CNBC AI News, July 20th – Move over, reckless driving – a new nautical nightmare has surfaced. A boater allegedly under the influence has managed the seemingly impossible: crashing into an aircraft carrier. It appears reality continues to outdo even the wildest Hollywood scripts.
On July 18th, a private yacht reportedly collided with the former USS Midway, a historical landmark now serving as a museum in San Diego.
Surveillance footage captured the incident, showing the yacht making a beeline for the massive vessel during daylight hours. Fortunately, the impact was relatively minimal, with the yacht’s smaller size and lower speed resulting in it simply being pushed aside upon collision.
“The impact made a significant noise,” police stated, noting that the fishing vessel initially fled the scene. Law enforcement subsequently intercepted the boat nearby, and the captain was arrested on suspicion of operating a vessel under the influence.
The USS Midway, commissioned on September 10, 1945, saw extensive service, undergoing numerous modernizations until its decommissioning after the Gulf War in 1992. In 2004, the iconic carrier found its final berth at a pier in San Diego Naval Base, where it was entrusted to a non-profit organization and opened to the public as a museum – a testament to naval history, and now, arguably, a target for less-than-sober seafarers.
The internet, of course, has responded with a mixture of disbelief and dark humor. Reactions range from, “DUI is one thing, but crashing into an aircraft carrier?,” to “Captain to insurance: yeah, I hit a carrier,” and the inevitable, “What’s the sentencing on something like that?”
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