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re: Breaking: Baltimore - Container ship causes bridge collapse
Posted on 3/26/24 at 5:38 am to LB84
Posted on 3/26/24 at 5:38 am to LB84
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I don’t think a ship would make a structurally sound bridge crumble down in it’s entirety.
Google the Sunshine Skyway disaster, this exact event happened before.
Something is fricky here, foreign captains have to relinquish control of the ship inside the sea buoy (COLREG) demarcation line, to an American Pilot. This should have never occurred.
Pray for those affected and pray this was not an act of terrorism.
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Posted on 3/26/24 at 7:01 am to MoLiberty
Should not occur, but if the power goes out on the ship and given the currents it can. You have a huge hunk of floating metal traveling at about 8 knots with no ability to steer.
Same thing happened in New Orleans back in 1995 or 96 when a big freighter lost power at Algiers point and the pilot had to figure out a way to slam the boat into the wharf and took out a large section of the Riverwalk.
Same thing happened in New Orleans back in 1995 or 96 when a big freighter lost power at Algiers point and the pilot had to figure out a way to slam the boat into the wharf and took out a large section of the Riverwalk.
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