The Pacific Ocean is full of unpredictable dangers. When a boat is bringing goods across the ocean, there is no guaranty that they make it across. Although container ships are huge and built to withstand the brutal weather of the Pacific, tragedy can strike.<\/p>\n
Transporting goods across the Pacific Ocean can be a hazardous task. Storms can come out of nowhere and damage goods or even knock them off the ship. Especially during typhoon season, shipping routes can be dangerous. In the fall of 1998 weather was no different. Typhoon Babs was working its way around the Pacific and destroying everything in its path<\/a>. In Chinas Fujian province Babs killed 5 people and caused $58.97 million in damage. In the Philippines 189 people died from the deadly storm. A similar fate lay waiting for cargo ships crossing the\u00a0 Pacific, including the APL China.<\/p>\n The APL China was one of the ships headed across the Pacific during typhoon Babs. Staying on schedule was important and the typhoon did little to deter the container ship from heading across the ocean.<\/p>\n On October 26, Babs, approximately 2,700 miles off the coast of California reportedly had 40-70 foot swells hit ships in the Northern Pacific. Enroute from Taiwan to Seattle, the APL China<\/a> owned by American President Lines was hit hard by Typhoon Babs. Among the four container ships hit by Babs, the APL China suffered the worst damages. The storm caused 406 containers to go overboard and caused damage to about 1,000 containers.<\/p>\n\n\t\tThe Incident on the APL China<\/h2>\n