Yeah, thats true. Rough seas make stronger and greater people, and I guess mistakes are the best teachers. But this was a stupid mistake to make with a real noice, spensive boat. He should have known better than to try to dock in that rough water next to shore. That was just foolish. He needed to anchor out and take dinghies safely in to shore. If hed have attached to the pier it probably would have destroyed the pier and the boat. I dont know what he was thinking trying to dock in those waves? . Getting off the boat would be like playing russian roullete - the way that thing was a rockin next to the pier. Dude should have just anchored out and been safe. That boat is too nice and expensive to be trying that foolishness. That fellar is a dangerous skipper. Kuddos to the skip for thinking quickly and grounding the boat in the shallows - after putting a massive hole in her/sinking that spensive boat . Cuz of a case of the dum dums. At least he got himself and the passengers to safety, and made a salvage op a lil easier. So good for him for that.
Wow! I am happy everyone was safe. Awesome video of something so dramatic but so glad everyone got off the ferry and so wonderful to see people helping.
Incroyable !!! Le peuple au secours du peuple, c'est juste magnifique ! Tout est bien qui fini bien, vive la solidarité et l'entraide. Hônneur à tous 💕🤍💕
In weather and sea conditions of this kind, the best commander veers aboard and takes off again. "When the sea is rough and there is no shelter, the ship seeks the open sea and not the port" All my solidarity with the captain: these are errors that are very expensive.
Did they really think they were going to tie up mooring lines and offload passengers? if you watch vids made in Japan, when the Tsunami was coming, fishing boats were heading out of the harbor and straight towards the wave to hop over it while it was still out there..if they could in time. some did better than others. but it's the only way to save the ship in most cases.
@@dbspecials1200 exactly, what the hell was the captain thinking trying to moor up in those conditions. I could do a better job than that idiot and the only boat I've ever captained is a rowing boat.
@@mervyncrowley4427 the ship was intact before approaching the wharf. He shouldn't have attempted docking. Then he was good at managing the event, but if he had given up docking he would have saved the ship.
As a professional boat captain I would have to say this is every mariner's worst nightmare come true! His first docking attempt was destined to disaster due to the wind and waves pushing him towards the dock. His second docking attempt was destined to disaster due to the wind pushing him away from the dock. As if things weren't bad enough he then suffered some sort of engine problem as evidenced by the black smoke. What would I have done in these circumstances? More than likely I would have told the passengers and crew to hold on tightly, and then headed directly at the beach at half throttle. In essence this would have beached to boat allowing crew and passengers to be lowered over the side to safety. This maneuver would have undoubtedly damaged the vessel in terms of props, shafts, rudders etc. but the people would have been safe and the damage would not have been anywhere near as bad as what took place. All this said, it's much easier to come up with this more rational plan sitting here at my desk than it would have been at the time. My heart goes out to the captain!
Damn! That’s one big hole! Ships can be repaired. Hopefully, no lives we’re lost. Stormy seas. No breakwater barrier. Very short pier with shallow water. Maybe next time it would be wiser to remained tied up & wait for calmer weather.
la prima manovra non è andata a buon fine e il capitano ha deciso di rifarla, quindi è uscito in retromarcia, la barca si è intraversata un po' e invece di uscire perpendicolare alla spiaggia ha accostato a dritta, l'ala davanti che eccede in larghezza rispetto allo scafo ha agganciato qualcosa, presumbilmente uno dei pali del pontile e si è strappato un pezzo di chiglia favorendo l'entrata dell'acqua. Allora il capitano ha deciso prontamente di incagliarsi con la parte rotta verso riva ove l'acqua è meno profonda. In questo modo hanno avuto il tempo di abbandonare la nave senza fretta.
errori di valutazione....... per eccesso di sicurezza e magari pressIoni da armatori per effettuare ugualmente le corse anche se non vi erano parametri meteo favorevoli
@Larry Slemp I know that you are well-aware that many countries, or parts of countries, don't have money to build a safer dock. In situations like these, many people are so desperate to get where they need to go, they arewilling to risk their lives to get there. They don't have any choice. It's very sad and hard for most people who live in wealthy countries to accept that there are still such bad conditions in the world. I'm in the U. S., by the way. Seeing people suffer like this shocks me.
