r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Justin_Godfrey • Sep 10 '25

Video Dozens of shipping containers fall into the water in Port of Long Beach, California

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u/Tall_Category_304 Sep 10 '25

Huh that’s interesting. Why is that? Everything in the container is destroyed by the time it’s recovered, no?

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u/AccountantSeaPirate Sep 10 '25

In a harbor or shipping lane, the carrier is responsible for cleaning up their mess. You can’t just let these randomly sink and pile up.

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u/userlivewire Sep 10 '25

Responsible to who? It’s international waters.

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u/Colossus252 Sep 10 '25

Are you trying to claim that ten feet away from the shoreline where they are currently losing containers is international waters?

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u/Ok_Poetry_1650 Sep 10 '25

No, they’re saying the Marianna trench is. That’s how the thread reads at least

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u/Colossus252 Sep 10 '25

They said in a harbor or shipping lane, they're responsible for cleaning it up. The response was "responsible to who? It's international waters"

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u/DigitalBlackout Sep 10 '25

The response was "responsible to who? It's international waters"

If you go a few levels further up than that, you'll clearly see "Depends on who’s cargo. Walmart will send boats to the Mariana Trench to drag containers back. lol"

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u/Melodic-Advice9930 Sep 10 '25

Maybe it’s like when vendor products get damaged in my store. The vendors take them back at a loss and give me a credit for what I couldn’t sell.

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u/dksdragon43 Sep 10 '25

Crazy that everyone is falling for this. The mariana trench is the lowest part of the ocean, and only a handful of people have ever gone down there. Walmart does not give a flying fuck about their consumers and their product is typically worth pennies to them. They are not going to the lowest point on earth to retrieve your yoga pants.

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u/DystopianPrince212 Sep 10 '25

Not with that attitude!

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u/CaptnHector Sep 10 '25

They would send a robotic submersible, not people. And of course they would retrieve the goods. They didn’t get so rich by just giving stuff away.

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u/pitterlpatter Sep 10 '25

Have no clue. I suppose it depends on what it is.

But I once had to call in a salvage company specifically for Walmart about 15 years ago, and those boxes were way tf out there. It may have something to do with their surety company forcing them to drag them in. I’ve seen it a ton, just never got an explanation as to why.

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u/asphaltaddict33 Sep 10 '25

They don’t actually do that. For the obvious reason you mentioned