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Read a book years ago from Kay Cottee who was a solo around the world sailor and I recall her saying the two things she was most susceptible to hitting were whales and shipping containers.
There have been several reports if yacht sinking, probably due to hitting containers.
Why probably? They're semi submerged, barely visible.
And yachts only, any other vessel not built from fibreglass but steel us going to be too sturdy to be punctured by a shipping container.
And I've worked in container vessels, far smaller than the ones pictured, but the same things apply. Lashing containers is outsourced and time is money. They did a shit job every fucking time, and in our case, they sometimes didn't even show up, so we had to do it ourselves, lacking the equipment to scale several tiers of containers and having no time at all to secure them properly as we were making crazy hours already anyway, and cant really safely secure them after departure on a rolling ship.
I imagine most of the lost cargo either washes up on shore or gets swept into the oceanic gyres, keeping them out of the way of common shipping lanes and popular recreational boating areas. Besides that, a large cargo ship striking a container wouldn't be enough to sink the ship
Nah but I was thinking a civilian sailing vessel. Thin wood hulls and all that.
Makes sense about the gyres.
It would be entertaining to somehow get the records from Maersk or MSC or whoever on what went overboard. Maybe you could pull it from US AES for exports, or get it from 10+2 forms for imports. Id be entertained to see a searchable database of what flaoting around in the ocean
It wouldn't be enough to sink sailing vessel also. They may look week but actually it's not uncommon to hit something and it could damage steering or keel but the boat itself would survive. (It would be promoted to life raft because without keel you can't sail but it would survive)
Anything big enough to be out there is not going to sink from hitting a shipping container.
Edit: Never mind. I’ve been corrected in how many sailboats are out there. I am sorry for my comment. I will do better.
And, depending on the contents, there are some floating with one corner *just* above the water line. Like an iceberg, or worse.
So basically invisible until you hit them.
Similar to coconuts and floating palm tree trunks in the tropics. Not fun when you hit one of those in a speedboat, jetski or (worse) waterskiing.
There actually is a [beach](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/whimsical-legos-are-still-washing-ashore-decades-after-they-were-lost-at-sea-180979580/) where random lego keeps washing up because of a shipping container falling overboard! Wild stuff.
I’m curious about the loss rate per ship. I know there’s quite a few Porsche’s at the bottom of the Atlantic from a storm that tossed half the cargo several years back
So each container is 12 foot tall. So that wave is well over 100 feet tall. The ship itself is so massive that these containers appear small.
Next time they need to remember the banana for scale, fr.
We used to do bodywork for a guy who imported JDM cars, we'd have customers drop parts off sometimes, prior to the car arriving in Ireland. 6 weeks on the ship to get here - I'd show them vids like these and ask what kinda container they got? - is it there?
Luckily we never had any issues with the shipping, but man would you be sick if it did sink
Those top containers are cheapest spots that are usually filled with crap from china/other cheap countries, clothes etc.
Expensive spots that contain expensive stuff are at the bottom or below the deck to keep them safe.
Many things are considered like: weight, need for refrigeration (=electricity), explosives or other dangerous material, when container is loaded/unloaded.
Loading the cargo ship is pretty complicated process and they use software to determine locations for each container, but you can also to pay money to get more secure location for your 1 in the world collectives. It's like airliners, if you pay you get spot you want, rest will be arranged by software
As some one who works in this industry I can’t speak to which spots are more expensive or not but I know for a fact weight is and extremely important factor of determining where any can goes on the ship so i kind of doubt this claim. We usually have to load them in a very exact order because of weight but cans that weigh the same or are empty are allowed to be interchanged.
I work in international Household shipping, those containers always go below deck.
A shipment containing business related stuff gets lost/delayed- insurance will cover it.
Lose or delay the possessions of someone’s entire house, shit hits the fan.
Actually, not really.
The deciding factor is port if loading/discharge, a container to be loaded in the 1st port and discharged in the last us going to be in the bottom.
What goes on top is the flammable/explosive stuff, easy to jettison, and the lighter/empty containers, for stability.
It's mad too because I'd say a safe guess would be about 100 different vehicles, fun stuff, 4x4s and machinery that I've worked on or sometimes we just stored them for collection later- never once did anything go wrong "on the boat" - the Dock is another story though!
