Two container ships collide on Egypt’s Suez Canal, 3 containers knocked into sea.

[scorpio616]

http://www.euronews.com/nocomment/2014/09/30/two-container-ships-collide-on-egypts-suez-canal/

 

[dsmiles]

These better not have been my BONES.

[Reaperbryan]

These better not have been my BONES.

Our ships travel from Hong Kong to LA. They do not go through the Suez Canal.

[ub3r_n3rd]

Well if they WERE bones, you'd see a parting of the sea there with how water repellent the little buggers are 

[dsmiles]

 

These better not have been my BONES.

Our ships travel from Hong Kong to LA. They do not go through the Suez Canal.

 

Those ship captains got lucky this time. One of these days, Alice.

[ShadowRaven]

should not effect either the Bones or the Robotech Kickstarters, but knowing the depths of the Suez, I wanna go scuba diving right about now.

[pcktlnt]

It's so weird. It looks like the bigger ship did it on purpose. Also, doesn't look like containers fell off, so great for those people with product on those two container ships.

[Thes Hunter]

Sea rage?

 

But it does look like the black ship was moving faster and trying to get around the slower blue ship. 

 

Can't be certain if they then rammed the other ship in a bout of sea rage, or if they miscalculated.

[Sirithiliel]

Crazy...i used to work for a company that routes cargo ships. It takes a lot to change course and speed and usually has to be confirmed and such. I find it crazy that they'd pull a stunt like that! Depending on speed and RPM it would be very difficult to avoid a collision after turning to directly face the smaller ship if the course change was really a mistake. Still, they should've known better than to maneuver so close to another vessel

Edited September 30, 2014 by Sirithiliel

[joshuaslater]

REPEL BOARDERS!!

[TGP]

It's so weird. It looks like the bigger ship did it on purpose. Also, doesn't look like containers fell off, so great for those people with product on those two container ships.

 

Three did; replay the video.

[ShadowRaven]

The funny, to me, thing is, that the Suez is only run in convoys, so dicking around to get ahead isn't going to accomplish much anyway. You are still only going to be allowed through at certain times for the direction you are travelling. 

[Chaoswolf]

The funny, to me, thing is, that the Suez is only run in convoys, so dicking around to get ahead isn't going to accomplish much anyway. You are still only going to be allowed through at certain times for the direction you are travelling. 

Having been through 'the ditch' on several occasions, I can attest to this.

[unclebilly]

Someone needs to tell the captain that is a ship not a bumper car.

[ub3r_n3rd]

Someone needs to tell the captain that is a ship not a bumper car.

 

What's the fun in that?