wind doesn't turn the ship, or currents. You're in a canal, no tides or currents really.
Wind is not a huge play here.
What's at play is newton's laws. A force in motion stays in motion. If power got cut when the rudder has the ship turning starboard, rudder is stuck and the prop, even with power cut, will still keep moving for awhile. Even if the prop stopped, the ship would still drift.
What likely happened here is black out during an adjustment meant the rudder was stuck turnt towards starboard, and the still moving prop helped to move the ship onto the sandbank on the side, where it eventually slowed down and idled.
There are no significant currents or flow of water, it's a canal, not a running river.
The water is static and the only flows are caused when lock gates are opened and refilled..
How did it get sideways?
Had to be one helluva wind to turn a ship that big
Yeah. It was part of the same ferocious weather system that blew a U.S. President off his feet a few days prior, halfway around the world.
Doesn't take much wind to move something that big.
wind doesn't turn the ship, or currents. You're in a canal, no tides or currents really.
Wind is not a huge play here.
What's at play is newton's laws. A force in motion stays in motion. If power got cut when the rudder has the ship turning starboard, rudder is stuck and the prop, even with power cut, will still keep moving for awhile. Even if the prop stopped, the ship would still drift.
What likely happened here is black out during an adjustment meant the rudder was stuck turnt towards starboard, and the still moving prop helped to move the ship onto the sandbank on the side, where it eventually slowed down and idled.
There are no significant currents or flow of water, it's a canal, not a running river. The water is static and the only flows are caused when lock gates are opened and refilled..