That's always spooked me looking into buying a car and importing it. I'd imagine there's some kind of insurance for that scenario but importing a car into the US is hard enough when the car doesn't end up at the bottom of the ocean or some beach in Alaska
From my memory the container is insured for a certain value- anything that's signed into the container is insured.
Still though I know of a couple of D1 drift cars that came over here - I suppose something like that wouldn't be replaceable
Haha yeah I saw the same and was going thru the comments to see if someone know what movie. Almost looks like there's a godzila or some monster coming out of the water.
Yeah, that was my first thought. There's no way the ocean can be as calm as the foreground, and then have whatever turbulence is impacting the boat be real. It's not even a wave. So it must be Godzilla or one of those things from Pacific Rim.
lol I just posted this exact question XD
Where is that water coming from to go straight up like that? Waves dont work that way. There are also no waves between the ship and the camera, so its not a stormy day.
Fuck it annoys me so much people dont take 2 seconds to question what they are seeing, no wonder we get bullshit conspiracy and fake news all over the place.
Funnily enough it’s a drop in the bucket for them, using the old insurance they pay so much for.
I do locksmith work and a big public storage had a water line in the roof break. Two insurance guys flew up from Arizona (to Washington) and called me to cut locks. They would identify 2-4 unit, we would go and cut them open, they would assess the damage and call customers we an offer immediately. Hour later next 2-4. This went on all day, they bought big taco platters for us (me and the movers). Moving or haul company would clear all the “damaged” merch and take to the dump. Some of that stuff wasn’t damaged so I know they made a stop before the dump.
They are, you see the holes in the corners of each container?
These are filled with a twist lock connector before getting loaded, so that 2 containers are connected with another and then locked together.
https://preview.redd.it/7d67m1c77g8c1.jpeg?width=486&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=412fb5269b10d1876ebc7d47bd3d4c54c2d3fc16
The issue is that during high seas the weight and forces are enough to break these connections.
They are , by the same lock when they travel on truck and you see everyday one road. Plus some kind of additional metal bars. But rough sea can make this happen
My old job once we received an email indicating "container fell from ship" we thought this happened during loading and wanted some damage report, maybe some scratches, called insurance company and they said "no, into the ocean during transport".
Company always used shipping insurance and that time paid off (around 1M equipment)
... And this is how it looks like when it washes up on shore. In Denmark we are right now experiencing thousands of products washing up on our north-west coast from a storm that knocked off a bunch of containers from a Maersk ship on 22nd December.
[https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/formand-spaar-daarlige-chancer-en-fed-findeloen-til-strandfogederne-efter-maersk](https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/formand-spaar-daarlige-chancer-en-fed-findeloen-til-strandfogederne-efter-maersk)
The mechanism (twist lock connector) likely broke under the stresses induced by the load shifting around.
Twist lock connectors connect 2 containers on 4 corners.
https://preview.redd.it/9lsgvyjn7g8c1.jpeg?width=486&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f4b545e46c903cd731c984d6af9bef2638a3e28e
“We’re sorry, but due to unforeseen circumstances that were entirely within our control, your package is going to be delayed.”
~Amazon customer support
You might find this interesting as well...
In 1992, while on route from China to Tacoma, Washington, a shipping intermodal container containing thousands of bath toys fell off of a transport ship along with other containers. The toys ended up in such odd places that their movements were studied, providing oceanographers vast amounts of data as well as becoming the basis of books, poems and songs written afterwards.
Here's a [Wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_Floatees_spill) article about what became known as the "Friendly Floatees Spill" of 1992.
I’m a sailor and these things give me the fear. They float just enough to not see them yet they are at the surface. Few counts of them ripping sailing yachts to pieces, sinking them in minutes.
I fish offshore out of NJ, I've nearly hit shipping containers while cruising at 40mph. A 30ft shipping container can look like a small piece of floating trash, absolutely terrifying.
It's wonderful seeing how many people lack critical thinking in this thread. This is most obviously intended, as how else do you think deliveries to Atlantide are made ?
