Divers have found a 13-foot crack in hull of the Michipicoten. which started taking on water as it was carrying iron ore pellets to Algoma Steel on Saturday
What's believed to be a hull failure on a taconite supply ship on Saturday is not expected to affect production at Algoma Steel.
"This appears to be a result of fatigue/structural failure," a spokesperson for the Transportation Safety Board of Canada told TBnewswatch in an email Monday. "It looks like a hull failure, which could be the result of stress, fatigue, age of the vessel," he said, but cautioned that a full investigation is needed to determine the cause for certain.
"We won't definitively know if an event preceded the hull failure until the investigation is complete, and a big part of that is gonna be when the vessel gets up on dry dock, they offload the cargo. de-water the vessel, and take a good look at the damage." TBnewswatch reached out to Lower Lakes Towing of Port Dover, Ontario the subsidiary of U.S.-based Rand Logistics which owns the ship, but was told the company has no statement to make at this time, as it is still assessing the situation.
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