Mesabi Miner "near-grounding" departing Duluth 8/29/2021
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ส.ค. 2021
- Take a right at Pier B! For some reason, the 1000ft Mesabi Miner was not able to negotiate the turn into the Duluth shipping Canal Sunday afternoon and stopped to realign with the canal. There could be any number of reasons such as small boat traffic, mechanical failure, strong currents, etc --- all speculation at this point.
Glad to see them quickly get back on course without damage.
I sailed for this company over fifty years ago, I can guarantee that there was a mechanical issue that delayed the turn at the right time. The individuals that are in control are Not playing computer games, they are True Professionals, give it a break people! 🤯
I believe you. This was probably mechanical, current….whatever. But every airline captain who flew into a mountain was a “true professional” as well. Errors, dangerous errors….do happen.
Ouch! Good point, though.
I agree. No better steamship company than Interlake! Excellent crews!
@@kiowa1508 Stop guessing. That’s the problem. There are no better crews than these. Just at the top of their career working for Interlake.
No I was aboard a dummy in small boat didn't move on the starboard side full astern I was in my quarters when I t happened that sunday
I honestly don’t see how such a behemoth can ply the Lakes in one piece. But they do it every day, day in and day out. Much respect to our Captains and crews of these vessels!
Was stationed in Duluth '76-'78. Had to wait at the bridge countless times for traffic. They had an open house when it was christened. Unreal how big it is, and it still looks good and it's nice to see that it's still plying the waters of the Great Lakes forty-four years later.
Watched this happen yesterday and was amazed how fast they corrected their mistake. Great job by the crew!!!!
I was there too
fishing boat wanted nothing to do with that action and backed the H out of there!
Watching from the south pier, it sure looked to me like they were coming in way wider than the footers usually do. Great job by the captain getting her stopped in time and carrying on down the canal. Even gave a nice little salute on her way down the canal.
@Ac Tion I never claimed to be one.
@Ac Tion You don't have to be a tenured expert to look at something and say, "Hm, that looks different." Can't someone just pay a skilled mariner a compliment?
Aisle9 you are definitely right. That’s not a normal exit.
Despite what some armchair captains might say, they did a good job of saving the situation. The current there is often tricky and that turn is more difficult than it appears, especially with 60,000 tons of cargo on board. Seems like we get one miss (or near miss) each year, on average. Hopefully no more for 2021!
👆✔ You are equipped to say something about it
You see them on and on and on 😉👍📹
Great job on the video to capture it all. The different views were really nice. Moving a 1004 foot fully loaded boat ain’t like a 16 foot Lund.
"Iceberg! Straight ahead!!" Good save Captain!
Good job correcting the overshoot.
There’s a TH-cam pilot house video of the Big Paul leaving the dock and making the turns to get to the bridge and out the channel to the soundtrack of Ravel’s ‘Bolero’. A good one.
'Honey, I hate to tell you but there's a 1000 footer in our living room..."
"and we just had the carpet redone!"
"Missed it by that much."
Maxwell Smart.🤣
Cap just wanted to see if he could fit in the Pier B slip is all!
they saw the little fishing boat, "must be a good spot for walleyes" , lets get the Captain some for dinner !
I love it when a plan works.
DANG that is a hard right turn. that small boat in the harbor got out of the way pretty quick.
If you live out on Park Point you definitely have to be aware of when the big ships are coming & going if you have to be somewhere at a certain time.
Capt was waiting for his Hot Pocket to finish in the microwave, almost didn't make it back in time for the turn to the bridge.
Either that or was having a little smoke on the fan tail.
Didn't see any small boat traffic. I remember the Beeghly hit the Paulucci Building back a ways as well and I don't remember what caused that either. RIGHT TURN CLYDE!!! Another reason to not live on Park Point.
Curious that. I had just watched her arrival. Her history says she has grounded before. Is it becoming a habit? I notice that there is an off shore breeze from the ripples so in wasn't wind influenced. Whatever it was a great recovery!!
