{"id":7393,"date":"2025-07-01T15:02:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T20:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/?p=7393"},"modified":"2025-07-01T15:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T20:02:07","slug":"port-driver-hauling-container-skids-into-harbor-drowns-nouakchott-mauritania-25-june-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/?p=7393","title":{"rendered":"Port Driver Hauling Container Skids Into Harbor; Drowns  [Nouakchott, Mauritania &#8211; 25 June 2025]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Information coming to Blueoceana Company would have us understand that an as-yet-unnamed port driver involved in dockside vessel discharge operations skidded and slid into the harbor at Nouakchott, Mauritania (West Africa) on 25 June 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Media reports (See below) indicate that while an immediate rescue attempt was initiated the drivers body was not recovered from the depths of the harbor berthing area until approximately two days later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At present, there is no indication as to which vessel was being worked nor whether or not any sort of bull rail was present at the water&#8217;s edge (stringpiece). Should further information become available, this post will be updated accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Links to Media Accounts<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/The-body-of-a-Friendship-port-driver-was-found-062625.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of The body of a Friendship port driver was found (062625).\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-56398f5f-2d1a-475e-95bc-f5acef95c12c\" href=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/The-body-of-a-Friendship-port-driver-was-found-062625.pdf\">The body of a Friendship port driver was found (062625)<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/The-body-of-a-Friendship-port-driver-was-found-062625.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-56398f5f-2d1a-475e-95bc-f5acef95c12c\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/A-truck-sinks-in-the-port-of-Friendship-causing-the-death-of-its-driver-062525.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of A truck sinks in the port of Friendship, causing the death of its driver (062525).\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-1c51a0f6-55a1-4a24-a287-d3196e5cd4fe\" href=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/A-truck-sinks-in-the-port-of-Friendship-causing-the-death-of-its-driver-062525.pdf\">A truck sinks in the port of Friendship, causing the death of its driver (062525)<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/A-truck-sinks-in-the-port-of-Friendship-causing-the-death-of-its-driver-062525.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-1c51a0f6-55a1-4a24-a287-d3196e5cd4fe\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Nouakchott-recent-IMG_3779.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" src=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Nouakchott-recent-IMG_3779-1024x679.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Nouakchott-recent-IMG_3779-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Nouakchott-recent-IMG_3779-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Nouakchott-recent-IMG_3779-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Nouakchott-recent-IMG_3779-207x136.jpg 207w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Nouakchott-recent-IMG_3779-140x94.jpg 140w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Nouakchott-recent-IMG_3779.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Untitled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"919\" src=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Untitled-1024x919.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Untitled-1024x919.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Untitled-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Untitled-768x689.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Untitled-1536x1378.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Untitled.jpg 1716w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong><em>Above: <\/em><\/strong> Container Vessel Berths at and Orientation of Nouakchott Port, Mauritania <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Port Driver Drowns as His Rig Skids Into Harbor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blueoceana_blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7399,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7393\/revisions\/7399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}