did you guys see this? car container ship sinking in English Channel(LAC)

Brett Dikeman quattro at frank.mercea.net
Thu Jun 8 17:56:21 EDT 2006


On Jun 8, 2006, at 2:24 PM, Jim Haseltine wrote:

> The cargo were BMWs, Saabs and Volvos destined for the UK market -  
> 3000 of
> them worth approx $50 million.
>
> Even more amusing than the original disaster was that while the  
> ship was
> floating on its side in the Channel another two ships steamed into it.

More photos with English text here:
http://www.tricolorsalvage.com/pages/photo_close.asp?f=01Preparations

More info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Tricolor

Impressive feat of engineering.

B


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