Brkg: Houston Texas - Crash of Vessels in SHIP CHANNEL

Gulf of Mexico is getting tired of this shit.

Texas City has a history of this type stuff!

Once there was an explosion that killed the entire town and leveled the buildings.

There was/is a superfund site there.

If you live in Texas City you live with doom looking over your shoulder every single day.

The "backing up" of ships was due to the heavy amounts of fog. Have you ever tried to maneuver a 200 ton ship with no visibility in a winding channel?

Didn't think so.

Accidents happen. The shipping traffic is insanely increasing. There is also the start of new projects to increase the port by more than 100 more terminals.

That is why they are currently dredging the channel to widen it. Gotta make room for more ships.

Don't worry. Houston doesn't putz around. Texans take care of what needs taken care of. Everything will be fine. No doom here.... move along.

CNN and FOX have nothing on their websites 8:50est.

Do not take what they have or have not to say with a grain of salt.

However, this topic is not important and dead because there is nothing to report.

Just a small grind in two hulls. Nothing worth being alarmed about. tiny amount of oil in the water.

This should be unpinned. Its dead.

oh shit serious backup traffic in the gulf

[link to www.khou.com]

Once again, thanks for all the replies & concerns being expressed by you all for us living in Texas. Sad to say this, but the truth is this: any incident involving this important Port / Petrochemical area may quickly lead to having serious secondary impacts, not only for those folks in USA but also our military too -- and global implications too.

I've got close relatives & friends living in the Houston region, including Galveston too; our family makes frequent trips down there from DFW area so very familiar with area & past history (and lots of scary stuff about the chemical plants / refineries, etc). Any incident like this one causes us to immediately take notice & think about what else could happen as a secondary event = take precautions, make plans for a potential mass-disaster event, so on.

FYI: for those wanting to know more about importance of the Houston Ship Channel & Port (= where much of our gasoline in the USA is produced...) see links below:

THE PORT OF HOUSTON
[link to en.wikipedia.org]

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-> "The Port of Houston, is a port in Houston, the fourth-largest city in the United States.
It is the busiest port in the United States in terms of foreign tonnage, second-busiest in the United States in terms of overall tonnage, and thirteenth-busiest in the world.[2]

-> Though originally the port's terminals were primarily within the Houston city limits, the port has expanded to such a degree that today it has facilities in multiple communities in the surrounding area. In particular the port's busiest terminal, the Barbours Cut Terminal, is located in Morgan's Point.

-> The Port of Houston is a cooperative entity consisting of both the port authority, which operates the major terminals along the Houston Ship Channel, and more than 150 private companies situated along Buffalo Bayou and Galveston Bay.[3]

-> Many petroleum corporations have built refineries along the channel where they are partially protected from the threat of major storms in the Gulf of Mexico.

-> *** The petrochemical complex associated with the Port of Houston is one of the largest in the world.[4] ***

***{Take special note of this fact!!!}***

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Houston Ship Channel - Wikipedia
[link to en.wikipedia.org]

(This page give history about the channel itself & various locations along it, etc)

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Texas City disaster
[link to en.wikipedia.org]

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For the 2005 oil refinery fire, see Texas City Refinery (BP).

-> The Texas City disaster of April 16, 1947 was the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history, and one of the largest non-nuclear explosions.

-> The Grandcamp (ship) explosion destroyed the Monsanto Chemical Company plant and resulted in ignition of refineries and chemical tanks on the waterfront... the Grandcamp's anchor was hurled across the city. Two sightseeing airplanes flying nearby had their wings shorn off,[6] forcing them out of the sky. 10 miles (16 km) away, people in Galveston were forced to their knees; windows were shattered in Houston, Texas, 40 miles (60 km) away. People felt the shock 100 miles (160 km) away in Louisiana. The explosion blew almost 6,350 short tons (5,760 metric tons) of the ship's steel into the air, some at supersonic speed.

