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At Least 6 Dead, 20 Missing After Rock Formation Falls on Boats in Brazil
Complex ^ | January 9, 2022 | Joshua Espinosa

Posted on 01/09/2022 3:03:37 PM PST by artichokegrower

Authorities say they’ve recovered multiple bodies after a rock formation collapsed on leisure boats in southeastern Brazil.

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To: DoughtyOne

“I noticed one of two boats made a run for it,”

I noticed that too...he had it fire walled. I think he missed the rocks but the tidal wave may have swamped him.


21 posted on 01/09/2022 5:19:10 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: artichokegrower

Terrible to watch.

Someone jumped off the white boat at the last second. I’d like to think if he swam down fast at 45 degrees, he had a shot.

The fleeing boat should have turned 90 degrees when they saw it (assuming they saw it and were fleeing). They didn’t get a direct hit but fairly sure that boat was fully swamped.


22 posted on 01/09/2022 5:22:22 PM PST by ScarletRed
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I agree with that 90 degree thought. I’m not sure he actually
saw the column coming down. He many have. I noticed he
seemed to be turning like he was just getting ready to leave
the area at the time he drove out.


23 posted on 01/09/2022 6:30:01 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegience to the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: Bonemaker

Yeah, I agree with you. He must have been swamped.

Did you notice that something from the white boat (I believe)
hit the camera boat at the end of the recording. You could
hear the thud.

I saw something looking like it was headed that way, but the
camera didn’t catch it all the way to the boat.


24 posted on 01/09/2022 6:33:09 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegience to the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: artichokegrower

Already being blamed on climate change.

And those killed were COVID deaths.


25 posted on 01/09/2022 6:36:58 PM PST by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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To: DoughtyOne

Absolutely terrible.


26 posted on 01/09/2022 6:47:00 PM PST by Shortstop7
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To: artichokegrower

The first two videos that surfaced only start recording a few seconds before the collapse of the YUGE column of rock.

But there’s also a third video that begins about a minute and a half before the big boom. There were “warning crashes” that far in advance of the major collapse but the boaters mostly just shot stupid looks at each other. Most of a minute before the YUGE chunk fell there was a series of increasingly larger rock falls, all from right at the base, which obviously would have been undermining the security of the rock above it.

The wall gave ample warning it was going to collapse, but the most of them ignored it.


27 posted on 01/09/2022 7:31:40 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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To: Cold Heart

RIP Sam


28 posted on 01/10/2022 11:13:30 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: Shortstop7

Agreed.

Considering those rock formations, I probably wouldn’t have
camped so close to the base of them.


29 posted on 01/10/2022 11:48:10 AM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegience to the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: Cold Heart
I just looked it up, that was a 2000# bomb that crushed the lifeboat.

SS BADGER STATE - 26 December 1969 https://www.dco.uscg.mil/Portals/9/DCO%20Documents/5p/CG-5PC/INV/docs/boards/badger.pdf

30 posted on 01/10/2022 9:40:21 PM PST by FDNYRHEROES
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To: FDNYRHEROES

Yup

Thanks


31 posted on 01/10/2022 9:55:45 PM PST by Cold Heart (CMSM, Corrupt Main Street Media)
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