http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/11/us/us-tsu ... index.html
From the CNN video it looks like this hull would barely be visible even on a clear day. One of the dangers of the "Coconut Milk Run". While I know little of such encounters I cannot imagine a fiberglass sailboat hitting such an object (it may also be fiberglass) without doing substantial, perhaps fatal, damage to a sailboat's hull.
The video evokes sad memories and pictures of the earthquake and tsunami from March 2011 that destroyed so many lives in Japan. Very sad.
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"I wish to have no Connection with any Ship that does not Sail fast for I intend to go in harm's way." Captain John Paul Jones, 16 November 1778, as quoted in Naval History and Heritage Command, http://www.history.navy.mil
Roberto
a/k/a Sea Hunt "The Tadpole Sailor"
CDSOA #1097
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"I wish to have no Connection with any Ship that does not Sail fast for I intend to go in harm's way." Captain John Paul Jones, 16 November 1778, as quoted in Naval History and Heritage Command, http://www.history.navy.mil