10 Ridiculous Ship Collisions Caught on Camera 

"Luckily nobody was on the smaller boat when the Sinabung crashed into it." At 14:25 you can clearly see someone walking on the deck of the smaller boat.

Bro, at 14:25, you clearly see someone on the smaller ship. Then from 15:26, you said luckily no one was on the smaller boat. Really dude?

On 16:00 Black Sea ships, cameraman is speaking Turkish. As a rough translation he was calling his crewmates to check the ropes in the front of the ship. He wasn't calling anyone to run. Source: my 40 year old Turkish heritage.

"nap tyme" -- priceless...

Actually if you look closely you will see a person on the ship that gets hit 14:26

That last video is INSANE- I'm not sure I would've known what to do if I'd been one of the fishermen! Their quick response definitely saved their lives

After the Venitian incident the laggon was closed to all cruise ships. I remember it being news headlines for days after.

Love the fact that even in China when something bad happened the language of choice switches to English. At 9:00 a ship runs into a bridge and after a Chinese words were uttered we got "WTF". Hey, you use the best tools available to you!

Check out Queen of Oak Bay crash - a BC Ferries vessel lost thrusters just before docking and plowed through a marina. Engine failures are bad enough on any vessel, but having them happen while docking.... It's amazing to see these massive ships moving so slowly yet, with their inertia, causing so much damage.

Venice, Italy, is on the EAST coast, on the Grecian side of Italy. Venice, Florida, USA, is on the west coast of Florida, on the Caribbean or Gulf Coast side. A little geography, that Venice, Italy is not on the "northwest coast of Italy", as you say in the video. Edit: Also, that's a lot more than a "three deck cruise ship". (Sheesh, don't you proof-read?)

When you add stupidity to carelessness it usually ends in disaster.

Underworld > bridge nearly collapses. video > no dust even stirred up.

Hornblower was a good name for it.

9:00 I love how the guys recording were just casually speaking Chinese then suddenly WHAT THE FUK!

There's a UK old radio comedy called The Navy Lark, about an incompetent naval crew on a ship called HMS Troutbridge. These captains must have been taking navigation lessons from that fictional comedy vessel. 😁

Some people should not own a boat or a vehicle of any kind

Thank you for the update, Underworld..!! 17:51 That was scary. I hope everyone was alright.

Considering he last clip, how could anyone plead "not guilty" of any charges??? Very telling of someone born "IRRESPONSIBLE" .

On the last clip, I would've been jumped off lol The last guy on that fishing boat stayed on wayy too long imo. I'd definitely would've sued as well

15:20 clearly, there IS a person on the smaller ship.

8:50 They didn't cheap out when constructing that bridge. Good job on the quality

After serving 24 years as a Merchant Marine I can tell you with complete honesty that there is no such thing as a minor maritime accident. Even if the repairs at the shipyard only cost tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, the cost of investigations and accessment of fines by the controlling government agencies can get up into the tens and hundreds of millions. Especially when there has to be cleanups.

BTW, Vashon's second syllable rhymes with "lawn". And I've ridden enough WA state ferries to know their horns can wake the dead. I don't know how anyone could've slept through that. All I can figure is the person below-decks prolly thought he was PASSING the ferry, not about to be HIT by the ferry. Although ferries don't typically wail on their horns while they're en route to or fro.

For #1, the guy was charged and sued, but actually died a few months later

When I was a kid I was on the Edmonds/Kingston ferry run with my grandparents in very thick fog and we almost hit a smaller boat out in it. The captain of the small boat didn't have its radar on. The captain of the ferry put the engine into reverse and the whole thing shook like an earthquake. The smaller boat was ordered to follow the ferry to the dock, where I'm certain authorities were waiting to speak with the captain once we got there. The smaller boat did indeed follow.

I live in the Pacific Northwest. The Pacific Ocean and lots of rivers. I live near the Willamette and Columbia rivers. We need to start handing out awards, like Captain Clueless, Captain Chaos and the like. 😏⚓

12:19 . . . The _Hornblower_ did live up to its name!! Amazing how the whale graphic on the bow lined up with the walkway. "Don't think we're riding that boat."

So the lesson of the day is to always check your brake pads before leaving shore. I learned that on a 3 hr tour a 3 hour tour

Couldn't agree more! I'm pleasantly surprised by this.