That bassboat hightailed it real quick
Love the arm chair captains!! Mechanical issues, current or yes possibly a late turn is Captains are human. I would say he had a rudder issue. Nothing was broken and no one was hurt. Worry more about launching your bass boat safely
LOL! That's what TH-cam is for, armchair captains, generals, and attorneys. You can even become an attorney at TH-cam law scool!. Maybe they are opening a TH-cam Merchant Marine Academy as well?
would be awesome to see a view from a drone.
Bet capn was pushing the brake pedal through the floor.
Sorry about that, Chief!
Why do s it running vlog backwards, that little dingy going backwards, lolll, nice thanks BigAl California.
I would say it looks like he did a darn good job of correcting the situation so some of your people on there if you haven’t driven a boat shut your face the guy did a good job
Was that the first close call of the year?
Interesting watching all this take place yesterday
Not the first time MM has been in the harbor. How can they get that far off course? Even considering current and load momentum factors. Looked eerily like the American steamship grounding couple of years ago. Ended well anyway...
I wish that I had been there in person to see it!!!
Good thing it appears she is riding somewhat high. No anchors dropped. Never turned, had to be some sort of rudder issue. Great job to stop her.
My wife thinks I'm mad, but I like seeing the ships come and go at Duluth, men at work being productive. I'm an Aussie and not familiar with the Great Lakes so I'm just guessing that they're big enough to be tidal, especially Lake Superior. So if that is true I can imagine that on a incoming tide the current would be working against the ship turning towards the canal. I can imagine the cap'n gritting his teeth and muttering 'come round ya big bastard'.
No tides on the great lakes and my husband thinks I am nuts for watching these beauties every day.
No measureable tides on the Great Lakes. N.O.A.A. says 1cm is the maximum...
Duluth is a wonderful city to visit if ya ever get to leave Aust. I live about 90 miles away.
Thanks for your replies, so my tide theory is caput. I'm into motorbikes and I've toured every state in the USA.I love your country, especially the Mid-west. When the Aussie travel restrictions are lifted I plan to visit Duluth and wave to my family through the canal camera at a pre-arranged time. Yes, corny I know.
@@Meriwether_Biker thats awesome come to the iron range, I wish I could visit Aus
Looks like the port side bow thruster wasn't working till after the full stop.
😮 checking the accuracy of the boats depth sounder.
How embarrassing! ;-) Maybe soon, we'll hear the story from someone who knows what happened.
I was onboard I remember the full astern someone in a small boat was within our turn so they didn't move fast enough
Captain: No ! Your OTHER RIGHT !!!
Is the churned up water near the bow the bow thrusters?
Yes it didn't come on till they stopped, They may have had to start it up real quick. Just guessing they may have it running and ready whenever in close quarters
@@boblister665 I remember someone saying in the cam chat earlier this year that the bow thruster is useless above 5 knots speed. Maybe that was the delay in use. I'm not a boater so I don't know for sure.
I lived on east 2nd st. in Duluth and watched this happen from my 5th floor apt. I had a birds eye view of it. . It wasn’t any big deal and the MM didn’t come close to hitting anything on shore or elsewhere. It simply wasn’t any big deal.
Wonder who was driving.
Looks like some additional dredging might be helpful.
Small boat traffic are you kidding commercial ship has the right of way
this is why the bridge lifts many minutes before incoming and exiting the harbor. accidents do happen.
Does anyone know the draft on these vessels?
28-32 feet normally. But with thus unprecedented drought here in MN, lake superior is down 3 ft so the vessels are prolly 3-5 ft less then normal draft
Yet another prime example of Texting While Driving!!
That was close
Dude in the fishing boat forgot how forward works lol
They just wanted to free all the fish in the great lakes aquarium. Missed it by just a little bit.
Where is that water coming from that it`s pumping out the stern? One of them is probably for cooling the engines?
My guess is both are cooling streams! It takes a lot of power to propel a 1004 foot vessel with 60,000 tons of cargo!!! All that power needs tremendous cooling too.
Obviously no one in the front outhouse looking where they were going. Build the Bridge 1000 ft away from the pointed end lookout for a foggy day.
Got this thing called radar.
Holy moly that could have been very bad! Should have sent that pesky fly to give ‘em a shove over!!
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I am guessing the commands. Please correct if I am mistaken: Starboard bow thruster to full power: main engine full reverse; right full rudder.
