Over the past few years we have seen ships that had nothing to do with our country or our economy foundering on our shores. Just as a demonstration of this, in 2009 a vessel carrying coal from Durban to Gibraltar in the Mediterranean Sea ran aground in Cape Town due to the failure of its engines in heavy seas. As it turned out, it was not insured and the owners ran away, leaving the country with a bill of over R70 million. In 2011 the barge Margaret, sailing from China to Holland, encountered heavy seas and ran aground outside Saldanha Bay. Again, it turned out not to have been insured as its insurance was valid only if the barge used the Suez Canal. The shipowner soon ran out of money and the state had to pick up a R15 million bill in wreck reduction costs. JESUS ’ apostles stood on the Mount of Olives , gazing at the sky . They had just seen their master and friend , Jesus , lifted up and obscured by a cloud .