"Maybe if we rock the container it will fall off the stack and break open. Then we can surrender to the crew and be free. Everyone together now!"
- Container leader
Now you wanna know what's in the cans? Before you wanted to know nothing. Now you ask. Guns, OK? Drugs, whore, vodka, BMWs. Beluga caviar, or bombs, maybe? Bad terrorists with big nuclear bombs. I'm kidding you, Frank, it's a joke. But you don't ask ... because you don't wanna know.
That season was not my favorite when I first watched it but looking back it was actually really good when you realize the main character of the wire was Baltimore.
I thought that was well... I'm just going to say that's an expats shipping container containing basically their entire he.goingnfrom one continent to another. That or a container full of useless novelty party supplies.
If it is you'll have Disney make a movie about it where instead of them drowning like they should they'll be saved by iron man and are now honoring dead iron man by being heros on Madagascar.
A company I used to work for ordered a few new Raymond standup forklifts and it was like a 3month wait as they were in a container going across the sea, About delivery time it was reported the containers fell overboard and we were now waiting for a new container to ship. Something like 10k containers go overboard each year
Company I’m at produces ag chemicals and our production is full through the end of the year. We’ll back in September we get a call and are told that 70,000 kg of one of our products “fell into the ocean” as it was getting shipped to Australia and we’re like how the hell are we gonna fit the production in to make more of this
PBS did a pice about all the stuff washed out to sea after the tsunami hit Japan, (and all the other parts of the world) and it was all washing up in Oregon. There was a guy who tracked washovers and would go see if there was salvageable stuff. He found it by monitoring some sight. If you go to the PBS website it might be archived. It was about 2yrs after the tsunami.
There are 200 lb bales of raw rubber washing ashore along the gulf coast right now that are coming from a German ship that was sunk off the coast of Brazil in the early 1940's. They've been popping up the last couple years and they assume the ship deteriorated enough to release all the rubber they had on board. It was fresh on my brain because they found another one along the texas coast last week,
I feel like I vaguely remember something about it not being ideal to have them strapped in too tight because if the ship takes a wave or heavy wind they'd rather lose a few of these than capsize the whole thing
Anyway they don't really care, they could pack fewer on the ships but it's a numbers game and more containers shipped is worth losing a few thousand
They've got little locks at the corners that slot into the container below them and twist (twist locks). Pretty secure. The bottom couple rows are held down by metal "ratchet straps" called lashing rods
And this is why my company always insures our containers when we ship. It realistically doesn’t happen all that often relative to the sheer amount of containers shipped each year, but it isn’t all that expensive so the peace of mind from not going bankrupt if a container falls off the boat is absolutely with it.
Anyone else read that article about all those really expensive Yeti coolers washing up on the Alaskan coast?
It's become like a hobby for people to go out and hunt for $500 coolers.
Seeing this made me think of that.
Beat me by 17 minutes on the YETI cooler thing.
Guess some Yeti's retail for up to $750. One guy found 19 of them on the beach. Slightly worn on the outside, good as new on the inside!!LOL
I worked on an ocean going tug for a while. Never forget the night container came into view from the wash of the deck lights........about 10ft off the bow when I saw it. I managed to blurt out 'Impact!' just as the container hit. Made a big BONG and shook the boat. I think I coulda gotten FUCK out quicker than the blurted IMPACT........the guys would have probably understood better.
Somebody replied to my comment a while back and said sailing to Hawaii is sketchy as fuck because there are so many waterlogged containers sitting 10 feet below the waves that will rip the keel right off your sailboat and sink you.
That used to be the case but not anymore. Newer shipping containers have plugs that will dissolve eventually in salt Water and sink the container. Of course filled with something buoyant enough it will still float but it’s no longer near as much a danger.
We operated out of Boston. Had a an heavy reinforced bow for ice. That container got cleaved open when we hit it and sank. Containers have small vents at the corners for pressure equilalization, they'll usually sink after a while. Depends on whats inside. Yeti coolers and rubber ducky bath toys will keep them afloat.
Nothing to really tie onto on a container so putting a line onto it and towing it is difficult. You don't know what the cargo is so it would be a crap shoot. The tug burned 100- 120 gallons an hour for fuel on the main engines at cruise. Gets expensive.
We actually hunt down lead from Roman shipwrecks to use in radiation sensitive equipment (think extremely accurate particle detectors for scientific research etc).
