This actually happened way back on April 6th, but I found out about it recently.
Containership Takes Out Crane in Busan, South Korea
More, including videos, at the link.
I didn’t know ships could give berth.
:flees:
That little white van was pretty lucky…
Aw, man. I hate parallel parking.
Ya gotta go up parallel to the ship ahead and then back her in to the spot.
I wonder if “Vonga!” mean “Idiot” in Korean.
And ship appears to be on full power even after it takes out the crane. I suspect engineering problem from bridge to engine room.
Or a very drunk cap. Wouldn’t they be using harbor pilots to dock that?
Inertia is a bitch…
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA seems to be universal
“Hello, Allstate?”
The drunk captain was the Russian dude who crashed his ship into Gwangan Bridge in February last year.
No way ship could have gone under any part of that bridge. Looks like he took a wrong turn.
When’s the last time they checked the brakes on that boat?
They’ll dock you pay for that.
: also flees :
Thank you. That post brought a smile to my face.
바보 (ba-bo) and 병신 (byeong-shin) are the two favorites for that; the latter one is considered pretty vulgar.
It’s hard to tell as the props will still churn up some water even if they’re reversed. And it takes quite some distance for a ship to change course or stop.
I’m curious about that also.
They would almost certainly be using a harbour pilot who would have come aboard well before approaching the dock. They are assisted by two tug boats that were tethered to the ship at bow and stern. The stern tug was being dragged until the tether was snapped by the fallen crane. Impossible to tell what actually went wrong but it does appear to be that they came in to the dock a bit hot.
But only if you’re convicted by a jury of your piers.
: joins in the flight :
Ships seem to have this problem coming in to fast: See this little piece from last June…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmQbEgUVz40
You watch something like this and really have to wonder how in the hell two tugboats and a harbor pilot can get it so wrong. I’ve never been on a big ship in my life but I know enough to go slow and be so well in control that you can stop dead in an emergency.
If I owned those cranes (or the other ship), wringing the harbor pilots neck wouldn’t be good enough. I’d want to shoot him.
I’ll say it again: I really can’t grasp how things like this happen.
Big ships do not and cannot “stop dead in an emergency”. Ever hear of kinetic energy? Remember your driver’s ed course way back when. Even with brakes, great tires, and a solid surface, there is no stopping on a dime. The cool videos you see online of impressive slides into very close spaces are the result of quite a lot of calculation and practice. Here is a fun PDF to explain stopping distance for automobiles. This, obviously, is not going to happen on the ocean with a vessel weighing in the tens of thousands of tons.
The tug boats do a combination of pushing and shoving, not actually tugging. Even that is something that takes quite some distance to bring the ship to a halt. You also have to consider the mass of the tugs, the power the tugs expend, and the distance from the desired stopping point (in reality, more of a stopping area, somewhat like between the lines in a parking lot, but with really big distances between the lines in comparison to the size of the cars). Every time I saw or had to participate in line handling, once the tugs got the ship in the stopping area, the line handlers were the ones to actually pull (“tug”) the ship close to the pier for the brow to be positioned.