Beaches of Goa, Along With Stranded Ships

Thousands of tourists visit the beaches of Goa,
one of the country’s top tourist destinations; come into view to be allocating as homing inspiration for ships tormenting from all states of disorder.

This monsoon, tankers, trans-shippers, barges, tug boats along with the container carrying trans-oceanic ships have over the years made their way- some opposed to- to Goa, as if some kind of lethal drive attracted them towards the Luso- motivated tropical paradise.

The most modern case in face is the MOL Comfort, a 300 m plus container ship carrying over 4,500 container sailing from Singapore to Jeddah, which broke into two about 500km off Goa.


According to Manohar Parrikar, Chief Minister, the ship was travelling towards Goa’s coast at the rate of five km per hr and so were its containers, which are now wobbling in the ocean.

He said on Tuesday, minutes after he came to know about the mid-sea tragedy, “It’s not just the ship, there are these hundreds of containers which are also wobbling in the water a floating towards the shores of Goa. But luckily labours are being made to haul the ship away.”

Quoting unconfirmed sources, he said, the ship was carrying arms in the containers intended for Syrian agitators fighting President Bashar al-Assad, which were floating towards Goan shores. It almost seemed that Parrikar was quoting a Hollywood-style Armageddon-genre scheme.

The Chief Minister also expressed astonishment at the prospect that this was the second alarm in a row in recent times for Goa, as far as such accidental incidents were concerned.

Previously in this month, he had warned Goans about MV Pratibha Bhima, a 274 m long crude oil tanker, which according to him was supposedly owned by a central minister that was left stranded nine nautical miles off Goa.

“I have asked the collector to append it under section 35 of the Disaster Management Act,” Parrikar said, adding that the director general of shipping was too “afraid to take any step.”

The ship was ultimately towed off and the danger was prevented, particularly as the swirling sea and strong winds during the monsoon season would lift the vessel’s anchor and drift it towards shore.

One of the longest engagement that a ship has had with Goa’s shore was when MV River Princess, a trans-shipper owned by mining company landed at a sand bar on a stormy night off Sinquerim, at a distance of 25 km from here, in 2000.

Over the years, as the massive trans-shipper eventually became a great photo setting for the tourists visiting Sinquerim beach, its presence was cited as a chief reason for massive sea erosion along the parts of Sinquerim and Candolim beaches.

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  1. Trust me people, goa is the best place to visit, especially it is the Best Honeymoon Destination and you can go with your friends as well.

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