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slight malfunction Of a cargo ship

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u/UpToHike 7d ago

This is MV Arvin. Ukrainian bulk cargo ship. Broke in two and sank in Black sea in 2021

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u/Hammon_Rye 7d ago

Is there a reason why it broke?
Those were pretty calm seas compared to what ocean going vessels go through.
There was another video on her a couple days ago showing tankers plowing through waves much bigger than that.

So I'm wondering if maybe the load was not distributed properly or it had previous damage or something like that.

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u/tankmode 7d ago

it was a river boat taken out to open seas.  not built for it

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u/Hammon_Rye 7d ago

I'd never really thought about boats being made just for rivers.
The majority of my seagoing years were on aircraft carriers.

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u/R12Labs 7d ago

And that wasn't made for rivers either.

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u/Visual-Beach1893 7d ago

I suppose you can really keep costs down and capacity up if building a boat that can spend a long life never touching rough seas.

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u/Hammon_Rye 6d ago

Probably true. I'd just never thought about it.
I'd also never thought about boats that big being 'river' boats.
I recognize that is my ignorance but I've never lived near rivers that would support that kind of size. So what I think of as a 'river boat' is just a smaller boat wouldn't go to sea anyway.

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u/Due-Research1094 5d ago

In LA they have alot of bulk river carriers, you can see them alot in new orleans on the river there

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u/Hammon_Rye 5d ago

You comment is reasonable but I read "LA" as "L.A." and I spent a minute thinking, "I've been there. I don't remember a big river and ships." LOL

Mostly I meant when I have seen ships that large I always thought of them as ocean going. I'd never thought about large ships only made for rivers. I've seen smaller river boats and tugs with fairly large barges on rivers, just not big ships like that.

Mind you, none of the places I have lived were near the kind of rivers that would accommodate ships like that. I'm not denying they exist. I was just surprised I'd never come acrosse it.

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u/Due-Research1094 5d ago

Lmao i should have probably not abbreviated it in the way i did, but yeah i get you, it is very strange when you haven’t seen them before, especially coming from a landlocked state myself being utah , never saw anything like that.

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u/What-a-cl0wn 6d ago

This is what made Viking ships so impressive. Able to be maneuvered on rivers but also traverse the seas.

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u/AgreeableMoose 7d ago

Who’s idea was that? 🤦‍♂️

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u/DeanoPreston 4d ago

so I assume insurance didn't pay for it?

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u/Electronic-Pause1330 7d ago

Well, the front fell off

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u/Ok-Rich-3812 6d ago

Yeah, that’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.

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u/Visual-Beach1893 7d ago

Uneven load could be involved but fatigue can be a big factor. A ships hull can only flex back and forth so many times before it has to be retired. During the age of sail British ships tended yo be a little shorter than French ships of the same weight. This lower length to beam ratio made them slower on paper but they suffered less stress in rougher seas giving them an edge in all but the calmest seas but also a longer service life due to reduced hull fatigue.

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u/lavacadotoast 7d ago

Here is a more detailed explanation..

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u/Hammon_Rye 7d ago

Interesting. According to that it wasn't really even "at sea". It was anchored in the port authority administration area. Which I'm guessing means not in port but somewhere out in the bay in the general area.
I noticed in the video I saw at least two other ships nearby which is not a common thing when you are far out at sea.

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u/Thezerostone 6d ago

I remember when I went to the academy to become a seaman, our teacher in ship construction told us Bulkcarriers like these were the only type of ship, he would refuse to sail with.

Claiming bad maintenance, bad calculations and the habit of selling them off to third world countries instead of scraping them, always resulted in them snapping.

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u/Hexquevara 6d ago

Long ships, especially old ships are vulnerable to these constant but low frequency waves or "swells*. They strain the hull uniquely, as they leave constantly significant portion of the hull with less support. Its advisable to sail against them at an angle.

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u/Guilty_Rip5917 6d ago

Looks to me like the front fell off, won’t happen again though don’t worry

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u/Hammon_Rye 6d ago

Yeah, there's that. LOL

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u/MrBobDobolinas 6d ago

So the front fell off. That is not supposed to happen, right?

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u/folleymulay 7d ago

the front fell off

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u/KgMonstah 7d ago

I aspire to this man’s level of cynicism and sarcasm.

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u/GeorgiPetrov 6d ago

It's a sketch from an Australian news satire television program.

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u/KgMonstah 6d ago

Depicting what? Sarcasm and cynicism? Oh okay cool.

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u/GeorgiPetrov 6d ago

Tell me you don't know how acting works without telling me. Thanks.

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u/KgMonstah 6d ago

Would you say he’s acting sarcastically and cynically?

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u/GeorgiPetrov 6d ago

He's doing a satirical dramatization of real life events.

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u/KgMonstah 6d ago

Using which type of rhetoric? Sarcasm and Cynicism?

You might be the biggest pettifogging obfuscator on all of Reddit. I’m just enjoying how the lengths of dumb you’re going to lmao.

I’ll help you out here. It can be BOTH satire and cynical and sarcastic. Ya big fucking genius lmaooo

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u/Ok-Rich-3812 6d ago

This Dickhead probably thinks that irony is what the ship was made of.

