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- 0:00[SPEAKER_01]: If you lived a nice lip New York back in 1987, and looked out across the ocean, you'd have seen an inexplicable site.
- 0:08[SPEAKER_01]: A huge barge would six million pounds of trash towering on it, floating in the middle of the water doing?
- 0:15[SPEAKER_01]: Well, nothing.
- 0:18[SPEAKER_01]: Why was it there?
- 0:19[SPEAKER_01]: How did it get there?
- 0:21[SPEAKER_01]: The answers are more insane than you could ever guess.
- 0:24[SPEAKER_01]: So, come with me on a wild tale of nationwide panic, criminal connections, and trash.
- 0:32[SPEAKER_01]: As we said, sail through some of the most mind-blowing shipping mishaps of all time.
- 0:51[SPEAKER_01]: But before you can begin to understand how crazy the story of New York's trash filled sea-locked boat is, we need a little context, trashy context.
- 1:02[SPEAKER_01]: Each American produces around £600 of trash annually, which is about the weight of a grizzly bear.
- 1:10[SPEAKER_01]: Trust me, you don't want that rotting away in the corner of your home.
- 1:13[SPEAKER_00]: But sweetie, what's just got to do with boats?
- 1:17[SPEAKER_00]: Man, I'm stabbed, I'm saying the scene!
- 1:20[SPEAKER_01]: In New York, in the 1800s, they didn't have garbage men.
- 1:23[SPEAKER_01]: People would just toss their trash in the gutter, and the city was covered in piles of rotting food, broken furniture, and even bodily waste.
- 1:32[SPEAKER_01]: Yuck!
- 1:33[SPEAKER_01]: Disgusted by the filthy lived-end city officials began collecting the trash and placing it in the landfills to be burned.
- 1:40[SPEAKER_01]: Nowadays, a massive network of 2600 landfills handles solid waste throughout the U.S. You would know about it because waste management is a largely invisible industry.
- 1:52[SPEAKER_01]: The truck comes, the truck goes, but thinking about the disgusting mess we produce just ain't sexy.
- 1:58[SPEAKER_01]: Most of us live in the luxury of not having to think about it, until we're rudely reminded how horrible we really are, and that's where the crazy story of the Mowbro 4,000 comes in.
- 2:09[SPEAKER_00]: See you, my Am I told you we'd get there?
- 2:12[SPEAKER_01]: In 1987, New York's landfills were full to the Brab, so budding entrepreneur Laurel Harrelson saw his chance to make a name for himself in the energy game.
- 2:22[SPEAKER_01]: See when Wastie composes it produces methane gas which can be harnessed and turned into energy.
- 2:28[SPEAKER_01]: Harrelson was trying to secure a load of trash to start his own energy plant and New York was literally overflowing with it.
- 2:36[SPEAKER_01]: So he proposed a plan.
- 2:37[SPEAKER_01]: He chutter about to ship their garbage away for less money than they would have paid descended to a different state.
- 2:43[SPEAKER_01]: That way Harrelson gets his trash and the city gets a cheap clean up.
- 2:48[SPEAKER_01]: Everybody's a winner.
- 2:49[SPEAKER_01]: Alright, here's where things start to get a little tricky.
- 2:53[SPEAKER_01]: At the time, the whole New York garbage hauling industry was under the control of the mafia.
- 2:58[SPEAKER_01]: Holy canoli!
- 3:00[SPEAKER_01]: What do those Jim Brownies want with everybody's trash?
- 3:03[SPEAKER_01]: While during the mid-20th century, City started paying private companies to sort out the trash for them.
- 3:09[SPEAKER_01]: This gave the mob a chance to get involved, exploit, and clean up their own dirty money while they picked up everyone else's dirty goods.
- 3:17[SPEAKER_01]: I'd also suspect it's easier to throw away evidence of your wrongdoings if your cousin is driving the garbage truck.
- 3:23[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, Harrelson struck up a deal with Komora Crime Family Capbo, Salvatore Avallino, for six million pounds of his finest trash.
- 3:33[SPEAKER_01]: After the deal came through, the plan was to load all the waste onto a large barge that
- 3:38[SPEAKER_01]: The Mobro 4000, and Charter at Tuckboat to pull it from Islip and New York down to Morehead City, North Carolina.
- 3:45[SPEAKER_01]: Here the methane gas would be processed.
- 3:48[SPEAKER_01]: Easy, right?
- 3:49[UNKNOWN]: Ha!
