How to crash a ferry - on purpose
This is pretty awesome - amazing footage of a 26,000-tonne passenger ferry being driven hard onto land at a shipbreaker's yard in Turkey.
The ship is the 170m MS Ostend Spirit, a car ferry which operated the Dover-Calais route between 1987 and 2012 under ownership of P&O Ferries (when she was called the MS Pride of Calais, ship name fans).
She was sold for scrap last year and ended up at a Turkish salvage yard in November - where breakers were faced with the tricky issue of actually getting her onto land so they could tear her apart.
No problem for the captain on the day, who decides on a plan of simply driving her full tilt at the beach and hoping that she comes to rest upright between two other vessels left lying there as 'stabilisers'.
Oh, and horn blowing. Lots of horn blowing.
The ship still lies at the salvage yard in Aliaga, Turkey - ship breaking is big business there, apparently - where it will take hundreds of workers several months to fully dismantle her.
Here's what the beaching - which took place on November 13 last - looked like on board ship.
"I'm not quite sure about this," one guy is overheard saying as the ship powers towards dry land at a rate of knots.
Bit late now, sunshine.
