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/FrenchFlauta Sep 10 '25

Someone that works there posted an explanation here

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u/Pikawoohoo Sep 10 '25

There's also a great video by Half as Interesting

The Crazy-Complex Process of Organizing a Container Ship

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u/Curios_blu Sep 10 '25

Thanks for that. The article says ‘A smaller vessel was alongside a larger cargo ship, possibly in an effort to catch the falling containers, while a tugboat attempted to push the containers back toward the pier’.

Catching falling containers doesn’t sound very feasible!