Astoria-Bay

The Coast Guard medevaced two men with severe burns from the "Astoria Bay" near Cold Bay in the night of Jan 8, 2014. A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Air Station Kodiak, forward deployed to Cold Bay, conducted the hoists approximately 207 miles southwest of Cold Bay and flew the men to the Cold Bay Clinic for subsequent transport to the Seattle Burn Center by commercial medevac services. Watchstanders at the Coast Guard 17th District command center in Juneau became aware of the men’s injuries on Jan 7 when the crew of the "Astoria Bay" reported the men were injured while working on the vessel’s boiler system. The watchstanders consulted the duty flight surgeon who recommended the Astoria Bay monitor the men’s conditions and alter course to Dutch Harbor. The helicopter crew was launched to conduct the medevac when the men’s condition worsened. Weather conditions at the time of the medevac were reportedly 29-mph winds out of the southeast with 10-foot seas and rain showers. The "Astoria Bay" was on a voyage from Port Angeles, Wash., to Tianjin, China.

http://www.timescolonist.com/news/victoria/Cargo+ship+limps+into+Ogden+Point+after+rogue+wave/6111162/story.html

On Feb 5, 2012, the "Dry Beam" was moored in Victoria with damage on deck clearly visible. The vessel limps into Ogden Point after having been struck by waves as high as 15 metres about 480 kilometres off northern Vancouver Island on Feb 2, 2012. One wave, believed to be between 10 and 15 metres high, slammed into the ship's port side and caused many of the raw logs on deck to shift. Its massive vertical support beams bent like matchsticks and its load of logs shifted to starboard side. None of the 23 Filipino crew was hurt. The principal surveyor with IMS Marine Surveyors of Burnaby boarded the vessel, once in pirt, to assess the damage and review the incident on behalf of the ship's insurers. But there was little the crew could have done to avoid the wave. The currents and wave patterns combine to make this a highly dangerous area. The vessel will need extensive repairs before it is seaworthy again,. The bent stanchions on the port side will be cut off, and the logs removed and put on another ship or barge. Reports with photos: http://www.timescolonist.com/Cargo+ship+limps+into+Ogden+Point+after+rogue+wave/6111162/story.html#ixzz1lgTfZPam http://www.shipwrecklog.com/log/2012/02/dry-beam/