What Happens to Shipping Containers Lost at Sea?

May 17, 2014

A shipping container after seven years on the seafloor.
Soon after it left the Port of Oakland, California, in February 2004, the shipping vessel Med Taipei hit a strong winter storm with violent 30-foot-high (9 meters) swells. Amid rolling waves, 15 shipping containers came loose and toppled overboard, sinking to the icy seafloor inside the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.

Just four months later, scientists surveying the seafloor with an underwater robot found one of those lost containers nearly 4,200 feet (1,300 m) below the surface. They turned their chance discovery into an opportunity to study how aquatic life reacts to deep-sea pollution. Read full story
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  3. Reply  

    Timothy Mckiness

    May 17, 2014

    As a scuba diver this container can be removed from the sanctuary very easily with inflatable wraps around it without disturbing any of the sea floor. Also it will get rid of contaminants from our oceans by removing it.. monetary bay is 200 meters to the ocean floor except for the canyon area which is 500 meters at its deepest point.

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    Nico R

    May 17, 2014

    Why is the 'caution' sign intact yet no other label ?

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    Nico R

    May 17, 2014

    Tripple E class vessels do loose some…..from time to time !

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