Collision at Sea

[kham]

Singapore Straits

I can't even get into the level of idiocy going on in this one. There's stupid, industrial grade stupid, and then there's this... maybe weapons-grade stupid

[Mynock]

Most epic game of bumper boats ever!
Talk about stupid.....hey moron with the camera, LANDSCAPE!!!! God I had people that do that....

[kham]

Yeah, just shows you that not all cameras are totally idiot-proof.

Would not want to be investigating this disaster , never mind on either of the boats. And IMO thinks they need to wag finger at us 'inland waters' types..... gee, I donno Urkel, I never tried to kill anyone for shits and giggles....

[Boggy Man]

This video is no longer available because the uploader has closed their YouTube account.

However, I found two other links that do work:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtHo724skA8

Zoomed in to show it in landscape mode:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSDbmEZCcvw

[Sydney]

Talk about stupid.....hey moron with the camera, LANDSCAPE!!!! God I had people that do that....

I suspect part of the problem is they still hold it like a phone, but the problem is the camera's "orientation" has been aligned with the screen for a few years now.

This has been complicated by the fact that the phones will try to be "helpful", and render it in a way you can still watch it on a computer without having to tilt your head over at an extreme angle.

There does come a time when there's so much effort going into making something completely brainless that those of us who put actual thought into things are constantly tripping over everyone else's desire that the world allow them to be at that level of brainless all the time.

[nachtjaeger]

Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot! Plenty of blame to go around on this one.

Singapore Straits

I can't even get into the level of idiocy going on in this one. There's stupid, industrial grade stupid, and then there's this... maybe weapons-grade stupid

[Billie Bonce]

I am quite surprised to see how fast are these loooooong ships moving!

[kham]

You know whats really hilarious? Apparently MPA Singapore didnt post anything on this at first , since they consider it not that big a deal. Happens all the time.
Let that sink in for a min or two, girls

Billy, its hard to judge speed from a distance, and size also is deceptive, but these guys look to be going 10-15 knots or so. Not out of the norm for commercial ships of that class. Only container ships have the ponies to really wind it out in the 20k+ range. Warships, well, when you have fuel -or neutrons -to burn, speed is a different matter.

2007 USS Gonzales Think it was something July 4th related, judging by the giant ensign, and the steel beach on the carrier background noise Ah, what you can do with 100,000 shp on a destroyer hull....

[Mynock]

Momentum's a bitch. Something that weighs thousands of tons does not stop simply because you turn the engine off lol.....even if they're only moving 15 knots the mass is such that it keeps moving at 15 knots until acted upon by a moron getting in it's way. Some of the larger oil tankers in existance take 10 MILES to come to a complete stop from full speed, even if you throw the engines on full reverse.

[Billie Bonce]

2007 USS Gonzales Think it was something July 4th related, judging by the giant ensign, and the steel beach on the carrier background noise Ah, what you can do with 100,000 shp on a destroyer hull....

In my childhood I had a book "On the trail of sea disasters" by Lev Skryagin, and one chapter of the book was devoted to the history of the Blue Riband. I was amazed (well, I'd say, I was shocked) by speeds that those huge trans-Atlantic liners could reach. More than 300 meters long, 50000 or even 70000 tons displacement, and more than 30 knots speed! SS United States had maximum speed of 38 knots!