Collision at Sea

Think this will buff out?

Busy shipping lanes in the Singapore Straits leads to two ships having an intimate encounter

Nice PITT

That bulk carrier wasn't even hard astern. No froth at all behind it. Maybe the other captain was banging his wife....

Happens all the time.

foxtrapper wrote: Happens all the time.

Agree. If you've ever flown over the straits in the day time you'll understand. Hundreds, if not thousands of ships parked shoulder to shoulder waiting for their slot to enter the port.

That wasn't a collision, it was Road Rage. International Rule says the overtaking ship must remain clear.

BEK's Captain should be keel hauled.

I was reading "Berks" on the side of the big ship. Lol

Sliding sideways like that can't be good for the hull, can it? That's gotta be a massive amount of force to push a shape like that sideways through the water.

The draft of the hulls that close actually suck them in together. Nothing the captain can do once you are too close. Ask anyone who has worked a resupply ship in the Navy. They run side by side offloading fuel and supplies and have to avoid that situation. Sometimes two ships at a time!

Something something something in Russian.

Some more in Russian.

Russian Russian Russian.

"Hey Chris"

oh to be bilingual.

Yup. Road rage. Reminded me of NASCAR.

PHeller wrote: Something something something in Russian. Some more in Russian. Russian Russian Russian. "Hey Chris" oh to be bilingual.

Turkish?

Both wrong

Its actually spanish.

J

Zomby Woof wrote:

PHeller wrote: Something something something in Russian. Some more in Russian. Russian Russian Russian. "Hey Chris" oh to be bilingual.

Turkish

pinchvalve wrote: Sometimes two ships at a time!

Pffft! Try 5 at a time, both sides of your ship, while conducting flight ops.

Now that's just downright tricky.

Back when I was sailing, we would UnRep into the fleet oilers, which would then UnRep to the rest of the fleet. We'd have 26 men on the whole ship (USMM), they (USN) would have 26 men on the bridge, 26 on the bow, 26 on the stern, 26 standing over the hose, 26 ...

The main problem we would have there is avoiding pirates.

Actually there is a bow "cushion" and stern suction, so it is a very delicate balancing act to keep an accurate distance while unrepping. I was the fuelling officer on a Coast Guard ship in a Navy battlegroup- did it every third day for nearly 6 months. By the end we got pretty good at it, while simultaneously doing vertreps with the carrier on the other side of the oiler, but one or two emergency breakaways made us take it very seriously. Dr H- the 26 guys everywhere is because the kid with the conn is a 22 yr old ensign!!

Looked like a well executed pit maneuver to me

Finally got to see the video. Without the unshown earlier few minutes, really can't say anything about who had the right of way, and who didn't, or who was the aggressor.

Knowing the games that are routinely played out there, I rather suspect the forward ship barged across the latter ships bow.

While there are horns a blow'n, I've no idea who's.

Intentional or accidental, either way, that's two captains who have some strong 'splainin' to do. There's probably tens of thousands of $ damage to both, the owners and the insurance companies are going to grill hell out of these guys.