How to wreck a HUGE ship and your career in one fell swoop.

[tigisfat]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib43gpKTxjs&feature=related

Ib43gpKTxjs

[PRB]

Oops...

[Tako_Kichi]

Cool...a demolition derby on the ocean! :jump:

[TARPSBird]

Worst display of reckless ship-handling I've ever seen, other than the Russians' side-swiping and other harrassing maneuvers they've done against US/NATO ships. I'm surprised to see something like that involving German Navy ships.

[stansdds]

It's all fun and games until someone crashes the boat.

[Toastmaker]

What a fantastic lack of discipline and reason on behalf of some ship Capitans. They most certainly should be canned!

[Snuffy]

Certainly not the type of display of ... intellectualism that I've been told about ...

That said, I'm sure the German Navy isn't the only Navy in the world that's been subject to this kind of action either.

Darn kids and their billion dollar toys anyhow. :mixedsmi:

[Haining]

If you want to read about a real collision try this. :rolleyes:

http://books.google.com/books?id=9dTCKklpYPgC&pg=RA1-PA65&lpg=RA1-PA65&dq=royal+navy+collision+off+beirut&source=bl&ots=62qzvnveM5&sig=fkoXyLHtX11ypWHUffjFt5-dhCE&hl=en&ei=Yp_RS8ieE46kmAP3jJimDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CBUQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q&f=false

[ARDVARK]

Looked abit emotional! someone would be getting abit of a wrist slapping for that one.

[Toastmaker]

If you want to read about a real collision try this. :rolleyes:

http://books.google.com/books?id=9dTCKklpYPgC&pg=RA1-PA65&lpg=RA1-PA65&dq=royal+navy+collision+off+beirut&source=bl&ots=62qzvnveM5&sig=fkoXyLHtX11ypWHUffjFt5-dhCE&hl=en&ei=Yp_RS8ieE46kmAP3jJimDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CBUQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q&f=false



Very interesting story, thanks for the link. A bit too much institutional arrogance at play in the Royal Navy at that moment. . . !

[Bjoern]

I can't remember the outcome of this, but I think at least a few heads got chopped off.


Navy boys...think they rule the waves...

[jhefner]

How about nearly running 14 U.S. Navy destroyers onto the rocks:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Point_Disaster

-James