Seadog
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salt water is very good at corrosion
It still needs oxygen, which is in short supply down deep.
salt water is very good at corrosion
Yeah mine was the same, vents at opposite corners, I'd assumed they all did.The 40' I used for storage had a small vent at high level in each corner, just a bunch of 10mm ish holes with a plastic shroud on the outside. I tried to fish a small cable through for the solar panel but there was some kind of trap in the plastic shroud, I guess some kind of insect trap. Ended up just drilling a hole straight out.
True but ounce in the sea there is no oxygen rich air to facilitate the rusting process slows down dramatically. Why ships can lie on the bottom of the ocean for donkeys years. Even corten its self takes a very long time to rust. There is corten containers on ships that are over 30 years old.salt water is very good at corrosion....hence Marine Grade Stainless (316L)
Corten rusts a nice colour but it still rusts....I believe that the manufacturers advise painting it in coastal areas
Generally you won't find them on sea going containers, unless they are used for hazardous material transport, then they some times have vents to stop vapour build up but they are pretty rare. Only ever seen 2 myself and I have seen an awful lot of containers for my sins.The 40' I used for storage had a small vent at high level in each corner, just a bunch of 10mm ish holes with a plastic shroud on the outside. I tried to fish a small cable through for the solar panel but there was some kind of trap in the plastic shroud, I guess some kind of insect trap. Ended up just drilling a hole straight out.
Very correct - They do "hover just below the surface".
You don't wanna be hitting one of them in a GRP sailing yacht.
On a different note: Last time I was on a cruise ship in the Med - you wanna see the plastic debris and blue plastic drums floating about - really it was shocking!
Speaking of floating debris, when the Congo is in full flow the amount of debris that is washed down and out to sea is obscene. Used to see it 100 miles offshore when I worked off Angola. Flying over it the spread was quite something to see, but not in a good way. Suspect other outflows in lesser developed places will be the same or worse.I’ve seen the ‘land mass’ in the Andaman ocean, formed by thousands of tons of floating plastic and other garbage, and there is an even more huge one in the north Atlantic...
North Atlantic garbage patch - Wikipedia
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Speaking of floating debris, when the Congo is in full flow the amount of debris that is washed down and out to sea is obscene. Used to see it 100 miles offshore when I worked off Angola. Flying over it the spread was quite something to see, but not in a good way. Suspect other outflows in lesser developed places will be the same or worse.
Suspect its the same the world over. What surprised me in Africa and parts of South America, how they build a house, put a wall around it, then throw their rubbish over the wall, as in Im all right Jack stuff you. But the same is happening here in some respects with fly tipping, constantly on the increase.Iv always wandered why developing countries struggle with litter
Suspect its the same the world over. What surprised me in Africa and parts of South America, how they build a house, put a wall around it, then throw their rubbish over the wall, as in Im all right Jack stuff you. But the same is happening here in some respects with fly tipping, constantly on the increase.
I lived in the Philippines for 20 years, the garbage is disgusting, people walk out of a shop and empty their litter bin into the streets. Rivers, streams and drains are used as sewers. The two things I hated the most there: rubbish pollution, and noise pollution.I watched a bbc series where the did jobs swaps from the uk to all over the world
one was a bin man from south London I think, he went to a place exactly like you said and they swept there own yard just into the street it made no sense at all
Slightly off topic, I remember years ago, they had millions of trishaws in Jakarta, which were clogging up the roads as the city modernised, so they banned them from major roads and confiscated any that broke the rules. They dumped them at sea to build reefs for fish protection too, I believe with some success. If I'm not mistaken, the same idea has been used with old car bodies too, to prevent trawlers in protected waters. I would not like to hit a container in a sailing boat though. I have a couple of friends who've made atlantic crossings, I dread to think what would have happened if they hit one a thousand miles offshore!I very much doubt that they'll rust significantly in the next 100 years. Most of them end up as reefs.
There have been a few scrap ships sunk in a similar manner to create reefs for the fish.Slightly off topic, I remember years ago, they had millions of trishaws in Jakarta, which were clogging up the roads as the city modernised, so they banned them from major roads and confiscated any that broke the rules. They dumped them at sea to build reefs for fish protection too, I believe with some success. If I'm not mistaken, the same idea has been used with old car bodies too, to prevent trawlers in protected waters. I would not like to hit a container in a sailing boat though. I have a couple of friends who've made atlantic crossings, I dread to think what would have happened if they hit one a thousand miles offshore!
When I’ve bought Corten plates,I’ve asked this very question,”1mm/160 years”Containers are made of Corten in the man, I don't know how fast they will rust away.
Good times were had on that sleek grey messenger.The fate of a few ex RN (and other navies around the world) has been to end up as artificial reefs -HMS Scylla was sunk a few years back near Plymouth for this purpose.
At least one Aircraft carrier, a few NASA support ships.The yanks did it with tanks off the keys I believe?
I lived in the Philippines for 20 years, the garbage is disgusting, people walk out of a shop and empty their litter bin into the streets. Rivers, streams and drains are used as sewers. The two things I hated the most there: rubbish pollution, and noise pollution.
Good example here.
Clean-up crews cower as heavy swells throw rubbish over a promenade already blanketed in plastic and Styrofoam waste
WAVES of rubbish have been filmed crashing onto the shores of Manila in the Philippines in shocking footage. The video, posted to Facebook on Saturday, shows Government and NGO workers struggling t…www.thesun.co.uk