Selendang Ayu
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The Selendang Ayu was a bulk carrier sailing under the Malay flag .
history
The 225 m long and 32 m wide ship was built in 1998 under hull number 1240 at the Hudong shipyard in Shanghai , People's Republic of China .
Running due in December 2004
The ship was in December 2004 with 60,200 tons of soybeans on the way from Seattle in the United States to Xiamen in the People's Republic of China. There were 26 crew members on board from India , the Philippines and China. The ship had about 1,600 tons of heavy fuel oil and a little less than 70 tons of diesel fuel on board.
On December 6, 2004 , when a cylinder liner was damaged, the ship's engine failed when it was north of the island of Umnak , part of the Aleutian group of Fox Islands . The ship then began to drift in a south-easterly direction towards the island of Unalaska .
After an emergency repair, an unsuccessful attempt was made to restart the engine without the damaged cylinder. The ship's command then informed the port master of Dutch Harbor on Unalaska, the closest port. The US coast guard , informed by the port captain, sent the coast guard ship Alex Haley , which was on patrol around 65 miles away, to the scene of the accident. The ocean- going tug Sidney Foss was sent to Selendang Ayu by the ship's shipping company , where it arrived in the early evening of December 7th. Despite the heavy seas, a line connection between the tug and the freighter could be established, but the drift of the freighter was only slightly reduced due to the swell. In the early morning of December 8th, bring the towline. A new towline could not be handed over because of the heavy seas. After the freighter was driven further towards the island of Unalaska, an emergency anchoring was attempted when the water depth decreased, but this was not successful either.
In the afternoon, 18 crew members were rescued from the Selendang Ayu by two US Coast Guard HH-60 Jayhawk helicopters that had been moved to Cold Bay the day before to intervene in an emergency . The first nine crew members were flown to Alex Haley by one of the helicopters , the other nine to Dutch Harbor.
After the second anchor had also been deployed, the drift of the freighter was temporarily stopped. Nevertheless, the ship ran aground on December 8, 2004 at around 5 p.m. local time off Unalaska. The HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crashed while the sailors remained on board. The three members of the helicopter crew and one of the seven seamen who had already been recovered were rescued by the helicopter of the Alex Haley , an HH-65 Dolphin , which was also on site. Six members of the ship's crew were killed.
About two hours after it ran aground, the freighter broke apart at hatch 4. At around 8:35 p.m., the ship's captain and a coast guard lifeguard, who had supported the previous rescue operations on board, were picked up from the Alex Haley's helicopter.
consequences
When the ship ran aground and then broke apart, around 1270 m³ of oil ran into the sea, around 1215 m³ of heavy oil and 55 m³ of diesel fuel. The prevailing storm with wind force 9 and waves up to 7 m high made it impossible to contain the leaked oil.
On January 4, 2005, the pumping of the remaining oil from the ship's tanks began.
About 86 miles along the Aleutian coast have been polluted by the spilled oil. At least 1795 sea birds and several sea otters died as a result of the oil leak. The cleaning work lasted until June 2006.
Portions of the North Pacific and the Bering Sea are nature reserves of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge , a habitat for endangered seabirds, sea otters, sea lions , walruses and other seals . It was not until 1989 that the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound in southern Alaska, causing a catastrophe with irreversible consequences.
Technical specifications
The ship was by a six-cylinder - diesel engine of the manufacturer MAN B & W powered with 11,542 hp, which to a propeller worked. The speed of the ship was around 14 knots .
The ship had seven holds . Cargo hold 1 was 24.08 meters long. It narrowed in the front area from 22 meters wide to 9.2 meters wide. Cargo holds 2 to 6 were 25.8 meters long and 22.0 meters wide. Cargo hold 7 was 24.94 meters long. In the rear area, it narrowed from 22 meters wide to 9.2 meters wide. The holds were closed by side-opening roller hatches. The hatches were each 14.62 meters long. Hatch 1 was 13.2 meters wide, the other six hatches each 15.0 meters. The total capacity of the holds was 89,430 m³ for bulk goods and 78,698 m³ for general cargo. The capacity was distributed among the seven holds as follows:
- Loading space 1: 11,038 m³ (bulk goods) / 9,714 m³ (general cargo)
- Loading space 2: 13,180 m³ (bulk goods) / 11,599 m³ (general cargo)
- Loading space 3–6: 13,216 m³ (bulk goods) / 11,630 m³ (general cargo)
- Loading space 7: 12,348 m³ (bulk goods) / 10,867 m³ (general cargo).
The tank ceiling in the holds could be 17.8 t / m² (holds 2 and 6), 18.6 t / m² (hold 4), 26.4 t / m² (hold 7) and 27.5 t / m² ( Holds 1, 3 and 5). The hatch covers could be loaded with 1.75 t / m², the hatch covers of cargo hold 1 with 2.08 t / m².
The ship was equipped with four ship cranes , each of which could lift 30 t.
literature
- Jeff Wise: The Wreck of the Selendang Ayu. In: Popular Mechanics , May 2005, pp. 104-107, p. 151.
Web links
- Unified Command: Vessel Selendang Ayu Grounding (English) ( Memento from February 13, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
- IMC Transworld: Selendang Ayu (English) ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Grounding of Malaysian-flag Bulk Carrier M / V Selendang Ayu on North Shore of Unalaska Island, December 8, 2004 , Marine Accident Brief, National Transportation Safety Board (PDF, 604 kB)
- M / V Selendang Ayu , Incident News, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b MV Selendang Ayu. Wrecksite, accessed December 27, 2019 .
- ↑ a b M / V Selendang Ayu Grounding - Lightering and Salvage. Department of Environmental Conservation, State of Alaska, June 15, 2012, accessed December 27, 2019 .
- ^ M / V Selendang Ayu. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, August 6, 2019, accessed December 27, 2019 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 38 '22.2 " N , 167 ° 7' 40.1" W.