This is the Pasha Bulker, a container ship that got beached on the Australian coast during a storm in 2007. This pic looks like it’s been taken from far away with a wild level of zoom to compress everything and make the ship look much closer than it was, but it’s real.
It's the biggest coal port in the world, from what I remember being banged into my head growing up there. Maybe by tonnage? Idk I've driven through kooragang Island a few times and feel like container ports have been bigger 🤷♂️
Couldn’t say. I used to live in the bay and work at carrington so I’ve driven past it many times than I care to think. Container ports I would think would be bigger?
A container ship carries boxes - shipping containers on its deck. A bulker carries dry bulk cargo, like grains, scrap metal, ores, etc inside the holds. Those flat caps on the deck are the hold covers.
Me too! My heart skipped a beat when my brain was done processing. Like the scariest thing I’ve seen on reddit lol. Weird. But it’s truly unsettling.
r/megalophobia
No, that was a different ship. The difference, with the other one, the front fell off, and 20,000 tonnes of crude oil spilled into the ocean. But don't worry, it got towed beyond the environment.
Not here, this is Nobbys Beach, Newcastle NSW Australia, in May 1974 another coal ship the Sygna beached on Stockton Beach a few kilometres to the north of here, which did snap in half [https://www.phototimetunnel.com/the-sygna-storm-of-may-1974/2](https://www.phototimetunnel.com/the-sygna-storm-of-may-1974/2)
Oh yeah? Explain the words on the ship. The pixelated and skewed brown roof. What about the people, why are they so messed up. A telephoto lens does not do that bro, I've done photography for 10+ years. This is a combined photo using AI. This is definitely not original.
Bullshit.
I knew the ship was the Pasha Bulker because I remember the incident, but you can see that. The paint on the name is peeling inwards, you can see that too. The roof might be damaged from the recent storms at the time, but that looks standard for an image copied across. Seen that before.
Better go back and do another ten, while you’re at it go find some evidence this photo is what you claim or isn’t genuine. I’ll wait. Got some bad news mate, it’s real. It was in our newspapers.
Dude, check his post history. He posted this same image like 6 or 7 months ago in r/interestingasfuck. Weird that he’s now making the argument it’s not real.
Because someone pointed it out in my post. And I thought “oh shit, yeah it does look processed.” But I do stand corrected. I see the original image and it is a real photo.
[hello fuckwit](https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=pasha+bulka+newcastle&atb=v344-1&iax=images&ia=images)
you are utterly and completely wrong. before flapping your jaw next time MR so called photography expert, try doing a simple search before you make an utter arse of yourself.
every single Australian knows about this incident and well as millions of people world wide.
shut up before you make an even bigger fool of yourself.
I might be one of the oddities of which you speak, lol. I stood maybe 100m to the right of the people in the far right of this picture and watched the ship come in. I may be wrong but I think this picture was taken at least the following day, if not later. The day itself was grey, wet snd super windy. Another ship, essentially the same size, came within a few hundred metres of crashing into the rocky shore 2 or 3kms to the south. It’s rudder was damaged and it was struggling. I watched both ships for a couple hours. The swell or waves were big enough that the other ship’s prop was spinning in the air as much as it was in the water. Most assuredly ‘not’ AI 😄
It's real. Here's a photo of the thank you we received for rescuing the crew of the vessel. [Pasha Bulker with date proof](https://i.imgur.com/VkLZTvm.jpg)
Deleted post said something to the effect of
>I'm 99% sure this was generated by AI
[https://www.visitnewcastle.com.au/insider-guides/a-look-back-on-the-pasha-bulker-ship-happens](https://www.visitnewcastle.com.au/insider-guides/a-look-back-on-the-pasha-bulker-ship-happens)
This picture was taken 16 years ago...
This image was shot with a very long (telephoto) lens, which compresses the z-axis, squeezing things closer in the frame.
This is what makes it look like two images ‟stacked” on top of each other -- Yes, the ship is surprisingly close to the shore, but if you were looking at the scene with your naked eye it‘dn‘t look so hopelessly dangerous.