Seems like the port side (left side) wasn't working when needed.
@@glemire7511 Wow. A nasty surprise for sure.
@@gravfielddrive I was not offering criticism of the commercial boat captain or crew.
Hate to have been trying to cross the bridge
You can see that bow thruster starting to work. Be interesting to find out what went wrong.
I was wondering if the bow thruster didn't respond when first called for!
@@324bear Actually I was wondering if the auto pilot had a glitch or someone fell asleep at the switch.
@@johnmanthey6034 I just can't believe someone was not paying attention!!! Especially seeing that they stopped the forward progress and corrected the route!
@@324bear Who knows. I’m sure the Coast Guard, ABS or Interlake Steamship will be looking into it.
@@324bear I was aboard no we don't use auto pilot for when leaving port I did fill the full astern
it was cruisising pretty fast nd stopped quickly.
Hold My Beer .....
We’re are the tugs to push and right them around to the canal..
Yikes!😬🐸
Lucky it wasn’t worse!
Arm chair captains how about you try stopping a 1k ft freighter and tell us how you do. For reference it could had been current conditions or any number of things that went wrong. However lets praise the what went right here as in the keen awareness of the Skipper and Crew.
Oopsie...somebody has some explaining.
oops
I wonder why that happens.
There was a small boat anchored in its way and they had to move around it
Must have been one of those cheap phone plans. What he said was, head northeast. What was heard was head north…(static).
I thought the navigation settings were stored on a computer somewhere and maybe just needed fine tuning for wind etc. Just shows how wrong a guy from the UK can be.
Hey why don't you guys in England come over and take the U.S. from Biden and give it back to Trump? We'll help.
@@fido3561 I am sure you guys can sort things out yourselves (not that I'm suggesting you should). Yes things are a bit of a mess at the moment, but I haven't heard a fat lady sing yet, so it ain't all over. (Or is that just a UK saying)
@@sidneybowerman558 You're right, things are mess. Most likely we willl sort things out. We say the same thing about the fat lady. You folks take care be safe
@@fido3561 you guys take care as well.
bet their glad they have bow thrusters
must have been a new guy driving (and hoping not too many people saw it)
I would have hated to been waiting to cross the bridge
sort of like landing on the wrong runway......it happens!
Der Buchhandel Berlin Germany
Oops. Good job. No biggie.
Billowing smoke and Churning up the Channel, not to mention the BT's He was putting it ball's to the wall.
Captain who? How does a trained captain miss a turn by that much? Yikes!
Keep a heads up for those freighters!! I think they have the right away,
Remind me to not hitch a ride on that one!
you're not invited
@@sarahberger3616 I can see you take jokes well.
first mate yelled " land ho !! "...... captain looks away from his phone and hits reverse !!
Probably not the case, but they could have been practicing emergency maneuvers. Bridge has to be in raised position anyway so it took a few extra minutes. I'm sure most folks are used to waiting for the bridge.
was the guy liquored up. the huge area to turn that thing, and he almost grounds it.. yeah for the guy who says don't comment unless you've driven the boat, I've driven lots of boats.
there was a small boat anchored right in its way so it was better to nearly ground it then run over the boat and possibly kill the people aboard
@@fishtug2420 shouldn't be anchored in a navigable waterway. even if that he should still be able to maneuver around it I think the guy was drinking
@@thenussbaum44 opinions are like assholes, everyone has one, and they all stink.
What a stupid thing to say. You weren’t there in the pilot house so you have no idea what the situation was.
Sez I: Maybe...the capn saw a girl in a bikini...
Maybe...the capn wanted to do a drive-by....
Maybe...the capn was showing off his skills...
Major Payne sez: Don't push the maybe, baby!
Somebody letting their girlfriend drive to show off
Jeez, what utter incompetence, good job they just let these “sailors” play about in lakes, they’d be really f*cked up on the high seas!
It was a steering failure Kevin. And I'd take the masterful pilots of the Great Lakes anytime over the Ocean sailors who stare at the horizon for weeks on end
Great, show us how it’s done bud
Congratulations on packing more ignorance into one sentence than most Biden voters are capable of doing.
@@2199SPUDMAN • So very well said. Priceless!