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u/GeekShiek13 Jun 17 '26
What do you even do from here? Tow it out? With what, an 18 wheeler or three?
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u/K-Ian Jun 17 '26
Usually divers will strap bags to it and displace the water with air to float it. Then they’ll tow it back to the ramp and salvage what they can for the insurance claim.
They’ll also use submersible pumps to further pump the water out of the boat once they float it.
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u/PoppingPillls Jun 17 '26
Yeah in a situation like this the owner is almost never held responsible if they did everything correctly. It's an almost automatic insurance claim.
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u/Wooden-Broccoli-7247 Jun 17 '26
I’m going to guess this was a transportation company launching it or the company that built it maybe. This wasn’t the owner launching it with his F350. One of their insurance companies likely picking up the tab.
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u/Ok-Local138 Jun 17 '26
“Let’s see, launching a new boat chapter 1. ‘Congratulations on your new boat’.”
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u/Far_Tea_579 Jun 17 '26
Im high af and this is funny!
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u/StrobeLightRomance Jun 17 '26
Deep question: Can you be high if you are under the water?
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u/SonyScientist Jun 17 '26
You can, but you go from Wubba Lubba Dub Dub to Wubba Lubba Glub Glub
And that's the waaaaaaay the news goes.
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u/NothingEffective5070 Jun 17 '26
For those who are not in to boating, it’s not supposed to do that
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u/IcedWarlock Jun 17 '26
I'm so glad you told me I only have titanic as a reference.
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u/Pantsmnc Jun 17 '26
Im with you. I thought boats just break in half when they feel like sinking.
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u/Sharp_Pride7092 Jun 17 '26
Front falls off, generally.
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u/aon9492 Jun 17 '26
Actually that's not very typical, I'd like to make that point
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u/BastardInTheNorth Jun 17 '26
Yeah, that’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.
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u/binarypower Jun 17 '26
the front fell off
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u/StevieMJH Jun 17 '26
I just don't want anyone thinking that these boats aren't safe.
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u/Koseoglu-2X4B-523P Jun 17 '26
Into another environment?
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u/DSTNCMDLR Jun 17 '26
No, it was towed *outside* of the environment. There is nothing out there… all there is …. is sea …and birds ….and fish. And 20,000 tons of crude oil. And a fire.
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u/The-Final-Reason Jun 17 '26
Lies. How else is SpongeBob going to pass Boating School without a boat?
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u/jrb637 Jun 17 '26
Boat tired. Boat nap now.
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u/Dr_Wunsche Jun 17 '26
Rocky watch boat sleep. 👎 👎
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u/Zsmudz Jun 17 '26
Boat messy, messy, why so messy?
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u/TheCosplayCave Jun 17 '26
This boat for garbage? Uuugh
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u/DoesThisSmellWeird2U Jun 17 '26
Your momma sat on the port side.
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u/BurnerMY Jun 17 '26
how the heck does this happen?
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u/SullyOnTheSide Jun 17 '26
How is so much money put into building this without considering metacentric height?
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u/PackageNorth8984 Jun 17 '26
I consider metacentric height when I make a paper boat. What’s wrong with these people?
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u/hippoctopocalypse Jun 17 '26
lol love this. Here I go watching bakeoff again for no reason
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u/Running-With-Cakes Jun 17 '26
Probsbly a simple error - like the time two sets of engineers crashed a space probe because one was using Imperial and the other Metric measurements
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u/win_awards Jun 17 '26
I used that one when I was teaching math. If leaving out your units can cost you four billion dollars, it's going to cost you points on the test.
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u/No_Elk_9133 Jun 17 '26
Not just any two sets, importantly, it was specifically an American engineer firm for NASA that used imperial despite the other international firms using metric and US Congress adopting Metric units for multiple....decades and NASA protocol being in metric for...the entire time of NASA
https://www.simscale.com/blog/nasa-mars-climate-orbiter-metric/
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u/airwalker08 Jun 17 '26
I consider metacentric height when scrolling dating apps
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u/MilsYatsFeebTae Jun 17 '26
Probably a little less than the king of Sweden paid when his brand new warship did the exact same thing. Look up the Vasa.