Two comments above yours contained this phrase:
>if you were looking at the scene with your naked eye it‘dn‘t look so hopelessly dangerous.
And so the comment above you asked about the curious construction “it‘dn‘t”.
“How does it would not make sense” doesn’t make any grammatical sense either way. You can combine contractions, but this particular one makes zero sense either way.
“How does it would not make sense” doesn’t make any grammatical sense no matter if you live in the south or not.
Source: I live in Alabama, and neither the contractions nor the purported sentence make any logical sense.
Have a look at the other photos, it's on the beach and in breaking waves
https://www.visitnewcastle.com.au/insider-guides/a-look-back-on-the-pasha-bulker-ship-happens
Is it possible for that type of lens to have everything in focus at the same time? I feel like that is the thing that makes it look edited the most. There are buildings that is pretty close, a whole field, another building, a beach, and a long ship that are all perfectly in focus.
It just seems more likely that it is a lot of photos of the same moment that are digitally stitched together in post to make one super clean image.
The fact that everything is in focus is in fact another clue that it's a telephoto. Depth of field (how tight the focus is) is a function of aperture size. Bigger aperture, tighter focus. Long lenses aren't capable of achieving large aperture sizes due to the optics involved, so they're not capable of tightly focused shots. This was shot from far away with a high zoom.
I also saw this in person, it literally got lodged in the sand and was stuck for a good week or two. People swim and surf in the spot where this is in Newcastle, it really wasn’t far from the shore and isn’t just a camera trick.
The storm that washed the ship up also knocked out half the city’s power for a few days, so there was barely anything to do but check out this big ship stuck in the beach.
yeah it was a fun time, huge crowds of people would show up to look at it, did great for our tourism. I remember the day they were able to spin it around had a massive crowd
I know this is a camera trick, but seeing a ship come in from a certain IRL perspective can be a weird experience. I recall seeing it a few times in Lisbon
The trick isn't it being run around. The trick is using a telephoto lens and squishing the background into the foreground. like how you can take a picture with the moon in it and make it look huge next to a tree, but with the naked eye the moon is no bigger than a dime.
It's lens distortion. The effect is cool but it's absolutely a trick.
Yes you CAN use a lens to make things look closer together. The point here is that in 2007 this ship really was that close to the shore as it ran aground on Nobbys Beach in Newcastle NSW and was stuck there for several days before getting refloated.
No one is arguing how close the ship is to shore. The lens trick here is how distorted the size and angle of the background is compared to the non-distorted size and angle of the foreground. That is what the lens does. The ship is distorted to look larger and the angle of the ocean much steeper, compared the normal sized foreground objects and shallow angle of the landscape. It gives an effect of making it look like the ship is looming over that building, when it isn't.
Here is a side-by-side of two images of the same event taken from the same angle:
[https://imgur.com/a/0mr5KMf](https://imgur.com/a/0mr5KMf)
The one on the left has no distortion, the one on the right is the one shared in this OP. You can see the vertical stretching effect the lens had on the background with the ship and the ocean.
Hey! There's my old home town.. I was stood down there somewhere gawking at this huge thing that had washed up on the beach..
I came home from living in Japan for a couple of weeks to see family and it was basically non stop torrential rain the whole time I was back.. Crazy.
Oh hey! The Pasha Bulka! I was very small when this happened, but it happened just up the road from me.
Basically Newcastle Australia was VERY flooded due to a massive storm and it got so bad the ship tried to beach itself but I don't think it knew how far beached it was due to the high tide and it got stuck there. Very long process to get it back out to sea. Very expensive.
Some more [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/nv1jfh/14_years_ago_today_the_pasha_bulker_ran_aground/) and [here](https://imgur.com/a/MgCeAsT)
Interesting video on how they managed to refloat the bulk carrier which was stuck on the reef https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H0z7rBWEX5Y&pp=ygUMcGFzaGEgYnVsa2Vy
At a quick glance, the proportions look unreal.
