... you are stuck by the port transom on a $1.5m yacht heading for a very expensive and unplanned encounter with the water.
I came across the photo shown above in a discussion around whether or not it had been Photoshoped (consensus: no) but in finding the site it was sourced from I found all these other great pictures of bad things happening to ships both big and small. Browse around and you'll find boats on fire (while carrying fireworks!), boats aground (for 2 months while they try and figure out how to unload the containers it was carrying and re-float it) and even boats being flattened by cranes that have fallen over.
Fascinating stuff, and a stark reminder of just why marine insurance is as expensive as it is.
However, another set of pictures showing what happened to a DHL Airbus 300 when hit by a ground-to-air missle in Iraq, are almost beyond belief. How on earth did they land that thing??
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The guy at the stern is hanging on tightly! Jesus that must have been a scarying right down!!
Great website. I like then one where a $3.2M boat and a mobile crane drops off a cargo boat.
....err.....scary ride down....
Agreed on both counts! Amazing the stupid things people will do when in charge of very expensive, very large and very heavy equipment.
That web site also would make me very nervous about shipping anything by sea ever again!
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