The Incredible Disapearing RIB Trick!

[PhelanSA]

I was just browsing and found this. I thought you guys might get a chuckle (or a groan) out of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLT_p...eature=related

As they say out here... Africa is a tough country :-)

The ship, as far as I can determine, appears to be the MSC Melody. But I have not been able to confirm that.

[HUMBER P4VWL]

Now that's rough water!!

[Lets go boating]

scary stuff dude

[willk]

hmmm. Bad weather certainly but that's an odd place to store ribs. I'd say she's not used to meeting much other than calm seas...

[Mollers]

Originally Posted by willk

hmmm. Bad weather certainly but that's an odd place to store ribs.

Idiotic, enough water under those ribs was always going to rip the fixings out or wreck the boats.

[jyasaki]

I would guess the bow of the ship is 30 or 40 feet (or more) above normal water line. Given that passenger comfort is (hopefully) a priority, I'd think they were never expecting to be in that kind of sea state.

Makes for a pretty impressive video, though.

jky

[Bigmuz7]

Yeah .. those boats were blown clean off

[Tim J]

I think more ships should store their Ribs up front like that...it would increase my odds of finding a new boat next time i'm beachcombing