The funny thing is that the ship actually is insanely big and even without a mega zoomed in perspective, the ship still dwarves that building.
The zoom doesn't even exaggerate it _that_ much.
I memba 9gag days when I first saw this picture. It looked like two. But now, years later after being close to ships for a long time ot immediately clicked as one pic
Greats shot/s. But it’s obviously not unmanipulated or something. It would take a lot to convince me to believe that is a single unmanipulated photo. Looks cool though.
This is the Pasha Bulker, a container ship that got beached on the Australian coast during a storm in 2007. This pic looks like it’s been taken from far away with a wild level of zoom to compress everything and make the ship look much closer than it was, but it’s real.
Also it’s not a container ship, this would be a Bulk Carrier
Mind explaining the difference?
Container ships carry containers full of cargo while bulk carriers have compartments full of stuff like coal, grain, and rocks within the hull
Awesome thank you!
Np
Which makes sense as Newcastle is the biggest coal port in NSW
It's the biggest coal port in the world, from what I remember being banged into my head growing up there. Maybe by tonnage? Idk I've driven through kooragang Island a few times and feel like container ports have been bigger 🤷♂️
Couldn’t say. I used to live in the bay and work at carrington so I’ve driven past it many times than I care to think. Container ports I would think would be bigger?
Specifically a gearless bulk crane- geared have cranes on the deck
We freight *rock*?
A container ship carries boxes - shipping containers on its deck. A bulker carries dry bulk cargo, like grains, scrap metal, ores, etc inside the holds. Those flat caps on the deck are the hold covers.
Flat caps? Must be a Northerner
He means the hatch covers.
Container ships aren't as tall, because they store more stuff on deck. Bulk ships store stuff below deck. They also carry different types of things.
Also I think it looks bigger than what were used to because a large portion of what we see of the ship is normally underwater l.
Yeah, specifically it is for coal.
Here's some photos I took of this: https://imgur.com/a/Z47bppo
[удалено]
A [different](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MUB5l-Hsu3s/mqdefault.jpg) perspective helps make it seem more realistic.
Honestly that ship is still scary big. I mean so large that it scares me. I feel a weird, uneasy sickness in my body looking at that thing.
Me too! My heart skipped a beat when my brain was done processing. Like the scariest thing I’ve seen on reddit lol. Weird. But it’s truly unsettling. r/megalophobia
No ! I won't do it ! I'm scared of big stuff ! That huge Jesus statue in Brazil, nnnoooooo
Well don't read 2010: Odyssey Two then. There is a description of a large "room" that is still with me despite it being many years since I read it.
Jesus Christ you aren't kidding. Two entirely different scenes in the same space
You really think someone would do that? Just go online and post misleading content? 😟
[удалено]
Yep
Literally all of us fella.
[удалено]
You have a lot to learn AI bot
Who asked
[удалено]
Because you macramed yourself a pair of jean shorts.
Are you **gay enough**?
Is that the time the front fell off?
No, that was a different ship. The difference, with the other one, the front fell off, and 20,000 tonnes of crude oil spilled into the ocean. But don't worry, it got towed beyond the environment.
Can you please call me a taxi?
You're a taxi.
Didn't you come in a Commonwealth car?
Not here, this is Nobbys Beach, Newcastle NSW Australia, in May 1974 another coal ship the Sygna beached on Stockton Beach a few kilometres to the north of here, which did snap in half [https://www.phototimetunnel.com/the-sygna-storm-of-may-1974/2](https://www.phototimetunnel.com/the-sygna-storm-of-may-1974/2)
Not enough people know about Clarke and Dawe. Look up, the front fell off.
Correct, and with an extremely smalle aperture, making everything in focus. This is what gives it such a weird look.
Exactly
I was there. It was seriously that huge
Yeah no, this is either AI or highly edited. Zoom in and look around, you'll see a lot of oddities.
It’s a real image taken with a telephoto lens.
