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An older story of boats hitting things they shouldn't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Elwhaquote:On October 2, 1983, the Elwha ran aground in Grindstone Harbor, near Orcas Island, on a submerged reef while carrying 100 passengers.[2] The collision was initially blamed on the failure of a steering component, but was later found to have been caused by Captain Billy Fittro going off-course to give a visitor a view of her waterfront home. Immortalized in song by the local Island City Jazz Band: https://sanjuanupdate.com/updatepix07/elwarocks.mp3
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I remember there was a shipwreck thread somewhere, but there are a crazy number of big shipwrecks you never even hear about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_2017
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Jun 17, 2017 16:38
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Powershift posted:I remember there was a shipwreck thread somewhere, but there are a crazy number of big shipwrecks you never even hear about. I dunno, when you consider how many boats are out there and just how vast the oceans are, a dozen some-odd global wrecks per month sounds vanishingly small. Edit: It also seems like groundings with minimal injury or loss of life make up the majority of incidents.
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cargolaw.com is a law firm specializing in maritime freight claims and runs a fantastic blog of major incidents as a marketing tool, I'll find the link in a bit. there's an epic three part series on one that ran aground and had to have hundreds of conexes offloaded by helicopter, wanna say APL Panama
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Jun 17, 2017 20:43
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ATP_Power posted:An older story of boats hitting things they shouldn't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Elwha Speaking of older stories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Victoria_(1887)#The_collision Fleet commander routinely doesn't explain orders to his subordinates, to accustom them to the unexpected, which works fine until he orders two lines of ships to turn directly into each other and no one questions the order because everyone assumes he's got it under control. Turns out he doesn't, two large warships collide.
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Jun 17, 2017 21:00
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This been posted? Some guy bought a missile silo, and he's opening the blast doors, held back by 250 tons of water, with a crow bar and faith. http://i.imgur.com/32Gfl1a.gifv
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Lime Tonics posted:This been posted? Some guy bought a missile silo, and he's opening the blast doors, held back by 250 tons of water, with a crow bar and faith. A silo for submarine missiles? Clever!
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Jun 17, 2017 21:54
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That little head shake before he cracks it is the "aw gently caress it" head shake.
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Jun 17, 2017 21:55
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It's going to take loving ages to fill it up again though.
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Lime Tonics posted:This been posted? Some guy bought a missile silo, and he's opening the blast doors, held back by 250 tons of water, with a crow bar and faith. That dude has almost died a few times doing all kinds of poo poo in the silo.
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Jun 17, 2017 22:02
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Can someone set up a house-swapping reality show between that guy and the family that bought a crack house in Toronto?
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When the USS Wisconsin ran aground in the Chesapeake, it turned out to be a real shitshow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_USS_Missouri_grounding_incident shame on an IGA posted:cargolaw.com is a law firm specializing in maritime freight claims and runs a fantastic blog of major incidents as a marketing tool, I'll find the link in a bit. there's an epic three part series on one that ran aground and had to have hundreds of conexes offloaded by helicopter, wanna say APL Panama http://www.cargolaw.com/ is kind of cheesy website, but they have some wild stories there.
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Most horrifying maritime accident was the steam leak in the USS Iwo Jima - basically they used the wrong bolts on a steam line carrying superheated steam at like 600PSIG and 600°F , the connection burst, that quickly flooded the entire engine room. I think 12 sailors were killed.
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Pingiivi posted:That dude has almost died a few times doing all kinds of poo poo in the silo. Yeah I think that's the same dude who went down into the bottom of the silo where there was all the rotting swamp gas, with no enclosed-space training and carrying no breathing equipment, and miraculously realized that his voice had suddenly changed and managed to get back out before he died.
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Sagebrush posted:Yeah I think that's the same dude who went down into the bottom of the silo where there was all the rotting swamp gas, with no enclosed-space training and carrying no breathing equipment, and miraculously realized that his voice had suddenly changed and managed to get back out before he died. It is. The whole channel is magical. I like the improvised ventilation system myself. Oh, also the reveal that the part with the gas issue housed the still full septic tank from when the base was active. Decades old Jenkem nearly killed a man.
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speaking of exploring abandoned places http://imgur.com/gallery/WRFBK how close was this guy to death? I would guess the sour stuff he smelled was methane and maybe ozone from high voltage stuff. also he keeps saying that he will turn back and yet keeps going in deeper and deeper.  Biohazard sign and the guy keeps going deeper      danger high voltage
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Jun 17, 2017 22:47
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According to the comments there's hazardous mold everywhere in the pics so hopefully he had a mask or something, otherwise hopefully his internet fame brings him comfort when he's dying of black lung!