@@jennifersherman7052 i think Italy can still afford to build a dock but that's a small active volcano island and people there are all tourists. you can't build antything bigger than that there. anyway in my opinion the captain was wrong trying to dock with such rough sea and such a small boat
It's a wrong decision of a captain to dock. It's a big loss to the owner of the ship. The captain must have suppose to dock the ship into the sand so that the ship will not severely damage and the people will be save at the same time.
I watched this happening almost a year ago in a different video... and the moment he approached the dock I told myself.. this boat is going to end up exactly where it end up.. to me.. growing up in a small island and watch boats similar to this one docking and undocking several times a day, makes me feel very sad to see this video.. I'm glad no one got hurt.. they all would have been a lot more safer if they had pulled out to the open sea. The Captain should have never try to approach the dock with the type of weather he was dealing with.. at a minimum, even after he made the bad decision to approach the wrong side of the dock, under the existing weather conditions, he should have put it on reverse and head out to the open sea to save the boat.. I'm sorry to say this, but the captain must not be a captain no more.. after the handling of this situation...
Капитан совершил ряд ошибок, швартоваться нельзя было необходимо было переждать волнение подальше от берега, утопил корабль и чуть не утопил людей... верх идиотизма... немогу понять восторгов в комментариях... в крайнем случае надо было выбрасывать на берег при поступлении воды в трюм... чуть большее аолнение и перевернул бы корабль...
I agree. As a former master of a Ferry myself, I must say this video shows alarmingly poor judgment by the master of this Ferry. I also berthed on exposed jetties, but I never sunk the boat.
This is a ferry with hydrofoils (like water skis for a boat). At high speeds the boats hydrofoil arms extend outward and the boat rides above the water. When the captain backed up away from the dock , the starboard hydrofoil collided with the pier ripping the hydrofoil arm off the boat. Lesson #1 - Always try the leeward side of the dock if possible. Lesson #2 - Avoid hard throttle when maneuvering around piers.
Lesson #3... Dont dock a boat when it moves up and down more than 2 Meters and the Dock stays still Lesson #4 Dont put holes in a Boat below the Water Line
In those conditions the captain was too optimistic to berth that craft and the front strut was shaken out of its structure and it is clear that the hydrofoil was taking in water. At that point it was doomed and to give credit to the captain, he did aim to beach it, but those engines seem to be in trouble too.
The same hydrofoil famiy (RHS 160) do service on the lakes in northern Italy since 1980. Always been smoky, even 1 week after delivery so I assume is not due to lack of maintenance.. If I remember correctly the power plant is a MTU engine, 12V.
Check out his hull before the 1 min mark. Looks like it had the hole already. Must have been why he was coming in, in the first place. Looks like it was too rough on that side to offload. So he backed it on the other side instead. Maybe??
Actually this boat has hydrofoils. That hole before 1 min is one of the foils brackets to the hull. At 55 seconds hit hits the dock and breaks the foil off creating the hole we later see. The foils extend laterally quite a bit
They might want to consider building a dock in a harbor or building a breakwater. How could the Captain expect to dock successfully in those conditions? There must be something about this situation that I don’t know.
It is not possible in that dock, the water just 10 meters ahead of the dock is 40m deep. There is the Ginostra dock in the south that has a break wall but they can’t connect the roads with the north of the island
Esse capitão foi muito bom. O barco já estava perdido quando ele decidiu mudar o lado do cais. Foi para o lado aonde tinha menos arrebentação e mais raso para que os passageiros saíssem em seguranca
Casey Mizzone Finally someone who may be able to clear this up. A lot of commenters here think the boat was already sinking when it came in initially. Is that true or did it only start sinking when it ripped off the front right airofoil on the dock?
