Een collega heeft zijn schip "Nova Cura" (waarschijnlijk total loss) op een rotspartij gevaren in Griekenland. Hoewel ik nog wel vragen heb (zoals de knik in zijn af te leggen route die maakte dat hij juist dichter bij de rotspartij uitkwam) kunnen wij denk ik wel ons voordeel doen met zijn verhaal. Copy/paste:
"Sadly to tell the world our general cargo vessel Nova Cura ran aground at Lesbos island with 13 knots speed on an underwater rock. The rock is visible on our approved and certified ECDIS charts, nearly 600 meter north of our grounding position.
Our waypoint was intentionally placed on our charts 600 meters south of the rock and shallow water path of 6,3 meter to pass with our 5,7 meter draught well clear of the areas with shallow water. But in the 20th of April 2016 at 10 am with me as Captain on the bridge we ran aground 550 meter south of that rocks on a depth of 112 meters according our chart. In reality it appeared only to be about 5 meters.
After lot of inspection from several officials and VDR review, not even 1 mistake was found onboard from crew, or equipment. The fault is the wrong notation of the rock by the Greece/Hellenic Hydro survey office. Spiteful they are covered for mistakes or errors.
Bow-truster room, forepeak, nearly all double bottoms tanks and the engine room full of water until sea level. Thanks God no crew injuries except mental impact. No oil spill. Now taking out the fuels and oils, than lightening and to shipyard for long repair or even maybe total loss.
This message must be seen as a warning to all Mariners using digital or paper charts in this area with data from Greece Hellenic surveys, such used by ENC primar, Cmap, Transas and local Greece charts! Position of the rock looks appearing correctly only on new edition paper Britisch Admirality charts, and a few unofficial sport charts such as Max Sea and Navionics. Same warnings will be published soon by the Dutch Safety Board and IMO organization"