The ship had been lengthen in 1984 and the failure was at the forward end of the new midbody. In 1997 for example the msc carla a 25 year old ship sailed from la havre bound for boston and broke in half roughly amidships off the azores. While this is not normally worldwide news for people outside the shipping industry this container ship is said to be carrying 4 500 shipping containers filled with arms headed for syrian rebels.
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It has happened before with older ships.
Mol container ship breaks in half.
The mv mol comfort an 8 000 teu type containership cracked in half about 200 miles from the yemeni coast at about 12 30 n 60 e while enroute from singapore to jeddah with a load of 7 041 teus.
A few days ago an mol container ship split in half in the middle of the indian ocean and now it is all over the news.
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