{"id":70597,"date":"2018-03-21T14:24:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T13:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/?p=70597"},"modified":"2018-05-16T08:34:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T07:34:24","slug":"lavant-lapres-et-le-pourquoi-dun-naufrage-dans-la-manche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/lavant-lapres-et-le-pourquoi-dun-naufrage-dans-la-manche\/","title":{"rendered":"The Before, After and Why of a Shipwreck in the English Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the morning of 18 March 2018, the Belgian trawler Deborah<\/em> (photo n\u00b01) goes fishing in the Channel shipping lane, followed by more than 70,000 merchant ships and 500 million tonnes of hazardous cargos each year, a little as if a collector of greasy papers and mushrooms was working day and night on a motorway or at the edge of the emergency strip.<\/p>\n

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1 – Deborah \u00a9 Fiskerifladen Illustreret<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>

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2 – Britannica Hav \u00a9 Henk Jungerius<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>

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The Deborah<\/em> is sailing at low speed (between 3-4 knots), the crew is mostly concentrated on fishing. On March 20, in the early afternoon, it changes fishing area, goes down south, approaches Cherbourg at a speed of about 10 knots and spurs on the port side at about 14h40 UTC the Britannica Hav<\/em> (photo n\u00b02) departed from Renteria (Spain) and heading to Keadby (United Kingdom) with 2000 tonnes of scrap metals and more than 40 tonnes of propulsion oil.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Robin des Bois map – source Marine Traffic<\/p>\n

An ingress of water forced the 7 crew members to leave the Britannica Hav<\/em> with survival craft just before she capsized, turned turtle and drifted rudder into the air.<\/p>\n

After having contributed to the rescue of the crew finally helicoptered towards the military port of Cherbourg, the Deborah<\/em> completely changes course and heads for her home port of Zeebrugge, Belgium, where she arrives on 21 March at 9h55 UTC.<\/p>\n

Questions<\/strong>
\n– Under what senseless regulation can a fishing vessel work day and night in the middle of a two-way maritime highway used by 20 to 25% of world maritime traffic?<\/p>\n

– How is it that the maritime prefecture of the Channel and North Sea based in Cherbourg did not order the Deborah<\/em> to be diverted to a French port for the purposes of the investigation?<\/p>\n

– What will be the fate of the Britannica Hav<\/em> which his drifting at an average speed of 6 km\/h and constitutes for all the ships in the area one risk more of colliding and more over difficult to spot ?<\/p>\n

– If the wreck persists to float, will the Franch-English authorities find another solution than the scuttling and dumping of the former cargo ship belonging to Russian and Norwegian interests and flying the Maltese flag?<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Overturned wreck of the Britannica Hav<\/em>
\n\u00a9 Marine Nationale<\/p>\n

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Only in French.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[701,2669,157,2667,971,2668],"class_list":["post-70597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-securite-marit","tag-accident","tag-britannica-hav","tag-collision","tag-deborah","tag-mer-du-nord","tag-rail-de-la-manche"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}