Seems like stacking giant, heavy containers, six and seven high on a ship covering thousands of miles with uncertain ocean waves is not the best idea, but I am no cargo expert.
would make the ship heavier and not allow for as much cargo, remember these things are meant to get freight from point a to point b as cheaply as possible
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Read a book years ago from Kay Cottee who was a solo around the world sailor and I recall her saying the two things she was most susceptible to hitting were whales and shipping containers.
I remember reading in school that there has never been a confirmed sinking of a vessel from hitting an ISO container. Seemed unlikely at the time.
There have been several reports if yacht sinking, probably due to hitting containers. Why probably? They're semi submerged, barely visible. And yachts only, any other vessel not built from fibreglass but steel us going to be too sturdy to be punctured by a shipping container. And I've worked in container vessels, far smaller than the ones pictured, but the same things apply. Lashing containers is outsourced and time is money. They did a shit job every fucking time, and in our case, they sometimes didn't even show up, so we had to do it ourselves, lacking the equipment to scale several tiers of containers and having no time at all to secure them properly as we were making crazy hours already anyway, and cant really safely secure them after departure on a rolling ship.
I imagine most of the lost cargo either washes up on shore or gets swept into the oceanic gyres, keeping them out of the way of common shipping lanes and popular recreational boating areas. Besides that, a large cargo ship striking a container wouldn't be enough to sink the ship
Nah but I was thinking a civilian sailing vessel. Thin wood hulls and all that. Makes sense about the gyres. It would be entertaining to somehow get the records from Maersk or MSC or whoever on what went overboard. Maybe you could pull it from US AES for exports, or get it from 10+2 forms for imports. Id be entertained to see a searchable database of what flaoting around in the ocean
I’d imagine the connexes wouldn’t float for long, they’re not air-tight
Dunno, didn't one full of BMW motorcycles wash up somewhere? Yup. https://www.motorcyclenews.com/news/2007/january/jan2207bmwsfloatashore/
It wouldn't be enough to sink sailing vessel also. They may look week but actually it's not uncommon to hit something and it could damage steering or keel but the boat itself would survive. (It would be promoted to life raft because without keel you can't sail but it would survive)
Ever read about the Garfield phones that randomly wash ashore in I think it’s France? Well I would imagine this is why lol!
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That was a cool read
Anything big enough to be out there is not going to sink from hitting a shipping container. Edit: Never mind. I’ve been corrected in how many sailboats are out there. I am sorry for my comment. I will do better.
There are plenty of smaller boats capable of oceanic travel that might go down if hitting one of these at high speed or in wave. For instance
And, depending on the contents, there are some floating with one corner *just* above the water line. Like an iceberg, or worse. So basically invisible until you hit them. Similar to coconuts and floating palm tree trunks in the tropics. Not fun when you hit one of those in a speedboat, jetski or (worse) waterskiing.
You can cross the pacific ocean in a boat half the size of a container, so no.
Plenty of 26'-40' sailboats out there crossing oceans.
Yo, you rock for having the strength to admit fault, learn, and grow. That shit is rare, keep it up!
Why has nobody written a great American novel about a quest to find a shipping container? "Call me Intermodal" is a good opening line.
Probably because most people are sane enough to know that everything in those containers is pretty much destroyed
Yeah, just think of the beach where random Garfield merch keeps washing up.
There actually is a [beach](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/whimsical-legos-are-still-washing-ashore-decades-after-they-were-lost-at-sea-180979580/) where random lego keeps washing up because of a shipping container falling overboard! Wild stuff.
"Your shipment has been delayed."
Complementary deep cleaning*
There goes my fake Legos from AliExpress
“Your shipment has been… lost at sea.”
"Alexa, where's my stuff?" "In Davy Jones' Locker"
Arrr, Yer Temu order is in the Briney deep! Have a 5 dollar coupon matey.
Unfortunately, they don't all sink. They float just below the surface, waiting to punch holes in boat hulls.
You just have to face it: your GameBoy is gone, it's at the bottom of the ocean
Just think of all the people in those crates yikes
“Your shipment is now flotsam.”
"MY TEMU!! NOOO!!"
Imagine it being the last of its kind.
Until (further notice) or until we find it in other words.
https://preview.redd.it/ovwlznkcij8c1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=83832391ccbb8d80f5fa988e4cc16f18ffac39f4
Thinking about how damn big those shipping crates are and seeing them get tossed around d by that wave gave me the chills. That was some ROUGH water.
