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Oil tanker collision in the North Sea
Yikes. Early info is spotty
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9q4129reqgo https://apnews.com/article/north-sea-ship-collision-coastguard-d9c97c9968d04907fb9d9e94145e9072
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Ooof that doesn't look good . RIP to those lost .
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Can't imagine how something like this is possible. Oil tankers and Cargo ships are not small or fast moving. Seems there should be awareness of each other's proximity with lots of time to adjust course, even slightly.
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And in this day with everything being tracked with GPS, how does this kind of thing happen?
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This is insane. I can understand planes crashing into each other, but ships?
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Too much reliance on technology rather than old fashioned seamanship.
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A few years ago a captain ran a tanker aground off the English coast. The charts said he couldn't get through between an island and the mainland, he thought he could. He couldn't.
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Watched a break down of this this morning. The tanker was anchored off the Humber river. The freighter had left the Forth river and was proceeding at 16 knots along the course she usually traveled. Probably on autopilot with no one on watch.
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A couple weeks ago one of our aircraft carriers was involved in a similar collision near an anchorage at one end of the Suez canal.
Hard to believe that stupid **** like this can occur in this day and age.
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Uh oh. Let the conspiracies begin in 3,2,1...
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