@David West I don't understand what happened. I don't know a lot about boats and what is expected in emergency situations. Plus, every situation is different. Maybe you can help me. You seem to be familiar about that type of craft. If they were in trouble, why shouldn't they have aimed for the dock? Seemed to be a good decision to me. Saving the people was much more important than saving the boat. I think they knew the boat would become, or, was already, damaged beyond repair. (Do you know what language they speak? Portuguese? All I think I got was it was a boat used for gambling. Everyone, the captain, included, did a good job getting the boat to the dock and getting all the people off it. I could be wrong). I saw a boat that had fire, in rough sea, seemed to not have power until it was next to pier. Were those people in the water in the area of it's first approach? Hydrofoil - they move OVER the water, not IN it, right? I thought those could be controlled at slow speed until they gained enough speed to hydroplane. No? About safety measures: No anchor? I dk if one would have helped. Maybe they did use one. I think I saw only one life jacket. I assume people were in the life rafts that those fantastic and brave people pulled to shore. I am very releived they had those. About my wondering if people were in the water, it seemed that either there were no people in the water (where the cameraperson first filmed the boat), or, they were saved, because when people clapped, it seemed to mean that all were accounted for and, seemingly, in good shape. Anyway, even if you can't or don't have time to reply, I thank you for your comment.
@@jennifersherman7052 Jen the boat was fine until it tried to dock in rough weather and ripped a hole in its side. The smoke you see is engine exhaust at max power.
@@thegeneral3094 it's a twin screw shaft drive hydrofoil...no azipods, bow or stern thrusters. With the foils deep in the water at slow speed it's very difficult to get any lateral manoeuvrability. Hindsight is 20/20 and all that, but the captain should just not have attempted to come alongside in those conditions.
Not sure what happened but maybe this: The vessel was damaged during the first attempt( hydrofoils hit the pier), and started to take on water....The captain hand no other choice than to berth again to save passengers. Vessel was already doomed at this point. The mistake here was to try to berth the first time.
Ho navigato molto spesso su questi aliscafi e posso assicurare che i capitani e gli equipaggi sono veramente in gamba come pochi. Le condizioni del mare su queste isole sono spesso proibitive eppure riescono ad attraccare quasi sempre. Qualche volta tornano indietro per poi essere criticati dagli isolani e soprattutto dai turisti. Saluti
Take lessons from the Staten Island Ferry. I used to take it from Staten Island to Lower Manhattan 6 days a week. Never had a problem that thing used to carry 30 cars on the first level.
What you see at the start is the forward hydrofoil mounting. Looks like it ripped the mounting away and breached the hull when it reversed away from its first attempt at docking.
Il devrait toujours y avoir des digues de protection dans ces ports ouverts à la mer de manière à couper le flux des marées et courants souvent très forts. Il en va de la vie des passagers et de l'intégrité des navires
It's amazing the amount of expert boat skippers who have all come together in the comment section of this particular video to share their expertise on what went wrong, if only you had all been there at the time this never would have happened!
In italia quando succede una disgrazia tutti sono professionisti del settore , non c’e’ uno che si fa i cazzi suoi ! In questo siamo sempre i primi del settore .
So what happened? High seas, can't land the boat? Brings it in and while close to shore, cement pier underwater rams hole through the hull? Why was it smoking BEFORE there was a hole in the hull? Also, all the other boats were ashore, was this typhoon or something?
How about some blame to those who built a passenger loading dock in the middle of a surf zone without any protection from high seas. This goes back to the marine engineer or lack thereof... This pier needs to be completely redesigned for any sea conditions or next time someone will be hurt.
E' un'isola meravigliosa ..... che combatte sempre con il mare ed il suo vulcano. Forse occorre costruire un porticciolo che mitighi la forza del mare, permettendo alle imbarcazioni di attraccare in dovuta sicurezza.
@@andersjonsson8403 I don't think there was actually. As he reversed back out it caught the front right airofoil and ripped it out creating the hole. It didn't seem to have any holes when it came in initially I don't think.
It was absolute insanity to even attempt docking his boat, given the amount of 'swell.' He should have either dropped his anchor off shore and remained where he was until such time as the sea calmed, or just beached it - which would have been difficult, given it was a hydrofoil. Towards the end of the video, you can clearly see the hydrofoil's "metalwork" underneath the boat. Had he tried to beach it, it's more than likely that the metalwork for the hydrofoil part of the boat would have been ripped off on the sea bed or the beach. Only the Italians can sound SO excited ! 😊 💖 x
If he'd approached on the lee side to start with, he'd probably have got away with it. You never approach a jetty on its windward side, especially in a blow. I agree that was a vicious cross swell but the problem was human error.
