Feb 7, 2014

Not your usual docking maneuver . . .


Here's a ferry, the former MV Ostend Spirit, being deliberately run aground at Aliağa in Turkey in November last year, prior to being broken up for scrap.  I recommend watching it in full-screen mode.





With all that mass (26,433 tons) on the move at full speed (22 knots), she comes quite a long way up the beach, doesn't she?  She also knocks the ships on either side out of the way without any trouble at all.

Peter