One-in-a-million odds
Do you know how vast the ocean is? You have a greater chance of getting struck by lightning in the middle of the ocean than you do colliding into another solid object. Don’t quote us on this since we’re just pulling this “fact” out of thin air. Still, it seems downright impossible to crash your boat into a pole, seeing as how you have so much room to swerve out of the way.
But wherever you are, you should always take Murphy’s law into consideration. If anything can go wrong, it will go wrong. And to say that something went wrong in this picture is definitely an understatement.