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If you take time to read the account of the 1947 Texas City Disaster above (+ many other links online too), you will understand why native Texans cringe to hear news any time that there's been some sort of marine accident or chemical incident in the Houston Ship Channel,,, but especially if it involves *** TEXAS CITY *** !!!

It is not a dead zone you moron, plenty of fish thrive in there

For what it's worth, 924,000 gallons divided by 42 gallons (oilfield barrel equivalent)= around 22,000 barrels

where did the hydrogen sulphide gas come from?

Thats a naturally occurring emission of petroleum

Just exactly how do you know this? Did you ask it?

Too bad it didn't collide with a tanker of corexit.
lol

Last Edited by A Mery Can on 03/22/2014 10:23 PM

link?

THANK YOU TO JYNARD .. very much! Am glad to hear that there's only one tank leaking per your report. Please do update this thread if you get more information as soon must get ready for some sleep tonight. I sincerely hope & pray that this incident is easily resolved and doesn't cause problems or other repercussions later on.

For those ones who think this is not much of an event, I do agree that it may end up being fairly minor in the scheme of things... however, we must all be observant, vigilant / diligent about what's really going on in our surroundings.

From the threads I read here earlier today, especially regarding the situation in Crimea & Ukraine, things are sounding quite serious now and yet the media focus is still zeroed in on the missing Malaysian airplane & all the theories / shreds of evidence (CNN is getting REALLY weird, imho = am a bit suspicious that their nonstop coverage is being used as a big distractor to keep public attention away from the *real* stuff going on / covert operations or ????

Apologize I've been slow in responding to some of you but did need a bite of supper. And I'm not logged in cause am afraid of being banned again & having to pay my membership fee since it recently expired & so been trying to hold out. For those who don't recognize my ID names, I've been a loyal member here since the first year of this forum's creation with it's previous owner ("Ruby Tuesday" was pre-GLP & before Trinity) + also this forum was the sleuth reporting board for Kent Steadman (Emperor Kenton - here but now deceased) of CYBER SPACE ORBIT ( [link to www.cyberspacorbit.com] ) -- it is still a working site w/ great on-site search engine for archives!))... I think I may have posts archived all the back to 1999 or so ... original ID was Gisgaia but then more recently changed to TOPAZ to avoid confusion with a newer member named Gaia at that time around 2007 time period.


Blessings & Prayers for all D'vine Creation ~^~

Gisgaia / TOPAZ

How do you run into a barge being towed? Who ever was captain of that ship needs fired

I've seen this pic a hundred times, and I still don't know what it is supposed to be. And yes, I'm well schooled on the BP disaster, but...what the hell is this?

p.s. I live in Texas...with family on the Gulf...and I never once saw this photo or heard anything out of the ordinary. Photoshop or cover-up?

JYNGER .. I must for sure be getting too tired now (lol) as I spelled your name wrong in my last reply and do humbly apologize.

Thanks for your valuable contributions on this thread!

~~~ Goodnight ~~~

Blessings & Prayers for all D'vine Creation ~^~

Gisgaia / TOPAZ

well there goes the economy for at least 3 months

[link to www.marinetraffic.com]

Summer Wind

bulk carrier ship

Yes, it is? 

Better fill up the gas tank now. By Monday we could see $4.00 at the pumps.

Charlie or Martin?

You were not supposed to notice all of that!

All is well. A very minor spill, nothing to worry about. No, the fishing in the area is perfectly fine. The fish will not become toxic in the presence of the several million gallons of Corexit 9500 they will use to create a gigantic tar ball just under the surface.

Yes. Was in Texas city at a birthday party. It was such a nice day too. We had to take it inside, the smell was horrible. Then everyone just had to leave. Not sure how it is now but getting home was a mess as well.

Everything is closed until further notice. Ship channel and everything around it.

Were the Ships named the Poseidon and the Trident? Did they weigh a combined total of 777 tons? did it happen at 911 PM?

I am guessing the captain of one or both vessels.

the largest tankers hold 2 million barrels of oil.