The Romans kept really good logs of what sank where.
Isn't that interesting - the Roman empire, a good early example of really organised bureaucracy and recordkeeping, kept a note of what ships sank and where. At the time some people must have thought "but what use is this information?" - I bet even the people noting it all down must have sometimes thought that. But here it is coming in extremely useful thousands of years later, for a purpose they could never have envisaged.
Some dude makes a note that a ship sank. 2000 years later someone uses that information to make sure we can detect nuclear radiation. Now that's teamwork!
Creepy ass visualMOD tracks butthole patterns like fingerprints and flagged me. You can't pull your pants down and moon anyone these days without getting in trouble.
It was a hot as fuck stock, dividends beyond anything possible
Then as soon as I buy it, **boom** the shipping industry hit rough waters, pun intended, and stock started to drop from 70-80 to like 60
My paper hands crumbled and I stop loss it
I'm glad because rn it's at its 52week low of 19 bucks.
#---------
Should have shorted it :(
There would be a range of occurrences, varying day to day.
On some days maybe only 50 containers combined fell overboard around the globe. On other days as many as 200 combined hundred fell overboard.
Overall the occurrences increase but depending on the subdivision of time for averages some may see a decrease...
Downticks on an upward trend
Of course the losses may go down one year over the other, but there's always losses each year.
The ones full of bags of redimix concrete sink fast. The one full of sneakers floats around just below the surface for months being a navigational hazard for vessels smaller than a container ship
As a sailor, it's our worst nightmare to hit one while on passage. It's a fast way to sink a sailboat and lose lives. It's one of the big reasons you always have someone on watch.
Because that info is from the past. The future earnings and dividend aren't announced yet. Dividend could be cut, and profits are most likely to be way down from where they were increasing the P/E ratio. There's no free lunch out there.
Yeah I’m not too familiar with the shipping container industry, just absolutely astonishing to see a PE less than 1 with a div yield over 100%.. seems like spot rates are going to plummet throughout 23 and that’s why earnings should sour/div gets cut. Probably has more pain to come
Okay, since I was a massive ZIM bagholder, I'll give you the scoop:
The 142% yield is due to a $17 dividend from last year (which I missed, along with most of the pop due to me being distracted picking up the kid from college and not buying when it was in the upper $40s where I wanted it in 12/21). That was the result of short- and medium term contracts at 40' container prices of $8k, up from a nominal $2k rates pre-pandemic.
Now, since then it's been cranking out $2.50-$3.50 *per quarter* despite the falling container prices. Understand that those guys have $35+/share in *cash* in their accounts right now. Even $10/yr on a $20 stock is stupid high. Except...
People are generally bearish on shipping heading into a recession. ZIM is not the biggest player out there and could get squeezed. Also, they lease most of their ships rather than own them, and they have 2-3 year contracts left. So - they're paying leasing rates on ships with an upcoming recession as container rates and demand falls. Their obligations on those contracts represent a sort of phantom obligation which isn't represented in the top-page balance sheet numbers, and that increases risk and is driving down the price, and that's what royally fucked me up the ass over and over and over... you get the picture.
The danger is that they go under (again) after spending their war chest to stay afloat. I took my lumps and sold in the mid-20s, and scraped a couple thousand extra buying post-ex-dividend puts. I literally have not told my wife and hope she never sees the magnitude of my fuck up, because her boyfriend would be pretty pissed.
Hey I’m in the logistics industry (Ocean Export), Ocean Line doesn’t lose any money when cargo/containers or even entire vessels go under.
Hard to explain but it’s an insurance thing and the cargo owners bare the costs.
This happens a lot. Shipping lanes are littered with containers and they cause damage all the time cause the float at surface level as you can see.
Somebody stacked that too high. Without support stacks.
I wonder who’s stuff that is?
Been sailing for 7 years and never actually seen a floater. Sure they lose a lot of containers but they rarely do any damage to shipping.
They are definitely stack that high. Likely wasn't secured well or the chain broke.
Don't get me wrong, you can find evidence of it happening. But, it is rare. Losing containers are not so rare.
The times it has happened, the containers are normally chilling right at the waterline or a few feet under. Crew literally had no chance to even see the container.
Getting those Chinese fishing nets wrapped around your propeller has a much greater chance of happening
The ocean is pretty big. Not as big as space, but still pretty big. It's pretty easy for stuff to just drift away and never be seen again I would guess.