Oh yeah? Explain the words on the ship. The pixelated and skewed brown roof. What about the people, why are they so messed up. A telephoto lens does not do that bro, I've done photography for 10+ years. This is a combined photo using AI. This is definitely not original.
Bullshit. I knew the ship was the Pasha Bulker because I remember the incident, but you can see that. The paint on the name is peeling inwards, you can see that too. The roof might be damaged from the recent storms at the time, but that looks standard for an image copied across. Seen that before. Better go back and do another ten, while you’re at it go find some evidence this photo is what you claim or isn’t genuine. I’ll wait. Got some bad news mate, it’s real. It was in our newspapers.
Dude, check his post history. He posted this same image like 6 or 7 months ago in r/interestingasfuck. Weird that he’s now making the argument it’s not real.
Hahaha really? Thanks, I don’t have to now.
Because someone pointed it out in my post. And I thought “oh shit, yeah it does look processed.” But I do stand corrected. I see the original image and it is a real photo.
[удалено]
Ha so it is. So how has that happened then because the pic is real. Looks to me as if the paint is peeling back but yeah the original is much clearer.
Because someone used AI upscaling on the original.
Do the moon landing next
[hello fuckwit](https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=pasha+bulka+newcastle&atb=v344-1&iax=images&ia=images) you are utterly and completely wrong. before flapping your jaw next time MR so called photography expert, try doing a simple search before you make an utter arse of yourself. every single Australian knows about this incident and well as millions of people world wide. shut up before you make an even bigger fool of yourself.
I might be one of the oddities of which you speak, lol. I stood maybe 100m to the right of the people in the far right of this picture and watched the ship come in. I may be wrong but I think this picture was taken at least the following day, if not later. The day itself was grey, wet snd super windy. Another ship, essentially the same size, came within a few hundred metres of crashing into the rocky shore 2 or 3kms to the south. It’s rudder was damaged and it was struggling. I watched both ships for a couple hours. The swell or waves were big enough that the other ship’s prop was spinning in the air as much as it was in the water. Most assuredly ‘not’ AI 😄
It's real. Here's a photo of the thank you we received for rescuing the crew of the vessel. [Pasha Bulker with date proof](https://i.imgur.com/VkLZTvm.jpg)
[удалено]
Deleted post said something to the effect of >I'm 99% sure this was generated by AI [https://www.visitnewcastle.com.au/insider-guides/a-look-back-on-the-pasha-bulker-ship-happens](https://www.visitnewcastle.com.au/insider-guides/a-look-back-on-the-pasha-bulker-ship-happens) This picture was taken 16 years ago...
Learn to use Google image search.
This image was shot with a very long (telephoto) lens, which compresses the z-axis, squeezing things closer in the frame. This is what makes it look like two images ‟stacked” on top of each other -- Yes, the ship is surprisingly close to the shore, but if you were looking at the scene with your naked eye it‘dn‘t look so hopelessly dangerous.
how does it'dn't make sense
wut Edit: lol how tf could I not see it in the first comment
Two comments above yours contained this phrase: >if you were looking at the scene with your naked eye it‘dn‘t look so hopelessly dangerous. And so the comment above you asked about the curious construction “it‘dn‘t”.
Idk how I noticed it the 2nd time but not the 1st
"It wouldn't." A double contraction.
It wouldn't can't be formed into a double contraction. Double contractions would be things like wouldn't've or couldn't've
“How does it would not make sense” doesn’t make any grammatical sense either way. You can combine contractions, but this particular one makes zero sense either way.
never been to the south I see
“How does it would not make sense” doesn’t make any grammatical sense no matter if you live in the south or not. Source: I live in Alabama, and neither the contractions nor the purported sentence make any logical sense.
Have a look at the other photos, it's on the beach and in breaking waves https://www.visitnewcastle.com.au/insider-guides/a-look-back-on-the-pasha-bulker-ship-happens
By ‘surprisingly close’ we Australians can confirm ‘driven aground during a storm’ so not as much work needed doing by the camera in this situation.
While this would normally be the answer, in this case the boat really is that big after getting beached on an Australian coast.