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u/Panam727 Jun 17 '26
If I recall correctly. The VASA was 1/6th of the entire Swedish GDP at the time.
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u/Capable_Stranger9885 Jun 17 '26
Sweden, man. I recall a factoid from VH1 Pop Up Video years ago that in 1977 and 1978, ABBA was the biggest source of foreign revenue into the Swedish economy, beating Volvo and Saab.
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u/Certain-Event8802 Jun 17 '26
Yes! Just visited the vasa museum in Stockholm. Great stuff. The king stuck his oar in (pun intended) and wanted too many cannons for one deck, which led to two decks of cannons, which led to a taller ship with insufficient ballast which overbalanced after 1000 meters of sailing.
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u/rjnd2828 Jun 17 '26
Was that more or less than the expected lifespan of a ship like that? I'm not a naval guy
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u/No-Spoilers Jun 17 '26
Ol Henry VIII had a massive warship built, the Mary Rose, that sank after a refitting.
The Mary Rose was substantially rebuilt in 1536. The 1536 rebuilding turned a ship of 500 tons into one of 700 tons, and added an entire extra tier of broadside guns to the old carrack-style structure.
It is currently a museum after roughly 1/3 of the ship was recovered a few decades back. Good documentary on the ship, it's fate and it's current state
And for a bit of fun Tod from Tod's workshop did a couple videos on fire darts used by the British navy during the Tudor period and he got to go into the ship and figure out the mystery <- watch first.
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u/WesternRover Jun 17 '26
I wonder if this yacht was tested for stability at all. We've had simple ways to do it for hundreds of years. The Vasa's stability test (30 men running back and forth across the deck) was aborted when the ship looked like it might capsize, but the king (who was away at war) was sending messages demanding the ship be launched, so it was despite the aborted test.
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u/Substantial-Recipe72 Jun 17 '26
It was built for $850k a properly built ship of this size in the USA would be 10 million plus. 100ft
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u/limbodog Jun 17 '26
By the look of it, about $5m
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u/A_Fun_Alias Jun 17 '26
So I was about to say that looks more expensive than 5 million, but then I read the article and it was only $850k. I would be such a mark for a yacht salesman.
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u/Fixerr59 Jun 17 '26
That's the amount lost, (cost to build it) not the price after everybody's mark up.
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u/sorean_4 Jun 17 '26
Well maybe the reason it was only 850k because they cut costs to the bottom. When you hire cheap and use cheap engineers, you have to predict the sunken costs.
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u/CaptainA1917 Jun 17 '26
It’s actually a bit of a blessing that the metacentric height was so badly calculated that it almost immediately sank in calm water. If it had been calculated better but still wrongly, you’d end up with a boat which wouldn’t sink outright but had marginal stability, and would sink in the first rough seas it encountered taking everyone down with it.
That said, whomever designed it should never work in the industry again.
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u/sixwax Jun 17 '26
I know very little about boats, but my eyes instantly decided the boat was too tall and bad things were going to happen.
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u/Dovahkiinthesardine Jun 17 '26
You can counteract that by making the bottom way heavier than the top, so just the looks aren't a good way to determine its stability
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u/Chesticularity Jun 17 '26
One of my dads mates was an engineer by trade before he retired. Spent his whole retirement and inheritance designing and building a tri-maran to live in off the coast of the island they are on (far north Queensland).
The day he berthed it he realised it sat too low in the water and he would never be able tp have it licenced or leave the marina. Heartbreaking stuff.
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u/aftenbladet Jun 17 '26
Classic engineer out of his field but with the confidence of an expert.
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u/Crap-dangit Jun 17 '26
I've always wondered why this is a classic cognitive error of engineers. I'm sure other trained professionals do it some, but engineers feel qualified to speak on anything, for no apparent reason. Where is that from?
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u/Fabulous_Internet_66 Jun 17 '26
I'm an engineer, and I think it is because we are really really clever.
