Posted on 03/26/2024 11:39:19 AM PDT by Red Badger
Only a few minutes warning from the ships pilot, I think.
Not that anybody on the bridge would have known what to do, but......
I’m wondering if that actually caused the ship to hit the bridge more directly.
According to all accounts I've both read and viewed on YouTube, it was just before. The ship seems to have lost power only a few minutes before the crash. Power came back on briefly -- whether the crew got the power back or it was an emergency generator is not clear. A huge plume of black smoke came out of the ship's stack, which seems to indicate that the crew tried to back up or otherwise maneuver the ship away from the bridge. The power went out a second time just moments before the crash. There simply was not enough time to move such a massive ship quickly enough.
Despite the media focusing (in their usual stupidity) on the bridge structure, no bridge could withstand a support being taken out by a massive, very heavy ship ramming it head on at about 8 knots.
The survivors are going to have some harrowing stories to tell!
They did drop the port anchor. You can see it in photos. The starboard anchor can’t be seen due to debris hanging over the ship’s bow.
Anchors aren’t emergency brakes. Especially when ships get that big. What anchors mostly do is reduce (notice REDUCE) how much storms push the ship around. Most ships never even drop anchor anymore, they just aren’t that useful.
I think that requires power
Video of the incident shows the lights on the ship going out for a minute or two in the few minutes just prior to the crash. The ship was throwing up a HUGE plume of diesel exhaust immediately prior to the crash.
Here’s another comforting statement:
“The White House is closely monitoring the situation”
They’re always closely monitoring the situation. They must have a fill in the blanks boilerplate statement for any event.
Dropping anchor requires.... gravity.
Well hello Dali.
Fifty feet of water with heavy currents? The anchor line would need to be a minimum of 250 feet long. The direction of the wind and current would determine the set of the anchor. I don’t see how an anchor in this emergency situation could have been used.
bttt
So why didn’t they **DROP ANCHOR** immediately if they were drifting ?
Probably has to have power to run windlass
This video is interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxOjoDvdJrs&ab_channel=marineinsight
They dropped the port anchor. That caused them to shift towards the bridge.
They did.. that what cause it to hit the bridge As it slew around the anchor.
I’m hearing that since the ship was on the proper line when it lost power. If they had done nothing, it would have continued on the straight line in the channel properly as they still had rudder controls
It was them trying to stop it Dropping the anchor and putting in reverse it when power came back on...That caused the ship to slew sidewise out of the channel and hit the bridge.
I do not like speculation about blame this early in a disastder such as this one. As a safety engineer, I would think the NTSB will be called in on this and they will look at the design and the operation and attempt to learn what what wrong. I suspect power was not the only thing, because at this time power would be considered a critical factor, (Needed for GPS, nav, guidance, and helm control). So there would have been back up emergency power, which must also have failed. Maybe a computer was involved and when power was lost, this device lost its recent memory. Maybe needd to be re-booted — unforgivable if if it was.
So we need the engineering team to get busy before we try to guess what they did or did n ot do.
KC
Only by nature of its use on oceans. There are a lot of 1,000 “boats” traversing the Great Lakes.
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