Engineer Recounts How Indonesian Tsunami Beached His 500-Tonne Ship
https://gcaptain.com/engineer-recounts-how-indonesian-tsunami-beached-his-500-tonne-ship/October 4, 2018
Ship’s engineer Charles Marlan had the unsettling sensation his vessel was being sucked out to sea, the telltale sign of an imminent tsunami, just minutes after a major earthquake struck the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Friday.
His passenger and cargo vessel, the 500-tonne KM Sabuk Nusantara 39, was docked in Wani, east of the city of Palu, which suffered the brunt of the disaster.
“The whole ship was shaking, everything in our bunks started falling,†Marlan said.
The ship was picked up by the tsunami rushing in from the sea and slammed onto land, crashing into a dockside settlement...
