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Hello all,

Graham Snook (forum id: snooks), a photographer for MBM and YM, was involved in a motorboat accident yesterday. You can see the story here.

Since he's a regular poster on these forums, we thought you would like to know that he is fine, and has no permanent damage.

An investigation is underway into what happened, but no one from MBM was on the Monte Carlo 42 at the time. Apart from Graham, no other IPC Media employees were involved.

Neale
 
neale said:
Hello all,

Graham Snook (forum id: snooks), a photographer for MBM and YM, was involved in a motorboat accident yesterday. You can see the story here.

Since he's a regular poster on these forums, we thought you would like to know that he is fine, and has no permanent damage.

An investigation is underway into what happened, but no one from MBM was on the Monte Carlo 42 at the time. Apart from Graham, no other IPC Media employees were involved.

Neale
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Gosh. Glad to hear he escaped more serious injury. Please send him our best wishes. I was in SofF yesterday - warm, blue skies, perfect for photography. I heard late in the day that an incident had happened near Marseille but no-one had any details by the time I left
 
Very glad Graham is ok. It must have been a heck of a bump for a pro-snapper to have stopped shooting what would have been exclusive footage of the damage to the MC42 or did Beneteau request that those pix were not made available.
 
Ouch ... perhaps he should use a longer lense and not get the target boat so close!!
Or perhaps the helmsman of the MC42 misunderstood the direction when he was asked to pass close by at speed... ;)
 
Snooks

neale said:
Hello all,

Graham Snook (forum id: snooks), a photographer for MBM and YM, was involved in a motorboat accident yesterday. You can see the story here.

Since he's a regular poster on these forums, we thought you would like to know that he is fine, and has no permanent damage.

An investigation is underway into what happened, but no one from MBM was on the Monte Carlo 42 at the time. Apart from Graham, no other IPC Media employees were involved.

Neale
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Glad to hear that Graham is OK.
That looks like a very nasty incident and a really lucky escape.
He's a good chap and a darn good photgrapher as well.........I have seen him and his colleagues hanging off the back of boats to get the right shot.:eek:
Thank heavens he was not doing it this time or it could have been much worse.

Get well soon Graham.

Mike.
 
neale said:
Hello all,

Graham Snook (forum id: snooks), a photographer for MBM and YM, was involved in a motorboat accident yesterday. You can see the story here.

Since he's a regular poster on these forums, we thought you would like to know that he is fine, and has no permanent damage.

An investigation is underway into what happened, but no one from MBM was on the Monte Carlo 42 at the time. Apart from Graham, no other IPC Media employees were involved.

Neale
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That must have been a bit of a shock and I hope that Graham is OK. Sorry to be pedantic and I know he was your staffer but can I pick a few holes in your rather hysterical article. The 42 cannot have hit the 9.80 at 30kts; if it had, it's bow would be sticking out of the other end of the 9.80's saloon. More like the 9.80 was travelling at say, 20 kts, so the closing speed would have been something like 10kts rather than 30kts. The back of the 9.80 doesn't look completely destroyed either. The transom moulding is pushed back which is nothing a spot of Sikaflex and some new self tappers won't fix. I've done worse damage backing into my berth. Also it's good to hear that no other IPC employees were involved. What about the French people? Are they OK or don't they count because they're foreign? Anyway, all's well that ends well and you've got some nice copy for next month's issue:)
 
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That must have been a bit of a shock and I hope that Graham is OK. Sorry to be pedantic and I know he was your staffer but can I pick a few holes in your rather hysterical article. The 42 cannot have hit the 9.80 at 30kts; if it had, it's bow would be sticking out of the other end of the 9.80's saloon. More like the 9.80 was travelling at say, 20 kts, so the closing speed would have been something like 10kts rather than 30kts. The back of the 9.80 doesn't look completely destroyed either. The transom moulding is pushed back which is nothing a spot of Sikaflex and some new self tappers won't fix. I've done worse damage backing into my berth. Also it's good to hear that no other IPC employees were involved. What about the French people? Are they OK or don't they count because they're foreign? Anyway, all's well that ends well and you've got some nice copy for next month's issue:)
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Bit harsh Mike.

