Top 10 Incident Photos of 2012 – gCaptain

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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

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

7. Hurricane Sandy Aerial Photographs

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

8. MV Ocean Breeze in Chile

Image: Captain Eric Omar RodrÃguez Aracena.

9. Double Grounding in Spain

cargo_ship_aground_valencia-1 — Image Via

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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