Video: So much for right-of-way...

Everyone must have been busy mixing drinks! Or maybe the captain was trying to figure out how to run the video camera instead. Unbelievable! Was this a movie set? Seems to me with that much time and distance, that you would have had to work to hit that perfectly.

Yikes!
 
First Born said:
You have to copy and paste the URL to the right of the video in between the youtube code. :huh:
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Yup - that's what I did. Looked right once in preview and then not again...

[YOUTUBE]<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2U9_hS3dJ4M&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2U9_hS3dJ4M&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>[/YOUTUBE]
 
WOW, if you watch it full screen and replay it over and over again there was a person on the bow of the boat prior to and walking away after the crash!!
 
Seems like a needless collision to me.

It appears there were only two boats, plenty of open navigable water, no excuse for this.

Technically the boat on the right had the right of way however one must avoid a collision so both are at fault.

The boat that does not have the camera onboard appears to be some sort of tour boat.
 
Presentation said:
Seems like a needless collision to me.

It appears there were only two boats, plenty of open navigable water, no excuse for this.

Technically the boat on the right had the right of way however one must avoid a collision so both are at fault.

The boat that does not have the camera on board appears to be some sort of tour boat.
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True, but something appears a bit strange/ Who was taking the video from the larger boat. If you say it was a fix mounted camera, then who was panning the camera during filming. :huh:

True it may have been a guest on the upper deck recording, but gee they just stood there and recorded without issuing any alarm? All seems to be quite clam and the weather clear, yet no watches at the helm on either boat? :huh:

The boat which rammed the other one seems to be a bit large for just a one or two person operation? I would gues it needed some crewing. :huh:
 
There's a good chance that both vessels were on autopilot, due to the fact that there's not a single attempt by either one to avoid the collision. I'm sure that both are at fault. The video only shows last few seconds before the collision. Both were travelled not very fast and since the day is clear and the water conditions are just fine, both captains failed to provide proper look out for quite some time.
 
It seems like there's someone on the upper deck manning what looks to be an upper helm station, what exactly was he doing?
The lower helm station looks like it took a direct hit. Too bad there's not a video of the aftermath...
 
I'm still having trouble believing it wasn't staged -- a test, demonstration, stunt, etc. There are several people on the upper deck of the "other" boat, there appears to be someone on the foredeck of each boat, and the video camera movement suggests it was hand-held, or at least being controlled (it pans during the video).

If this wasn't deliberate, there were a lot of people in a position to raise an alarm, and it doesn't appear any did.
 
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