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In the narrative of this one, I've promised you to offer the 'solution' (please notice the quotes) about what was going on near the sea front of Flushing, Zeeland, The Netherlands.

Although I got used to very different maritime situations, I've never seen such a maneuver on a maritime photo shoot before. The pilot changed the course of the general cargo vessel dramatically (fully) to starboard, maybe preventing to be stranded. This can be seen by the slightly roll to the port side of the ship (in contrary with land based vehicles: they would have rolled in such conditions to the opposite direction). To me, it was a miracle that stranding the vessel didn't happen. Hope however that I saw an optical illusion, as suggested by some of you in their comment of the above mentioned image, else I've seen a 'narrow escape'.

To see the size of the vessel in the proper perspective, please notice the person on the port (left) 'wing' of the ship's bridge (just under the tent cover). Probably this person can be seen only by displaying this image at full screen size.