HiLux represent! I’m not sure you can’t drive them out along the bottom of the river.
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I always thought that the Liberty ships were only the welded steel ones. I knew the USS Eldridge was able to time travel but I didn’t know the concrete ships were considered Liberty ships as well. Thanks for the facts!
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Was that guys shirt stuck in the door or something? Let the fuck go!
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Let’s just pull the curtain here, lest we pun ish our fellow Happy Mutants too harshly 
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There was a good long-read article on this tragedy in the Atlantic Monthly ten years ago:
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And they had no excuse - the Herald of Free Enterprise* sank in 1987 for exactly the same reason. “Only” 193 people died. I believe a number of deaths were caused by cuts from broken glass. You would think, wouldn’t you, that interlocks would prevent engagement of the main engines if the ro-ro doors were not fully closed? Or at least that there would be a really big blinkenlight in the engine control room?
But you would also think that the valves that cap oil wells would have some indication of which way is which, as they must be assembled right side up. And I was told, when on a safety course in 1990, that as of then they did not.
*Surely a candidate for the most ironic name ever given to a ship. HMS Invincible might seem to have been inviting the attentions of the kindly ones in much the same way, but in fact when it did ground in the Solent everybody was saved.
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At least it wasn’t made of Pykrete.
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You would have though they would have learned from the previous time that happened
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Despite the fact that it’s obviously a water-based community there, my sense was that the guy didn’t know how to swim.
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And the Eastland disaster, which at 844 was the largest loss of life from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes. The ship was actually at the dock, loading passengers.
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I was watching for it, but the guy with the pickup truck did not come back up, and did not get picked up as far as I can tell.
Which makes this an awful video, not a wonderful video. I wondered why he didn’t let go of the truck, but maybe he was unable to swim and terrified.
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Pykrete does have one advantage over concrete boats - it isn’t porous. Reinforced concrete is very prone to leaks, and the steel reinforcement then gets damp with the expected results. Selling a concrete boat is very difficult because what marine surveyor would want to make a categoric statement on its likely long term seaworthiness? It’s one of those things that looked like a really good idea but turned out to be less than real-world practical - like Pykrete.
I think while you were composing that, I already posted. But the story is worth telling twice.
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Ru sure?
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I was hoping he would learn to climb.
I agree. I don’t think that man came back up. If that’s the case then we just watched a snuff flick so bb could make a really lame joke about “worst ferry of all time”? Man, if you live there, and you gotta cross, it’s the ONLY ferry…
I thought they didn’t get him out either at first, but I’m pretty sure they pick him out at 2:30.
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You think it’s funny he may have drowned? You understand this really happened, right?
Why did that first dude go down with his truck? Dude, it isn’t a ship, you don’t go down with it. And if your truck slips into a raging river, just let it go. Because, man, it’s gone.
I am really impressed with the second pickup truck.
When i was younger, we lived near a beach that people could drive on. There was one particular area where people would drive way out, then be caught by the rising tide. There were plenty of signs, but some people ignored them. We would set up our chairs and cooler to watch the carnage when a very high tide was predicted for Saturday afternoon.
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