@@janys30 Not at the beginning. It started sinking after he went backwards. Tbh, kind of a stupid construction when that flap can tear a hole in the boat.
Pontile troppo vicino alla spiaggia e con quelle condizioni del mare la corrente di risacca non perdona. Dopo il primo tentativo il pilota avrebbe dovuto abbandonare e cercare altro approdo, ma invece ha messo a repentaglio l'incolumità dei passeggeri. Incapacità e pressapochismo degno di uno schettino. Spero non abbia più il titolo per navigare neanche con un pedalò.
1:55 the boat was a minute away from sinking here, if the engines had been lost a this point it would have drifted 50ft out and submerged completely with many fatalities.
TRYING TO DOCK A VESSEL ON HYDROFOILS IN ROUGH SEA RIGHT UP AGAINST THE COST WITH BREAKERS AND NO DEPTH.....? THAT WAS SUCH AN INCOMPETENT DECISION BY THE CAPTAIN AND USING A ''DOCK SPOT'' SO BADLY BUILT FOR THAT KIND OF VESSEL ????
Its a hydrofoil, It was beached on the fins. it seems when they reversed when trying to dock the first time they ripped the starboard front fin out of the hull causing water to rush in. From then on it was doomed
It was great to see how few people were staring into their cell phones. If it were here knowone would help because to many people would be glued to their cell phone screens.
On June 16, the 31 meter long, 21 dwt high-speed ferry Masaccio allided with a pier at Stromboli, Italy. The Masaccio was approaching the pier when strong winds caused the vessel to slam against the pier damaging one of the starboard hydrofoils wings. The bow of the ferry swung under the pier and became wedged underneath causing the Masaccio to partially sink. The 117 passengers and six crew were able to evacuate the vessel assisted by local islanders.Reports state many passengers were frightened by the incident, but no reports of injuries. Reports state the fuel was removed from the Masaccio and that refloating operations had already begun. Authorities have launched an investigation into the incident.
Secondo me gli errori sono multipli: tentare l'attracco a tutti costi, mancanza di frangi flutto davanti ad un pontile che di certo non è sul lago di Garda, struttura dell'aliscafo che si rompe ci può stare, ma non deve pregiudicare la sicurezza dello scaffo.
Morao je se udaljiti od obale ići protiv talasa i smisliti bolji plan.Ovo je bila najgora opcija ,hvala Bogu da su svi živi i zdravi .Brod je bio dovoljno velik jak u snažan da se izbori sa ovim valovima.I manji i slabiji brodovi bi uspjeli.
Weather wasn't the issue. Her hull was breeched in the crossing. Possible dead log ripped the front foil off, taking a chunk of the thin aluminum hull with it.
Wow, trying to dock with a following sea like that, you've got to be really good or really nuts, or, hopefully, both. That said, one has to have the imagination to picture what will happen once you actually get to the dock!
My first thought was they should have had a setup that allowed backing in to tie up on the other side. Bad choice by the Capt. But he did know to run it aground once it started sinking.
ci dovrebbe essere una barriera fatta di blocchi per spezzare le onde, come una piccola baia, fornendo così stabilità all'ancoraggio ... nessuno ci ha pensato?
What was the Captain supposed to do obviously the weather is entirely out of control If the boat was just tied to that Pier It would have been destroyed. Look to me like he was trying to back out into Open water away from the pier to save the boat but hit bottom because of the waves current and wind a hole in the water opened up and grounded it hard and that was it.
Obviously this captain did an excellent job. Should be promoted. And for the crowd applauding on the beach..... don't even need to comment. They probably also thought he (the captain) did an excellent job.
Please, who was the terrible captain and helmsman who caused the loss of a ship and put an entire crew and passengers at risk of death? Rarely have I seen such an absurd maneuver, that ship capsized not because of the weather conditions but because of the VERY POOR PREPARATION AND DECISIONS OF THE CAPTAIN AND THE HELMSMAN, thank goodness no one died The help and solidarity of the people is incredible, everyone helping, very good poor ship
