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- DeskFlyer, on 10/11/2007, -2/+212Classic storm damaged ship. Anyway here's some more pics of the accident:
http://i19.tinypic.com/66tqi5d.gif
http://i15.tinypic.com/5418gt2.gif
http://i18.tinypic.com/6cx124j.gif
http://i11.tinypic.com/4y68wev.gif
Images mirrored are from this horribly-designed webpage, which has more information about the ship and the accident if you're interested: http://www.cargolaw.com/2007nightmare_ital.florida.html - MikeonTV, on 10/11/2007, -7/+212Sorry guys, your going to have to wait for your iPhones.
- AWBoy666, on 10/11/2007, -4/+96Now THIS is an interesting picture of an accident:
http://www.cargolaw.com/images/Disaster2007.Marquis2.GIF
Look in the upper right corner of the ship......YEEHAW!!! - bradallen18, on 10/11/2007, -5/+93"I told you to get the shipping insurance! it was only $9.00"
- a1a04824, on 10/11/2007, -7/+92Those poor chinese people that were being smuggled in the containers. I wonder if they had enough barf bags to go around....
- SteelFrog, on 10/11/2007, -5/+71YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG.
- OPMT, on 10/11/2007, -3/+67woah nelly!
- Cink420, on 10/11/2007, -1/+55Is it wrong that when I see those I think Half Life 2???
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -4/+57This is what UPS would do to your containers if you wrote "fragile" on it.
- Lane, on 10/11/2007, -2/+55Dear Pirates: Please pull up to board starboard; thank you.
- yingjai, on 10/11/2007, -0/+39How did the green container on the far right stay on the ship? If each container is locked to one another, then that link must be pretty strong.
- XStatic, on 10/11/2007, -1/+37Smile and wave boys, smile and wave....
- matthewf01, on 10/11/2007, -1/+35Photographer, probably not a great place to have stopped your boat...
http://i18.tinypic.com/6cx124j.gif - lukeydukey, on 10/11/2007, -0/+34Somebody toss me a gravity gun, I have to go fix this mess.
- stupergenius, on 10/11/2007, -16/+48That's what happens when Chuck Norris flaps his wings in a rain forest in Brazil.
- TheBritishGuy1, on 10/11/2007, -2/+31...may we never forget.
- murakume, on 10/11/2007, -0/+29I logged in just to reply to this as I work at UPS just to say this.
To everyone who has every shipped a Dell computer through UPS, I say, "Sorry" on behalf of the entire company. Be glad we lost their business. To be honest though, at least in the hub I work at, it isn't the workers, it's how the supervisors care about nothing except production, they will yell at us to shove anything and everything onto the belts. We don't mean to break your *****, we try to be careful, we really do.
The fact of the matter is, they try to shove an entire trailers worth of boxes onto a narrow conveyor belt and then they get pushed down a slide and then stacked ontop of eachother. They get broken in transit between areas most of the time, no because of us workers. Yes, there are ***** who will break your *****, but just know, not all of us are dicks. - KiTchMe, on 10/11/2007, -1/+29Obviously, those green containers are not made to obey laws of physics.
- lukeydukey, on 10/11/2007, -1/+26This is what they get for blocking a 4 line combo with an L piece.
- acid0426, on 10/11/2007, -2/+255 bucks green one falls first.
- AWBoy666, on 10/11/2007, -1/+22Other Interesting ones:
http://www.cargolaw.com/images/disaster2007.Genoa13.GIF
http://www.cargolaw.com/images/disaster2007.Genoa15.GIF
http://www.cargolaw.com/images/disaster2007.Genoa19.GIF
I'll post more as I find them. - cfd339, on 10/11/2007, -1/+22The worlds biggest JENGA game!
- Dradis, on 10/11/2007, -2/+21I'll save people the cataracts and post the story from the awful site:
PROLOG >> M/V Ital Florida made her maiden call at Hong Kong on April 20 2007. But the beginning of a busy career was interupted by a "Stack Attack" between June 16 & 19 2007.
Was this problem the result of improper lashing securing, bad weather or both?