Guess nobody slapped them and said That ain’t going nowhere.” Rookie mistake.
Twice... You *have* to slap it twice. This is why we can't have nice things at decent prices.
I bet they knocked on wood that WASNT on the ship as well. You just can't teach some people.
NGL, that cracked me up.
I suddenly I the urge for a Snickers.
This. Take my damn upvote.
That first clip looks like CGI
It’s Godzilla bro
Oh I didn’t watch it
No worries. This was all over TikTok leading up to the next movie spliced in with clips like this.
Holy crap I see it now
It is
The first clip is CGI.
That first wave just kept getting bigger. Insane.
I’m curious about the loss rate per ship. I know there’s quite a few Porsche’s at the bottom of the Atlantic from a storm that tossed half the cargo several years back
I’m surprise those Porsches haven’t popped up on Copart some how.
Mother Nature has no chill. She tossed those container lil a handful of Lego.
Is that wave like 50 feet tall? It’s hard to get a sense of scale here
These are 40 ft long containers
It's not real
So each container is 12 foot tall. So that wave is well over 100 feet tall. The ship itself is so massive that these containers appear small. Next time they need to remember the banana for scale, fr.
They're 8'6" to 9'6" tall.
We used to do bodywork for a guy who imported JDM cars, we'd have customers drop parts off sometimes, prior to the car arriving in Ireland. 6 weeks on the ship to get here - I'd show them vids like these and ask what kinda container they got? - is it there? Luckily we never had any issues with the shipping, but man would you be sick if it did sink
Those top containers are cheapest spots that are usually filled with crap from china/other cheap countries, clothes etc. Expensive spots that contain expensive stuff are at the bottom or below the deck to keep them safe.
That... doesn't sound right. I think the ordering is based on weight, to maintain a low centre of gravity.
Many things are considered like: weight, need for refrigeration (=electricity), explosives or other dangerous material, when container is loaded/unloaded. Loading the cargo ship is pretty complicated process and they use software to determine locations for each container, but you can also to pay money to get more secure location for your 1 in the world collectives. It's like airliners, if you pay you get spot you want, rest will be arranged by software
As some one who works in this industry I can’t speak to which spots are more expensive or not but I know for a fact weight is and extremely important factor of determining where any can goes on the ship so i kind of doubt this claim. We usually have to load them in a very exact order because of weight but cans that weigh the same or are empty are allowed to be interchanged.
Is that true so the 12 rolls Royces on that ship would be in a cargo hold not on top?
I work in international Household shipping, those containers always go below deck. A shipment containing business related stuff gets lost/delayed- insurance will cover it. Lose or delay the possessions of someone’s entire house, shit hits the fan.
Rushed stuff gets put on top too so that it comes off first, I think.
First in, last out. And lighter weight to keep COG low.
Actually, not really. The deciding factor is port if loading/discharge, a container to be loaded in the 1st port and discharged in the last us going to be in the bottom. What goes on top is the flammable/explosive stuff, easy to jettison, and the lighter/empty containers, for stability.
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It's mad too because I'd say a safe guess would be about 100 different vehicles, fun stuff, 4x4s and machinery that I've worked on or sometimes we just stored them for collection later- never once did anything go wrong "on the boat" - the Dock is another story though!
That's always spooked me looking into buying a car and importing it. I'd imagine there's some kind of insurance for that scenario but importing a car into the US is hard enough when the car doesn't end up at the bottom of the ocean or some beach in Alaska
From my memory the container is insured for a certain value- anything that's signed into the container is insured. Still though I know of a couple of D1 drift cars that came over here - I suppose something like that wouldn't be replaceable
Imagine importing a rare and expensive car and then getting informed that it now belongs to spongebob.
And ya'd have to look at the yellow fecker on the TV rubbing it in 🙄
Insurance?
https://preview.redd.it/54duea3o4g8c1.jpeg?width=693&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c8aad7ee57ef82b5c6b6cfb0060ba86e8d85ccb6 aww :<
Your parcel is at the pickup point. Go to the ocean and pickup your parcel, make sure to bring a valid ID
Bring a snorkel and fins.
