{"id":13535,"date":"2020-07-14T13:10:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T10:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/head-on-collision-in-great-lakes-welland-canal-caught-on-camera\/13535\/"},"modified":"2020-07-14T13:10:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T10:10:31","slug":"head-on-collision-in-great-lakes-welland-canal-caught-on-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/head-on-collision-in-great-lakes-welland-canal-caught-on-camera\/13535\/","title":{"rendered":"Head-On Collision in Great Lakes\u2019 Welland Canal \u2013 Caught on Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Officials in Canada are investigating the head-on collision between two cargo ships in Ontario\u2019s Welland Canal on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The vessels Alanis and Florence Spirit collided Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has sent a team of investigators to the scene.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The incident was caught on video by a passerby.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Video shows two ships colliding on Welland Canal\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CRvy0SR-Pr4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The Welland Canal is a 26-mile canal that connects Lake Erie with Lake Ontario.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The MV Alanis is a 12744 dwt general cargo ship flagged in Antigua Barbuda.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The MV Florence Spirit is registered in Canada and is 14,001 dwt.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The pilots of both vessels were reportedly in contact with each other prior to the collision.<\/p>\n<p>gCaptain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials in Canada are investigating the head-on collision between two cargo ships in Ontario\u2019s Welland Canal on Saturday. The vessels Alanis and Florence Spirit collided Saturday afternoon. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has sent a team of investigators to the scene. The incident was caught on video by a passerby. The Welland Canal is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[4338,1281,2280,4213,2000,8909,3332,8816],"class_list":["post-13535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-world","tag-camera","tag-canal","tag-caught","tag-collision","tag-great","tag-headon","tag-lakes","tag-welland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/13536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}