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São Luís in the News: World’s Largest Cargo Ship Could Sink

Some of you may have heard the report of one of the largest cargo ships in the world in danger of sinking off the coast of Brazil. In reality, this is an unfolding story, and it is happening just a few short kilometers from where we live, in the Baía de São Marcos (St. Mark’s Bay). If you haven’t seen this in the news, you can read about it here.
The following video (in Portuguese) shows images of the large boat, loaded with iron ore, floating in the bay.

There are some shots of some sites around town that are familiar to us, and, if you freeze the video at 1:32, you can see the skyline of São Luís in the background.
Below is a satelite map of São Luís. It shows St. Mark’s Bay, on the bottom left, and towards the top right, the neighborhood where we live.
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This is really a tense situation. According to reports, at one point the back of the ship was one meter away from hitting the bottom of the ocean…and if that happens, the ship could break in two, releasing it’s cargo into the water.


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