{"id":1565,"date":"2012-05-28T09:34:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T09:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/p=?1565"},"modified":"2012-05-28T09:34:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T09:34:55","slug":"new-luxury-liner-crashes-into-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/gb\/news\/new-luxury-liner-crashes-into-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"New luxury liner crashes into bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A captain was left very embarrassed after he crashed a newly-built luxury liner into a bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Pearl No 7 was making its maiden voyage in Wenzhou, China, when Guo Lai tried to squeeze under the crossing.<\/p>\n<p>However, he forgot to factor in the effect of the tide and ended up colliding with the solid structure and destroying one of its chimneys as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily for Mr Lai, there were no passengers or cargo on the boat so no one was hurt &ndash; although I'm sure his ego is now bruised.<\/p>\n<p>When you consider &pound;28 million has been spent on building the ship, I reckon he'll be in for a talking to from his bosses over the gaffe.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen whether Mr Lai will be allowed to take the liner out for another spin, but if I owned the boat I'd look for a new captain asap.<\/p>\n<p>Posted by Mark Wilkins&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-2867-ID-801372390-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=2867&amp;itemid=801372390\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The captain of the ship failed to take the tide into consideration. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - 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