Boat fail video - how not to dock a ship

within the current parameters of recycling large vessels, it not a fail. It is a very efficient way of bringing thousands of tons of metal within reach of desperately poor workers.

The whole process, however, is a disaster for the environment and for many of the workers.

Sloppy sub-editing. The video does not meet the editorial definition " boat fail: when someone tries to do something on a boat, which has an embarrassing, hilarious or unexpected outcome."
 
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It's not at all as described by the accompanying text.

Disappointing that YBW are regurgitating this kind of YouTube dross.


Precisely

It's not a fail at all - it is how one puts a ship onto Alang beach for dismantling, and that is exactly what is happening. Far from being a captains worst nightmare to this day it remains about the most fun a captain can have with his trousers on. MBM should stick to what it knows.

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Thanks for that.

Great fun!!

I have been there and the thing that amazed me was the miles of copper pipe running along the beach through the sand carrying oxygen to the cutting torches from the big tanks of liquid oxygen just up the top of the beach.

The winches on sections of old decking were also amazing to watch as they usew the aerial wire sytem to transport chunks of steel, up to about 10 tonnes each, from the wreck to the shore for transport to the yards.
 
Seems it happens a fair bit in those parts!! Heaven only knows the amount of pollution pouring off the beach though!!

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