By now, you’ve probably seen footage of Super Typhoon Champi churning up apocalyptically large waves along Taiwan’s coast. Well, here’s another one. A viral video has joined the spectacle: an enormous container ship rocking violently in heavy seas.
The vessel looks like a child’s toy being tossed around in a bathtub. One moment its bow rises over a swell; the next, the ocean appears to swallow much of its hull. The clip circulating on Instagram originated from a Threads account and has been associated with Champi’s destructive surf.
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The ship has been tentatively identified as the Kota Lumayan , a Singapore-flagged container vessel measuring 260.5 meters, or approximately 855 feet long.
But there’s a catch: shipping records place the Kota Lumayan in Australia during the storm. Neither the vessel’s identity nor the video’s filming date and location has been independently confirmed.…