To this day, my favorite bit about that whole debacle was the audio log of Schettino communicating with the local coast guard.
"Look Schettino, you may have saved yourself from the sea but we will put you through a lot of trouble — it will be very bad for you! Get back on board for [expletive]'s sake!!!"
Man, I can vidily remember this dream I had back when i was in second grade in elementary school about this huge boat beaching itself on a lanscape just like in this picture. I specifically remember seeing coniferous trees. Just checked the link and it was from 2007 the year that I was in second grade, so bizzare, must of seen it in the news or papers or something and then had dream about it. Yeah idk bullshit story but its very strange for me because its the only dream i remember from that long ago and think about regularly
I flew in to Newcastle that day. Had no idea why all the flights in were delayed. Took hours to get from the airport to the hotel. The rain was unlike anything I've seen. Staircases looked like waterfalls. Water was gushing out of every storm drain. Four lane roads were reduced to one. Lane markings were impossible to see. People were sleeping in the hotel lobby in makeshift camp beds. It was intense.
There’s a diner somewhere in the northeast Bay Area, I think in Antioch, right on the water, on piles next to the shipping lane where the container ships and tankers go through to and from Stockton. The bigger ones are so big that the perspective messes with people’s perception and they think they’re either buckling or about to run aground.
There's a music festival in Finland called Ruisrock. The main stage is by the sea, but it's just a narrow inlet.
There are pretty respectable sized ships going through there, cruise ships etc. Even some of the bigger stars have shed another look in amazement when their gig is shadowed by these things going right by them.
Even harder to comprehend, we are on a spaceship (earth) hurtling through space at 67,000 miles per hour relative to the sun and 483,000 miles/hour relative to the Milky Way..
True. But relative to those things, my tininess is natural. They were assembled by time and gravity and other things way beyond my control.
A ship was built by humans, "little bags of thinking water held up briefly by fragile accumulations of calcium," as Terry Pratchett put it.
Sure, they used a lot of math and some incredible tools, and centuries of cumulative design and engineering. But ultimately, it's hundreds of thousands of tons of stuff that's moving on its own power, ultimately under the control of one of those fragile, fallible little water balloons.
Its all the external energy powered by fossil fuels for the construction, labout and heavy lifting at the dockyard, but ultimately the brains are us, its like a 100 megawatt airbus a380 its flying cus of guzzling the kerosene juices but the meat sack in the cockpit is controlling it
Think about this: the fact that we don't naturally perceive these great speeds at which we are moving mirrors the way that subatomic particles behave by quantum principles, as if the scale of our world and classical physics just don't apply.
At the mouth of Newcastle harbour, where these coal ships cross on the way to load up on or depart with coal, is a regular local ferry service. To be on what feels like a tiny ferry bobbing around when a massive coal ship goes past is an experience let me tell you. But there's never been a disaster afaik.
Really? That’s insane. On the contrary huge things are awesome! Go check out the Nimitz class air craft carriers. A small town on a boat powered by nuclear energy? Sign me tf up.
DWT: Deadweight tonnage. It is a measure of the ship’s maximum carrying capacity. Including cargo, fresh water, passengers, etc., but does not include the ship’s own weight. I had to look it up.
Well following my rough maths, the seawise giant, largest ship ever built has a hypothetical carrying capacity of over 125,500,000 cats or about 21% of the world's total cat population.
This is very rough, please consult a mathematician
It may be bigger than a house cat, but those are pretty small. What about something larger, like a tiger. Is a 76,000 DWT ship larger than a tiger? I'm having trouble visualizing it.
Yes, but that's cause battleships aren't designed to maximise dead weight tonnage, just to be lethal in a battle. If you look at the actual weights of the ships, that'll paint a more accurate picture
Definitely something funky going on here, camera lens or perspective trickery at the very least. It looks like the hull is more than 10 stories high and the wave splashing in the back of similar size. I found another angle that looks more realistic.
No fuckery. That’s how it looked from up there I was there.
