Italian officers steered the vessel with full speed into the high waves, but in 2005 research concluded the welding points of the ship (when it was jumbo-sized) Were

weak and are the reasons of this accident.

CSAV ShenzhenSeptember 2004

Vessel hit by bad weather at the Pacific Ocean

OOCL America, 1998, Pacific Ocean (enroute USA to Kaohsiung, Taiwan)The vessel was hit by heavy weather on the Pacific Ocean, on the photo you see the result on arrival in Taiwan. This accident was the 2nd place-worst container accident

ever.

• APL CHINA – WEATHER DAMAGE IN 1998Pacific Ocean, enroute from Asia to the USA. Worst container disaster ever, vessel was hit by very heavy weather in the Pacific ocean.

March 2002, Vessel hit by heavy weather, around 69 containers collapsed.

Heinrich BehrmannContainership, Nov 2001, Blankenberge, Belgium

Vessel grounded due to bad weather. Vessel refloated a few days later.

P&O Nedlloyd BarcelonaJun-2005, Pacific Ocean, Vessel was hit by heavy weather.

PERILS OF THE SEA ?

• UNKNOWN STORY ?

Vessel was attacked by a giant octopas.