- 3:50[SPEAKER_01]: You'll see, on March 22nd 1987, the barred set off with its 20-foot high pile of trash headed for North Carolina.
- 3:59[SPEAKER_01]: Harrelson hoped they'd get down and back for the weekend, ready for another shipment.
- 4:07[SPEAKER_01]: See, 6 million pounds of trash isn't very attractive.
- 4:10[SPEAKER_01]: The repulsive isortrudge slowly along the coast, upsetting the eyes and noses of anyone who came to close.
- 4:18[SPEAKER_01]: People weren't used to seeing the repulsive underbelly of their filthy existence and instantly became very.
- 4:24[SPEAKER_01]: Not in my backyard about accepting this giant floating trash work.
- 4:28[SPEAKER_01]: A vicious rumor began to spread that one-on-looker had seen a hospital bedband used by patients who were bedbound to relieve themselves among the garbage.
- 4:38[SPEAKER_01]: Now, the environmental protection agency had recently released new regulations saying toxic waste could no longer be landfill.
- 4:46[SPEAKER_01]: And at argue, mouths of trash bags full of poop and pee are definitely toxic waste.
- 4:51[SPEAKER_01]: Except the rumours were just that.
- 4:54[SPEAKER_01]: Rumours.
- 4:55[SPEAKER_01]: All the trash was just normal garbage you were I might throw away.
- 4:59[SPEAKER_01]: Whether it was the mafia ties or the sheer revoltingness of seeing the Phil III make, I'm not really sure.
- 5:04[SPEAKER_01]: But the court of public opinion was swayed by the lie.
- 5:08[SPEAKER_01]: North Carolina officials blocked the barges entry into the port because the waste wasn't fit for purpose.
- 5:14[SPEAKER_01]: Suddenly six million pounds of running trash became stranded offshore.
- 5:19[SPEAKER_01]: The tugboat ducts slightly outside of Morehead City while Harrelson and Co tried to formulate a backup plan.
- 5:25[SPEAKER_01]: However, local news network WRALTV received a tip-off regarding its location.
- 5:31[SPEAKER_01]: They flew by in a helicopter to see the disgusting scenes for themselves, and on April 1, Action 5 News Reporter Susan Broseck broke the story to the national audience.
- 5:41[SPEAKER_01]: Viewers in their living rooms throughout the country couldn't believe their eyes.
- 5:46[SPEAKER_01]: Some North Carolina began their own procedures to move them over and on.
- 5:50[SPEAKER_00]: Not my backyard, out of sight, out of mind.
- 5:54[SPEAKER_01]: Originally Harold since struck a deal with Florida to take in the trash, but by the time the barge made it to port, a party of 10,000 people had gathered to protest its arrival.
- 6:05[SPEAKER_01]: So after a change of course, the barge set sail for Louisiana, but they too declined the waste.
- 6:11[SPEAKER_01]: Alabama said no, Mississippi too.
- 6:14[SPEAKER_01]: Anywhere the boat went, people came forward to object to it.
- 6:18[SPEAKER_01]: Even the countries of Belize, the Bahamas and Mexico came forward and told Harrelson to stay away.
- 6:24[SPEAKER_01]: He wasn't trying to get close, but that didn't stop Mexico from mobilizing its navy as a black aid.
- 6:29[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the navy.
- 6:31[SPEAKER_01]: Cutting his losses, Harrelson ordered the boat to return to New York and hope to dock near Queens.
- 6:36[SPEAKER_01]: But Burro President, Claire Schillman, had something to say about that.
- 6:41[SPEAKER_01]: She ordered a temporary restraining order against the barge to keep the trash out at sea, so that's exactly what happened.
- 6:48[SPEAKER_01]: With every passing day the trash decayed a little more, meaning it smelled worse and looked worse.
- 6:54[SPEAKER_01]: Worst of all though, Harrelson was losing that precious methane gas which was money straight out of his pocket, but there was seemingly nothing he could do about it.
- 7:03[SPEAKER_01]: The Mobro and its cargo hung about offshore near Brooklyn until July, a staggering 5 months after it initially said sale.
- 7:12[SPEAKER_01]: Finally, after a long and painful negotiation, it was agreed that the trash could be incinerated in Brooklyn.
- 7:19[SPEAKER_01]: The deed was done and the 430 tons of ash produced from the incineration was then loaded into trucks and transported back to.
- 7:28[SPEAKER_01]: Islip?
