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The ocean is huge, but these countries are neighbors, it's not like a Canada submarine colliding with a south African one...
Even the English channel is vast in comparison to even the largest ships. It's still ridiculously coincidental that this could happen.
I am aware, but it's not "fantasticly huge" as the ocean. Of course it's still a remarkable coincidence, just not as remarkable.