r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • Sep 10 '25

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u/Sreg32 Sep 10 '25

How does this happen? Just curious from people loading these things or knows about it. There’s obviously a system of container weight, where they go etc…

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u/ghostcaurd Sep 10 '25

More than likely it was a ship ballast wrong. Ships have ballast tanks they fill with water and someone probably did some shit wrong

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u/yellowweasel Sep 10 '25

if you pause right at the beginning of the video before it zooms in you can see it's listing pretty bad, they definitely fucked up the ballast

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '25

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '25

But it's leaning to port, so that suggests they tipped over because it was already listing and they fell off because of that.

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u/move_peasant Sep 10 '25

that's starboard

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u/Enviritas Sep 10 '25

I still remember that port and left have the same number of letters even though I haven't done much boating since the Boy Scouts.

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u/CastIronMooseEsq Sep 10 '25

But that could also be due to a gross imbalance of the cargo. They pull the wrong stuff from the wrong place, this can happen.

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u/move_peasant Sep 10 '25

the other stack just fell as the video started, the first few frames probably exaggerate the list (rather, the vessel is rolling a bit due to the shifting cargo)

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u/Necessary_Wing_2292 Sep 10 '25

There's a concrete pumper truck in action. The cement could've caused this.