Australia Skipper pushes container away from houseboats

[Alan de Enfield]

 

Video :

 

https://videos.dailymail.co.uk/preview/mol/2021/03/23/4881919835739734139/636x382_MP4_4881919835739734139.mp4

 

 

 

Over a dozen houseboats were saved by a quick-thinking skipper who stopped a floating container from crushing the marina.

The floating shipping container was surging down the Hawkesbury River at Webbs Creek Ferry, north west of Sydney.

Incredible footage shows the blue shipping container on a destructive path towards the houseboats before the vessel about half its size drives towards it and gently guides it away.

[magpie patrick]

They need this guy in Suez!

[cuthound]

1 hour ago, magpie patrick said:

They need this guy in Suez!

 

It was probably one that fell off that ship!

[1st ade]

This is the sort of thing which in the UK would result in "hang, on, we need a risk assessment"

 

(I'm intrigued at the size range - not only is the "vessel" half the size of the shipping container but he's absolutely dwarfed by the boats on the left. And the ferry up top (assuming a ferry from the bow ramp?)