Michael S. McDaniel - Your Editor
From The Cargo Letter - June 23 2007 -- Container Vessel In Jeopardy
New container M/V Ital Florida lost at least three fully loaden containers in severe seas between June 16 & 19 in the Arabian Sea. The ship faced wave heigths of 7-10 m height. M/V Ital Florida was running with almost 16 knots. The ship's deck also suffered storm damage. - FatalTragedy316, on 10/11/2007, -2/+21Even worse than the epileptic color scheme is the site's only joke: "Ship Happens!"
- mikesay98, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17Looks like we'll be getting a fresh shipment of 99ยข store products soon!
- GliTCH82, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17"Warning: Contents may have shifted during shipping."
Edit: Wow, I guess I should read descriptions from now on. - Drewboy64, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16"Captin! She can't hold out much longer!"
- pagemaster, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15I heard a story about one of these ships dropping a container of new BMW motorcycles into the ocean in an accident. The containers fell out just far enough out to be in international water. Well a couple guys went to the trouble of finding and surfacing the container. They were required to pay some sort of tax on what they got a the cost of the removal and shipping but they made quite a bit of money in profit when they sold the bikes.
- flaflashr, on 10/11/2007, -3/+15One of the oddities of maritime law state that *all parties who had cargo on that ship* will pay for the damage and/or loss to the other cargo, the containers and the ship. It's called General Average. Those who bought marine insurance are off the hook, but their insurance companies will pay. Those who did not will be out of pocket! Here's a bit more of an explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_average
- AWBoy666, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12More:
http://www.cargolaw.com/images/Singles06.MVCougarAce1.GIF
http://www.cargolaw.com/images/Singles06.MVCougarAce5.GIF
http://www.cargolaw.com/images/disaster2006.APL.Panama7.GIF
http://www.cargolaw.com/images/diisaster2006.fortune4.GIF
http://www.cargolaw.com/images/disaster2002.Penn.5.GIF
http://www.cargolaw.com/images/disaster2002.Penn.6.GIF - weeeezzll, on 10/11/2007, -2/+14Dayum! Someone got fired! lol
those containers on the bottom right are practically flat...lol - jamesmusik, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10Your own link says that the law of general averages only applies in cases of voluntary jettison of cargo to save the ship, which obviously didn't happen here.
- greatkingrat85, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12your != you are
- Netrilix, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12The butterfly effect theory combined with a Chuck Norris joke? I'll digg ya up for it.
- TumbleDown, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Our next port of call...The Bay of BigLots!
- cjpro, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8I got a package via UPS once of a chair that had fragile printed on the front. Found a couple holes that the parts punctured in it during shipping.
- StephenCIreland, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7the combine will have somethin to say about this
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8there goes your plasma tv!
- woodcoxcb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7First thing I thought of.
- RickySan65, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Sad but true
- geoffpado, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Looks like something out of the movie Idiocracy.
- primetime75, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7when i moved to germany...i lost a crate of furniture in the ocean...you'd think they'd figure out a better way by now
- sybarite, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5And I love how they think a copyright symbol will protect it as a trademark...
- tw0bit, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8more like body bags...but seriously i work in a warehouse and we pack boxes. if this happened to our little cardboard boxes, we would be mad...let alone massive METAL ones probably filled with many many cardboard boxes...or maybe even cars...ouch......
- chedabob, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5I guess you failed High School chemistry?
- NerdOfPrey, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5You're thinking of the MSC Napoli - it grounded in rough seas in January off of the Cornish coast (south-west of England), and more than 100 of these containers were washed overboard:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/content/images/2007/02/02/aerial_list_mca_465x371.jpg
Looters from all over the country came down to pick over whatever washed up, and left the beaches in an horrendous state - the ship leaked a lot of oil too, so local wildlife had a very torrid time:
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42484000/jpg/_42484217_branscombe015.jpg
http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/content/images/2007/02/02/olied_birds2_moore_353x470.jpg
It was only re-floated a couple of days ago after a painstaking operation to remove all of the containers using a barge and crane:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/6283102.stm - Chairmonkey, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5I thought the exact same thing.
- mgrest, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5The (not quite accurate) story you heard was this one:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6289371.stm
"Scavenging", as this practice is called is an old tradition in this part of the UK. Go read the book, Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier which is set in the neighbouring (yes that's how we spell it) county of Cornwall for a more historical perspective... - splendid, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4mmm photos saved in GIF format, my favourite...
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