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[Rick D]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/2-5-million-chinese-yacht-goes-straight-down-161517593.html

This is a video of a launching of a new vessel gone wrong.

 

[kendall]

Saw that, pretty embarrassing at the least.
Think they should have found a way to launch it a bit flatter.....

 

[kpgraci]

C'mon man!

 

[alexco38]

YangTze river cruise anyone?

Good quality engineering.

 

[caguy]

I don't think that American ship building will be threatened any time soon by the Chinese.

 

[Maine Sail]

And to think they are in the wild throws of building a Navy....

 

[JVB]

A descriptive title please

Please use a more descriptive title than "Oops" when you post, especially if there is nothing but a link in the post. :neutral:

 

[Rick D]

Re: A descriptive title please

Sorry, will do.

 

[wonkodsane]

She should've gone in sideways on a gentler grade, and her draft looked far too shallow for her size, like a good wake would've left her decks awash.

What say you, Roger Long?

 

[Scott B]

Please use a more descriptive title than "Oops" when you post, especially if there is nothing but a link in the post. :neutral:

I thought "Oops" was perfect .............

Someone had a huge brain fart on that one....

 

[Ralph Johnstone]

Ooooops described that one to a "T"

Here's a slightly different take on the story.

http://www.chinasmack.com/2011/stor...boat-sinks-immediately-after-christening.html


Now maybe if they hadn't been so cheap on the construction, the builder would have installed that last plate in the aft hull section.

 

[kendall]

it was just put in at too sharp of an angle, put it in flatter and it would have floated fine.
I've seen the same thing when inexperienced people launch boats from river banks

 

[PrincessoftheLake]

Rick-I like Oops as a title. I'll read any post any time titled Oops.

 

[Warren Milberg]

I really like their "Travelift"