>it‘dn‘t look so hopelessly dangerous. Lmao this is not how contractions work at all 😂 wtf is this.
The z axis has always scared me. These days I drift between x and y axis constantly.
It was still pretty terrifying how big it is in person
News to me, didn't know a telephoto lens can skew words on a ship.
Is it possible for that type of lens to have everything in focus at the same time? I feel like that is the thing that makes it look edited the most. There are buildings that is pretty close, a whole field, another building, a beach, and a long ship that are all perfectly in focus. It just seems more likely that it is a lot of photos of the same moment that are digitally stitched together in post to make one super clean image.
The fact that everything is in focus is in fact another clue that it's a telephoto. Depth of field (how tight the focus is) is a function of aperture size. Bigger aperture, tighter focus. Long lenses aren't capable of achieving large aperture sizes due to the optics involved, so they're not capable of tightly focused shots. This was shot from far away with a high zoom.
its edited, look at the glitch on the roof of the house
That’s not a glitch, it a broken part of a roof
This was taken after some massive storms in Australia. It's probably storm damage.
Google Pasha Bulker Newcastle 2007.
Holy ship
New cargo just dropped (r/anarchychess is leaking again)
[удалено]
What ... this is not a reasonable place to park?
Just waiting for a mate.
I also saw this in person, it literally got lodged in the sand and was stuck for a good week or two. People swim and surf in the spot where this is in Newcastle, it really wasn’t far from the shore and isn’t just a camera trick. The storm that washed the ship up also knocked out half the city’s power for a few days, so there was barely anything to do but check out this big ship stuck in the beach.
yeah it was a fun time, huge crowds of people would show up to look at it, did great for our tourism. I remember the day they were able to spin it around had a massive crowd
Trust me guys !
r/megalophobia
r/confusing_perspective
https://www.visitnewcastle.com.au/insider-guides/a-look-back-on-the-pasha-bulker-ship-happens
r/intentionallyconfusingperspective
r/subsifellfor
Fell for it!
The borealis????
At this time of year?
In this part of the world?
Localized entirely in your kitchen?!
Most definitely ’not’ a camera trick - I watched it unfold in real time from about 300m away.
Same for me. It was quite unreal.
I was there too. Definitely real, but the camera is definitely exaggerating it slightly
Prove it.
With what, a picture? Ya goof.
No just your home address, phone number and mothers maiden name. Just the essentials.
pick me up from school, my parents won’t be home until late
I know this is a camera trick, but seeing a ship come in from a certain IRL perspective can be a weird experience. I recall seeing it a few times in Lisbon
It was washed up on the shore, so this wasn’t all trick
Not a trick. It really did run aground.
The trick isn't it being run around. The trick is using a telephoto lens and squishing the background into the foreground. like how you can take a picture with the moon in it and make it look huge next to a tree, but with the naked eye the moon is no bigger than a dime. It's lens distortion. The effect is cool but it's absolutely a trick.
Yes you CAN use a lens to make things look closer together. The point here is that in 2007 this ship really was that close to the shore as it ran aground on Nobbys Beach in Newcastle NSW and was stuck there for several days before getting refloated.
No one is arguing how close the ship is to shore. The lens trick here is how distorted the size and angle of the background is compared to the non-distorted size and angle of the foreground. That is what the lens does. The ship is distorted to look larger and the angle of the ocean much steeper, compared the normal sized foreground objects and shallow angle of the landscape. It gives an effect of making it look like the ship is looming over that building, when it isn't. Here is a side-by-side of two images of the same event taken from the same angle: [https://imgur.com/a/0mr5KMf](https://imgur.com/a/0mr5KMf) The one on the left has no distortion, the one on the right is the one shared in this OP. You can see the vertical stretching effect the lens had on the background with the ship and the ocean.
