Top 10 Incident Photos of 2012

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2012 was a crazy year with a lot of incident photos. Here are gCaptain’s picks for Top 10 Maritime Incident Photos of 2012:

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1. Costa Concordia

Costa Concordia Hull Damage

Image: Wikimedia Commons

2. MV Rena Breaks in Half

Image: Maritime New Zealand

Image: Maritime New Zealand

3. HMS Bounty Sinking.

HMS Bounty Sinking USCG Photo

Image: USCG

 

4. MSC Flaminia

MSC Flaminia Container Ship Fire

Reederei NSB

5. Hong Kong Ferry Disaster – Lamma IV

PHoot

Photo: trey.menefee

6. Staten Island Street Grounding

The John B Caddell pictured on November 3, 2012, just a few days after Hurricane Sandy. Image: USCG

The John B Caddell pictured on November 3, 2012, just a few days after Hurricane Sandy. Image: USCG

7. Hurricane Sandy Aerial Photographs

Homes are flooded in Tuckerton, N.J. Image: USCG

Homes are flooded in Tuckerton, N.J. Image: USCG

8. MV Ocean Breeze in Chile

Image: Captain Eric Omar Rodríguez Aracena.

Image: Captain Eric Omar Rodríguez Aracena.

9. Double Grounding in Spain 

10. Corvus J and the Baltic Ace Sinking

The Corvus J after colliding with the Baltic Ace car carrier near Rotterdam.

The Corvus J after colliding with the Baltic Ace car carrier near Rotterdam. Image: KNRM Breskens

Honorable Mentions:

11. Arctic-bound drillship, Noble Discoverer, nearly runs aground in Alaska.

noble discoverer drillship

Noble Discoverer, image courtesy Kristjan Laxfoss

12. USS Porter Collides with Tanker

uss porter tanker collision

(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jonathan Sunderman/Released)

What would you add to the list?

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12 Responses to Top 10 Incident Photos of 2012

  1. avatar Harold Johnson, The Flotsam Diaries says:
    December 28, 2012 at 2:36 pm

    The Sinopec Hong Kong cargo ship spill that dumped millions (billions?) of plastic pellets into Hong Kong harbor & its beaches. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/10/hong-kong-plastic-pellets-spill_n_1759119.html

  2. avatar Evan Smith says:
    December 29, 2012 at 3:00 am

    crazy what goes on…

    • avatar John Ruhl says:
      January 6, 2013 at 2:18 pm

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    • avatar Evan Smith says:
      January 6, 2013 at 3:47 pm

      how the hell did you find this gcaptain??/this blows my mind ..great to have you on this site..

  3. avatar Ilya Smelkov says:
    December 29, 2012 at 2:53 am

    Don’t hope for modern life-saving appliances – hope for your good knowledges

  4. avatar Pamela Akervik Garrett says:
    December 29, 2012 at 10:59 pm

    Amazing photography!

  5. avatar Sakthi Ragavan says:
    December 30, 2012 at 10:19 pm

    can't even imagine photographs.

  6. avatar Louis Vest says:
    December 31, 2012 at 9:01 am

    What would I add to the list? How about we all be extra safe in 2013 and don’t add anything at all.

    • avatar Alexandre da Rocha says:
      January 6, 2013 at 6:45 pm

      There will always be incidents and accidents. For one thing, they generally are by-products of a continuous balancing act between thoroughness and efficiency. Moreover, stupidity is a form of renewable energy…

  7. avatar JG says:
    January 18, 2013 at 3:39 am

    #4 – the MSC “Flamingia”.

  8. avatar Stanislav Palapeshkov says:
    February 1, 2013 at 2:06 pm

    There is a case with a US NAVY ship U.S.S. Guardian, which stuck in Philippine Reef, hope to not be the same in this list, the place in Philippines is amazing.
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  9. avatar Baksheeva Zhanna says:
    February 15, 2013 at 12:26 pm

    uuuuuuu