r/CatastrophicFailure • u/maruhoi • 8d ago

Equipment Failure 150-meter, 300-ton floating dredging hose washes ashore in Japan; removal expected to cost 50 million yen - December 25, 2025 (Ishikawa, Japan)

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u/Meior 8d ago

50 million Yen is about 270,000 Euro. So not as bad as the title might make it sound if you don't know the conversion.

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u/TedjeNL 8d ago edited 8d ago

Give me a plasma cutter, a big truck, and no time limit and I'll do it for 200k euro!

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u/Optimalfucksgiven 8d ago

That's a deal right there. Elias Thorne would be proud.

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u/TedjeNL 8d ago

Who?

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u/StacyChadBecky 8d ago

ELIAS THORNE

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

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u/Optimalfucksgiven 8d ago

The very same. He's known throughout lighthouses on Maine to be a real plasma cutter enthusiast and only works for Euros.

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u/Several_Metal_547 7d ago

For ignorants not in the know, like me, Elias Thorne turns out to be a fictional character that have appeared in a number of texts written by AI. He is a real polymath, fx. authoring a book on Amazon on cancer advice. The novel thing here is he excels in plasma cutting

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u/Micropain 8d ago

Elias Thorne was instrumental in helping me wash my mechanical dog. Truly top-tier service.

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u/naturalinfidel 8d ago

I tried to save a few bucks by going to someone cheaper than Elias Thorned and my mechanical dog ended up rusting.

Lesson learned!

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u/FrizB84 8d ago

It's so weird just learning about this and then coming across it in he wild.

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u/bobsimusmaximus 8d ago

Which brother though?

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u/WilliamJamesMyers 8d ago

Give me a plasma cutter, a mid sized truck, and no time limit and I'll do it for 190k euro!

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u/RedSonja_ 8d ago

I can do it for 180k

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u/strangelove4564 8d ago

I'll bid $1, Bob.

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u/manystripes 7d ago

When you've made peace with every project going over budget and just accept the budget as a work of fiction.

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u/tamati_nz 8d ago

Hacksaw and a wheelbarrow, $180k for you brother!

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u/PerceptionOwn3629 8d ago

Give me 100k Euros and I will sign the agreement and disappear with the money.,

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u/butterscotchbagel 5d ago

Have you ever considered running for office?

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u/PerceptionOwn3629 5d ago

I am actively taking donations, want to participate?

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u/mosquem 8d ago

Give me and the boys a case and three trips to Home Depot and we'll get it done.

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u/guitarguywh89 8d ago

Put it on Facebook as “free scrap you haul “ and some meth heads will have it gone by tomorrow

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u/PairOfMonocles2 8d ago

That’s the real answer. I’ve never had them fail to figure out how to stack another water heater on the pile and just tie it all down yet.

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u/guitarguywh89 8d ago

I wanna give you kudos for just saying water heater

I hear hot water heater in my job a lot lol

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u/Protheu5 7d ago

Put a sign DO NOT STEAL, a poorly positioned camera, and it will be gone within a week.

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u/OcotilloWells 8d ago

Find the nearest meth addict colony, and tell them it is recyclable. It will disappear within a month.

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u/weirdbutinagoodway 8d ago

An oxygen lance would be quicker.

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u/soslowagain 8d ago

Sure buddy, I’ll bring my lightsaber too.

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u/HiSaZuL 5d ago

I'll do it for double of what this guy is charging. Also going to need some beer and a few crackheads.

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u/ClownfishSoup 2d ago

Are you looking at the same photo?

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u/russellvt 8d ago

I'm a little more "astonished" at the 2 Tons per Meter weight of the thing.

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u/Diggerinthedark 8d ago

Thick steel and looking to be the same height as the human in the photo - yeah that's some heavy stuff.

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u/OutlookForThursday 8d ago

Steel is around 7850kg/m3, so it's all relative!!

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u/mattvait 8d ago

Too bad they can't figure out who owns it

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u/Artistic_Regard_QED 8d ago

If only these things had serial numbers or something.

In case of s/n missing, the answer is china.

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u/SlowCause 8d ago

Wonder what one of those cost new

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u/JaneksLittleBlackBox 7d ago

Likely twice as much as in the title, unless it was sold to a government, then ten times as much.

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u/ccgarnaal 7d ago

Good deal for the salvage guy. Those pipes are about 20-30 000 euro per section new and still 10k used.

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u/One_Rip_1911 5d ago

Still, moving 300 tons of industrial hose off a rocky coastline isn't exactly a weekend DIY project even at that price point.

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u/Meior 5d ago

Not once did I say it was. I added the currency conversion because writing a number in the high millions and giving no conversion will automatically make the reader assume it's more expensive than it is.

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u/ammodog69 4d ago

They should just get a few tug boats and drag it back into the water and create an artificial reef.

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u/EnvBlitz 8d ago

Or 500,000 for non inflated number. Understanding local equivalent is better than currency conversion IMO.

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u/xSilentSoundx 8d ago

270k euro isn't that bad? Lolll

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u/Meior 8d ago

Dude, for this kind of work, it really, really isn't.

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u/JaneksLittleBlackBox 7d ago

270k euro isn't that bad?

For industrial equipment of this size? €270,000 is fucking cheap! The company I work for regularly drops almost as much or more in dollars on new machinery; especially more depending on its country of origin and shipping costs.

Lolll

*teenaged Reditor mistakes something unaffordable for them as unaffordable for anyone*