Was 4700 Mazdas, now pics of the Tricolor

[marc at getty.net (Marc Getty)]

Just a few hours ago I found the same site as a link off of the Wikipedia
page <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Tricolor> on the incident. I posted a
blog <http://blog.myspace.com/damarc> about it with some more pictures of
the Mazda ship listing.

This is pretty damn cool, leave it up to those crazy Dutch to reclaim it!

-Marc
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Nate Mellom [mailto:doubt@inwave.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 7:28 PM
To: Marc Getty; Scirocco list
Subject: Re: Was 4700 Mazdas, now pics of the Tricolor

No problem, I followed this when it happened.  Amazing thing, they used a
giant cable as a saw blade to cut the ship into pieces for salvage. 
There's little video on the salvage website, just like a coping saw cutting
through a ship.

http://www.tricolorsalvage.com/pages/home.asp

Nate

Marc Getty wrote:
> Thanks for posting this! I spent most of 2002 in an alcoholic haze and 
> did not catch everything!
> 
> -Marc
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nate Mellom [mailto:doubt@inwave.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 9:45 PM
> To: Marc Getty
> Cc: 'Chris'; scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: Was 4700 Mazdas, now pics of the Tricolor
> 
> http://www.blognewsnetwork.com/members/0000001/mpg/tricolorAutos/trico
> lorAut
> os.html
> 
> Big news back when it happened.
> 
> Nate
> 
> 
> Marc Getty wrote:
> 
>>Here is a better link: <http://blogs.edmunds.com/Straightline/1291> to 
>>that article.
>>
>>This happens more then you might think. See:
>><http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9804E6DF163DF936A25751
>>C1A964
>>9C8B63> for an article from back in 2002. What the article does not 
>>9C8B63> mention
>>is that the ship sunk with the bow on the bottom and the stern just a 
>>few feet below the surface at low tide. A number of other ships hit 
>>the
> 
> "sunken"
> 
>>car ship as it stood almost straight up. BMW, Volvo, Saab, etc. only 
>>had ~$10k of maritime insurance on each car too. Pity. I wonder if any 
>>folks doing European delivery were impacted.....
>>
>>Scirocco content: I drove mine for almost 2 hours today. It sure felt
> 
> nice.
> 
>>Boy I sure do need a clutch! ;-)
>>
>>-Marc
>>
>>'83 VW Scirocco California Edition
>>'84 VW Rabbit GTI Pickup Truck
>> 
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Chris [mailto:open.seas@verizon.net]
>>Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 9:13 PM
>>To: scirocco.org
>>Subject: OT How do you stack 4700 Mazdas on their sides?
>>
>>Go to the bottom of the page.
>>
>>http://blogs.edmunds.com/Straightline?14@224.Xag1aGmUh1y@.ee7d88b
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