Cargo ship crashes into Korean bridge

[john61ct]

another drunk captain

https://youtu.be/4UQdDP5LcNU

apparently the bridge had featured in Black Panther

[MartinR]

There can be many reasons for this, drunk captains are uncommon in the real world. But it happens.... Not good to judge people before all the facts are known.

Very clear the ship is trying to stop, the engine is astern.

[john61ct]

Oh yes, must be fair I agree. But I believe that is the case here,

https://www.google.com/search?q=drun...+korean+bridge

and no, not that rare

https://www.google.com/search?q=drun...aptain+crashes

[boatman61]

It cracks me up that the cars keep moving.. in some case's speeding up.. "Gorra get past before it collapses"

[MartinR]

Yes, seems correct, drunk captain.

[a64pilot]

Originally Posted by boatman61

It cracks me up that the cars keep moving.. in some case's speeding up.. "Gorra get past before it collapses"

You have never driven in South Korea I presume?
I haven’t since 99, but then the laws were largely ignored, right of way was determined by mass and velocity, city busses would blow through red lights without slowing down.
I don’t mean stale yellow lights, ones that had been red for a long time.
Then there is this apparently Asian cultural thing that apparently if you don’t look at someone, you don’t have to acknowledge their existence, so drivers often wouldn’t look and just blow through an intersection.

I’m not at all trying to be racist, just however understand that our European ways of thinking don’t always apply to the rest of the world or even to Europeans.
Don’t for instance expect a Frenchman to cue up like a Brit or American.

[boatman61]

Originally Posted by a64pilot

You have never driven in South Korea I presume?
I haven’t since 99, but then the laws were largely ignored, right of way was determined by mass and velocity, city busses would blow through red lights without slowing down.
I don’t mean stale yellow lights, ones that had been red for a long time.
Then there is this apparently Asian cultural thing that apparently if you don’t look at someone, you don’t have to acknowledge their existence, so drivers often wouldn’t look and just blow through an intersection.

I’m not at all trying to be racist, just however understand that our European ways of thinking don’t always apply to the rest of the world or even to Europeans.
Don’t for instance expect a Frenchman to cue up like a Brit or American.

Nope.. but I have driven in Karachi where its "He who reaches the hole first lives.."

[HellBentSailing]

You have to wonder how things like this happen. It's not like that bridge was easy to miss and there isn't even a spot anywhere close where that ship could fit under. The crew must have been like "oh look, there's a bridge way too short for the ship to fit under and we're headed right at it. Let wait until we are already too close to do anything about it!"

[Reefmagnet]

That dude on deck done the hundred in under 10

[svsonora]

Korea in 1999 and 2019 are very different countries.

I actually left Korea around 2002 and every time I go back the country feels different.

Anyways, people definitely drive differently now.

[mikedefieslife]

Looks like a little bump.

In other news a woman has been arrested on suspicion of drink-driving after coming off the A1088 road and hitting a telegraph pole, closing a road for eight hours.

[El Pinguino]

Originally Posted by john61ct

another drunk Russian captain

https://youtu.be/4UQdDP5LcNU

apparently the bridge had featured in Black Panther

Fixed that for you....

The first four google pages you linked to were all the same incident with a sprinkling of other Russians..

[john61ct]

It's not a fixed page but search.

The only news source at that time was one Moscow Times article, dozens of other incidences.

3months from now will look very different.

[a64pilot]

I saw one news article that did say he was drunk, that in fact he had collided with with a cruise ship just prior to the bridge, and repeatedly ignored demands made of him by the Korean version of the Coast Guard because his English was bad.

However Korean English can at times be confusing.
I was having to lead a flight of helicopters from our base in Camp Humphries to the one our Sister unit, 1/6 Cav was located as part of my PIC ride.
It was a joint Korean / US base with at least this time Korean Air Traffic control.
I was coming in, had established contact and the controller told me to “blink light” I looked down to see that yes my strobes were on and contacted him and told him that my light was blinking.
He came back a little more urgently and told me to blink light again, so I extended the search light and turned it off and on thinking he didn’t see me and wanted to see the light to see where I was, and told him that I was blinking the light.
He came back much more urgently now and said F-5 short final, blink light NOW. I looked out and in the distance sure enough there was this little jet heading straight for us.
Then of course I understood, he was meaning to say break right, but Korean’s have trouble pronouncing the letter R, and I didn’t pick up on it.
I heard blink light, which to me didn’t make any sense

[Yellow bird]

New video, with more details

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fla9...ature=youtu.be