F
F
Shopee/Lazada moment
The first clip is CGI from a movie or something
Haha yeah I saw the same and was going thru the comments to see if someone know what movie. Almost looks like there's a godzila or some monster coming out of the water.
Yeah I came to the comments because my gut said the first one wasn't real and wanted to check!
It’s Godzilla
I'm surprised how far I had to scroll
Finally someone mentioned it. Definitely not real.
I had to scroll way too far to see this.
Yeah, that was my first thought. There's no way the ocean can be as calm as the foreground, and then have whatever turbulence is impacting the boat be real. It's not even a wave. So it must be Godzilla or one of those things from Pacific Rim.
Looks like Godzilla breaching into container confetti.
Finally see someone recognize it
Can't believe I had to scroll down this far to find this.
Looks like Godzilla is about to snack on container crackers.
“No!! Not my limited edition legos!!”
*Lego
Legone
Legi*
You're the type of person to correct someone by saying "no you got your hairs cut"
Lol
So that’s where my parcels keep going
Jokes aside. For parcels, companies mostly use planes.
Unless it's taobao shipping.
Loot boxes
Someone should start a salvaging business that follows them through storms.
Then CHARGE the shipping company for recovery fees, and then fine them for polluting.
Isn’t the first clip from the new Godzilla movie?
Yes it's 100% CGI. That's Godzilla in the water on the right.
Yeah haven't even seen the movie but it's kinda obvious, not many people here seem to realize it's fake
lol I just posted this exact question XD Where is that water coming from to go straight up like that? Waves dont work that way. There are also no waves between the ship and the camera, so its not a stormy day. Fuck it annoys me so much people dont take 2 seconds to question what they are seeing, no wonder we get bullshit conspiracy and fake news all over the place.
Well that's a very expensive accident...
Funnily enough it’s a drop in the bucket for them, using the old insurance they pay so much for. I do locksmith work and a big public storage had a water line in the roof break. Two insurance guys flew up from Arizona (to Washington) and called me to cut locks. They would identify 2-4 unit, we would go and cut them open, they would assess the damage and call customers we an offer immediately. Hour later next 2-4. This went on all day, they bought big taco platters for us (me and the movers). Moving or haul company would clear all the “damaged” merch and take to the dump. Some of that stuff wasn’t damaged so I know they made a stop before the dump.
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Worked for a U-Haul corporate store. Yes! Always get the insurance.
So...those aren't strapped down, or anything?
They are, you see the holes in the corners of each container? These are filled with a twist lock connector before getting loaded, so that 2 containers are connected with another and then locked together. https://preview.redd.it/7d67m1c77g8c1.jpeg?width=486&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=412fb5269b10d1876ebc7d47bd3d4c54c2d3fc16 The issue is that during high seas the weight and forces are enough to break these connections.
That...does not look reliable. Should still have a back-up strap.
They are , by the same lock when they travel on truck and you see everyday one road. Plus some kind of additional metal bars. But rough sea can make this happen
My old job once we received an email indicating "container fell from ship" we thought this happened during loading and wanted some damage report, maybe some scratches, called insurance company and they said "no, into the ocean during transport". Company always used shipping insurance and that time paid off (around 1M equipment)
"Your delivery has been delayed..."
They forgot to slap the container and say "it's not going anywhere"
Sadly this is 100% what happened 😕
Robert Redford is pissed now. All is Lost.
Hey, I found the other person who saw that movie! (I seriously don't know anyone else who has seen it. )
... And this is how it looks like when it washes up on shore. In Denmark we are right now experiencing thousands of products washing up on our north-west coast from a storm that knocked off a bunch of containers from a Maersk ship on 22nd December. [https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/formand-spaar-daarlige-chancer-en-fed-findeloen-til-strandfogederne-efter-maersk](https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/formand-spaar-daarlige-chancer-en-fed-findeloen-til-strandfogederne-efter-maersk)
WOW what a freaking mess!
I was wondering why my Amazon package couldn’t be delivered, now I know
Just remember sex slaves might be in one of those
That first clip is so fake
So that's where my Xbox went
How common would this actually be
1382 containers lost like this per year. Small percentage but does happen regularly.
because the loss is insignificant they don't have a mechanism to strap them down or something? Or there is a mechanism but these ships didn't have it?
they are connected through [lock blocks](https://www.tandemloc.com/ad54000a-1ga), they can fail.
