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- shreveyboy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+107Ha, a youtube comment I actually like:
'anyone know where and when this was?'
"It was near Holland Rd." - Cyber_Akuma, on 10/12/2007, -6/+69Its a boat, not a car.
It travels across water, not land.
You can't just grind to a stop on water like you can on land with a car. - JesusFaction, on 10/12/2007, -3/+64avast! thar be no law upon the sea
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+63As opposed to the guy who thinks a giant boat can come to a screeching halt.
- R2-D2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+55I bet the captain was like "not again!".
- recipher, on 10/12/2007, -5/+55Oh my god, this music makes me want to jump off a bridge.
- aywwts4, on 10/12/2007, -3/+52
Or we could hook it all up over the internet BOIP, (Bridge over IP) and outsource our bridge lifting to India.
Robots or Indians, I support either. - dpierce, on 10/12/2007, -3/+52scottylist: it's a total writeoff.
Kramer : It's just a write off for them.
Jerry : How is it a write off?
Kramer : They just write it off.
Jerry : Write it off what?
Kramer : Jerry all these big companies they write off everything
Jerry : You don't even know what a write off is.
Kramer : Do you?
Jerry : No. I don't.
Kramer : But they do and they are the ones writing it off.
Jerry : I wish I just had the last twenty seconds of my life back. - JPresEFnet, on 10/12/2007, -2/+50Watch again, pay closer attention. The bridge LOWERS into the wheelhouse. It was fully open, and was lowered before the ship was completely clear. The pilot has 0% fault in this case.
@madman - These large vessels are lousy at low speed maneuvering, they need a minimum amount of water rushing past the rudder in order to be able to control the ship, what might look fast to you and I could well be close to that ship's minimum maneuverable speed.
You can read all about this accident here http://bst.gc.ca/en/reports/marine/2001/m01c0054/m01c0054.asp#9 - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+53WTF?
From the description:
"Bridge closes too early causing ship to crash into it."
I suppose the captain is negligent for not saying, "*****, bridge is down. Let me just pull up on the e-brake and stop." - MrZop, on 10/12/2007, -1/+46Anchors aren't designed to stop or slow a ship at ANY speed. they are designed to keep a stopped ship in one spot in the ocean. they are not a break. obviously they can be used as one. but it is so ineffective that it's almost comical.
- johnnyredcap, on 10/12/2007, -0/+43Read the description and watch the very beginning of the video genius. That bridge is being lowered and he didn't have time to stop. What is he supposed to do throw out his feet and stop the boat Flinstones style?
- scottylist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31That's one strong ***** bridge. It didn't even budge.
- spamzor, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27To save you guys the trouble:
"At approximately 2054, while proceeding downbound under Bridge 11 in the Welland Canal, at Allanburg, Ontario, the bulk carrier Windoc was struck by the bridge's vertical-lift span, which was lowered before the vessel had passed clear of the bridge structure. The vessel's wheelhouse and funnel were destroyed. The vessel drifted downstream, caught fire, and grounded approximately 800 metres from the bridge. Although the vessel's cargo of wheat was not damaged, the vessel was declared a constructive total loss. The bridge sustained structural damage, and the Welland Canal was closed to vessel traffic for two days. There were no serious injuries or oil pollution."
"total constructive loss" oh my that would be very expensive along with damage to the bridge and cost regarding delays to traffic etc. It's clearly the bridge operators fault, that ship is very long 75% of it was already past it before it got hit by the bridge and the report proves it. Very very expensive. - Spikito, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25I love watching stuff break
- krinthekuz, on 09/16/2008, -6/+26other than that 1 comment about it being up by lake erie, there's nothing here to suggest that it was the bridge operators fault. if a bridge tender doesnt put the bridge up, you don't try and squeeze under. "we waited like half an hour and the tender wouldnt put it up so i tried to see if we fit!"
also boats don't have breaks but any boat over like 20 feet usually has reverse. unlike a car, you can slam a boat into reverse at nearly any speed. the only concern is that you don't go from like 10k rpms forward to 5k rpms reverse nearly instantly because that tends to strip your tranny.
finally, i need to go wash my ears out with bleach after hearing that song. - Tenlow, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23Just dont get hit by the boat on your way down. That sure would suck.
- MurderMystery, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21Well I hope everyone was OK.
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19I'm pretty sure sedako was being sarcastic.
I thought it was funny. - zcat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Very interesting:
http://bst.gc.ca/en/reports/marine/2001/m01c0054/m01c0054.asp - Valarauka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13I think you got it!
There just so happens to be a Holland Road in Allanburg Ontario in the exact right spot relative to a bridge over a canal!
