8400 TEU Massive Container Freighter Ship MSC TOMOKO PANAMA Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. in the Santa Barbara Channel. Look at those containers the size of an 18-wheel trailer, stacked 6-7 high, 17 wide, and in 17 rows for maybe 1700 containers. Ten of us docent types from Morro Bay, CA, take a 4-hour Whale Watching boat trip tour on the Condor Express www.condorcruises.com/ out of Santa Barbara, CA, to Santa Cruz Island in the Channel Islands in Central-Southern California, on Labor Day 07 Sept 2009. Organized by Rouvaishyana of the CA State Park Museum of Natural History in Morro Bay, CA. Photo by Michael "Mike" L. Baird, mike [at} mikebaird d o t com, flickr.bairdphotos.com; Canon 5D, Canon 100-400mm Lens with circular polarizer (which made a big difference) handheld on a moving boat.
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This is a massive 8,400 TEU vessel
www.google.com/search?q=8%2C400+TEU+vessel
TEU defined
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-foot_equivalent_unit says
"The twenty-foot equivalent unit (often TEU or teu) is an inexact
unit of cargo capacity often used to describe the capacity of
container ships and container terminals. It is based on the volume of
a 20-foot-long (6.1 m) intermodal container, a standard-sized metal
box which can be easily transferred between different modes of
transportation, such as ships, trains and trucks."
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dave and rose 45 months ago | reply
Mike: Thank you for this amazing upload of an amazing outing. Hate to see oil rigs, and surly hate to see cargo ships and whales in the same location. Great handheld work.
Steve Corey 45 months ago | reply
Makes me wonder: is this shipment going to, or from the U.S? I know it's a silly question. Of course it's coming from China.
mikebaird 45 months ago | reply
Steve Corey Actually, our guide said that this ship was unusual, because it was headed out of the LA area headed north with cargo, which he said was for provisioning US troops overseas. I assumed that instead these may have been largely empty containers being returned to Asia - based of what seemed to me to be a very high free-board on the container vessel.
GIGEO 45 months ago | reply
Great work, Mike. We see those container ships in dock in San Pedro. AWESOME.........
kevincole 45 months ago | reply
Even at the distance you shot this it still looks huge. I wonder how much ship is below water.
jkirkhart35 45 months ago | reply
The polarizer did help, Mike. Very nice. I could not believe how much this could carry, and I also could not believe why they would stack so many of them so high. I guess I am thinking the ocean would have some monster waves that would knock them right off. Maybe the weight of the load keeps them in place.
Bobby Siliato 45 months ago | reply
very surreal...
howardignatius 45 months ago | reply
Amazing how big these ships are!
Anika Nui, Waikoloa 45 months ago | reply
Containers don't travel MT. $$$
Slappy Vandelay 45 months ago | reply
Wow! Do you have any specific dimensions on that ship? Just massive. Watched a special once on the computer programs and algorithms they use for organizing and optimizing the arrangement of containers on ships like that. Glad I never had to write code like that when I was working in comp sci.
jcarreret 45 months ago | reply
Pretty ship has MCS since(as,like) he wanted to be the motorist
Gunnar Ries 45 months ago | reply
awesome shot!
canal_sete 45 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called MSC Containers, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Alkan de Beaumont Chaglar 32 months ago | reply
Great shot!
daniel_digitex 30 months ago | reply
Yes, lovely freighter.
Panama company
Mr_Andre 25 months ago | reply
That thing is wicked. Its an 8,400 TEU vessel.
Amazing to think that vessels in the range of 15,000 TEU will be in service in the near future.
mikebaird 25 months ago | reply