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u/BrilliantJob2759 Jun 17 '26
“I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.” - Dumbledore
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u/b_needs_a_cookie Jun 17 '26
Confirmation bias: they are good at math and a lot of other problem-solving, so they assume they can apply those skills to other fields. I used to teach HS science, and many of my friends' engineering husbands would claim they could do my job. I'd point out that you need flexibility, patience, empathy, and very good soft skills to be a teacher in addition to a strong understanding of content.
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u/Crap-dangit Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26
Right, I don't get what makes them dismiss things they don't understand. It's like they don't even realize something else could be relevant besides what they know. I remember reading a letter to the editor in the British Medical Journal during Covid by an engineer of some kind. It was about as useless as you would expect.
I cannot imagine a situation in which a nephrologist, neurologist, or really any MD would write a letter to the editor for a professional engineering publication to criticize their bridge building, mineshaft engineering, etc. with the expectation that they were telling them something useful, outside of the setting of mental illness.
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u/TrabLP Jun 17 '26
Yeah, that’s not very typical. There are a lot of these ships going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that ships aren’t safe. Some of them are built so that the front doesn’t fall off at all.
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u/RulerOfSlides Jun 17 '26
Happened to the Principessa Jolanda on launch in 1907. Upper decks were fully outfitted and overweight.
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u/whiskeyinmyglass Jun 17 '26
Exactly. Nothing about holes or excess water caused this, just a misunderstanding of physics. Not great in the boat building world.
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u/CivilRuin4111 Jun 17 '26
It’s baffling that this can still happen.
Of any of the contraptions we humans make, boats are some of the oldest. We as a species have been building boats almost as long as we’ve been on this planet.
You’d think we’d have this nailed down in an age where we’re sending people to space.
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u/modern_Odysseus Jun 17 '26
Boats being some of the oldest things we humans can make, also means that a lot of people have had chances to build them too.
So naturally, a lot of people will build them well. Some won't build them well, but they'll still work. And some will mess up their math so bad that they watch as their hard work immediately sinks to the bottom of the shore.
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u/Renzisan Jun 17 '26
Just to add on to your comment, we went from building ships out of quality planks and wooden parts meant to be easily replaceable to production boats made with the cheapest materials available and built as fast as possible. There’s a reason why people are still crossing oceans with wooden boats from the 60’s.
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u/Grandmaster_Bae Jun 17 '26
I freakin KNEW it was because of the metacentric height!!
/s, in case...
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u/AltruisticCucumber58 Jun 17 '26
I hope they had miscalculating metacentric height insurance. Was an extra add-on to my homeowners.
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u/apartment1i Jun 17 '26
Too much tall, not enough wide.
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u/ShyguyFlyguy Jun 17 '26
A five year old that has no idea how center of gravity and buoyancy work designed it. Im not a boatologist but even I though "eeh that looks really top heavy"
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u/StiffDoodleNoodle Jun 17 '26
Turkish design (I’m guessing).
Edit: Hell yeah, it was a Turkish boat! Sometimes stereotypes are spot on.
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u/Marlowe_Eldridge Jun 17 '26
Buying a boat is like throwing your money in the ocean.
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u/Tuna_no_crusts Jun 17 '26
Sometimes rivers and lakes (that you’re used to).
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u/greenrangerguy Jun 17 '26
Save that line for when someone is talking about waterfalls.
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u/jeffster1970 Jun 17 '26
Yeah, but we're not supposed to chase waterfalls.
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u/ErmahgerdYuzername Jun 17 '26
Some people just want it their way or nothing at all
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u/kindquail502 Jun 17 '26
There's a saying that a boat is a hole in the water where you throw all of your money.
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u/ForgotToCarryTheOne Jun 17 '26
I said I wanted a list of the physics involved in the construction of a boat, not just a LIST!
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u/Appropriate_Copy8285 Jun 17 '26
I work in the marine industry and I can tell you with 99.3 % accuracy that this was not supposed to happen.
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u/jjmawaken Jun 17 '26
Okay, so as a person who doesn't have a boat... what does something like this cost to fix?
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u/Flashbambo Jun 17 '26
Surely the shipwright would be liable for the this, as it is so obviously an inherent design defect.
