Capsized Cruise Ship on Google Earth

TehBorken · Sep 25 06 08:12

Pretty cool- Google Earth captured a [a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=35.155028,129.147319&ie=UTF8&z=18&ll=35.15503,129.147318&spn=0.003228,0.006244&t=k&om=1"]capsized cruise ship[/a].

Mutilated Mind · Sep 25 06 09:05

That's "pretty cool" as the hallowed expression goes, TehBorken, but are you sure this ship has capsized. It look as if this is just the result of the perspective. You can notice that on the big building at the left too.

Where did you find this ?

TehBorken · Sep 25 06 10:47

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Yes, it's really capsized. I wouldn'a fib to yee.
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[h3]Capsized Cruise Ship Captured in Google Earth / Maps[/h3] "This is a cool discovery which was actually [a href="http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/505457/page/vc"]found[/a] a few months ago by 'Neutje' at the Google Earth Community. A satellite photo of the port of Pusan, Korea shows a capsized cruise ship laying on its side after it was hit by the 2003 Typhoon Maemi. You can see it in [a href="http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/download.php?Number=505457" title="GE File"]Google Earth[/a]

Mutilated Mind · Sep 26 06 05:38

Look closely, TehBorken.
The ship on the first picture has capsized, that's obvious, but the one on the second picture hasn't. I am pretty sure of it. Just look, and look at the building.

TehBorken · Sep 26 06 06:25

Mutilated Mind wrote:
The ship on the first picture has capsized, that's obvious, but the one on the second picture hasn't. I am pretty sure of it. Just look, and look at the building.

It looks like it's listing to starboard to me. The pics may have been taken at different times, but it's the same ship, same location. I believe it's legit.

Mutilated Mind · Sep 26 06 10:21

If it's listing, it's doing so every so slightly.
Look at the top of the picture, you can see the small walls due to the perspective. The picture has not been taken from right above the ship, there is a clear perspective, and according to me, that's the only reason for any slanting you can see in this picture.

TehBorken · Sep 26 06 03:05

Mutilated Mind wrote:
If it's listing, it's doing so every so slightly.

The picture was taken from low Earth orbit so I suspect the apparent lack of listing is due to the perspective (similar to the distance-squashing effect seen when a telephoto lens is used). It's possible it had listed more by the time the close-up photo was taken. It looks to me to be the same ship, in the same port, and it's even got the stabilization lines tied off in the same places. I could be wrong, but it looks legit to me.