What this ship http://www.abc.net.au/newcastle/stories/s1945881.htm?nsw experienced before running aground.
For info, the Pasha Bulker is 225 metres long with a 32 metre beam. http://www.lauritzenbulkers.com/vsl/ListLong.asp?VesselNo=3677
She moved last night on a very high tide after blowing some ballast and with tugs attached, but three of six wires parted. She was ‘lively’, i.e. able to float, with some ballast lost. Tomorrow night is a king tide with a full moon when she might come off.
She’s off.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/07/03/1968230.htm
Modern ships aren’t designed for what she went through. Not like Captain Cook careening the Endeavour to repair her after hitting the Great Barrier Reef on his first trip to Australia in 1770.
A news report said the Pasha Bulker had a big crease down her side after grounding for a few weeks. Maybe this will alter her safety for a wave bending moment, carefully considered here in relation to Noah’s Ark with later references to more modern considerations. http://www.worldwideflood.com/ark/hull_calcs/wave_bm1.htm
For anyone who, like me, has a little boat and doesn’t go out too far but wants to be overawed by what can happen, check this out http://www.ifremer.fr/ditigo/molagnon/rogue/autres/roorda.pdf