Judging by the "Nap Tyme" and "Adventure Hornblower" incidents, naming a boat or ship may require more careful consideration than people think. 😬

Ship, barges, and smaller boats crash into bridge supports much more often than people realize. Some incidences cause an immediate collapse, some cause just enough structural damage to rest in later bridge collapse, while others may still cause critical to minimal damage, or no damage at all. Most of the boat/bridge encounters never make it on national news.

Really, the bridge nearly collapsed....FFS over dramatic much lol

When I saw the granny in front of the Adventure Hornblower my immediate reaction was "NANA NO! NOOO!!! NANA! GET OUTTA THERE!" Then she managed to move out of the way

Finally a channel that explains what actually happened, SUBSCRIBED!

I rode on the Adventure Hornblower in 2004 when I was on vacation in San Diego.

12:45 Guy on the boat is like, I'm trying to park here!!, move your land out of the way !!

The last captain just didn't care. Even if he was sitting down he could still see out in front of him before getting to the point where the bow blocked his view!! He was just purely neglectful and either didn't care or wasn't looking to began with!! Also, seems like most people forget that ships and boats had horns!

You said there was no-one on the smaller ship when the Sinasung hit it. Yes there was, you can see a person walking on the smaller ship on the far right of the video @14:06 and again @14:20

The camera man in accident number 2, he said '''check the ropes at the front, the ropes can break, run to the front and check them'' not get off the ship.

The irony of the ship 1:20 being named "Nap Time"

I remember hearing about the last one in Astoria on the news! It's just up the coast from where I live!!!

Just show us the videos, stop the introductions and narration!

14:24 "luckily nobody was on the ship during the impact" ... we can see this dude walking to the front, after cutting some lines and dodging snapping lines

Venice is in North Eastern of Italy and the MSC Opera has 13 decks, you missed 10 decks...

Thankfully the bridge at 9:30 wasn't a tofu dreg protect.

An entertaining collection of minor accidents on the water.

I've watched most of the videos on your channel, and I'm curious to know what you look like, your voice and the way you narrate make these videos so interesting, thank you

Theres something about how slow yet powerful these big boats crash that makes it extra crazy

NAPTIME😂

The guys boat name was hornblower but her barely even blew the horn to warn people. He just blew it once then stopped.

9:15 Bridges within the waterway are designed to withstand impact from the anticipated vessels that use the waterway. This is always a requirement, and we follow specific design rules.

@9:10 is that your definition of nearly collapsed? I don't this MSC had an engine failure, it was tied to a tugboat pulling it.

11:27 Guy needs to clean off his lense! I tried wiping my screen like 20x thinking it’s mine. Hahahah 🤦🏼‍♂️

"YO ! - WHAT ?!" "I SAID WHO'S PILOTING YOUR > *BLEEP !* < BOAT ? - STEVIE > *BLEEP !* < WONDER ??"

13:14 - THE RED JACKET JUST POPPED UP AT LAST SECOND... LOL!

14:23 There where poeple on that boat that the Sinabung hit, do you even watch the videos that you upload?

My buddy's dad was helping move a casino river boat into Shreveport, LA back in the 90's....they smashed into a bridge...was a lawsuit

Little old ladies seem to be the targets for any random awful accident.

Skipper was likely below greasing up a cute passenger.

I live on the ICW and know what the guy with the little barge didn't or forgot, that big barges don't turn for anything!! If they do, they need a tug to help. I think he won't get help for his claim!😂😂

#3 was terrifying. my guy was in that snap-back zone for those mooring lines.

All the OMGs....he doesn't help, he was helping a student pass their exams😂😂

How are things handled when there is a collision between two boats? They can't exactly pull off to the side and exchange insurance information like when two cars are in a fender bender.

If you look at the transom on the little boat in the first clip, you see a very suitable name on the boat. "Naptime"...

14:00 when someone overestimates the speed, then he is slower than he thinks. If someone *is slower* than estimated stopping is *easier* and no crash is likely. Here, the ship was too fast, so the speed was probably *underestimated*, meaning the actual speed was high than felt/thought. In such a situation a crash may appear.

That ‘little ol lady’ saw her opportunity to finally leave this world but unfortunately some much younger guy had to save her

The Hornblower one is another example of bad seamanship. The proper response is to drop all anchors to reduce the speed at which you hit anything and to have the engine room crew hit the kill switch on the engine. The boat probably would still have hit the sea wall, just at a much slower speed. Like going 1/2 to 1/3 as fast. Crews are not trained in emergency procedures any more and it shows.

Had to stop on the first one. The ferry was the give-way vessel in that situation, and the motorboat was the stand-on boat. The rules aren't "size trump all", except within reason.

