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 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.