Does my city perhaps lack something by way of entertainment? A grounded tanker became the city-wide, high talking point of this weekend.
Titanic merchant ship MV Wisdom ran ashore on June 12 after the ropes broke while being towed from Colombo to a ship breaking yard in Gujarat , where it was to be dismantled into scrap.
The MV Wisdom is now spending its last days as a pop-up tourist attraction instead and causing some bad traffic too.
With a 9,000-ton, 175-meter-long cargo ship practically at arm's length, word of the spectacle spread through the week and by the weekend the crowd of tourists and local families was almost ten times its normal size.
By Sunday with a real-life rescue towing operation underway (which failed) and four boys saved from drowning, the drama overflowed. Meaning the traffic situation at the arterial road near the beach became unbreachable.
"It took me more than two hours on my motorbike to get away from the two kilometer stretch leading to the beach," biker Tushar Parikh told one paper.
Shudder.
The office of the Directorate-General of Shipping says the floating novelty will be around another fortnight, while authorities wait for weather conditions to improve.
Source: CNN GO. By Sita Wadhwani. 20 June 2011
http://www.cnngo.com/mumbai/life/cargo-ship-mv-wisdom-pop-tourist-attraction-juhu-beach-770648
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