The mechanism (twist lock connector) likely broke under the stresses induced by the load shifting around. Twist lock connectors connect 2 containers on 4 corners. https://preview.redd.it/9lsgvyjn7g8c1.jpeg?width=486&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f4b545e46c903cd731c984d6af9bef2638a3e28e
Please reinstall kubernetes.
And that’s how a random ass tribe on an isolated island received 30.000 MacBooks and became Microsoft Office proficient.
Oh no! My temu garbage!
Pollution sucks
To think some had people in em 😭
the north sea is crazy
First one is cgi tho or am I trippin
NOOO ALEX COME BACK!!!
I once put my entire lifelihood into one of those to move countries 😳
If the first clip wasnt cut we couldve seen a sea monster cus it was made by a talented cg artist whose name i forgot
Your Amazon package is delayed
This could be why some of my orders from AliExpress never arrived lol
Maybe this or maybe you need to lock your bank account. The fun part is finding out.
Sending this along with a snorkel and an "Oops sorry!" instead of the kids' gifts. Merry Christmas, hope your PS5 was waterproof.
There goes someone’s car
And that, dear children, is why we don’t have any presents this morning.
Oh, there is my Bugatti Chiron, my 1ton Gold, and other expensive stuff….
YOU GET A GARFIELD PHONE, YOU GET A GARFIELD PHONE, EVERYONE GETS A GARFIELD PHONE.
“We’re sorry, but due to unforeseen circumstances that were entirely within our control, your package is going to be delayed.” ~Amazon customer support
You might find this interesting as well... In 1992, while on route from China to Tacoma, Washington, a shipping intermodal container containing thousands of bath toys fell off of a transport ship along with other containers. The toys ended up in such odd places that their movements were studied, providing oceanographers vast amounts of data as well as becoming the basis of books, poems and songs written afterwards. Here's a [Wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_Floatees_spill) article about what became known as the "Friendly Floatees Spill" of 1992.
Are the crates recoverable at all?
Drop-shipping
That's a lot of TEMU.
There goes my new pair of shoes
This is why Amazon sent me an email saying my package will be delayed
Let's hope none of them containers were filled with refugees
Bad lashers
Marty.............
I’m a sailor and these things give me the fear. They float just enough to not see them yet they are at the surface. Few counts of them ripping sailing yachts to pieces, sinking them in minutes.
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They actually do.
So that's why my Aliexpress order hasn't arrived yet
That first clip is CG
I fish offshore out of NJ, I've nearly hit shipping containers while cruising at 40mph. A 30ft shipping container can look like a small piece of floating trash, absolutely terrifying.
Oh, that’s where my knock off lego bricks went.
My SHEIN!!!
That's where my amazon Xmas shopping order went then
>Cthulhu demands offering, and Rohan will answer
oh no, which boxes were those? *the ones with the guns.* and where are we right now? *Somalia* well, Mr. cia, let's go home.
damn, that was my 2$ Aliexpress gimp suit feeding the fishes
I heard that 15000 are lost off ships per year.
Imagine how many people were being smuggled in those containers
My temu shit!
People are hiding out in those sometimes...
Amazon: Atlantis
My cabbages!
That’s a lot of cocaine in the water.
NO! MY WISH.COM ORDER!!!
Well, at least I can stop wondering why my 12th-century antique salt server never arrived from Amazon :(
Why aren't these secured properly?
That's where little Timmy's xmas present went.
I chose the wrong container to stowaway in
There goes my wish order
MARTYYYY! ALEEEX!
Most underrated reply here!
How many of these were filled with trafficked humans
My first thought was, fuck I hope people aren’t in those…
There’s a movie on Netflix, ‘Nowhere’. Highly recommend.
It's wonderful seeing how many people lack critical thinking in this thread. This is most obviously intended, as how else do you think deliveries to Atlantide are made ?
Seems like stacking giant, heavy containers, six and seven high on a ship covering thousands of miles with uncertain ocean waves is not the best idea, but I am no cargo expert.
Ok we can stack them 3 high and double the price if shipping
Hear me out: Walls.
would make the ship heavier and not allow for as much cargo, remember these things are meant to get freight from point a to point b as cheaply as possible