{"id":30117,"date":"2018-03-07T15:36:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T15:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=30117"},"modified":"2018-03-07T15:36:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T15:36:40","slug":"warning-to-east-coast-sailors-70-containers-lost-overboard-off-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2018\/03\/warning-to-east-coast-sailors-70-containers-lost-overboard-off-north-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning to East Coast Sailors: 70 Containers Lost Overboard Off North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Running into a half submerged container while making an offshore passage has to be a blue water sailor&#8217;s worst nightmare. You can lose you boat and maybe your life in a heartbeat and never see what is was that sunk you. Here&#8217;s a warning form March 4th by Mike Schuler that is published on<\/em> gcaptain.com.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A 10,000 TEU containership lost about 70 containers overboard on Saturday night while about 17 miles off Oregon Inlet, North Carolina.\u00a0The U.S. Coast Guard is warning mariners of navigation hazards.\u00a0The 324-meter <em>Maersk Shanghai<\/em> contacted USCG watch standers at Sector North Carolina\u2019s command center via VHF-FM marine radio channel 16 on Saturday evening notifying them that they lost approximately 70 to 73 cargo containers due to high winds and heavy seas. <a href=\"http:\/\/gcaptain.com\/containership-loses-about-70-containers-overboard-off-us-east-coast\/\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Running into a half submerged container while making an offshore passage has to be a blue water sailor&#8217;s worst nightmare. You can lose you boat and maybe your life in a heartbeat and never see what is was that sunk you. Here&#8217;s a warning form March 4th by Mike Schuler that is published on gcaptain.com. &nbsp; A 10,000 TEU containership lost about 70 containers overboard on Saturday night while about 17 miles off Oregon Inlet, North Carolina.\u00a0The U.S. Coast Guard is warning mariners of navigation hazards.\u00a0The 324-meter Maersk Shanghai contacted USCG watch standers at Sector North Carolina\u2019s command center via VHF-FM marine radio channel 16 on Saturday evening notifying them that they lost approximately 70 to 73 cargo containers due to high winds and heavy seas. Read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30118,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30117\/revisions\/30118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}