Today’s salvage schedule includes a second row of booms to be placed around the ship, to fully prevent small (repeat – small, not “disastrous”) leaks of oily water from the reportedly, flooded engine room. The ship equipped with pumps and hoses to siphon fuel from RISE SHINE bunker tanks is already on-site, to commence fuel siphoning today. Salvors, later, plan to offload the ship partially or fully, in order to refloat her. The ship dropped both her anchors, the second one probably after the crew found the ship drifting.
Grounding analysis:
In the fall-winter seasons, storms and bitter colds are brought by high-pressure atmospheric zones over Siberia. Vostok Bay has a rather bad reputation as a shelter from such storms – winds are treacherous, and most importantly, the bottom in the bay can’t hold anchors securely enough, anchors are dragged, ships start to drift. My friend, Captain of bulk carrier told me a story of his experience of sheltering in Vostok Bay – he had to, finally, heave up anchor and sail to sea to wait out the storm, after anchor dragged. Sister ship of his company once had to let anchor with chain go, to leave anchorage in an emergency, facing the threat of grounding according to FleetMon reported
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So there’s little doubt as to the cause of RISE SHINE grounding – crew and Master, ignorant of Vostok Bay sheltering specifics, anchored and got a false sense of safety, most probably failing to regularly check ship’s position via control bearings and distances. The ship has been caught unprepared when the anchor dragged, and the ship started to drift. A pure case of negligence and lack of seamanship, if you ask me.
Initial story:
Nov 9, 1420, UTC UPDATE: The ship didn’t break in two, though there are cracks in the hull, and the engine room is flooded. All 14 crew evacuated by helicopter, all are safe. There are 199 containers on board loaded with consumer goods, such as auto spare parts, printers, vacuum cleaners, diapers, etc. Confirmed the ship moved to Vostok Bay from Nakhodka Bay to wait out the storm. SAR tug LAZURIT s nearby, waiting for the weather to improve. Ship’s AIS missing during last 12 hours as of 1430 UTC Nov 9.
Cargo ship with container capacity RISE SHINE drifted aground and broke in two in the morning Nov 9 in Vostok Bay west of Nakhodka, Russia, Japan sea, in stormy weather. The ship issued a distress signal at 0602 LT (UTC +10) on Nov 9. Understood the ship arrived at Vostochniy Port from Busan, moved to Vostok Bay to shelter from a storm, but couldn’t hold on against wind and seas. 14 crew, all Chinese, said to be safe, they were still on board as of 0300 UTC Nov 9. SAR tug LAZURIT already left Vladivostok, arriving on site soon.
On another Marine Traffic reported General Cargo RISE SHINE is currently located at CISPAC – CIS Pacific at position 42° 42′ 32.7″ N, 132° 51′ 57.2″ E as reported by MarineTraffic Terrestrial Automatic Identification System on 2021-11-08 03:12 UTC (4 days, 11 hours ago)
The vessel departed from NINGBO, CN on 2021-10-11 07:49 LT (UTC +8) and is currently sailing at 10.9 knots in West direction