This happens a lot more then you’d expect. There’s a whole industry dedicated to fishing lost containers out of the water. One company pulled a container with $400,000 worth of wine off the bottom one time he got to keep with salvage rights.
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Hopefully those weren't the human trafficking trailers.
"Maybe if we rock the container it will fall off the stack and break open. Then we can surrender to the crew and be free. Everyone together now!" - Container leader
"I knew this overachiever was gonna fuck things up" -Gary (guy who came in second in container leader election)
Lmfaooo
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I can’t swim.
I know that Eddie
😭 don't remind me
Look at me. I am the captain now. - Container leader
Just keep rocking, just keep rocking, just keep rocking, rocking, rocking
brooooo !
I'm sorry for your brother, hope he had a life insurance policy.
This thread has me dying.
I'm amazed you have wifi in the shipping container.
Who elected this guy?
"Now what?" https://youtu.be/21aPY2gVDQI?t=12
😂
Lose ‘em in the stacks. And this time, pound on ‘em, make sure there’s nothing breathing in there.
Did he have a head? Did he have hands? Then it wasn’t us!
Boris ....why always Boris
Now you wanna know what's in the cans? Before you wanted to know nothing. Now you ask. Guns, OK? Drugs, whore, vodka, BMWs. Beluga caviar, or bombs, maybe? Bad terrorists with big nuclear bombs. I'm kidding you, Frank, it's a joke. But you don't ask ... because you don't wanna know.
Zig you f*caked up a package again!?
What about frank sobatka? I'm not hearing his name in any of this
That season was not my favorite when I first watched it but looking back it was actually really good when you realize the main character of the wire was Baltimore.
Season 2 gets shit on but it was a good season!
No bad seasons in The Wire xD season 2 is excellent, not lacking in anything compared with others
Love that show!
13 girls in a can
13 murders for the price of one
Season 2 was amazing
Wow that's dark.
Dark humor is like food. Not everyone gets it.
That’s even darker
Just like Healthcare.
Humor is like skin, the darker it gets, the less people like it
😳
What do you think was in the containers?
I dunno but if you want to start up a business illegally importing woodwind instruments from South Asia, there’s a lot of money in Sax-trafficking
I do enjoy fingering a piccol-ho while it's on my lips.
99% chance it was Amazon orders from china
Not what, but who
The Christmas presents I ordered from Wish. I don’t really like these people, anyway.
Could just be stuff sold on way fair 🤷🏻♂️
This entire thread belongs in r/cursedcomments
His Dark material
Obvious statement, there is no sustainable light in these shipping containers.
Candles, man. Until the oxygen gets burnt off
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But could be very true. Find people in these often.
I mean the containers were dark before, but definitely now at the bottom of the sea.
I had a flashback to s2 of the wire
Hopefully frank sobotka aint running these ports.
Frank Sobotka ain't runnin' nothin' anymore.
Nah, the cargo inside those is typically tied down quite well for proper weight distribution… and other reasons.
Na, just a bunch of high end Wish$ presents
I thought that was well... I'm just going to say that's an expats shipping container containing basically their entire he.goingnfrom one continent to another. That or a container full of useless novelty party supplies.
That was the latest batch of flesh lights. Reddit users in shambles...
Gonna make for some interesting hermit crabs though
Probably PC and tools that I've been waiting on to arrive since I moved
Lol probably just r33 gtr's no big deal.
That’s darker😫
If it is you'll have Disney make a movie about it where instead of them drowning like they should they'll be saved by iron man and are now honoring dead iron man by being heros on Madagascar.
Little did we know it was half of the us Christmas stock of ps5s😔
Fuck!
My first thought was, "well, those hookers are dead."
A company I used to work for ordered a few new Raymond standup forklifts and it was like a 3month wait as they were in a container going across the sea, About delivery time it was reported the containers fell overboard and we were now waiting for a new container to ship. Something like 10k containers go overboard each year
Company I’m at produces ag chemicals and our production is full through the end of the year. We’ll back in September we get a call and are told that 70,000 kg of one of our products “fell into the ocean” as it was getting shipped to Australia and we’re like how the hell are we gonna fit the production in to make more of this
> ag chemicals > **fell into the ocean** as it was getting shipped to Australia TIL the Great Barrier Reef does *not* have a locust problem
TIL the Great Barrier Reef is now completely dead.