- 7:28[SPEAKER_01]: Wait, hold on.
- 7:30[SPEAKER_01]: Do you need to tell me that 3,000 tons of trash spent 5 months sailing up and down the East Coast traveling some 6,000 miles just to end up right back where it started?
- 7:39[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying.
- 7:42[SPEAKER_01]: The thing is, there was nothing wrong with the trash or bloodharrows and was doing.
- 7:46[SPEAKER_01]: If anything, he was doing something right.
- 7:49[SPEAKER_01]: But the barge became this weird symbol of America's problem with trash.
- 7:53[SPEAKER_01]: We all make it, but we want someone else to be in charge of cleaning up our mess.
- 7:57[SPEAKER_01]: The trash wasn't the problem.
- 7:59[SPEAKER_01]: We were.
- 8:00[SPEAKER_01]: Well, not necessarily us, the late 1980s versions of us.
- 8:04[SPEAKER_01]: After the Mowbrow incident, nightly news began running stories about how America was running out of landfill space and that giant piles of trash might be the new normal.
- 8:13[SPEAKER_01]: But it wasn't true.
- 8:15[SPEAKER_01]: The environmental protection agency had just changed the rules on landfills.
- 8:19[SPEAKER_01]: Now, all landfills had to line the bottom with plastics so spillage from decomposing waste wasn't filtering into water supplies.
- 8:26[SPEAKER_01]: However, many small town dumping spaces were out of compliance, so could no longer legally accept trash.
- 8:32[SPEAKER_01]: But that didn't mean that space was running out.
- 8:34[SPEAKER_01]: Harrelson never officially said how much the Mowbro disaster left him out of pocket, and who can blame him.
- 8:41[SPEAKER_01]: The poor man had already suffered enough embarrassment.
- 8:44[SPEAKER_01]: If that were me, the number of zeros would have me flooding back the tiers.
- 8:49[SPEAKER_01]: But it wasn't all bad news, the following year saw an unprecedented level of public discussion about ways to disposal in, there's a good chance Mopero played a significant role in the spike in recycling rates throughout the late 1980s and beyond.
- 9:03[SPEAKER_01]: Sure, Harrelson got egg on his face, but it did something good, right?
- 9:08[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that's debatable.
- 9:10[SPEAKER_01]: Fast forward to today and seven movers worth of garbage leaves New York every single day.
- 9:15[SPEAKER_01]: That's almost 50 a week, so has anything really changed?
- 9:20[SPEAKER_01]: Sure, many of us are far more conscious about ways than what we do to the planet, but it doesn't seem to have done anything to quail the steady stream of refuse we make getting higher and higher.
- 9:31[SPEAKER_01]: What do you think?
- 9:32[SPEAKER_01]: Has our relationship with the filth we make just become more invisible?
- 9:36[SPEAKER_01]: Or is there not a problem at all?
- 9:38[SPEAKER_01]: Let me know down in the comments.
- 9:40[SPEAKER_01]: In the meantime, I might not be sure how to feel about them all, but I've rounded up some other shipping disasters that are absolutely horror-shows.
- 9:48[SPEAKER_01]: Wanna take a look?
- 9:49[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know where my kidding, of course you do.
- 9:52[SPEAKER_01]: Let's go.
- 9:53[SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes when I got the bad feelies, I lay a bit thinking about all the mistakes I've made in life.
- 9:59[SPEAKER_01]: Like the time I peeped on my proud aid and seen your eye.
- 10:02[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry, Jessica.
- 10:04[SPEAKER_01]: But for all my shortcomings I've never made a mistake quite as empathetic as the MV Tri-color.
- 10:10[SPEAKER_01]: This 620-foot vehicle carrier was traveling from Zebrou Belgium to Southampton on December 14th, 2002, transporting around 3,000 luxury automobiles when it collided with another cargo ship, the Kurhiba.
- 10:24[SPEAKER_01]: Suppose at least the crash was caused by an error involving a third ship, the MV Clary, which forced the two colliding ships to change course into each other.
- 10:34[SPEAKER_01]: The Kareba wasn't damaged too badly and managed to make it back to port, but it's nothing on the tricolor, which sank where she was struck and sat fully submerged in one of the world's busiest shipping lanes.
- 10:46[SPEAKER_01]: Yikes.
- 10:47[SPEAKER_01]: Now crashing a 620 foot boat and losing $30 million worth of cars with it would have you feeling pretty silly.
