From ADVRider
The Chesapeake Bay just got a new island after the Ever Forward missed a very conspicuous turn point in coming out of Baltimore. Ironically, this is almost a year to the day after sister ship Ever Given blocked the Suez Canal. They were doing nearly 13 knots(!!!) and slid up nearly 12 ft onto the mud bottom from their water line (the red), so they are well and truly high aground.
Ever Forward is a 43' draft & is in the shallows to the east of the wide Craig Hill Angle turn in an area of 17-24' depth, between Bodkin Creek and Gibson Island. The most basic of charts shows how narrow the channel is with the lighted buoys and depth markings clearly visible. They are so far out of the channel that shipping is continuing unobstructed.
fwiw - For locals it is about 1.6 miles off Downs Dog Park and for the rest of you, it's NOAA Chart 12278, page 10, north of buoy R14 and can be seen on MarineTraffic.com.
Great video and analysis about both groundings, including how hard this will be to re-float & salvage:
The Chesapeake Bay just got a new island after the Ever Forward missed a very conspicuous turn point in coming out of Baltimore. Ironically, this is almost a year to the day after sister ship Ever Given blocked the Suez Canal. They were doing nearly 13 knots(!!!) and slid up nearly 12 ft onto the mud bottom from their water line (the red), so they are well and truly high aground.
Ever Forward is a 43' draft & is in the shallows to the east of the wide Craig Hill Angle turn in an area of 17-24' depth, between Bodkin Creek and Gibson Island. The most basic of charts shows how narrow the channel is with the lighted buoys and depth markings clearly visible. They are so far out of the channel that shipping is continuing unobstructed.
fwiw - For locals it is about 1.6 miles off Downs Dog Park and for the rest of you, it's NOAA Chart 12278, page 10, north of buoy R14 and can be seen on MarineTraffic.com.
Great video and analysis about both groundings, including how hard this will be to re-float & salvage:
