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Stuart G

(38,427 posts) Wed Apr 11, 2018, 09:20 AM Apr 2018

Ship crashes into Panama Canal..Yes it really did.

This happened in April 2014...Kind of a follow up to the one I posted earlier in the Video and Multi-Media Main Forum....I looked around, and found a whole bunch of videos of ships crashing into piers, docks, canals etc.
This was a high quality one..I thought the crash yesterday was the only one of its kind..Nope, evidently this happens more often than we would expect.

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Ship crashes into Panama Canal..Yes it really did. (Original Post) Stuart G Apr 2018 OP

Steering in water is a whole lot different than steering on land. shraby Apr 2018 #1

How do you mess up when so much is at stake; cargo, ships, docks and piers, etc. democratisphere Apr 2018 #2

what's interesting about this is that there are trained pilots that take the ships through the canal Javaman Apr 2018 #3

shraby

(21,946 posts)

1. Steering in water is a whole lot different than steering on land.

Reply to Stuart G (Original post)

Wed Apr 11, 2018, 09:52 AM

Apr 2018

Trust me. Been there done that, only much smaller boat.

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)

2. How do you mess up when so much is at stake; cargo, ships, docks and piers, etc.

Reply to Stuart G (Original post)

Wed Apr 11, 2018, 10:03 AM

Apr 2018

Javaman

(62,530 posts)

3. what's interesting about this is that there are trained pilots that take the ships through the canal