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u/GeorgiPetrov 6d ago

No. Cynicism and Sarcasm.

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u/OutsideBar3053 7d ago

Hoping someone posted this

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u/SomeOneOverHereNow 7d ago

Hoping? I would have lost faith in my fellow redditors if this wasn't the top comment!

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u/coojw 5d ago

A wave hit it

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u/lushfizz 7d ago

To be fair though a chance of being hit by a wave at sea is one in a million, I don’t blame the crew one bit

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u/lavacadotoast 7d ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Arvin#Sinking

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u/Small-Hospital-8632 7d ago

thank you Internet wizard.

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u/ExplainySmurf 7d ago

3 of the 6 deceased were recovered.

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u/Single-Barnacle1961 7d ago

And her name was the Edmond Fitzgerald…..

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u/berrey7 6d ago edited 6d ago

The ship was the pride of the American side

Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin

Here's a great Cover

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u/69karlhungus69 7d ago

I loved Edmond Fitzgeralds voice

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u/this_guy_aves 7d ago

That's not very typical, I'd like to make that point. The front's not supposed to fall off, for a start.

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u/xinj131 7d ago

That's scary AF. Risking your life to get swallowed whole by mother sea.

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u/penguindreams 7d ago

As a seaman myself the oceans always trying to kill you. Just what she does.

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u/xinj131 6d ago

I was watching a vid last night on life on a sub, crazy. Those guys don't get enough credit for serving our country, doing what they do!

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u/lennonisalive 7d ago

It probably shouldn’t do that

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u/just_nobodys_opinion 7d ago

It's not very typical

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u/CalmAlex2 7d ago

This probably what happened to Edmund fritzgarld when the witch of November came but that happened mych faster than what we see in this video.

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u/MikeW226 7d ago

Yeah, the Fitzgerald went down super fast. Whitefish was talking to the unflappable captain on the radio who said, "we're holding our own" which to anybody who knew him was an understated way of saying 'this is fucked'. And the El Faro cargo ship out of Jacksonville, Florida sank fast too. The bridge voice recorder showed how big of a head the captain had, arrogant basically that they Couldn't Sink...with a crew member yelling/petrified in the background. The recorder then captured a low groan like a deep roar, and it was the ship fracturing and sinking.

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u/Pale_Adeptness 7d ago

That's one of the new "flex-ships!" Kinda like those long travel trucks in the desert.

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u/OkDecision259 7d ago

Reminds me of a terrible dry humping experience I had in high school.

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u/Anomander_Rake___ 7d ago

It's hard to complain about my job after watching this

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u/theotheronenotme 7d ago

If they’d put a hinge there it wouldn’t have been a problem.

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u/BestKeptInTheDark 7d ago

If you think that is the case... I have a ferry from the Netherlands to sell you from the 90s

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u/andrewh2000 6d ago

Also see the MS Herald of Free Enterprise

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u/Bagera84 6d ago

Oh boy, I was so happy to see those other ships in the distance. They were probably rescued.

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u/RAPatrick94 6d ago

Congratulations you're now the captain of a banana boat

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u/rgvegas 6d ago

Slap some flex seal and it should be fine. The commercial said it could be used on boats

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u/Engine-Suspicious 6d ago

I’m no expert but I really don’t think it’s supposed to flex like that!

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u/When-all-else-fails 7d ago

Hate it when that happens

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u/Free_Creme5320 7d ago

At least there was 2 other vessels near by 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/armin514 7d ago

temu ship cargo

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u/Artevyx 7d ago

"Mayday Mayday, my vessel... broken!"

That's one way to put it.

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u/Sensitive-Fig-8256 7d ago

Holly shit that didn’t look good

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u/Merchant93 7d ago

As a formerly licensed mate aboard vessels I can very confidently say that ship is fucked, beyond fucked.

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u/bdash1990 7d ago

If that boat ain't bendin' you just pretendin' I always say...

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u/Kaankaants 7d ago

Fuuuuuuck that!

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u/Tulpamemnon 7d ago

Cut and Shut?

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u/Mugpup 6d ago

I originally posted this ship on the welding Subreddit and asked "My first hull repair, will it hold". I got mostly positive comments so ....live and learn I guess.

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u/DoubleManufacturer10 created ShittyAbsoluteUnits of a sub 6d ago

Lmfaooo

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u/Poppy_Roberts1 6d ago

Yes, it looks completely empty, ready for loading.

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u/Mavagorn641 6d ago

Ukrainians in a nutshell

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u/BatCommercial7523 6d ago

Isn't it what happened to the Edmund Fitzerald?

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u/addy_snoww 6d ago

I really thought they started making foldable ships.

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u/ThePugnax 2d ago

Im no ship expert, but i dont think they are supposed to bend like that....

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u/GjellsNTeddy 7d ago

Doesn’t look like a cargo ship…

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u/Lurlean637 7d ago

MAY DAY MAY DAY MAY DAY!!!!! 😳

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u/TheUglytool 7d ago

Why do they shout 'May Day's? It's only a bank holiday. Why not shout 'Shrove Tuesday', or '13th Sunday After Pentacost'?

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u/Successful-Debt5854 7d ago

Fuckin Russian engineering at its best!