I don’t understand why everyone here thinks a backup manual steering control would make any difference in this amount of time with a vessel that weighs over 200 million pounds. Am I the only one that’s seen a vessel of this size? Why not highlight the corrupt city of Baltimore who I guarantee has gotten recommendations to retrofit greater protection to the pylons of this critical bridge? I feel like I’d be banned even trying to make a reasonable thread about this. Rant over
I was right up with you until your second point. I feel like pedes have NOT seen a ship this size before. It's unimaginable (just think of each of those cargo containers being on the back of a semi truck)
Which is why no protection in the world would have kept that bridge up.
From a direct hit, certainly not, they admitted that shortly after it was built. The ‘dolphins’ that protect them are only good for deflection, it’s quite hard to find good technical specs of these on various bridges however, so I can’t say for sure that ANY ‘dolphin’ as these bumpers are known are rated to take a collision from one of these ships.
I read that they have a wheel they can turn 30x for 1 degree of rudder.
Totally useless in a tight turn with an outgoing tide and the already limited maneuverability
I don’t understand why everyone here thinks a backup manual steering control would make any difference in this amount of time with a vessel that weighs over 200 million pounds. Am I the only one that’s seen a vessel of this size? Why not highlight the corrupt city of Baltimore who I guarantee has gotten recommendations to retrofit greater protection to the pylons of this critical bridge? I feel like I’d be banned even trying to make a reasonable thread about this. Rant over
I was right up with you until your second point. I feel like pedes have NOT seen a ship this size before. It's unimaginable (just think of each of those cargo containers being on the back of a semi truck)
Which is why no protection in the world would have kept that bridge up.
From a direct hit, certainly not, they admitted that shortly after it was built. The ‘dolphins’ that protect them are only good for deflection, it’s quite hard to find good technical specs of these on various bridges however, so I can’t say for sure that ANY ‘dolphin’ as these bumpers are known are rated to take a collision from one of these ships.