• Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    The video I saw of the collision showed crew members out on the bow of the coast guard vessel hanging a fender over the bow, seconds before the bow just disappeared.

    I hope they’re okay, but I saw a post showing tracking data of a number of Chinese vessels doing a search pattern, so I don’t think they were.

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      4 days ago

      They’re most likely pulp. The amount of crush on the bow, coupled with the size of the hole in the other ship… Yeah not much hospitable place for a squishy human to be.

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        4 days ago

        Humans have survived wilder shit. One never knows. If they were crippled and try to hang in the open ocean? Magic 8 Ball says, “Don’t count on it.”