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MOL Comfort - Not my fault!
12 years ago
I was nowhere near it at the time! It had nothing to do with me!
Photos from the breakup of Mitsui O.S.K. Line Comfort: http://gcaptain.com/mol-comfort-incident-photos
For all you giants out there, remember that the bigger things are, the more fragile they get.
A steel toy boat that fits in a human hand could survive a hit from a hammer with just its paint scratched. A steel boat the size of a house would be damaged in a crash, but could carry on going. A post-panamax cargo ship like MOL Comfort cannot survive a crash. They're barely strong enough to hold together under their own weight.
So if you're ever going to do this: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9991049/ don't rest your weight on the ship! It can't take it! Fortunately for the Maersk Laberinto, Ansaes the fogdragon is much lighter than he looks.
Photos from the breakup of Mitsui O.S.K. Line Comfort: http://gcaptain.com/mol-comfort-incident-photos
For all you giants out there, remember that the bigger things are, the more fragile they get.
A steel toy boat that fits in a human hand could survive a hit from a hammer with just its paint scratched. A steel boat the size of a house would be damaged in a crash, but could carry on going. A post-panamax cargo ship like MOL Comfort cannot survive a crash. They're barely strong enough to hold together under their own weight.
So if you're ever going to do this: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9991049/ don't rest your weight on the ship! It can't take it! Fortunately for the Maersk Laberinto, Ansaes the fogdragon is much lighter than he looks.
Because it's likely a situation like this which could make a company go bankrupt.
Also...It broke in the middle. Wouldn't there have been any maintenance checks needing to be done before and after launch and port?
It may have been loaded badly, with not enough care about weight distribution. It would be possible to break a ship in half just by unloading cargo fore and aft, leaving the middle loaded. There have been cases of oil tankers destroyed by incompetent loading like that. More likely in this case is that they were loaded just a little bit sloppily, which would have been fine in good weather, but then they ran into rough sea.
Amazing, isn't it?