Ferry Crash

[Egg Nog]

Earlier today a huge ferry malfunctioned and completely missed the dock, plowing into a marina. This is about 2 minutes from my house... I biked down the hill about 1/2 an hour ago to check it out - pretty crazy.

EDIT: Those aren't my photos - when I got there, the ferry was finally unloading all the cars and stuff (like 6 hours after it happened, sucks for them!), and most of the crash area had been cleaned up.



http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/natio...ry-050630.html

http://www.canada.com/national/story...3-acc9a6f91112

[whiteballz]

im so glad no one was hurt seriously.

just shows how badly things can get out of hand..

[johnnyperl]

yikes!
ive been on that a few times, i think ill swim next time.

[mechanixfetch]

Yeah the TV coverage was nuts it's quite the way to get up. *mumble groan food....tv...HOLY CRAP!*

[ScionDriver]

Thats crazy. There was a fire in a neighborhood near mine and it got out of control and burned some woods. Thats all I got.

[Wouter Melissen]

Is that the ferry to Vancouver Island? I think I have been right there were it crashed into the pier.

[Chinky_boi]

Ya it is the ferry from Horseshoe Bay-Nainamo. This happened in Horseshoe Bay

[henk4]

May be BC Ferries should be privatised????

[drakkie]

maybe some new boats would be nice

[henk4]

maybe some new boats would be nice

The last time BC Ferries entered into a newbuilding programme for high speed ferries, they created one of the biggest f..k-ups in canadian industrial history

[McReis]

May be BC Ferries should be privatised????

That would be be the cheapest way to go.

[mechanixfetch]

it just finished its refit on monday. Good job union workers!

[Egg Nog]

May be BC Ferries should be privatised????

What we really need is a bridge to Vancouver Island. I mean, they already have a bridge to Prince Edward Island on Canada's east coast, and they have far fewer people. The money the ferries have wasted in the past decade could have paid for a massive part of it. *(@$ing ferries.

[mechanixfetch]

But it gives out jobs to blue collar workers at union rates, you should love that you communist.

[Egg Nog]

But it gives out jobs to blue collar workers at union rates, you should love that you communist.

I hate every aspect of the ferries, including their ^&@$ing union. They have far too many employees, 90% of whom get 25$/hour to sit around on their asses.

I only sometimes find unions acceptable, but idiot ferry workers are never acceptable.