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Have you heard of the Ship of Theseus?

no. was it problematic or something?

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RMS Olympic entering New York Harbor after sinking the lightship Nantucket, May 16, 1934.

“May 15, 1934 at 10.55 am RMS Olympic was on her way to New York City, trying to determine an exact position of the US lightship LV-177 (known as Nantucket) in the fog. Visibility was 150 meters, just 2/3 of the Olympic’s huge hull. It appeared that Olympic was well clear of the lightship, but a few minutes later the lookout spotted LV-117 dead ahead. Captain Binks was trying to avoid collision by ordering the ship’s rudder to be set full to port and the engines to be set full speed astern. But it was too late and at 11.06 am she collided with the side of the lightship. Although she was moving just 3 kn (5.6 km/h), her sheer weight, and thus her kinetic energy, completely wrecked the smaller vessel.”

source

University of South Carolina: MVTN_22-69_Mez1_CMS_456_Acc

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"As long as it's a harmless ship"

All of the ships are harmless because they're all completely fictional characters.

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It was cocky and overconfident to call the Titanic "unsinkable" but one thing that's overlooked is that she was genuinely really, unusually solid. She could float even with 4 compartments fully flooded, which even a lot of modern day ships can't do.

And it's not like they were wrong about her being solid! Olympic, her identical sister ship, survived being torpedoed and then running over the U-Boat that fired that torpedo. Those ships were solid.

It's very clear that absolutely no other ship in 1912 would have been able to survive that collision, and it's a testament to the quality of the ship that she didn't sink in a few minutes Empress of Ireland style. Part of what makes the Titanic such a tragic story is that it isn't a group of rich idiots locking themselves in a shoddy iron barrel to go 4km underwater. It was 2200 people, most of whom were poor immigrants, on a reliable ship on a commonly-made journey, and then something went horribly, unpredictably wrong.

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Stockton Rush probably would have really liked this book. if he had. you know. gotten back alive.

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Shout out to that guy from Florida talking to my coworker about wanting to take his sail boat through Lake Superior in November. He was planning on a little trip and my coworker was like hey man I don't know how to tell you this but you will Actually Die

*Lake Superior, in the far distance*: yes yes yes yes yes do it yes yes

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why is lake superior so dangerous? i cant find anything online that will give my access (not american!)

it's the largest freshwater lake on the planet by surface area, you could lose a couple of smaller countries in there and not even notice. (vs Europe)

on top of that, it's a Northern lake, so the water never really gets warmer than 50 F (10 C) even in the heat of summer, and it's famous for sudden violent storms that destroy ships and buildings alike. this thing has a MASSIVE body count because it's also a major shipping thoroughfare.

tldr it wants to eat you so so bad

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no, you see the problem is the entire ship except the front fell off the rig

Today’s Problematic Ship is an unnamed North Korean frigate

On May 21, 2025, the an attempt to launch the latest warship of the Korean People’s Navy, the second Choi Hyon class frigate, ended in failure. With dictator Kim Jong-Un watching, the bow of the ship failed to slide off the supporting frame. State news agency KCNA reported

Due to the inexperienced command and operational carelessness in the course of the launch, the launch slide of the stern has departed first and stranded as the flatcar failed to move in parallel, some sections of the warship's bottom crushed to destroy the balance of the warship and the bow couldn't leave the shipway, leading to a serious accident.

After watching the whole course of the accident, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made stern assessment saying that it was a serious accident and criminal act caused by absolute carelessness, irresponsibility and unscientific empiricism which is out of the bounds of possibility and could not be tolerated.

He warned solemnly that the irresponsible errors of the relevant officials of the Munitions Industry Department of the WPK Central Committee, the Mechanical Institute of the State Academy of Sciences, Kim Chaek University of Technology, the central ship designing institute and other relevant units and the Chongjin Shipyard responsible for the accident that brought the dignity and self-respect of our state to a collapse in a moment would have to be dealt with at the plenary meeting of the Party Central Committee to be convened next month and censured them for the fault.

Three days later, KCNA reported that three officials at the shipyard had been identified as responsible for the failure.

Kim has also ordered that the frigate be salvaged and restored to operational condition.

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shipgirl yuri with problematic tonnage gap

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Today’s Problematic Ships are Front Eagle and Adalynn

Front Eagle and Adalynn are two oil tankers, VLCC and Suezmax size, respectively. On June 17, 2025, Front Eagle rammed into the side of Adalynn near the Strait of Hormuz. The latter vessel caught fire, but was unladen at the time. All crew members were rescued by the coast guards of the UAE and Oman with no injuries reported.

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"But that ship is toxic and problematic" okay ❤️ yay ❤️

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the oceangate rabbithole is un-fucking-paralleled. what do you mean they left that thing outside in the snow in canada for the entire fucking winter. of course it imploded literally the next time they put it in the water. holy shit.

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Ah for just one time, I would block the Northwest Passage

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Today’s Problematic Ship is the Morning Midas

US Coast Guard and civilian vessels have rescued 22 sailors off the coast of Alaska after some of the electric cars they were transporting caught fire.

The good ship Morning Midas - a roll-on, roll-off ferry that was delivering 3,000 vehicles from Yantai, China, to Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico - is currently around 304 miles south of Adak, Alaska, the US Coast Guard tells us. The sailors on the vessel, operated by UK-based Zodiac Maritime, noticed the fire at around midnight UTC on 3 June and were unable to stop the conflagration.

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A very detailed report on the wrecks of Erebus and Terror from Parks Canada, including drawings of the wrecks and the items found. It's a huge document, can't wait to properly read it. READ IT HERE.

[Figure 5.2.1: Terror and Erebus, Plan of Upper Deck (as Fitted) overlaid with the upper deck site plan (Image: B. Lockhart, Parks Canada; Drawing: C. Pillar, Parks Canada; 89M2017-101-1; Ship plan: National Maritime Museum Greenwich, London (ZAZ 5675, J1409))]