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Video of two yachts colliding with each other!

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That was so wrong.... in open water with nothing around them....
Both captains 100% screwed up on that one...
 
So who is the stand on and who is the give way? If I was at the helm I would have thought the vessel with the camera was the give way vessel...true... should have gone to a right turn and passed port to port? Classic case of GPS interface to autopilot error?

No sound on video so can't hear if approaching vessel was sounding a pan pan or securite' call...or standing on the horn !
 
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Two huge captain egos meet head on, both should be shot. Oh, and shoot the camera operator in the leg for being an idiot too.
 
Don't shoot him in the leg. neuter him. No reason for his genes to be in the pool.
 
Amazing to not only sit there while it's being filmed, BUT you can see they were all within reach of the helm. Man O man, hard to believe. Who cares about right away, AVOID COLLISION EVEN IF YOU DON"T FOLLOW THE RULES OF THE ROAD. I'd love to hear what they all have to say to the C.G.
 
Unbelieveable! Anybody know any details on when/where that happened?

It would be interesting to see the outcome of the trial. Camera boat seems to be dead wrong other than the fact the other Captain could have easily avoided that one as well.
 
Funny, after watching that video a few more times, is it possible the larger camera boat was at anchor?

I saw this video on another forum, and that question was raised. It's hard to tell, but it would explain why there was so little deviation in course before or after the collision where the larger boat was concerned.
 
How stupid was that. Only a fool or a drunk would let that happen. There is no reasoning that would let this happen. Captains Dumb & Dumber at the wheel.

BILL
 
Sparky1 said:
Funny, after watching that video a few more times, is it possible the larger camera boat was at anchor?

I saw this video on another forum, and that question was raised. It's hard to tell, but it would explain why there was so little deviation in course before or after the collision where the larger boat was concerned.
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That gets my vote...guys running on the foredeck look like they are pointing to the pulpit "can't you see we are anchored????"

Questions tho;

?The guy on the camera boat sitting on the pulpit, tho not waving hands like mad to get the other boats attention??

I'm guessing there is a helm on the upper deck??? or is it just a bartender?
 
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If you look at the water color on the sb side of the camera vessel, you can see light spots, like sand through clear water, moving by the camera vessel, so it was underway. Given that the smaller vessel struck on the sb side of the camera vessel, it seems like the camera vessel should have yielded right of way, which he has to do from 12:00 through 3:00 positions, and he was struck at 1:00. The theory is that he would have seen this coming and stopped or turned, but BOTH captains were pure stupid. There was actually a guy on the bow of the smaller vessel whom narrowly escaped being crushed.

Doug
 
I've watched that video a half dozen times, but it looks like wind driven waves along the starboard side of that larger vessel. It's obvious that at least part of the crew saw the impending collision and took cover, but nobody on the other vessel did.

Did you notice that only the crew from the larger vessel was upset over the crash? Maybe everybody on the other boat (which looked to be a sightseeing vessel of some sort) had their bells rung to the point they were still a bit out of it. Otherwise, they would have been raising hell too unless they just never saw the other boat until they collided.
 
Does anyone know when this happened and where Pascal was at the time?

Brian
 
Probably down in the galley getting a sandwich while the autopilot and the web cam ran the boat :D
 
I think the larger (camera) vessel was under power. Look at how far the bow went into the smaller (sightseeing) vessel. If the captain of the smaller boat was in the PH, he would have sustained injuries or death from such a hit. If larger vessel was at anchor, the rode would have been visible at some point and the bow would not have penetrated that far from that angle.

Or......maybe the larger boat had just run aground and the smaller one was trying to break him loose :)
 
I notice a land mass on the horizon, off the stbd bow of the camera vessel. She was hit hard enough to swing to port, so that the land mass is no longer in the picture at the end of the shot.

Also on the very righthand side of the picture, a black hulled boat can be seen. I can't tell if it is running behind the cruise boat or away. Maybe the cruise boat had changed course around the black boat and never re-changed course.

All in all, that is how the Andrea Doria (hit by Stockholm) went down in mid-ocean- neither vessel giving way and she took a hit right on the side. Right under the Mackinaw Bridge (in MI about a mile or so east of the bridge in the Straits), the almost 700' Cedarville took a hit on the side and went down fast in the mid 1960's. No abandon ship was given, at least not on a timely basis, and then, she was running too fast in fog. They did not realize how badly they had been holed and she rolled over fast.

Off topic, but on two separate occasions, I have been headed into a slip at Mack City and within an hour a diver drowned on the Cedarville site. In one case, the new Mackinac cutter was hovering over the Cedarville, performing rescue. On the other occasion, just as I got past and inside the Mack City Marina breakwall, a sherriff's boat went by at high speed headed for the Cedarville site. He came back in a hour or so, with a black body bag on the dock, at the public boat launch ramp near Shepler's Marina.
 
SKYCHENEY said:
I think the larger (camera) vessel was under power. Look at how far the bow went into the smaller (sightseeing) vessel. If the captain of the smaller boat was in the PH, he would have sustained injuries or death from such a hit. If larger vessel was at anchor, the rode would have been visible at some point and the bow would not have penetrated that far from that angle.

Or......maybe the larger boat had just run aground and the smaller one was trying to break him loose :)
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If the skipper of the larger camera boat paid attention to normal anchoring procedure, he would have a scope of at least 7:1. Having a smaller boat harpoon itself on his pulpit would not expose what would certainly be an all chain rode on the larger vessel as the smaller vessel's draft would be insufficient to cause it to come in contact with said rode as to make it visible in the video.

I rest my case. :D
 
Nonchalant1 said:
If you look at the water color on the sb side of the camera vessel, you can see light spots, like sand through clear water, moving by the camera vessel, so it was underway.

Doug
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Yes, I saw the bottom moving under the boat as well. Camera boat was most certainly underway. BOTH Captains are responsible here. What a shame.
 
yachtsmanbill said:
Looks like a Central American stern flag (?) ws
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I read that it supposedly happened somewhere in the Red Sea. It's not a new video. Possibly an Egyptian flag.
 
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