I'm pretty sure you can see the port anchor go out like 20 seconds before they hit. Those ships are usually single screw with slow speed main engines and a basic generator plant. My guess is they tripped the plant and lost steering. There's basically no chance the main engine would have shut down. It takes 30 to 45 seconds for the emergency generator to come online and with the timing of it all, that was more than enough time for it to wreck.

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Posted by ell_13

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Posted on 3/27/24 at 7:31 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt

I noticed this morning that there were way more tugs helping ships up the Savannah River. There’s another one on the opposite side and a random one just following along and one in the front you can’t see.

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Posted by baldona

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Posted on 3/27/24 at 8:19 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt

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Those ships are usually single screw with slow speed main engines and a basic generator plant. My guess is they tripped the plant and lost steering. There's basically no chance the main engine would have shut down.

Does the main engine not power anything else? It sure seems like the engine went out because the black smoke coincides with the lights coming back on, assuming that’s the main engine?

On the gps tracker videos posted the ship is going down the center of the channel until they have issues when it veers. I guess an explaination is the torque from the prop steers the boat without steering?

If that’s the case though, could you not steer the boat with a reversed prop in the proper direction?

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