🚢👀🚢Container Ship Reportedly "Lost Power" In NYC Harbor, Right Before Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge🚢👀🚢
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A cargo ship that is shut down at just the right time will drift to starboard... better start having tugs escort every ship and slow them down.
Why starboard?
It has to do with the screw shape of the propeller, it being drug through water, and gravity. When it free wheels it will discharge more water to starboard than to port which will influence a turning of the ship that direction. A similar result happens if you turn the propeller in reverse faster than the ship is moving backwards.