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Shipping Container Comment
Ever since I found out that container ships often get shipwrecked and their entire crews disappear, well, I have gotten a new respect for them. How creepy...really, there should be some movies made about container ships, the eerie floating cities with hardly anyone in them.
Often is a very strong word
Container ship wrecks can be lurid and produce interesting photos, but they're not common nor all that deadly. Wikipedia has the best-looking lists of shipwrecks by year I can find, and the average seems to be about 1-2 noteworthy container ship incidents per year, with little loss of life, though bulk carriers seem to fare rather worse. That may also be due to the greater number of bulk carriers, and also a bit to the ill fortune of four (!) bulk vessels (and one tanker) that sank in a single Black Sea storm in 2007.
On the other hand, industrial accidents happen. What you don't see in these reports are the numerous seamen who must die in more mundane incidents, though you could say the same (more or less) about construction workers or loggers.
However, they are, as you say, amazingly lightly crewed for their size. It just doesn't take much of a crew to run these ships, so they have about 20-30 crew members.
I had to check on IMDB. Only one entry for "container ship" came up, and it was an episode of NUMB3RS.
Further reading: Wired's excellent story on the wreck of the container ship Cougar Ace. None of the crew died, but one member of the salvage team did.
Another Shipping Container Comment
I think finding out that container ships ever got into shipwrecks vs. what I thought before (that container ships were indestructible) is often. I like that shipwrecked list - good creepy reading and I will have to read that Wired article sometime.
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I'm serious. Ok, this one is VERY esoteric.
I don't think it's
I don't think it's particularly esoteric that some cyclists take pictures of their bikes leaning against the garage door, or that many garage doors are some shade of white. I do think it's kind of esoteric that there's a Flickr group devoted to just that: the "Bikes leaning on white garage doors" group.
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