This is why you should always film Ship Launches from a Distance!!!

[Feuer Frei!]

Epic fail:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJmW0W7bNPE&feature=player_embedded

[mapuc]

I didn't hear any yelling TIMBER

Markus

[Mork_417]

I was thinking, boy they are going to get soaked... Never imagined the wood would become missles. :o

[desertstriker]

And now we have a new darwin award entry. contestent #18659788643523 please turn over in your grave.:har:

[Wolferz]

I can think of easier ways to stake a vampire.:yeah:

[Vince82]

I was at a launch at the beginning of this year. I like them it's always a memorable event. But that ship was launched without the wood.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Wasn't expecting that, and nor were they. :o

[ETR3(SS)]

Looked like the stern of a Littoral Combat Ship launched out of Manitowoc.

[vienna]

Many, many years ago, when I was about 6 or 7 years old, my Irish grandfather took me to watch a ship launch in the San Francisco area. He was an old Navy man and he knew I had a great interest in all things sea-going (my father was also a merchant marine, so I had dual influences), and he thought I would enjoy the sight. It was the old fashioned, stern-down-the-ways sort of launch, complete with a lady smashing a bottle across the bow. The ship was a freighter and I remember being awed by the sheer size of the ship out of water on the ways. I was even more impressed when the blocks were set loose and the whole craft slid down the ways into the water with a lod rumble and spalsh and then slowly drifted back and settled down. If you ever get the chance to watch a proper ship launch, it is not to be missed...

<O>

[Platapus]

Water I was expecting, but being impaled? Yikes

I hope this was a remote camera and that no one was hurt

[Rhodes]

Water I was expecting, but being impaled? Yikes

I hope this was a remote camera and that no one was hurt

According yahoo, a person was filming and he escaped with only minor injuries, just scratches and bruises.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now/shocking-video-shows-ship-launch-gone-wrong-182715853.html?vp=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSF8u7hvWtU other view!

[Stealhead]

I see that and I think "If I where a termite that would have been awesome" :D