vehicle ships, with loads of enormous size and enormous weight They are the arteries of the maritime industry.

These arteries, you guessed it, It doesn’t sink easily, though The collapse story we are about to tell may seem like a joke.

The crew thought everything was ready to go.

But the ship typo by entering incorrect data in the balance system It was done. This simple mistake resulted in the complete loss of both ship and cargo. More than 250 million dollars entailed rescue costs.

Golden Ray is 200 meters long and It was a gigantic vehicle carrier weighing 71 tons. It had a total of 15 decks, 13 of which were dedicated to carrying vehicles, and had a capacity of 7,742 vehicles.

However, an error in manually entering the balance information caused the ship to become unstable.

According to the crew’s calculations the ship was safe to navigate but in reality the stability of the ship was quite poor. So what was this mistake?

The Golden Ray routinely increased its speed as it continued on its way. During the return starboard, 6 degrees inclined but the crew thought everything was normal.

Vehicles in the Golden Ray ship.

As the ship gains speed during the rotation process Each time it leaned a little more towards the quay. The captain realized there was a problem and center of gravity and metacentric height of the ship He understood the imbalance by questioning the distance between them.

The crew considered the ship’s metacentric height (GM) to be approximately 2.5 meters.

In reality, however, the GM value is It had a value between 0.8 and 1.8 meters. So what does this mean?

In other words, the ship was exposed to outside forces during rotation and had to balance itself. However It fell on its side because its self-righting ability was less and went down an irreversible path.

A minor clerical error caused the ship’s $62.5 million loss It caused freight losses of $142 million. Add to that the $250 million bailout cost…

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