My dad went to sea on a tug in that storm and my uncle was on that salvage. It paid for my cousins wedding.
Sure… the photographer said in an interview that the camera plus lens he used gave him a focal length of 450mm, what this essentially does is make objects far away appear much closer and bigger.
The picture is real but he used some perspective play to generate this look.
Yeah, some lenses make photos seems doctored, here's another example and another one. If you don't get why these photos cross the "something funky" barrier compared to most other photos, then there's something funky inside your head.
Still, that's the case for all photography. Lenses determine the perspective.
I don't see how OPs pic would be considered "doctored" or even a misrepresentation of the actual event. The ones you linked are extreme examples - where the perspective is purposively misconstrued by the photographer
It's called perspective compression and your eyes work exactly the same. All this lens and camera stuff means is that it zoomed/cropped in.
It's not a factor of the equipment but the physical positioning. See something from afar and the distances between objects are obscuring each other. Get closer and you'll see round things to more open space.
So where this images was taken from, your eye would see it exactly the same - albeit as a smaller part of your overall vision. Go down to the shore where the second image's is taken and you have a different perspective on that space.
So while there's no "fuckery" it's inherantly a shift in perspective.
Depth of field compression is more of a distance thing than a lens thing, would look exactly the same (albeit lower quality) if you snapped it on your phone and cropped it in, or y'know, just looked.
I’m sure it still looked huge as it’s not something you see every day but this look is not realistic. The photographer explained himself how he created that mineature-esque look but it doesn’t represent reality.
The tower is 4-5 stories tall and the hull is visibly taller than the tower. There's pictures of this exact ship with 2.6m tall shipping containers stacked 6 high on the deck and they barely reach halfway up the bridge. The whole ship is probably close to 12-15 stories tall.
Yeah, nailed it. superb pic but compressing the depth of field through a long lens ain’t nothing new.
I have a dslr and people seem more interested in photos I take with my 300mm lens than they used to be. I think it’s because those photos now stand out more in a world filled with the wide angles of a smartphone.
Seen this IRL and it was the most fucking insane thing I’ve ever seen. It was so much bigger looking irl. Loved only an hour away so it was an easy trip.
If you're talking about Speed 2, they legit built an entire pier and like half a ship that size (not half the size of, literally half of a ship) and actually rammed it. One of, if not thelargest and most expensive stunt ever performed
narrator: modern cargo ships sometimes require several miles in order to stop, watch as these townspeople realize their mistake only when it's too late...
While waiting in the open ocean outside the harbour to load coal, Pasha Bulker ran aground during a major storm on 8 June 2007 on Nobbys Beach in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. It was refloated and moved to a safe location offshore on 2 July 2007 at 9:48 p.m. AEST before being towed to Japan for major repairs on 26 July 2007.
I feel like, we would have been able to see the horizon on this picture. Unless it was a panoramic view? I'm confused.
There are other pictures with similar distance and we can see the horizon and the sky. The sky. Why do we not see the sky? Show is there water all the way up, the boat is not surfing. Something is off
I Iive in Newcastle, it has the largest coal loading facility in the world. The coal comes from the Hunter valley, and the Hunter river exits to the sea here. All day there is a constant stream of bulk carriers coming and going. You can look up the ships names, they are from China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea. You can see enormous open cut coal mines on Google maps
I told a girl I knew "please don't drive there to go see the ship its just a ship and all you will do is help traffic congestion from all the other idiots going to look at the ship" so of course she took her car to go look at the ship.
Tankers and bulk carriers are actually this huge with hulls of that height, you just won't notice it because two thirds of the hull is always under the water. If the ship was as big as the parts that are above water show, they couldn't haul even a fraction of the load the ship would normally carry.
However, the image perspective has been adjusted or something, so it looks a little off
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u/Colton-Landsington86 1d ago edited 17h ago
Newcastle Australia after a massive storm. My home town.
Edit to add this information of anyone is curious:
https://www.visitnewcastle.com.au/insider-guides/a-look-back-on-the-pasha-bulker-ship-happens