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CJacobs posted:According to the comments there's hazardous mold everywhere in the pics so hopefully he had a mask or something, otherwise hopefully his internet fame brings him comfort when he's dying of black lung! In any underground place like that (that isn't a cave) I'd be concerned about running into an area with bad air. Also: STAY OUT - STAY ALIVE https://youtu.be/28ZehJOBeBI
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Three-Phase posted:Most horrifying maritime accident was the steam leak in the USS Iwo Jima - basically they used the wrong bolts on a steam line carrying superheated steam at like 600PSIG and 600°F , the connection burst, that quickly flooded the entire engine room. I think 12 sailors were killed. I work in bolting engineering and you'd be surprised how often we have to solve problems along the lines of "woops we were meant to use *exotic stainless steel grade* for this joint but we assumed we could just switch that out for *insert wood here*, can you fix this for us".
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Jun 17, 2017 23:38
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Two guys using a crowbar and a backhoe to safely open a door with pressurized water behind it. http://i.imgur.com/32Gfl1a.gifv
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Sagebrush posted:Yeah I think that's the same dude who went down into the bottom of the silo where there was all the rotting swamp gas, with no enclosed-space training and carrying no breathing equipment, and miraculously realized that his voice had suddenly changed and managed to get back out before he died. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXpYFtI0nqU&t=1029s
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Verdugo posted:Two guys using a crowbar and a backhoe to safely open a door with pressurized water behind it. The post just up the page had a much better description.
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Get you a girl that can make hexagonal rotis #relationshipgoals 
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Tag yourself I'm Pouts.
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Haha he paid loving $90k for it.
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A newer photo of the U.S.S. Fitzgerald being towed into Yokosuka: Looks uh... kind of bent to me.
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Jun 18, 2017 02:44
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Can they just like straighten out the frame? Just use some hydraulic rams or weld onto the superstructure and have two other ships pull to straighten it out?
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FuturePastNow posted:Looks uh... kind of bent to me. The actual structure of the ship isn't bent. This is what it looks like from the other side, before being damaged  edit: I mean, it might be bent, they'll do all sorts of tests on it for that, but the difference in the angle of the ship's rail between the front and the back was already there. edit edit: priznat posted:The 7 missing sailors were found in flooded compartments, all dead. RIP 
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FuturePastNow posted:A newer photo of the U.S.S. Fitzgerald being towed into Yokosuka: Maritime regulations universally state that when two ships are on a collision course, both must turn to starboard (right) for clearance. This impact is on the right side of the ship, suggesting that the Fitzgerald turned to port. Whoops. It'd be interesting to see a breakdown of maritime collisions by location on the ship, to see if there's a tendency to impact on the starboard side. e: it surprises me that the ship partly flooded, since the damage appears to be all above the waterline. Is there more than what's visible in that photo?
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http://i.imgur.com/8swYgvC.gifv
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Sagebrush posted:e: it surprises me that the ship partly flooded, since the damage appears to be all above the waterline. Is there more than what's visible in that photo? A big ship like the one that hit the destroyer is going to have a bulbous bow that protrudes out farther from the vessel than what you'd see when the ship is loaded with cargo and riding lower in the water. That could've hit below the waterline and punched a hole in the Fitzgerald.
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Sagebrush posted:e: it surprises me that the ship partly flooded, since the damage appears to be all above the waterline. Is there more than what's visible in that photo? You see the most obvious area of damage? That was the highest level of the bow of the container vessel. The bow then sweeps inward which is why the railing area is less damaged. The keel of the container vessel is, obviously, the lowest part of the ship, and it extends forward around the same distance as the top of the bow. There's a hole under the waterline, and it is probably very large.
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Detective Thompson posted:A big ship like the cargo ship that hit the destroyer is going to have a bulbous bow that protrudes out farther from the ship than what you'd see when the ship is loaded with cargo and riding lower in the water. That could've hit below the waterline and punched a hole in the Fitzgerald. pretty sure its confirmed that there's damage below the waterline between the dead sailors and the list
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I linked this pic over in the airpower thread, too. This is the ship that struck the Fitzgerald. The bow protrudes under the water-line to increase efficiency and would have caused substantial damage.
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Well son, when a daddy ship and a mommy ship love each other very much...
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Cop Porn Popper posted:Well son, when a daddy ship and a mommy ship love each other very much... Considering the amount of seamen that died I'd say it was more like a masturbation session.
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I am so sorry to the families of the deceased for that post
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Its ok, I'm headed there right behind you. 
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