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Originally Posted by JohnR
Which is a good call.
25 years ago my sister was in NOAA on a research boat in the Caribbean. They were in a harbor somewhere in MEX when a crappily flagged tanker slipped anchor and driftrammed them at night.
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Happened to me when I was in the Navy. Our amphibious landing ship was anchored along with many merchant ships in a Sicily Harbor during a violent storm. One of the freighters slipped anchor and crashed into our bow. We radioed the rest of our anchored squadron that it was heading there way. One got underway to move out of the way... and then ran aground or was blown aground by the winds. Took Navy salvage a few days to drag that LPH off the sand bar. What a friggen mess.