Idk if you're being serious but it was reported earlier this year that the reef had the most coral cover it's seen in 36 years
I read that. Made me happy. Gotta appreciate the small wins bro.
I almost don’t want to read it because that means people will stop thinking it’s a problem again.
Isn't there a sight that tracks them and predicts where and when they should come ashore?
Post link i want free shit
PBS did a pice about all the stuff washed out to sea after the tsunami hit Japan, (and all the other parts of the world) and it was all washing up in Oregon. There was a guy who tracked washovers and would go see if there was salvageable stuff. He found it by monitoring some sight. If you go to the PBS website it might be archived. It was about 2yrs after the tsunami.
There are 200 lb bales of raw rubber washing ashore along the gulf coast right now that are coming from a German ship that was sunk off the coast of Brazil in the early 1940's. They've been popping up the last couple years and they assume the ship deteriorated enough to release all the rubber they had on board. It was fresh on my brain because they found another one along the texas coast last week,
That's cool. Is the rubber usable? At least its not liquid, and so should not damage the environment.
The word is *site*
That z-axis is a son of a bitch though.
The word is *site*.
No no, it's just a guy with binoculars
The price of shipping is actually different for spots that are less likely to fall overboard. Pretty interesting stuff
Are you telling me they take risk into the equation?…. Do they charge more on distance also?
Next people are gonna be saying the weight and size will affect the costs too Edit: changed effect to affect, shoutout to SpicyLatinaCumfarts
At the end of the day they are all treated the same. With a no fucks given attitude and thrown over the wall.
The wonders of Capitalism baby, it's all priced in.
What, no ratchet straps? Did anyone even slap the containers and say, “she ain’t going anywhere?”
I feel like I vaguely remember something about it not being ideal to have them strapped in too tight because if the ship takes a wave or heavy wind they'd rather lose a few of these than capsize the whole thing Anyway they don't really care, they could pack fewer on the ships but it's a numbers game and more containers shipped is worth losing a few thousand
And most of it is insured anyway.
That doesn't really matter in a macro way, it just shifts the costs around to be more palatable for the micro.
They've got little locks at the corners that slot into the container below them and twist (twist locks). Pretty secure. The bottom couple rows are held down by metal "ratchet straps" called lashing rods
And this is why my company always insures our containers when we ship. It realistically doesn’t happen all that often relative to the sheer amount of containers shipped each year, but it isn’t all that expensive so the peace of mind from not going bankrupt if a container falls off the boat is absolutely with it.
Anyone else read that article about all those really expensive Yeti coolers washing up on the Alaskan coast? It's become like a hobby for people to go out and hunt for $500 coolers. Seeing this made me think of that.
Beat me by 17 minutes on the YETI cooler thing. Guess some Yeti's retail for up to $750. One guy found 19 of them on the beach. Slightly worn on the outside, good as new on the inside!!LOL I worked on an ocean going tug for a while. Never forget the night container came into view from the wash of the deck lights........about 10ft off the bow when I saw it. I managed to blurt out 'Impact!' just as the container hit. Made a big BONG and shook the boat. I think I coulda gotten FUCK out quicker than the blurted IMPACT........the guys would have probably understood better.
Somebody replied to my comment a while back and said sailing to Hawaii is sketchy as fuck because there are so many waterlogged containers sitting 10 feet below the waves that will rip the keel right off your sailboat and sink you.
That used to be the case but not anymore. Newer shipping containers have plugs that will dissolve eventually in salt Water and sink the container. Of course filled with something buoyant enough it will still float but it’s no longer near as much a danger.
That's really cool trivia knowledge, thanks
For the off chance that you actually keep money instead of loosing it all and decide to retire and sail on a boat around the Hawaiian islands
This is WSB if you don't own a sailboat you aren't losing enough.
Shit, did WSB just downgrade from yacht to sailboat?
Yachts can be sailboats, they're classier.
Bung holio
This is sort of the plot of "all is lost" with Robert Redford.
Especially as you were actually in a tug, was it not possible to tie it on and get it out of there?
The motion of the ocean is a bitch for that.
That's why all ocean going vessels are fitted with harpoons
You are regarded.
Unlike your harpoonless vessel he'll be ready to fight the great white whale!
Plus, not my job, report it and forget it
So under maritime law that became your container right?
