Captain Crashes Ship Into Dock!

[BUTCH1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJvc39YhYs0 wow, that's a huge friggin boat...

 

[olds]

Maybe Rubycon was driving?

 

[BUTCH1]

Maybe Rubycon was driving?

LOL....

 

[lxskllr]

I hate dickheads that try to cram their yachts into a compact parking spot :^S

 

[drum]

Hey, you scratched my anchor!

 

[Fritzo]

I think that's a scrap yard and they did that on purpose.

 

[MontyAC]

Yup, that's a scrap yard to dismantle ships. No harm there.

 

[BUTCH1]

I think that's a scrap yard and they did that on purpose.

I dunno, you can hear someone firing up a motor trying to get it out of the way, if they were going to scrap it they would cut up the superstructure then dry dock it to do the rest or tow the carcass out to sea for an artificial reef. I'll have to look around for a story to the video..

 

[Ns1]

Yeah that was unexpected. I was like "were talking about the boat on the left...right?"

 

[BUTCH1]

I looked around, this video is around 2 years old and that is a scrapyard, the way it slams into a ship already undergoing dismantling seems like a mistake was made, anything that big, that close is usually moving slow due to it's mass which can be very destructive..

 

[SKORPI0]

Looks like the bigger ship was to end as scrap too, thus being docked near the other ship. Ship breaking business is huge in India, China. Bangladesh and Turkey.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_breaking

Just think if ATOT put enough money to buy one of those, we could end up with our own ship after a few $$$ to fix them. :thumbsup:

 

[JulesMaximus]

Third World Shipping

 

[Markbnj]

It's a scrap yard in India where they beach them and cut them up. Seems like every three months this video pops up somewhere with a similar description. There's no dock, and I'm sure no captain. There's just a beach, a big winch, and a bunch of hungry guys with cutting torches and power saws.

 

[MrPickins]

Even though it's a scrap yard, i have a hard time believing that was intentional.

I'd bet the ships are much easier to dismantle if they aren't all tangled up in each other.

 

[halik]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJvc39YhYs0 wow, that's a huge friggin boat...

That boat was being towed in for scrapping.

 

[halik]

I dunno, you can hear someone firing up a motor trying to get it out of the way, if they were going to scrap it they would cut up the superstructure then dry dock it to do the rest or tow the carcass out to sea for an artificial reef. I'll have to look around for a story to the video..

The motor you're hearing is what they pull them in with.

 

[SKORPI0]

Note the presence of a winch and cable (lower left) to pull the ship into the dock. It's being scrapped for sure. :hmm:

 

[BoomerD]

It was nice of them to put out a fender to protect the wharf...

 

[davmat787]

And the structure on the right is not a building that it crashed into. That is what a ship looks like halfway through being scrapped beached style.

What an environmental mess too, looking at that overhead satellite photo, you can see all sorts of oil and fluids just floating out to sea.

 

[abaez]

It's India what do you expect? People shit and throw their dead bodies into the Ganges and then drink from it two miles down.

 

[Markbnj]

Even though it's a scrap yard, i have a hard time believing that was intentional.

I'd bet the ships are much easier to dismantle if they aren't all tangled up in each other.

They literally do just drag them up there and shove them as far in as they can. They don't care about what the ships run into because it's all being converted to scrap. They get the bow up there as far as possible and then swarm it and start slicing. Also, they use a combination of the big winch and the ship's own power, which is why you can see smoke coming from her stack.

 

[BUTCH1]

They literally do just drag them up there and shove them as far in as they can. They don't care about what the ships run into because it's all being converted to scrap. They get the bow up there as far as possible and then swarm it and start slicing. Also, they use a combination of the big winch and the ship's own power, which is why you can see smoke coming from her stack.

Wouldn't it be a lot harder to work on when the half still in the water fills up?..

 

[DrPizza]

Wouldn't it be a lot harder to work on when the half still in the water fills up?..

The amazing phenomenon of tides. They probably brought it in at high tide. At low tide, less of it will be out there to float. Plus (just a guess), after they remove a lot of the weight from the top, they can probably winch it in further.

 

[Markbnj]

Wouldn't it be a lot harder to work on when the half still in the water fills up?..

Think of it like a woodchipper for ships. As they slice it up the winch is used to continually drag the rest of it up. And as DrPizza said they would do it at high tide if they're smart.

 

[Red Squirrel]

"Your shipment has arrived, thank you for choosing failboat freight services"

But yeah my guess is that it's a scrap yard.

It's odd that it's cheaper to scrap a boat and build a new one, than to fix it up though. Guess structurally there's just too much work to do on those ships.