- 10:54[SPEAKER_01]: But do you know what would have you feeling even
- 11:01[SPEAKER_01]: Twice.
- 11:02[SPEAKER_01]: Yep, just two days after the crash, another cargo ship, the Nikolao sailed straight into the wreckage.
- 11:07[SPEAKER_01]: The Nikolao got stuck on top of the ship and had to wait for the tide to rise before she could free herself.
- 11:13[SPEAKER_01]: And on January 1st, yet another ship, the Vicki sailed into the Ambitry color.
- 11:18[SPEAKER_01]: The crew hadn't paid attention to the warnings by the French Navy and consequently also got stuck on top.
- 11:24[SPEAKER_01]: Except the Vicki had 77,000 tons of highly flammable oil on board.
- 11:29[SPEAKER_01]: Uh-oh... Rackylessly they managed to free themselves without a hitch and none of the oil spilled out.
- 11:36[SPEAKER_01]: Phew.
- 11:37[SPEAKER_01]: But it could have been a hell of a lot worse.
- 11:40[SPEAKER_01]: As if this wasn't already a ridiculous enough scenario in January 22nd, a salvage tugboat coming to aid the trackhuller accidentally hit a safety valve on the ship causing a huge oil spill.
- 11:52[SPEAKER_01]: Man, who did they put in charge of this?
- 11:54[SPEAKER_01]: This is one of the most incompetent operations I've ever heard of.
- 11:58[SPEAKER_01]: And just over a month, three ships had collided with it, and the boat that was meant to be helping just dumped oil everywhere.
- 12:05[SPEAKER_01]: What a catastrophe.
- 12:10[SPEAKER_01]: Well, if $38 million in Lost Cargo wasn't bad enough, there was also the cost incurred from a two-year salvage operation to remove the ship, the damage down to three other ships, cleaning up the oil spill, and the delays it caused running through the shipping route too.
- 12:24[SPEAKER_01]: The framework for the salvage operation was never made public, let's face it, they were embarrassed enough already, so we don't know the exact figure, but considering everything, I wouldn't be surprised if this went deep into the hundreds of millions.
- 12:39[SPEAKER_01]: Now I understand why my mom always said to look both ways before crossing a busy shipping lane.
- 12:44[SPEAKER_01]: So the MV tracker got away with only a teensy tiny oil spill, but what about when oil spills go horribly wrong?
- 12:53[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that's where the Omicot could these come in.
- 12:56[SPEAKER_01]: On March 16, 1972, while transporting over 58 million gallons of light crude oil from Saudi Arabia to Rotterdam, the ship ran into some issues near Port-Saurox near Brittany Frans.
- 13:08[SPEAKER_01]: The weather was choppy, and a giant wave slammed into the ship's rudder, causing the helm to lose control completely.
- 13:15[SPEAKER_01]: Now you think being able to handle, you know, the ocean is one of the fundamental basics of a boat, and in most cases it is.
- 13:23[SPEAKER_01]: However, American petroleum company Amaco, who owned a boat, had cheap down on essential repairs.
- 13:29[SPEAKER_01]: That their headed studs on the rudder had sheared away and were no longer suitable so the amico cadese got battered, but that was only the start of their woes.
- 13:38[SPEAKER_01]: Twelve hours after the steering was ruined the ship ran a ground, causing water to rush into the engine room completely flooding it.
- 13:45[SPEAKER_01]: This violently ripped a hole in two and millions of gallons of oil came pouring out.
- 13:51[SPEAKER_01]: The sea was still rough, so containing the spill wasn't an option
- 13:59[SPEAKER_01]: Before long, more than 45 miles of French coastline were slathered with thick oil, over 20,000 birds perished, and the local marine life was decimated.
- 14:09[SPEAKER_01]: At the time, it was the largest oil spill ever recorded.
- 14:13[SPEAKER_01]: Although tugging vessels responded quickly to the disaster, the poor weather conditions made it impossible to attach a toe line to the cadets.
- 14:20[SPEAKER_01]: Because of this, the boat ripped in half, and each part began to drift in almost opposite directions.
- 14:26[SPEAKER_01]: Jeez.
- 14:28[SPEAKER_01]: It took two whole weeks for a decision to be made on what to do with the vessel, and then the end something drastic was settled on.
- 14:36[SPEAKER_01]: Seeing no other choice, the Navy was enlisted to destroy and sink the vessel by dropping dead charges onto it from helicopters.
