Singaporean vessel, crashed at 1AM shortly after departing port.
I'm making a stab in the dark bet that maybe the bridge was running on a skeleton crew and one or more of them were drunk as fuck from partying on the same night they were due to depart.
The vessel apparently has a history of crashing into things, so maybe the captain is an alcoholic.
Bro I remember watching these Asian chicks slowly back up and hit a car repeatedly in a big parking lot. Then they chinged a lot at each other trying to figure out next steps. I just stood there laughing and watching because it's just so poetic.
One time, I was driving my father's car to a train and bus parking lot close to an airport, because the plan was for him to take the car back home once his plane landed, and I would take the bus to the city, then use the train in the evening to get back home. Before he left on his trip, he told me: "If anything happens to that car, I'll kill you." (Probably figuratively.)
So right before the train parking lot, there was a 3-way traffic light. I stopped at the red light, waited until it turned green, then accelerated normally. About 2 seconds after I crossed the intersection, in my rear view mirror, I saw a car going way too fast coming from the perpendicular direction, ignoring the light that was still red in her direction, driving over the sidewalk, over the grass, and hitting a tree. A few minutes later, as the bus was passing by the same intersection, I saw that it was an asian woman that seemed to be in her mid thirties and who seemed extremely dizzy that had gotten out of the car. No idea what led to her losing control like that.
You shouldn't need a source, a harbour pilot should always be driving the ship, that is standard procedure for most harbours in the world with dredged channels.
Even where I live, where the harbour isn't dredged (doesn't need to be), is huge and extremely deep, we still have harbour pilots to get all large ships out, mostly because we've already had one bridge disaster, and we would very much like to avoid another...
So yeah, I think here it might apply to all ports, dredged or otherwise.
A couple of years ago, one of these ships managed to crash into, and sink, two of the (quite large) harbour tugs, that in itself was a massive incident, which I think is still before the courts, but just imagine if it had sunk a passenger ferry or oil tanker or something instead...
It's amazing how often shit like this happens, somewhere around the world, unfortunately...
Singaporean vessel, crashed at 1AM shortly after departing port.
I'm making a stab in the dark bet that maybe the bridge was running on a skeleton crew and one or more of them were drunk as fuck from partying on the same night they were due to depart.
The vessel apparently has a history of crashing into things, so maybe the captain is an alcoholic.
Fuckin Asian drivers
Can confirm. Asian women are the worst drivers. I encounter them daily
Bro I remember watching these Asian chicks slowly back up and hit a car repeatedly in a big parking lot. Then they chinged a lot at each other trying to figure out next steps. I just stood there laughing and watching because it's just so poetic.
One time, I was driving my father's car to a train and bus parking lot close to an airport, because the plan was for him to take the car back home once his plane landed, and I would take the bus to the city, then use the train in the evening to get back home. Before he left on his trip, he told me: "If anything happens to that car, I'll kill you." (Probably figuratively.)
So right before the train parking lot, there was a 3-way traffic light. I stopped at the red light, waited until it turned green, then accelerated normally. About 2 seconds after I crossed the intersection, in my rear view mirror, I saw a car going way too fast coming from the perpendicular direction, ignoring the light that was still red in her direction, driving over the sidewalk, over the grass, and hitting a tree. A few minutes later, as the bus was passing by the same intersection, I saw that it was an asian woman that seemed to be in her mid thirties and who seemed extremely dizzy that had gotten out of the car. No idea what led to her losing control like that.
The ship is still within the harbour bounds, shouldn't it be driven by a pilot from the docks?
Good point, my shipping knowledge is mediocre at best, hadn't even thought about that.
Apparently a local pilot was driving the ship out of the port. I don't have a source but my wife was watching a broadcast where that was announced.
You shouldn't need a source, a harbour pilot should always be driving the ship, that is standard procedure for most harbours in the world with dredged channels.
Even where I live, where the harbour isn't dredged (doesn't need to be), is huge and extremely deep, we still have harbour pilots to get all large ships out, mostly because we've already had one bridge disaster, and we would very much like to avoid another...
So yeah, I think here it might apply to all ports, dredged or otherwise.
A couple of years ago, one of these ships managed to crash into, and sink, two of the (quite large) harbour tugs, that in itself was a massive incident, which I think is still before the courts, but just imagine if it had sunk a passenger ferry or oil tanker or something instead...
It's amazing how often shit like this happens, somewhere around the world, unfortunately...
Globalized supply chains, woohoo!