'Cause it capsized.
A collision at sea will usually involve one ship striking the side of another ship, bow first.
In ancient sea battles, this was mostly how they sank each other. Obviously, the smaller, and more manoeuvrable ramming ships did the most damage.
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Not the guy in charge of that, that's for sure.
Sharp pointy end of small boat through big flat side of big boat, followed by water doing what water does best?
Then again, given that it was a boat full of cars in the english channel, "they forgot to close the doors" is in with a fighting chance.
^^^
"front", yes?
How do you remember the which is port and which is stern?
I did not know that. ta
got it!
Indeed. If you know there's a risk. But sometimes you don't.
I dunno what a brand new engine costs, but if it were *only* the engine, it would be well worth stripping, examining, and replacing parts as necessary. I doubt a specialist builder would charge anything like the cost of a new engine for this - otherwise none would ever do it.
If he was bothering about buying condoms for this task, then the essential equipment missing was a sound recordist. Which wouldn't surprise me these days. However, there was nowt wrong with the sound on the ones I watched, so I'd guess it was simply to make a story.
Don't have roadies on TV shoots.
Nope. All semiconductor devices are well sealed. Water between their 'legs' and on the PCB would be the problem.
Left is port (4 letters each) & right is starboard (more letters)
Stern was always remembered by the phrase 'if you bow to me I'll give you a stern kick up the jacksy' :-)
That's the way it was taught to me in Sea Scouts.
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Same with "red" and "green"
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There's no port left in the bottle. Conveniently, port is a red(ish) wine which gives you the red light for port.
Port is red and that's not right.
I must have read this wrong. ;-)
Well I don't suppose it matters a lot so long as it isn't the side, but the bows are the pointy bits which carve through the waves and/or other objects.
Port is simply the left hand side, while stern is the back bit. I'll admit I don't know why these ships have a differentiated front and rear.
Good grief, this is all jolly complex.
Probably something to do with the reverse-parking on the driving test.
The way I remember is the way a nautical (if you can call him that) friend said...
"Is there any port red wine left"
Pete.
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Oh, he had one of those - but said recordist had used all his condoms for - er - unofficial purposes.
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