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Container ship loses power brings down major bridge.

Saw another video where it showed the ship losing power a few times before ultimately hitting the bridge.
 
just doing the S and G thing these days

[youtube]ZCegQ3r5twI[/youtube]
 
Also, apparently this same vessel was involved in an incident in Belgium in 2016.
 
Time to stop having large ships go under these critical bridges under their own power. Tug 'em all out to big water, or lower the speed in case things go awry.


Hope for the best plan for the worst.
 
I thought if a ship didn't stay centered in a channel it would run aground but clearly that is a feature of only some ports.
 
Might be more silty than solid mud, that kind of weight + speed would take a minute to ground.
 
Saw a report from a dock worker that the ship had electrical problems multiple times while it was docked at port. There was nothing that could be done by the port authority to keep it from leaving with electrical problems.

Welcome back to shortages everybody.
 
I just watched this video, which had a good explanation of how it all happened. Some of the choices the crew made that must have seemed right at the time, made it worse.

[YOUTUBE]qZbUXewlQDk[/YOUTUBE]
 
A quick calculation reveals that the force required to do this was somewhere in the vicinity of the force needed to crack 4-5 million eggs.
 
afm199 said:
A quick calculation reveals that the force required to do this was somewhere in the vicinity of the force needed to crack 4-5 million eggs.
Click to expand...

I only understand units represented in school busses or football fields.
 
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