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EA-3167 18 hours ago

I'll add, Dr. Sal Mercagliano has an excellent YouTube channel that covers shipping (a topic he's a qualified expert in) and he has a video discussing this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJmqCKtJnxM

The bottom line is that the alleged incident occurred in deep water, making an accidental, unnoticed anchor runnout *very* unlikely. He describes it as "A coincidence, and a very strange one," that this one vessel was seemingly over both cables just at the time they were severed, and gives a visual of maritime tracking to illustrate this.

jgalt212 16 hours ago | parent [-]

Is "budweiser wassup commercial" the new rick roll?

TeaBrain 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This appears to be the actual video referenced, from the channel "What is Going on With Shipping?":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7cS1aVGwUE

EA-3167 15 hours ago | parent [-]

Thank you very much, I really fumbled that one!

EA-3167 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Oh no... this was a case of me being a little buzzed from Thanksgiving beverages, and overly confident in the content of what I was pasting. I apologize!

For the record, I had that commercial on tap because I ran into someone who thought that the origin of the "Wasssup" meme was from Scary Movie.

namaria 8 hours ago | parent [-]

The origin of the meme is not the commercial either

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAEetITEmvg

e40 an hour ago | parent [-]

Hilarious. I didn’t know about this. Thanks.

bag_boy 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That would be perfect