India ka bhi dikhao🥺

The vessel to starboard of the ferry had the right of way but there may be a legal exception due to something like the ferry being less able to maneuver and thus has right of way.

The hornblower lived up to its name lmao

This video SHOULD be titled, Multiple Ridiculous Mistakes Published Online." 00:04 - Technically, that's not a cargo ship, locals would refer to it as a barge, maybe a boat, but not a ship. 00:11 - During that segment (which we'll get to shortly), you state that everyone got off the tourist boat, yet here you say it's "full of passengers," so which is it? 04:30 - "Thankfully, nobody was on the boat when it crashed." You've already made it repeatedly and amply clear that the boat was unmanned the whole time. 07:06 - Deryun didn't collide with Kin Shing, a proper description would be exactly the opposite. Also, "shorter" for a ship usually means distance from bow to stern; the script should have used the word "lower" instead. 09:24 - Those safety crews "rushing" to the bridge in Changsha must've teleported into place, because what we're shown onscreen is a City of Miami workboat... and the last time I checked, that's in Florida, which is in the USA, all the way 'round the other side of the planet from that bridge. (Also, see my comment for the 00:04 voiceover error.) 0947 - Venice is in NORTHEASTERN Italy. 10:12 - That is NOT a "three-deck cruise ship" -- according to the MSC website, Opera has at least 8 passenger decks, plus some off-limits to passengers. The tourist ship that was in the wrong place at the wrong time... Okay, THAT one has windows & awnings that look like a 3-deck ship...! 14:02 - You mean "grossly UNDERestimated its speed" (not to mention that the correct ending phrase should have been, "It's not the kind of ship you'd want to have crash into you.") 15:54 - Tuapse is on the NORTHEASTERN coast of the Black Sea, totally opposite what your voiceover states. 16:19 - That's a lot more than "floating toward" another ship -- that's running into another ship. Do you guys pay any attention to your scripts (and have a native English speaker write them) before publishing your videos? (No, I don't want to see another video just like this one, thanks.)

20-seconds in, and I've seen it all.

9:25... I used to live in Miami, had no idea it was in China. Those inscrutable Chinese.

In the first clip, the guy on the toilet was like, holly S#(*T.

The people on the Adventure Hornblower certainly got what they paid for. It was one hell of an Adventure and the horn was blowing like crazy.

Thumbs up for pronouncing "affluent" correctly!

Says 1 day old but the videos advertised are WAY older than that!

Oh no! These ship collisions are terrifying!!! Terror in slow motion😮

idk what it is but something about people who primarily speak another language switching to english specifically to curse brings me such a simple joy

In that instance the smaller vessel had the right of way.

The first boat being called Nap Time is just ironic!

so he cut back in front of the ferry hello wake up !

You don't need to play each clip twice. This is 2024, we have a replay button...

I enjoy these videos but, the thing I find most irritating about the ones, particularly from the US, is the annoying, "Oh my God," repeated over, and over, and over, and over, . . . . . ! Can't they think of anything else to say!

When the captain took an online boating course!

I’d call it sweaty orange turtle 🤣

Name of the small boat... "Nap Tyme" 😂

People don't understand how slowly big ships change course. If the captain makes one small error in judgement the repercussions can very often be catastrophic.

Just to pile on to all the narration errors others have pointed out . . . 14 minute mark: that boat didn't overestimate its speed, it underestimated it.

In the 2nd clip from the last, crewman yells to other mate ‘go check the ropes, run to forward and control the ropes’. I paraphraresed from Turkish to English.

Clearly they struggle with operating ships the same way they struggle driving cars

the last captain deserved jail time

One major thing you left out about the massive cruise ships that go to Venice is that they’re so big that they literally “shake” the parts of the city that are near the port

1:30 Name of the boat is Nap Tyme..... What a fitting name cuz he was definitely sleepn 🤣🤣🤣

oohhh that last one was terrifyingly close

I would like the author of the video, to explain how is Venice in NW Italy? Americans and geography, like cow and parfume.

I cant believe #1 wasnt the freighter MV Summit Venture that on May 9th, 1980 ran into the Sunshine Skyway bridge in Florida, destroying one span causing six cars, a truck, and a Greyhound bus to plummet 150 ft (46 m) into Tampa Bay, resulting in 35 deaths.

I'm young. Sorry, grandma. 😂😂😂

These ships look so graceful until they run into something then you see power and toughness needed to move them. What you mean no one was on the boat the sinabung crashed into. You can clearly see the guy moving.