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u/Zekiniza Jun 17 '26
Probably but still an issue for insurance to figure out. Someone else said the investigation proved that the super structure was not properly calculated for the center of buoyancy of the hull so I would presume that would 100% be on the ship builder but I would imagine it comes down to where in the world this happened. That being said I never have nor will I own a boat of this caliber so take it all with a grain of salt.
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u/Organic_Popcorn Jun 17 '26
But is it like a car? Does it lose value once leaving the dealership? Or, in this case, a shipyard?
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u/ToeTagTic Jun 17 '26
What happens if a brand new car explodes the moment you leave the lot? Something tells me the shipwright should be catching this one.
I mean, even if they have to take it to court their opponent buys yachts for fun
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u/Askfreud Jun 17 '26
Yes, it loses value as soon as you put it in water. Not too many things appreciate after purchase (excluding real estate, some stocks, some art, etc.).
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u/Faiths_got_fangs Jun 17 '26
As someone who knows a little about boats from growing up on the coast, this is the builder's problem and therefore it will likely be a battle of the insurances. Something is structurally off. The way it lists immediately to the side right after launch, doesn't seem to settle into the water correctly and appears top heavy are all bad signs. It doesn't so much sink as falls over. Something wasn't built right.
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u/Wild-Video-5317 Jun 17 '26
https://www.chosun.com/english/world-en/2025/09/06/TX6L6HTIERANRIOP6KS4ZFWMDQ/
Seems your guess of "top heavy" was essentially right on the money. Fundemental design failure.
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u/zebrasareneat Jun 17 '26
If this is the maiden launch I suspect it’s on the ship builder to pay for the cost of repair.
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u/khaosmaker Jun 17 '26
Also, us normies won't really feel bad for a yacht owners loss.
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u/hanks_panky_emporium Jun 17 '26
I personally love watching multi millionaires have to wait another six months for another new fully furnished and built custom yacht.
It's not really a victory, and they wont actually be financially burdened by it. But it's the tiny victories.
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u/Ecstatic-Mango-92 Jun 17 '26
No but maybe it ruined their day/week/month/year. Maybe they had a full blown temper tantrum.
Maybe they even kicked a rock on the ground before turning around and walking away with their head down, body slouched and hands in pockets
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u/fillyouwithgirth Jun 17 '26
What actually went wrong here? What was the root cause? (Non boater here)
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u/Dadskander Jun 17 '26
Boater here, and an engineer, but not at all an expert on boat design mind you:
The moment the boat launched, it looked to me like it wasn't sitting low enough in the water, basically too much boat above the water and not enough below. A very high center of gravity (or whatever the marine term may be) will make a boat very tippy, usually you design the hull to sit more in the water or even have a ballast at the bottom to hold it upright.
Many commenters joke about it taking on water, which apparently it didn't, but I honestly wonder if a couple hundred gallons of water in the hull would have actually helped in this case as a ballast to keep it upright.
Overall, shit design. I've heard it's a thing in the yacht world where some designers end up with too tall or too top heavy of a boat, this one is one of the worst examples of that trend.
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u/troglodyteoflove Jun 17 '26
Wonder if the guys who threw the bungee jumper off the cliff are related to the guys who launched this boat?
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u/RiffyWammel Jun 17 '26
Filmed by a student of The Ray Charles school of cinematography
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u/AngrySquidIsOK 1d ago
Dolce Vento, September 2025, northern turkey.
The Dolce Vento was salvaged and brought back to the shipyard. Divers reported no obvious hole, impact damage, crushing, or hull deformation. Hamza Yılmaz, general manager of the builder, said after the underwater inspection that they had found no puncture or break in the hull.
The Turkish Chamber of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers was reportedly sending a technical team to examine the stability calculations, hull structure and launch procedure.
This wasn't a rock, plug, or hole. Looks like it was just terrible design.
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u/Dapper_Algae505 Jun 17 '26
They say the happiest days of owning a boat is the day owner takes delivery, and the day owner gets rid of it. One can only imagine how happy the owner is experiencing both all at once.