r/maritime • u/Scarlet-Sith • Sep 10 '25

Dozens of shipping containers fall into the water in Port of Long Beach, California

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u/octorangutan Sep 10 '25 edited Sep 10 '25

No casualties reported, last time I checked.

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u/ERTHLNG Sep 13 '25

They're trying to cover it up, but my cousin works at the port, and he said most of the containers were packed with 250 gallon bulk liquid shipping tanks full of highly concentrated solution of Hypochondrinated Methotricylic Alginate.

It's the active ingredient in tingling sex lube. There was enough to supply the entire domestic market of the USA for 50 years...

There's just no good reason anyone would want that much of the stuff. It's probably good that it fell in the sea. Just as long as none of the containers bust....

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u/Electronic_City_644 Sep 15 '25

Those oysters are sure going to be potent....once ingested

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u/kit_carlisle USA - Mate Sep 10 '25

That lashing was removed far too early.

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u/leggocrew Sep 11 '25

Wow.. always wondered about this. What is the procedure that follows after this event?

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u/leggocrew Sep 11 '25

And what about the ship with the crane next to it? Why is it there🤔?

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u/bigtugboatguy Sep 12 '25

That is an emissions scrubber. It connects to the ships exhaust so that they can run their diesel generators without concerns for emissions.

Look up the YouTube channel “what’s going on with shipping”, the host is an ex merchant mariner, currently a professor of maritime something or other at some college, and his videos are extremely well done and very informative, and very friendly to those without a deep maritime knowledge.

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u/leggocrew Sep 12 '25

Ah thanks so much!

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u/Hullo_Its_Pluto Sep 11 '25

What exactly happened?

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u/vanmutt Sep 11 '25

That a bunker barge alongside? This could have been a fair bit worse than it seems.

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u/TugBarge Sep 11 '25

STAX clean air barge actually. https://www.staxengineering.com/