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11-29-2022, 05:19 PM
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Eleven Days and 3,000 Miles on a Ship's Rudder (!!)
I'm not a regular reader of the Washington Post and as I recall some WP articles throw up a paywall, but the photo in this article is so startling to me I think this is one of the best links for this story. Three -- can we call them stowaways if they're outside the hull? -- rode the rudder of a tanker for 3,000 miles and 11 days from Nigeria to the Canary Islands, until they were picked up by the Spanish coast guard. Wow. Now there's a story for a book publisher. Amazing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...s-ship-rudder/
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11-29-2022, 05:39 PM
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I cropped the picture and attached for convenience.
Guessing they checked Windy for suitable passage weather? Following seas would have been a problem.....
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11-29-2022, 06:06 PM
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Wow, image the desperation to do that.
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11-29-2022, 07:00 PM
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Lucky for them they're in tropical, probably calm waters. Otherwise no one would know.
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11-29-2022, 07:06 PM
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Gotta wonder if they started out with more than 3 people.......
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11-29-2022, 07:16 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mvweebles
Gotta wonder if they started out with more than 3 people.......
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Or how many other times it's been attempted.
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11-29-2022, 08:01 PM
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Pretty common way of smuggling drugs in the past. We caught a couple who had ridden all the way from Columbia to Mississippi that way, around 2007 with several kilos of cocaine with them. I was shocked to find how much room there was in the rudder compartment (the space above where you see them sitting) But, yeah, a big following sea would have made it interesting for sure.
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11-30-2022, 06:59 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mvweebles
Gotta wonder if they started out with more than 3 people.......
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Also wonder if this is the reason orcas are attacking rudders off the coast of Spain.
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11-30-2022, 08:51 AM
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It looks to me like the ship is empty and riding high. What would have happened if they needed to take on ballast?
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11-30-2022, 09:47 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by twistedtree
Wow, image the desperation to do that.
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A good reminder of our first world problems that we sweat and whether we need 1 or 2 engines, anchor type, spin on or drop in fuel filters....
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11-30-2022, 10:07 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fletcher500
A good reminder of our first world problems that we sweat and whether we need 1 or 2 engines, anchor type, spin on or drop in fuel filters....
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Absolutely. Incredible story and a great perspective for many.
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11-30-2022, 01:37 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by AlaskaProf
Or how many other times it's been attempted.
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Apparently it is pretty common there. Saw a video that said the Spanish immigration has seen it multiple times. I can’t imagine 2700NM on top of the rudder. But they said there is a small room or locker that is accessible from where they were so they may have spent time in there. I would not want to be there if it was rough water, actually I would not want to be there at any time.
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11-30-2022, 06:53 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Pete Meisinger
It looks to me like the ship is empty and riding high. What would have happened if they needed to take on ballast?
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They climb up into the open space, but they would have to swim out. In fact, that’s where they hide. Even when the ship is in ballast.
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11-30-2022, 07:11 PM
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11-30-2022, 07:59 PM
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Better option than the nose wheel recess on an aircraft?
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11-30-2022, 08:12 PM
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Boy, for all our discussions about recovering men overboard and how difficult it is to climb aboard a pleasureboat - when I look at those photos, how do they ever climb those sheer vertical rudder surfaces to reach the top edge?
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11-30-2022, 08:27 PM
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I guess when you are desperate you can do almost anything. Tough to do all this and then get sent home…
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11-30-2022, 09:01 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BruceK
Better option than the nose wheel recess on an aircraft?
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"As the CHAMPION PULA case illustrates, the rudder trunk is not an uncommon access point for stowaways and is often used as a hideout, especially when a ship is in ballast condition."
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11-30-2022, 09:28 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Comodave
I guess when you are desperate you can do almost anything. Tough to do all this and then get sent home…
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Interesting outcomes. Apparently, in the Champion Pula case, linked above, the Spaniards refused entry and they were conveyed to the next port-of-call in Norway where they applied for asylum.
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12-02-2022, 08:24 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by soin2la
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"Rudder Trunk".
Thanks, I couldn't think of the real word for that compartment. But, I did end up climbing up into the one in our case (and, it wasn't that easy, I did it from a Coast Guard boat pulled up under it). It looked like a miserable place to ride out an ocean voyage, but there was more room than I would have ever dreamed looking at if from outside. Our ship was a small oil tanker running back and forth from Columbia to a refinery here.
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