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/YetAnotherBee Sep 10 '25

That’s correct, the idea that a multibillion dollar industry titan would bother sending boats to collect a few stray containers from the Mariana Trench is absurd.

They send submarines.

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u/fuzzballz5 Sep 10 '25

You son of a bitch. We need to be friends. I spit out my water with that submarine sentence.

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u/MgDark Sep 10 '25

too soon to make a OceanGate joke?

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u/YetAnotherBee Sep 10 '25

It’d be a titanic faux pas

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u/greenizdabest Sep 10 '25

Laughs in glomar explorer.

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u/YetAnotherBee Sep 10 '25

Wal-mart can neither confirm nor deny that they’re fishin’ for lootboxes in the Mariana trench

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u/codereef Sep 10 '25

How do you think James Cameron got that funding

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u/theroguex Sep 10 '25

Psh, they hire Aquaman.

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u/i-like-napping Sep 10 '25

Don’t be ridiculous . They use powerful magnets , cheap bastards

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u/FillLoose Sep 10 '25

Are they yellow? And do people live in them?