Firstly it's not my article, but that's neither here nor there.
Speed is as reported from those that were there, I have no reason to believe it is not an accurate estimation.
If you have done that sort of damage backing into your berth I suggest you need some training :D. The transom moulding was ripped off not pushed back.
As far as next issue is concerned, I don't believe there are any plans to include this.
With regards to any other people involved, the point was that no others, that forumites may know, were involved. There were no other injuries to anyone, IPC Media staff or not. We can only report the facts as told to us, and all those were included in the story.
 
neale said:
Bit harsh Mike.

Firstly it's not my article, but that's neither here nor there.
Speed is as reported from those that were there, I have no reason to believe it is not an accurate estimation.
If you have done that sort of damage backing into your berth I suggest you need some training :D. The transom moulding was ripped off not pushed back.
As far as next issue is concerned, I don't believe there are any plans to include this.
With regards to any other people involved, the point was that no others, that forumites may know, were involved. There were no other injuries to anyone, IPC Media staff or not. We can only report the facts as told to us, and all those were included in the story.
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Oh for a tongue in cheek smiley:)
 
Thank god all is ok.
Not to defend Mike but being 30 knots equivalent to close to 40 MPH which means most if not all cars will be total loss at this speed I do think that the vessels in question had a very similar speed during the incident. So may be the photograph boat was doing 22 knots while the Bene was doing 30 and you get a similar picture as a 10 and 20 knots incident.
 
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Thank god all is ok.
Not to defend Mike but being 30 knots equivalent to close to 40 MPH which means most if not all cars will be total loss at this speed I do think that the vessels in question had a very similar speed during the incident. So may be the photograph boat was doing 22 knots while the Bene was doing 30 and you get a similar picture as a 10 and 20 knots incident.
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I wasn't there so don't know for sure. Luckily Graham will be around to tell us first hand in a few days. I'm sure he'll dine out on it for years ;) I for one will happily buy him a pint to toast his good fortune.
 
Glad to hear Snooks is ok,are you going to do a "What now Skipper"on this incident :)
 
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neale said:
Hello all,

Graham Snook (forum id: snooks), a photographer for MBM and YM, was involved in a motorboat accident yesterday. You can see the story here.

Since he's a regular poster on these forums, we thought you would like to know that he is fine, and has no permanent damage.

An investigation is underway into what happened, but no one from MBM was on the Monte Carlo 42 at the time. Apart from Graham, no other IPC Media employees were involved.

Neale
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Glad he ok, that would be one very scary moment, hope it has not put him off boating.
 
Didnt this happen before?....

Not that its in any IPC fault, but I seem to remember a similar accident happening in the mid 90s with a 60ft Prout power cat ramming and mounting a photo boat during a shoot.

Dont think that was te mags fault either....
 
I'll write more tomorrow, a bit tired now.

A few points, the photoboat was stationary, Monte Carlo 42 was flat out. Top speed is 35 knots.

I wasn't running the shoot, someone on the flybridge was, I just went out to get some shots of a different boat.

Damage on MC42 runs about 35 feet along the port side. The only place this damage could have come from is the flybridge of the photo boat.

There are marks on the transom that would seem to tie up with a stern drive.

I won't comment on the driver of the powerboat. But the quick thinking of the photoboat driver got the boat into a marina within 5 mins. Probably saving the boat which was sinking at the time.

After seeing the damage of the MC42, it would appear the MC42 went over the top of me!

I, and everyone else on board was very lucky. I could easily be a red mess on two boats, and when the everything went black I thought I was
 
I think Graham you are a very lucky man to survive.....But I can't imagine what the skipper of the 42 was thinking :confused: even if he had missed your photo-boat the spray and wash would have been nasty.

BTW I read just now that a cruise ship, the 'Louis Majesty' got hit by 26' waves, on Wednesday, near Marseilles, killing two passengers onboard, enroute from Barcelona to Athens. Seems it has been a couple of rough days in the Med.

Edit: Apparently the ship was more in the Gulf of Lyon, and reports vary on the actual size of the waves.
 
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