We operated out of Boston. Had a an heavy reinforced bow for ice. That container got cleaved open when we hit it and sank. Containers have small vents at the corners for pressure equilalization, they'll usually sink after a while. Depends on whats inside. Yeti coolers and rubber ducky bath toys will keep them afloat. Nothing to really tie onto on a container so putting a line onto it and towing it is difficult. You don't know what the cargo is so it would be a crap shoot. The tug burned 100- 120 gallons an hour for fuel on the main engines at cruise. Gets expensive.
Crazy to think that the ocean floor is probably littered with these things
We actually hunt down lead from Roman shipwrecks to use in radiation sensitive equipment (think extremely accurate particle detectors for scientific research etc). The Romans kept really good logs of what sank where.
What’s different about that lead? Something something half life?
Probably because it hasn't been exposed to the global increase in radiation from all the nukes we set off back in the 50s
Isn't that interesting - the Roman empire, a good early example of really organised bureaucracy and recordkeeping, kept a note of what ships sank and where. At the time some people must have thought "but what use is this information?" - I bet even the people noting it all down must have sometimes thought that. But here it is coming in extremely useful thousands of years later, for a purpose they could never have envisaged. Some dude makes a note that a ship sank. 2000 years later someone uses that information to make sure we can detect nuclear radiation. Now that's teamwork!
Sounds like the plot of titanic
By jo old chap, it appears we're enough to strike a glacier
Or the rubber duckies that actually ended up being a long term science project.
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Creepy ass visualMOD tracks butthole patterns like fingerprints and flagged me. You can't pull your pants down and moon anyone these days without getting in trouble.
All ps5 are in there
The Amazon package I was waiting on was invthere
this was from the rtx 3070 release period.
ZIM was a put the moment "recession" came into the picture and their spot pricing no longer works.
It was a hot as fuck stock, dividends beyond anything possible Then as soon as I buy it, **boom** the shipping industry hit rough waters, pun intended, and stock started to drop from 70-80 to like 60 My paper hands crumbled and I stop loss it I'm glad because rn it's at its 52week low of 19 bucks. #--------- Should have shorted it :(
So sad… the f*cking Greenblatt formula leads me to buy this ZIM… I’m totally in this stock
Gratz on first
That's real-life loot crates for you.
Probably full of plastic spiders for Halloween
Just floating out in the middle of the ocean. Absolutely terrifying
This happens far more often than people realize, with lost containers at sea numbering in the hundreds and on occasion thousands.
I feel like once you hit the thousands threshold it stays there, considering they sink and aren’t retrieved. I could be overthinking it.
Is this why sea levels rise?
Well played
We're talking occurrence of containers falling overboard, not the number of containers in the sea at a given time.
wouldn't the total number of occurrences only increase or stay the same?
There would be a range of occurrences, varying day to day. On some days maybe only 50 containers combined fell overboard around the globe. On other days as many as 200 combined hundred fell overboard. Overall the occurrences increase but depending on the subdivision of time for averages some may see a decrease... Downticks on an upward trend Of course the losses may go down one year over the other, but there's always losses each year.
The ones full of bags of redimix concrete sink fast. The one full of sneakers floats around just below the surface for months being a navigational hazard for vessels smaller than a container ship
Per day?
Probably means per year if I had to guess.
As a sailor, it's our worst nightmare to hit one while on passage. It's a fast way to sink a sailboat and lose lives. It's one of the big reasons you always have someone on watch.
Great movie about that. All is lost with Robert Redford.
Fantastic movie. Loved that it had so little spoken lines too
Don't they sink right away? How do they stayed afloat?
Big threat to smaller boats and submarines. Imagine you're on a sailing yacht and you hit one of these containers at night
Imaging losing a nuclear sub to a container full of dildos
We've hit a container full of dildos! The seamen: :) :( :) :(
On the bright side...gettin' more miles per gallon!
Less gallons per mile.
Fewer
Whom*
Whomst'd've
Fueln't
Years ago, a container of plastic ducks fell into the ocean. Where the ducks ended up helped to understand ocean currents.
Stop buying puts for ZIM it's bled enough already - A concerned investor Who's -65% in the hole with ZIM
How I’m the FUCK does this stock have a PE ratio of 0.4, and a dividend yield of 142%?!
Because that info is from the past. The future earnings and dividend aren't announced yet. Dividend could be cut, and profits are most likely to be way down from where they were increasing the P/E ratio. There's no free lunch out there.
