10 dead 200+ injured following a toxic gas spill in Aqaba Jordan.

Watch this video the tank drops as it is being loaded on a ship and a toxic yellow cloud goes everywhere killing 10

At least 10 dead and 200+ injured following a toxic gas spill in Aqaba, #Jordan.

www.bbc.com...

that was mustard gas.

originally posted by: GeneralTsar1
that was mustard gas.

No, they haven't said and if it was it would be immediately obvious, by burns and such.

besides, it would be stupid as hell to ship mustard gas that way. Chlorine would be my guess approximately the same color and it has many more uses than mustard gas.

a reply to: putnam6

of course they are not going to say mustard gas, it was a chemical attack by iran or israel. millions have died already.Amen.

a reply to: putnam6

I was going to ask how you spill a gas but the link explains it as a leak.

It does sound like chlorine.

Is there a link to the video where the container was dropped? If chlorine was the gas, the container will be steel painted with aluminum paint. That is the only paint that chlorine will not destroy.

originally posted by: beyondknowledge
a reply to: putnam6

I was going to ask how you spill a gas but the link explains it as a leak.

It does sound like chlorine.

Is there a link to the video where the container was dropped? If chlorine was the gas, the container will be steel painted with aluminum paint. That is the only paint that chlorine will not destroy.

the link to the video is in the article.....

well obviously.

originally posted by: GeneralTsar1
a reply to: putnam6

of course they are not going to say mustard gas, it was a chemical attack by iran or israel. millions have died already.Amen.

Okay, I'll play along with your conspiracy theory, care to explain the how and why?

a reply to: beyondknowledge

a reply to: putnam6

Thanks. I missed it first time.

It looks white to me which means it is not chlorine.

Simple rigging failure. You would think they would rig the lift heavier because of the hazard if dopped.

originally posted by: putnam6
Watch this video the tank drops as it is being loaded on a ship and a toxic yellow cloud goes everywhere killing 10

At least 10 dead and 200+ injured following a toxic gas spill in Aqaba, #Jordan.

www.bbc.com...

Looks a nasty incident - not sure if it's a glitcb in the video but it appears the yellow cloud bursts out the front of the ship/causes it to disintegrate around the 12s mark (may also be rebounding off the water surface).

originally posted by: beyondknowledge
a reply to: putnam6

Thanks. I missed it first time.

It looks white to me which means it is not chlorine.

Simple rigging failure. You would think they would rig the lift heavier because of the hazard if dopped.

It's obviously yellow even in the video it's yellow but here is a picture from the BBC link





and a screen grab for the video link in the BBC article at no time was the cloud white

a reply to: putnam6

If anyone bothers to read the article posted,

It did not identify the chemical that was inside the container, although unconfirmed reports cited port officials as saying it was chlorine.

a reply to: putnam6

I think he related to the colour of the container, not a gas.

originally posted by: putnam6

originally posted by: beyondknowledge
a reply to: putnam6

Thanks. I missed it first time.

It looks white to me which means it is not chlorine.

Simple rigging failure. You would think they would rig the lift heavier because of the hazard if dopped.

It's obviously yellow even in the video it's yellow but here is a picture from the BBC link

and a screen grab for the video link in the BBC article at no time was the cloud white

Yes, the gas is yellow.

The tanks are white. I put some equipment in a chlorine repackaging plant once. They pumped the chlorine from railcars to large tanks called tons and smaller tanks. Everything inside that could be and all the tanks were painted with aluminum paint. That is the only paint that will survive even the smallest exposure to chlorine.

Ether these white containers were not ment for chlorine or that gas is not chlorine.

originally posted by: beyondknowledge

originally posted by: putnam6

originally posted by: beyondknowledge
a reply to: putnam6

Thanks. I missed it first time.

It looks white to me which means it is not chlorine.

Simple rigging failure. You would think they would rig the lift heavier because of the hazard if dopped.

It's obviously yellow even in the video it's yellow but here is a picture from the BBC link

and a screen grab for the video link in the BBC article at no time was the cloud white

Yes, the gas is yellow.

The tanks are white. I put some equipment in a chlorine repackaging plant once. They pumped the chlorine from railcars to large tanks called tons and smaller tanks. Everything inside that could be and all the tanks were painted with aluminum paint. That is the only paint that will survive even the smallest exposure to chlorine.

Ether these white containers were not ment for chlorine or that gas is not chlorine.

I gotcha now, but as you mentioned in your first post, it was the rigging it wasn't attached properly or it failed. But I got to ask even if it were in a proper chlorine tank, it would have ruptured from a fall of that distance regardless.

Unless you are suggesting it was stored improperly and it would have leaked anyway? FWIW there are 7 other containers one would assume some of those would also have chlorine, wouldn't those be subject to failure too?, pretty sure they don't mix shipments, though in a middle east port anything is possible.

Whatever it is,
watching the video is interesting.

There's a smaller "explosion" of yellow coming from the dropped tank, followed immediately by a much larger one. I suppose it could have been a small puncture resulting in the tank rupturing.

The yellow cloud seems to disperse quickly- almost falling to the ground, leaving everything it touched stained yellow.

It reminds me of the crap in those cheap dry powder fire extinguishers.

a reply to: putnam6

The linked BBC article says Chlorine.

They are saying chlorine but it looks very heavy like mustard gas.

a reply to: and14263

Chlorine is heavier than air. That was one of the problems faced in WWI. They would fire off the Chlorine gas shells to drive the infantry out of the trenches and into the open. Then the artillery and machineguns would open up.