re: Sunshine Bridge hit again. Back Open, no need to panic

IWHI

Guy videoing sounds like he weighs 500lbs or was beating his meat

Someone teach Mark to operate his Android phone.

Better yet...get him over to the OT and let us challenge him to a Sonic meet and greet.

Hopefully the only damage is to the bumpers

As someone who worked on a dock for nearly 4 years I can tell you that ship skirting into that column is serious business. The momentum of those massive vessels can’t be explained unless you see it up close and personal.

I would routinely guide ships in to berth and even with constant communication with the river boat captain and tug captains and minimum to even zero thrust on their engines, any bump against our dock would shake the shite out of it and often times frick up the wooden support beams lined throughout the dock. Any length of shutdown of the bridge wouldn’t surprise me.

What am I looking at?

For you all saying Motiva, I’m thinking you mean Shell.

What’s the problem here? The Captain successfully made it between the obstacle course. It’s not like he hit it dead in right? LOL

Seriously though, Is it me or did the bridge shake on the second impact?

If he was at Shell, they 100% got screwed up in the maneuver to spin the ship around to head downriver. That’s a pretty tight window to get that down. They likely didn’t head enough upriver enough to get turned around and on a good path.