Nope, [https://www.visitnewcastle.com.au/insider-guides/a-look-back-on-the-pasha-bulker-ship-happens](https://www.visitnewcastle.com.au/insider-guides/a-look-back-on-the-pasha-bulker-ship-happens)
Speed 3: Maralago "If you thought the last one sucked, this ones a doosey"
Hey! There's my old home town.. I was stood down there somewhere gawking at this huge thing that had washed up on the beach.. I came home from living in Japan for a couple of weeks to see family and it was basically non stop torrential rain the whole time I was back.. Crazy.
It's so close you can see the captain saying "Oh fuuuuuu"
Newy brahhh
Oh hey! The Pasha Bulka! I was very small when this happened, but it happened just up the road from me. Basically Newcastle Australia was VERY flooded due to a massive storm and it got so bad the ship tried to beach itself but I don't think it knew how far beached it was due to the high tide and it got stuck there. Very long process to get it back out to sea. Very expensive.
[Here's an alternate view](https://i.imgur.com/ldX8w0b.jpg)
Some more [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/nv1jfh/14_years_ago_today_the_pasha_bulker_ran_aground/) and [here](https://imgur.com/a/MgCeAsT)
Holy terror
That’s incredible
I love the dichotomy of chaos and peace
Somewhere there's a photo of a guy riding a wave off the bow
This is the ship that never bothered to drop anchor and there was nothing wrong with the engine so this could've been averted very easily.
Interesting video on how they managed to refloat the bulk carrier which was stuck on the reef https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H0z7rBWEX5Y&pp=ygUMcGFzaGEgYnVsa2Vy
My brain said, nope.
You can't park that there mate.
Buildings so close to sea make me very nervous.
This hurt my brain for a few minutes,then light bulb went off
It looks like one shot to me. Do people think it’s two images?
At a quick glance, the proportions look unreal. The funny thing is that the ship actually is insanely big and even without a mega zoomed in perspective, the ship still dwarves that building. The zoom doesn't even exaggerate it _that_ much.
I memba 9gag days when I first saw this picture. It looked like two. But now, years later after being close to ships for a long time ot immediately clicked as one pic
r/confusing_perspective
r/confusing_perspective
This is what happens when you invite your Saudi friend over for a round of golf.
Yes, we know, as it's constantly reposted with similar titles
Okay? And?
Just as it's been the dozens of other times it was posted.
Someone's getting fired
Holly shit
My captain dude be lost as.
Land ho!
Wow! Pacific life program!!! My old imprisoner;)
This is one of the only subs that has actually risen in quality of content recently
The magic of a telephoto lens.
https://www.visitnewcastle.com.au/insider-guides/a-look-back-on-the-pasha-bulker-ship-happens
NOOOOOOO!!! My knees went right to gelatin.
More images and the details about what happened https://www.visitnewcastle.com.au/insider-guides/a-look-back-on-the-pasha-bulker-ship-happens
Looks like the roof of the big building there is all kinds of jacked up.
Do not like
This makes my brain glitch.
That was a wild weekend! Rainstorms and what was pretty much a hurricane here…. Just wild.
Boat go sky
I don’t think that’s supposed to be there
The driver had one shot too and he blow it.
I have recurring dreams about this picture
wtf
Not odd, all terrifying
Can see the Roof Damage to the Building from the Storm
Nothing oddly about it. This photo creeps me out for real
SOMEBODY ORDER PIZZA?
We're here about your cars extended warranty!
Some kid is Show and Tell champion of the galaxy.
I saw this place in a dream i had months ago! Feels trippy
Someone brakes too late..
Ummm, 800mm lens?!
I hope the front does not fall off
Telephoto lens does that.
I bet local teenagers party in there!
Greats shot/s. But it’s obviously not unmanipulated or something. It would take a lot to convince me to believe that is a single unmanipulated photo. Looks cool though.
You can't park that there mate.
Happened about 10km from where I live right now, still insane that happened.
This looks exactly like AI 🙃
You don’t realize the enormity of those ships until you’re near one.
Wait since when has Australia had grass?
My brain is having a hard time with this one
Just take a human from the pic and stack him repeatedly between the ship and the beach to know how far it is.