We went for a short walk today. We drove down to Stokes Bay and parked up in the Pebbles car park. It was quite a blustery day, but we both had good wind proof coats on. We quite enjoyed the walk up towards the diving museum, and turned round after 20 minutes.
Coming back, the wind was behind us pushing us along a little bit. In the distance we could see a large ship making its way in, not taking long to be able to see that it was a container ship.
Elayne asked what ship it was, and where it had come from. It took a minute or so to log in to the Marine Traffic app, and only a few seconds to locate it and identify it as The Cosco Hope, 141,823 gross tons, she was built in 2012, 366m long and 48.32m wide. She had left Charleston on the third of March.
The Cosco Hope has a TEU of 13,092, meaning it can carry that number of twenty foot containers. As to what the cargo was, I wonder how many Amazon or wish packages were on board. At least that will always remain a mystery,
I only ask the question in the header because I felt in some respects having all that information (and I haven’t given you everything that Marine Traffic provides) takes away some of the mysteries in life. It’s like a lot of things, you only need an app on your phone and you can find out things.
Actually, I think I prefer it like that.
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