I know this is technically the second Incident Video of The Week but I felt like this is a good one for a Friday afternoon and rules are made to be broken anyway.
The video shows the Eihatsu Maru, a Japanese trawler stranded on Clifton beach in Cape Town, South Africa . It starts out as a satire of sorts but about a minute and a half in its apparent that this actually happened, and it is no joke.
What I do know is that if I were to run my ship up on a beach, a good pizza as I await to be refloated would make my day just that much better. Just watch.
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