Capsized Cruise Ship on Google Earth

Started by TehBorken, Sep 25 06 08:12

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TehBorken

Pretty cool- Google Earth captured a [a href="vny!://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].


 
The real trouble with reality is that there's no background music.

Mutilated Mind

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

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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="vny!://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="vny!://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/download.php?Number=505457" title="GE File"]Google Earth[/a]


The real trouble with reality is that there's no background music.

Mutilated Mind

  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

 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.
The real trouble with reality is that there's no background music.

Mutilated Mind

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

   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.    
The real trouble with reality is that there's no background music.