- 14:43[SPEAKER_01]: A whopping 4,200 pounds of explosives were detonated 26 feet below the surface, and the Amacoca D sank just 15 minutes later.
- 14:53[SPEAKER_01]: Man, what a mess.
- 14:56[SPEAKER_01]: So how much did this cost?
- 14:58[SPEAKER_01]: While discounting the irreversible damage down to local marine life and biodiversity, which is arguably priceless, a US federal judge ordered Amico oil corporation to pay $85.2 million in fines, $45 million was to cover the cost of the spill, then $39 million was an interest for the damage cost.
- 15:23[SPEAKER_01]: According to estimates made in 1978, the Amacoca D's disaster was likely to have caused $250 million in damage to fisheries and tourist amenities alone.
- 15:35[SPEAKER_01]: That's a cool quarter of a billion dollars.
- 15:38[SPEAKER_01]: However the French government later claimed the damage and clean up operation cost far more at a mind-boggling $1.6 billion.
- 15:48[SPEAKER_01]: Of this, Amico agreed to pay just $230 million in 1992 for their negligent responsibility and causing this horrendous ordeal.
- 15:57[SPEAKER_01]: Hmm, sounds to me like they got off light.
- 16:01[SPEAKER_01]: What do you think?
- 16:02[SPEAKER_01]: Should they have had to pay the full fine or were they punished enough?
- 16:05[SPEAKER_01]: Want to know my favorite thing about being on the water?
- 16:08[SPEAKER_01]: There's no way fire can get me.
- 16:10[SPEAKER_01]: I'm safe on my little floaty island.
- 16:13[SPEAKER_01]: Well, not totally safe.
- 16:15[SPEAKER_01]: On the 21st of March in 2006, the MV Hyundai Fortune was sailing through the Gulf of Aden, 60 miles south of Yemen.
- 16:23[SPEAKER_01]: Suddenly the crew was startled by the sign of a ferocious explosion below the deck.
- 16:28[SPEAKER_01]: Nobody knew where to come from or what it caused it, but the subsequent flames began to spread through the stern of the ship at an alarming pace.
- 16:37[SPEAKER_01]: Despite their best efforts to contain the fire, the 27 crew members were forced to abandon ship and were rescued by a Dutch frigate that was conveniently nearby.
- 16:46[SPEAKER_01]: And just as well, the fire continued to tear through the ship and eventually found, he'll never guess, several containers of fireworks above deck.
- 16:56[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, the Blaze swiftly ignited them in all hellbro clues.
- 17:01[SPEAKER_01]: The Ravid ship continued to burn for several days, and the coursing flames destroyed the engine room, which flooded due to the damage.
- 17:09[SPEAKER_01]: In all looked hopeless until firefighting, Tugboats arrived on March 23 and managed to quail the inferno.
- 17:15[SPEAKER_01]: Once the blaze was contained the ship was towed in nearby Oman to evaluate the extent of the damage.
- 17:21[SPEAKER_01]: Roughly one-third of the containers were destroyed by the blaze and many more were lost overboard.
- 17:26[SPEAKER_01]: What's more after the engine had failed power to the ship had gone down with it, so any refrigerated goods were also ruined despite being untouched by the fire.
- 17:36[SPEAKER_01]: For the cherry on top, roughly a tenth of all the cargo was, uninsured.
- 17:42[SPEAKER_01]: Hehehehe, but what actually caused that mysterious initial explosion?
- 17:47[SPEAKER_01]: While a subsequent investigation revealed that an undeclared container holding petroleum-based cleaning fluids have been stowed by the engine realm.
- 17:55[SPEAKER_01]: The heat from the engine most likely warmed the fluid to a critical point, then... ...cuboom.
- 18:02[SPEAKER_01]: Whoever was shipping it had failed to declare it, probably so they didn't have to pay the additional handling fee for dangerous chemicals.
- 18:09[SPEAKER_01]: Well that little shortcut were really backfired.
- 18:12[SPEAKER_01]: The combined cost for the Shipper Bears and Lascargo was estimated at around $800 million.
- 18:20[SPEAKER_01]: But the ship was repaired successfully and continued to work as a container carrier all the way until 2018.
- 18:28[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I love me happy ending.
- 18:31[SPEAKER_01]: While I'm sure their bank accounts weren't happy, but we take the little ones where we can.
- 18:36[SPEAKER_01]: When I travel, I like to travel and comfort.
