Yes it is. What people are deriding as a "failure" is in fact, their lack of appreciation for the art of Ship Breaking; a rather common event of which is that a vessel is purposely grounded on a beach so that it can be worked on (broken apart for scrap metal recovery). Most Ship Breaking Yards are now on the open beaches of the third world subcontinent (Pakistan, Bangladesh, India) or on the inland beaches of developing nations (eg Turkey, People's Republic of China) as more stringently controlled countries in the west do not allow such hazardous work to be done in physically dangerous and or environmentally unsafe conditions. It has been an ongoing and politically contentious issue of large generally western multinational corporations and governments dumping their unsafe trash onto poorer and less environmentally sophisticated nations, in order to avoid having to pay tremendous money to have the obsolescent vessels (often laden with toxic fuels and lubricants) safely discarded. Source: http://www.shipbreakingplatform.com/
If one looks closely at the ship (or what remains of it) on the left, as well as the "building" (another partially broken ship) on the right; it's all scrap. They're not even on a dock, but a beach.
^ indeed it does look like another ship.... i guess it wasn't a fail. Just haven't seen such a thing.... lol
If you want to see a real boating mishap; then here: [video=youtube;whHQaTYGAjg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whHQaTYGAjg"[/video] Now THAT's a real OOPS, LOL... -clapclap Indeed! [video=youtube;i7ZFG0UNBGo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7ZFG0UNBGo"[/video] Documentary type narration (Commercial nature but very informative) [video=youtube;mRJYgNc_TNc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRJYgNc_TNc"[/video] Scenes of Ship Breaking set to Techno music.
LOL, yes. I remember my brother once getting laughed at by some ghetto kids who thought he forgot to remove the price tag from his parka; it was a ski lift ticket. It's all a matter of perspective.
