To all:

I've just found out thay my MINI COOPER S 2003, (my it rest in peace) has sunk to the bottom of the English channel, what a bad month this is, couldn't be home for the hoildays with my daughter, and had 29 days left before leaving Bahrain, after being here for a year, just when every thing seem to be going right, this happens !!!!! :evil: :evil:

Here is the link http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2575009.stm

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MCS 2003 (ALL SILVER TOP INCLUDED/SPORT PACKAGE/17IN S TYPE RIMS, 6 CD CHANGER, SUNROOF) FUTURE ITEMS BODY KIT/LOWERING 0.6 H&R SPRING/(THINKING FOR LICENSE PLATE S CAR GO)

 

According to the BBC link you posted, the Tricolor was on its way to Southhampton. I read on Mini2 that it was loaded with Volvos, BMWs, etc. and had not picked up any MINIs yet because it hadn't reached Southhampton. Hopefully, this is true and they can get your car on another boat.

 

The car was picked up in Bremerhaven, Germany

 

Very sorry to hear that, COOLBRZ.
This is NOT meant to make you feel worse...just a memorial.
(First attempt at inserting pic, fingers crossed)

 

Coolbrz,
This is so sad

Lolo

 

>>The car was picked up in Bremerhaven, Germany :???: :???: :???:

BUT being a surfer, I wish I knew of the salt-water package when I ordered my MCS.

 

I am so sorry to hear about your loss.....
This is solveable though...I know it sucks to wait a little longer, but they have to replace the car for you.
Everything will turn out all right in the end. :smile:

 

I am very sorry to hear of your loss this is truly unfortunate Hopefully your wait will be quick in recieving a replacment. Take care,

-Digi

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Looking forward to Beepers in Late February!

 

*playing "taps" on guitar*

Tis a sad day when one loses a mini! Especially when he/she has not gotten the pleasure of driving him/her for the first time!! There will be a replacement, so no worries! There are plenty of fish in the sea! (and now they have a nice silver mini to swim around in! Good luck!

 

Sorry to hear about the loss. That's one of my worst nightmares with the MINI.
Maybe we could get James Cameron to bring it up from the depths.

 

:smile:

 

Sorry to hear that! Look at the bright side, maybe they will throw in something extra on the replacement like the previously unavailable H/K! My condolences.

 

Sorry to hear. That sux! My DS MCS was supposed to be on the Tricolor. I couldn't believe it when I read the post on mini2.com that it had sunk.

 

What was the car doing in Germany, anyway? Didn't you tell it not to wander off?

Now you get the chance to rethink all your colour and option choices. This may actually be a good thing (as my mother would have said!)

And nice first post, COOPERation!

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COOPERation, I think you've hit on something here. Just add a periscope and, voila! a MINI submarine.

Everybody sing! "We all live in a MINI submarine, a MINI submarine, a MINI submarine..."

 

Sorry to hear for your loss. Any ideas yet for what you'll do to replace the sunk MINI?

 

COOLBRZ,

Sorry to hear about the loss of your mini, but I can say you are having a bad year being stuck in Bahrain. I have spent sometime there myself. Although it was fun for awhile I hope never to go back. Hope you leave there soon and your new mini is waiting on you.

DRM

 

OUCH
2 Cargo Ships Collide in English Channel
Sat Dec 14, 3:25 PM ET

By BETH GARDINER, Associated Press Writer

LONDON - A cargo ship carrying nearly 2,900 luxury cars capsized and sank after colliding with another cargo ship in the English Channel early Saturday. There were no injuries.


AP Photo



The Norwegian-registered Tricolor was resting on the bottom of the channel, but since the tide was low it was only partly submerged, the French coast guard said.


In heavy fog, the Tricolor collided with the Bahamas-registered container ship Kariba about 30 miles east of Ramsgate, southeastern England, at around 1:30 a.m., said Britain's Maritime and Coastguard Agency.


Per Ronnevig, a spokesman for the Tricolor's owners, Wilhelmsen Lines, said the ship had been carrying 2,862 cars — high-end BMWs, Volvos and Saabs — and 77 other items, mainly tractors and large crane parts.


It picked up its cargo in Zeebrugge, Belgium and was bound for Southampton, on England's south coast, and the United States, he added. Ronnevig said the ship was worth about $40 million and its cargo up to $49 million.


Ronnevig said the cargo was probably damaged beyond repair. "I think we must consider it lost," he said. "She probably capsized when she went down. It means that all the cars are probably lying in pieces down there."


He added the crews of both vessels were spending the night in a hotel in Dunkirk, France and would be questioned by investigators Sunday.


The Maritime and Coastguard Agency said the damaged 577-foot Kariba was heading to port in Antwerp, Belgium, with help from a Belgian warship and the French coast guard. It had originally been traveling from Antwerp to Le Havre, France.


A spokesman said the car-carrying Tricolor began to list badly just after the collision and its crew of about two dozen boarded a lifeboat. Another ship brought them safely to Dunkirk, France.


Workers planned to put a barrier around the 627-foot vessel to prevent fuel spreading if it leaks, but the French coast guard said none had. Ronnevig said the ship was carrying 2,000 tons of fuel oil.


"All the lives have been saved and our action now will involve providing nautical safety around the wreck, which has settled at the bottom tilted on its port side, and on preventing pollution," said a statement from the French maritime service responsible for the English Channel and North Sea.

The statement said seas were calm but covered with a thick fog at the time of the collision.

Britain's Coastguards said the first priority was stopping the risk of pollution. The French coast guard said the accident should not interfere with shipping in the area.

 

My Fellow MINI owners

log in today, and to my amazement, to see all of the supportive messages and cartoons, they were all great, Thanks, :smile: Now the real journey starts, with all the paperwork, and long delays, You see my MINI was on a journey, it left the UK, arrived in Pordenone, Italy, and trucked to Bremerhaven, Germany to be ship there, the plan was for it to explore Europe before returning to the U.S., as any good Sailor would tell at the beginning of his story, "I can remember when I was" it's all about "fate",

As for my next model, if it permits, it will be exactly the same.

Cooperation: LOVE that cartoon/post, big smiles

Dominic MINI: still planning on another MINI



To MY Fellow MINIac's, again thanks for the warm comments from a sailor who belongs at sea, and soon to be reunited with his daughter, and a car that followed the same path, May Your Christmas bring you Hope and faith, an to celebrated a wonderful NEW YEAR,

 

:smile:

Cheers!
Clover

 

RIP

 

From my Mini and me to yours, we wish you a better MINI realted future to come.

But it would make one hellofa deep sea dive underwater discovery hunt though.

Chin up buddy. We're all rootin' for a speedy recovery for ya.
Cheers,

 

Hi Coolbrz
Just in case you want something for posterity. Your Mini is in here somewhere:

 

unsettling, very unsettling. Sorry to hear about your loss, that's just not right

 

That is a freaky picture
I wish you safe journey, done my time there too.