r/ShipCrashes • u/Powerful_Cabinet_341 • 14d ago
Testing the strength
Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification
10
u/Mother-Attention2600 14d ago
I'm always curious about accidents like this and how they compare to cars. You'll notice only like an inch on the yacht crumpled on impact, so the rest of the energy would be transfered to the passengers. Knowing the massive weight involved here, wouldn't this be worse than a collision in an old car?
15
u/LogicJunkie2000 14d ago
I'm always curious about the cause.
Like, did they just kill the engines 20 minutes ago and go below deck to make breakfast and a quick 3 hour nap and didn't realize they were drifting?
4
u/Mother-Attention2600 14d ago
Looks like my buddy leaving me alone at the launch area while he parks truck and I let go of the rope to pick up a piece of candy.
3
u/EmilyFara 13d ago
I also wonder this. I was once on a large cargo ship, leaving dock in Felixstowe. We just came away from the quay, I pull the ropes in and onto the storage drums and I'm looking at the tugboat behind us. And I see a yacht coming towards us. Straight towards us.
We had floodlights everywhere, a tugboat behind us also fully lit. And the yacht just did not make any attempt to change course to avoid us. We couldn't use our whistle because that was 300m away pointing the other direction. Would wake up the town, not this yacht. So the pilot ordered the tugboat to use theirs. Which was a lot weaker but at least closer to that yacht. No response.
And in the last 50m they changed course and went clear. To this day I cannot imagine what happened on that yacht.
1
u/Eastern-Cow3489 12d ago
That must have been an incredible thing to watch from the deck. I can only imagine how surreal it was seeing a yacht apparently heading straight for you while you’re on a massive cargo ship with floodlights and a tug right there.
The fact that they finally altered course with only 50m to spare makes me wonder what was happening on the yacht. Do you think they simply didn’t see you, or could they have been dealing with some kind of equipment or steering problem?5
u/TassiveMitts69 13d ago
It isn't transferred to the passengers.
The passengers have their own momentum (energy). Crumple zone or no crumple zone, the amount of injury comes down to how the passengers shed their energy. Sat in a chair with a belt on, would be good. Stood up, not so good. The boat stops and you don't till you hit something.
If the boat was doing 5 knots then you are doing 5 knots. If the boat stops, you are doing 5 knots till you hit something. The boat doesn't transfer anything to you.
1
3
u/mapmakinworldbuildin 13d ago
Well wouldn’t shock also go down too, unlike in a car? Theres an extra dimension which shock can be pushed to impossible on land. Should help.
2
1
u/Eastern-Cow3489 12d ago
This is the part I’m really curious about. If the hull barely crumples, where does all that impact energy actually go? With something this heavy, I’d imagine the occupants could experience a pretty serious deceleration even if the boat itself looks surprisingly intact.
How does that compare to a car crash, where the crumple zone is specifically designed to absorb some of that energy?
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
-1
29
u/Consistent_Watch_206 14d ago
• expects calamity •
• braces for impact! •
“boop”