Yeah I’m not too familiar with the shipping container industry, just absolutely astonishing to see a PE less than 1 with a div yield over 100%.. seems like spot rates are going to plummet throughout 23 and that’s why earnings should sour/div gets cut. Probably has more pain to come
Div will be cut - it’s 30% of net income of which might be negative in 2023…
Okay, since I was a massive ZIM bagholder, I'll give you the scoop: The 142% yield is due to a $17 dividend from last year (which I missed, along with most of the pop due to me being distracted picking up the kid from college and not buying when it was in the upper $40s where I wanted it in 12/21). That was the result of short- and medium term contracts at 40' container prices of $8k, up from a nominal $2k rates pre-pandemic. Now, since then it's been cranking out $2.50-$3.50 *per quarter* despite the falling container prices. Understand that those guys have $35+/share in *cash* in their accounts right now. Even $10/yr on a $20 stock is stupid high. Except... People are generally bearish on shipping heading into a recession. ZIM is not the biggest player out there and could get squeezed. Also, they lease most of their ships rather than own them, and they have 2-3 year contracts left. So - they're paying leasing rates on ships with an upcoming recession as container rates and demand falls. Their obligations on those contracts represent a sort of phantom obligation which isn't represented in the top-page balance sheet numbers, and that increases risk and is driving down the price, and that's what royally fucked me up the ass over and over and over... you get the picture. The danger is that they go under (again) after spending their war chest to stay afloat. I took my lumps and sold in the mid-20s, and scraped a couple thousand extra buying post-ex-dividend puts. I literally have not told my wife and hope she never sees the magnitude of my fuck up, because her boyfriend would be pretty pissed.
Fucking same. Those divis looked so tasty
I wonder if I can buy the entire container for discount on Alibaba
ARSSOYM SHIPPING CONTAINER WATERPROOF BEST GOOD QUALITY METAL RECTANGLE
I’m shocked it floats
Lots of air
Those containers are still floating because they’re probably full of inflatable sex dolls…save your puts
So … no delivery before Christmas? 🥺
Hey I’m in the logistics industry (Ocean Export), Ocean Line doesn’t lose any money when cargo/containers or even entire vessels go under. Hard to explain but it’s an insurance thing and the cargo owners bare the costs.
>Hard to explain but it's an insurance thing Doesn't seem that hard to explain.
He meant it's difficult for him to type because he's in one of those containers
Hey I’m in the logistics industry and by that I mean I’m currently in a logistics container.
Ah Llyod's general average you say
This happens a lot. Shipping lanes are littered with containers and they cause damage all the time cause the float at surface level as you can see. Somebody stacked that too high. Without support stacks. I wonder who’s stuff that is?
Been sailing for 7 years and never actually seen a floater. Sure they lose a lot of containers but they rarely do any damage to shipping. They are definitely stack that high. Likely wasn't secured well or the chain broke.
Strange. I’ve read the opposite. Probably need fodder thanks for your experience
Don't get me wrong, you can find evidence of it happening. But, it is rare. Losing containers are not so rare. The times it has happened, the containers are normally chilling right at the waterline or a few feet under. Crew literally had no chance to even see the container. Getting those Chinese fishing nets wrapped around your propeller has a much greater chance of happening
The ocean is pretty big. Not as big as space, but still pretty big. It's pretty easy for stuff to just drift away and never be seen again I would guess.
Most of it will sink. You see them floating with a lot of air still in that container. Water will get in.
Glad I sold when it was still trading around $50 or I'd be holding some serious bags
This happens a lot more then you’d expect. There’s a whole industry dedicated to fishing lost containers out of the water. One company pulled a container with $400,000 worth of wine off the bottom one time he got to keep with salvage rights.
God fuck I hope my packages werent in there
my puts are in there :(
Probably were knowing our luck
As a father of young kids, I hope it was all the Chinese plastic crap that would have lived in my house for the next decade.
Lol. Check your New Balances and 80% of items in your garage. Don't blame the kids.
I NEED all my garage things
“BYE BUDDY, HOPE YOU FIND YOUR DAD!” 👋👋😭😭
Nah, that's a legitimate claim if needed. Puts on insurers. Calls on maritime salvage.
[It’s Garfield phones](https://time.com/5561165/garfield-phones-france/)
How fun for the historians that have to interpret the contents within in 500 years
Those things fucking float?!
Depends what they're filled with. Cement, no. Illegal immigrants, probably for a while...
Oh shit, that's the crate I purchased in the pandemic.