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So was the "ass and dick pic" the ship apparently drew via location tracker, that was posted on Vice, proven to be a hoax?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkdjzb/cargo-ship-suez-canal...

Because if this is real, it puts "accident" in a whole new context for me...

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Remember Carnival's Costa Concordia that capsized in 2012? The captain's lover, a Moldovan dancer, was on the bridge at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Concordia_disaster

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-24733882

That's some really bad reporting from Vice.

That looks like some sort of holding pattern, which would be done to prevent having to drop anchor (if even feasible to do so where they were). Plus, there's all sorts of other lines in that diagram, Vice just chose to ignore everything except the crude joke they wanted to make.

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