Checkit: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=holland+rd,+allanburg,+ontario&ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=43.076145,-79.211951&spn=0.006003,0.015664&t=h&om=1 - Spikito, on 10/12/2007, -8/+20digg me down, i was paying less attention than the bridge operator
- rhesuspieces00, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13@aywwts4
That was the best comment on digg all day. - merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Based on this report on the incident (which declares the ship a total loss):
http://bst.gc.ca/en/reports/marine/2001/m01c0054/m01c0054.asp
and the wikipedia definition of "Cargo Ship", this was a very small cargo ship -- appearantly the smallest class of cargo ship: "Small Handy size". Note also that it was a pretty old boat -- the newest parts of it were about 30, while the oldest were about 45.
Man, if you read that report, the bridge operator had already worked 24 hours over the last two days, was on his day off, was on pain killers, and had downed a few glasses of wine before his supervisor called him in for overtime. He probably shouldn't haven't agreed to go in, but you can't always really say no to your boss... : - scottylist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9From the looks of it, considering the damage caused by the bridge and the subsequent hell fire on the boat, it's a total writeoff. So it would have cost as much as that boat.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Looks like you're more likely to get hit by the boat standing on the bridge anyway...
- RomeyRome, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Do it again! Do it again!
Heh. The bridge starts going back up after the ship already cleared it. I wonder if the phrase "Hey! Watch this!" was said right before it happened by anyone involved. - Aldrenean, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I don't know what everyone's complaining about, I love totally misplaced and inappropriate music! Especially when it's of the over-synthed 80s variety.
- MadMan459, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14@shreveyboy - Yeah that one cracked me up too.
To everyone saying that the ship couldn't stop in time, that may be so... but the ship seemed to be going along at a pretty good clip through an area with bridges. Perhaps the captain had it going just a bit too fast? - radu79, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13The anchors are not designed to stop a big ship while it's moving at close to full speed. And they still take quite some time to deploy.
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13Crack comes in rock form, and is pretty much always smoked. Cocaine comes in powder form, and usually isn't smoked. But it can be.
Didn't pay much attention in D.A.R.E., did you?
"X must have been smoking crack" is a pretty common coloqualism. I thought every kid in public school would have heard it at least once... - fatlip, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9what is with you people and using comment cliches so much today?
chuck norris... i for one... in mother russia... o rly?
seriously. shut up. - yahoofrom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Was that music necessary?
- DannySpace, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10You see, this would be a great job for a robot, to cut out any complications of human error. If they can make our cars, they can lift our bridges.
- Valarauka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Confirmed. If you look at the video carefully you can just make out the sign for "Princess St" as well. I love google maps!
- sycho, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Are you the guy that can't find a reply button?
- MistressRoninS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Yeah I was too busy trying to understand WTF that song had to be there for to really watch the vid. :adjusts volume:
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"***** yeah" people could die "***** yeah"..
- nick0909, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Great work finding that zcat... for those that don't want to read the huge report, everyone on the ship survived, including the wheelman that ducked as the bridge ripped off the wheelhouse around him, and the bridge operator was working some major OT and had taken a few drugs to calm some back pain along with downing 2 to 4 glasses of wine at lunch.
- Fartag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4[Boat]: *Sailin' hoooooooome, sailllin' freeeeeeeeeeeeeeee !*
[Bridge operator]: Must ... stop ...... horrible music! Bridge judo chop!! - JorgeGT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+414,008 puppies so far :_(
- Boulevard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Every time that music plays on youtube, another little puppy dies.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7That sucks. Anybody have an idea how much that would have cost? (besides saying a lot. we know this much.)
- MackPrime, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5it fits now!
- benijuana, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5wrong time to take a piss break
- zcat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Depending how you look at it, it cost anything between 6.5Million (the insured value of the boat which was basically written off) and whatever the shipping company was worth, since they went out of business shortly after this incident having lost 25 percent of capacity.
- zcat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I know I got it, because if you scroll down there's some pictures. The first one is a still frame taken from the video.
- Sedako, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Yeah, thanks guys :/ Gotta remember that sarcasm tag, since no one seems to pick up on that sort of thing anymore.
- HappyScrappy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Seriously. I was surprised by that. Ships are not lightly built and yet upon collision, the bridge made it seem as if the boat were made of tinfoil.
- HappyScrappy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Hmm. We need to switch to the Metric System because you can't figure out units like nautical miles? That doesn't make sense.
Also note the report you are reading is Canadian, and they officially do have the metric system. They switched just before the US attempted to switch (and didn't succeed). -
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