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**weerossi** · 13 June 2010, 07:04 PM

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WTF!!! tht facebook video is wild.

**CharlieDelta** · 13 June 2010, 07:14 PM

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For the Facebook video, here's the MAIB report:

http://www.maib.gov.uk/cms_resources.cf ... Report.pdf

If you're a bit sad, like me, it makes interesting reading.

**size4riggerboots** · 13 June 2010, 10:04 PM

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How embarrassing! Where was that?

**alistairuk** · 13 June 2010, 10:43 PM

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The YouTube one is in Cozumel, Mexico.

**dawg** · 1 July 2010, 11:59 AM

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What on earth were the two Captains planning to do exactly?!

**alistairuk** · 1 July 2010, 12:47 PM

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Originally posted by nemo

What on earth were the two Captains planning to do exactly?!

Erm... Royal Caribbean was berthed.

Carnival was backing out of the harbour when the squall hit and was pushed into the RCCL one. At slow speed cruise ships (and any high sided ship like car carriers) are stuffed if they get a sudden strong (talking 30+ kts of cross wind). No amount of thrusters is going to stop you going into the pier / anything thats near you!

Theres been a few occasions where the ships i've been on have had to delay sailing because of strong winds or worse, have had to start the engines and use the thrusters to stop the ship blowing off the berth!

**size4riggerboots** · 1 July 2010, 03:10 PM

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QM2 snapped 7 mooring lines once, a sudden squall came through and PING!!!! I wasn't on board then, but heard the stories many times!

**alistairuk** · 9 July 2010, 11:12 PM

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like this....

[youtube:rw3fbcpv]J75QIkRp7EA[/youtube:rw3fbcpv]

**size4riggerboots** · 10 July 2010, 01:50 PM

Re: Ship Collision & Bad Weather

OOOPS! Was that weather driven or muppet driven? looks like they've got their bow thrusters going.

**RAH** · 16 August 2010, 10:45 AM

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[youtube:3iipp217]awVm6Lt6ONQ[/youtube:3iipp217]

I've just found this on youtube, I wouldn't have stopped on th tug if it was listing like that.

**WillB a-e** · 16 August 2010, 11:10 AM

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I like it at 6:51 with the passing note, incase you needed a hand indentifying the vessels involved!

**bullettoothtony** · 16 August 2010, 03:36 PM

Re: Ship Collision & Bad Weather

Originally posted by WillB a-e

I like it at 6:51 with the passing note, incase you needed a hand indentifying the vessels involved!

I saw that too, LOL

**bryan_s** · 2 December 2010, 07:20 PM

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Old stuff but still some pretty interesting pics..

[youtube:1vkjvdpn]8HFARxn73dk[/youtube:1vkjvdpn]

**Just Ben** · 3 December 2010, 10:53 AM

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0:35 WTF happened to there... explosion?

1:05 I'm confused, is that half a ship

1:35 LoL

2:31 What happened here?

5:04 That ship looks really old

good video.

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