- 18:39[SPEAKER_01]: I got my pillow, my blanky, and my sweatpants on.
- 18:42[SPEAKER_01]: The ones without the spaghetti of stains in the crotch don't ask, but if there's one comfort I'd avoid like to plague, it's the M.O.L.
- 18:50[SPEAKER_01]: comfort.
- 18:51[SPEAKER_01]: At over 1000 feet long, this container ship was an absolute wiper.
- 18:57[SPEAKER_01]: On June 17, 2013, she was browsing the Indian Ocean from Singapore to Saudi Arabia when she got caught in bad weather around 200 miles off the coast of Yemen.
- 19:07[SPEAKER_01]: Storm Shmorm, she can handle it, right?
- 19:10[SPEAKER_01]: Wrong.
- 19:11[SPEAKER_01]: The storm was so strong that it smashed a large crack down the middle of the hull and tore the whole ship in half.
- 19:18[SPEAKER_00]: Croikki.
- 19:19[SPEAKER_01]: The crew justifiably got the devil out of there in a band and shit.
- 19:24[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, what were they supposed to do?
- 19:25[SPEAKER_01]: Stick it back together?
- 19:27[SPEAKER_01]: No chance.
- 19:28[SPEAKER_01]: Luckily, they escaped unscathed, and all that could be done was contact a salvage crew to save what they could.
- 19:34[SPEAKER_01]: I saw Miracle, the 2,500 foot halves remained afloat and began drifting northeast.
- 19:40[SPEAKER_01]: However, the good news didn't last long.
- 19:43[SPEAKER_01]: By June 24th, tugboats had arrived on the scene to drag the bow to safety.
- 19:47[SPEAKER_01]: However, just two days later, water had crept inside the stern of the vessel.
- 19:52[SPEAKER_01]: The very next day, the whole stern sank rapidly to a depth of 13,000 feet, carrying some 1700 containers with it.
- 20:00[SPEAKER_01]: Amazingly none of the 1500 tons of fuel on board to stern leak to her, everything would have been made exponentially worse.
- 20:09[SPEAKER_01]: But fast forward to July 6 and things went, from bad to worse.
- 20:13[SPEAKER_01]: A fire broke out in the rear of the bow section and due to bad weather the savage crew was unable to keep the blaze under control.
- 20:20[SPEAKER_01]: The fire raged on for four days destroying most of the 2,400 containers on board.
- 20:26[SPEAKER_01]: frustratingly, the cause was never properly determined because the bow section also sank the very next evening.
- 20:32[SPEAKER_01]: This time to 9800 feet, taking the remaining cargo and an additional 1,750 tons of fuel with it.
- 20:42[SPEAKER_01]: Cripes.
- 20:43[SPEAKER_01]: The loss of all 4,293 containers on board is the largest number of containers lost in a single event to this day.
- 20:52[SPEAKER_01]: So as you can imagine, the whole
- 20:56[SPEAKER_01]: Insurers had to cough up between $304 million in claims for Lost Cargo, on top of that the operator of the ship, Mitsui OSK lines had ensured the M.O.L.
- 21:06[SPEAKER_01]: Comfort's hull and machinery for a whopping $66 million.
- 21:11[SPEAKER_01]: But that's just the start.
- 21:13[SPEAKER_01]: The MOL Comfort wasn't the only boat at this time.
- 21:17[SPEAKER_01]: Six sister vessels were out and used that were made at the same time to the same specifications.
- 21:23[SPEAKER_01]: If actions weren't taken quickly, this could be a problem that spiraled even further out of control.
- 21:28[SPEAKER_01]: Luckily all six were caught back and phased out while an upgrade work was done to strengthen the hole to make sure another disaster like this never happened again.
- 21:37[SPEAKER_01]: However, more work means more money, not just in the cost of the upgrades, but also the money lost from them being out of service.
- 21:45[SPEAKER_01]: What a fiasco.
- 21:47[SPEAKER_01]: The only positive is that nobody was heard.
- 21:50[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know about you, but after all this, I keep them at legs on the ground for a little bit.
- 21:55[SPEAKER_01]: This water business is scary.
- 21:57[SPEAKER_01]: And on that note, that's enough shipwrecks for one day.
- 22:01[SPEAKER_01]: I'm starting to get a sinking feeling.
- 22:06[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for listening to the podcast.
- 22:08[SPEAKER_00]: We'll see you again next time.
- 22:09[SPEAKER_01]: You'll want to be amazed.