
I don’t refer to news items of events very often unless they tie into something larger, but I have to admit that the following is a great story.
Man in Norway wakes to find huge container ship in garden
Five metres further south and it would have entered the bedroom.
He was alerted by a neighbour phoning him, but heard nothing himself, which is another funny and strange aspect to the story.
Huge?
Being a bit neuro diverse over the matter but that is a small “feeder” ship of a mere 886 TEU.
Considering the largest “box boats” of today exceed 20,000 TEU “huge” is a bit hyperbolic
Still hyberboli rules in headlines
“huge” is subjecti
The word is appropriate to describe the house owner’s perspective.
subjective – my bad.
Never mind, I wrote “hyperboli” in place of “hyperbole”.
We are all fallible
TEU?
Twenty (foot container) Equivalent Unit – TEU
Basically she can carry 886 twenty foot containers or 443 forty foot containers
Getting further into the weeds she is a “geared ship” meaning she has cranes to load or unload where the port facilities don’t exist for doing that.
This type of vessel moves containers between large terminals and smaller ports
Once upon a time you would have called her a “coaster”.
The interview with the house owner is hilarious… Slept through and then is very meh, whatever about how close the house came to a conplete wipe out.
With the basic manning of these vessels and the short turn arounds, interrupted sleep patterns as vessel arrive/leaves, time between reliefs etc etc I am not surprised he fell asleep unless he was on the turps.