Posted on 03/26/2024 11:39:19 AM PDT by Red Badger
they dropped the port anchor which would have slung the ship the other way.
they dropped the port anchor which would have slung the ship the other way.
Yes.......................
Thanks for the sanity.
WHY DIDN’T THEY DROP BOTH ANCHORS IMMEDIATELY!!!!
Probably ran on electric wenches..................
Dropping an anchor isn’t magical, in fact it is skill and pre-planning. Lots has to be taken into consideration, the wind, the current, the depth, drag time, what is the consistency of the sea bottom is it sand, rocks, muck? I think dropping an anchor in this emergency situation could have been a hindrance more than a help. It is laughable.
I recall reading (or viewing) that in many situations the anchor doesn't actually play a part in controlling the position of the ship. Instead it is the weight of anchor chain dragging on the sea floor that dictates how much the ship can move.
As a result, when the current direction changes on an anchored ship, the ship has to be prepared for motion as the ship traces a path over the anchor chain.
I think a ship can drop one anchor as it drifts in the current until it has let out a lot of chain. Then the ship can drop another anchor and take up some of the chain on the first anchor while letting out chain on the second anchor.
In its final position the ship would have to drag one or the other chains in order to move.
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The chain is much heavier and does most of the work. I used to be really addicted to Deadliest Catch and there was an episode in season 4 or 5 I think where a really nasty storm was hitting the crab grounds and Cpt Hansen gave the camera a bit a tutorial on anchors. He took the ship into a bay where it would be in the lee or a mountain on an island and dropped anchor. And he talked about how the chain is actually the important part, and all it was really going to do was reduce their storm drift. But even then, with a much smaller ship and therefore a much more favorable anchor and chain to ship weight ratio he didn’t expect the anchor to make the ship not move, just not more FAR (mostly to keep the back end of the storm from pushing them into the island).
You really can’t use anchors to stop, especially not when the ship gets this big. There’s a reason big ships get the right of way, changing anything about their movement is so hard. 100,000 tons is a lot of momentum. Nothing relying entirely on drag is stopping that quickly. You need to push backwards.
Knocking this bridge down would be a perfect response from Russia to NATO’s attacks on the Kerch bridge. Just saying.
They dropped the port anchor, but as expected, it did no good. An anchor has to catch on the bottom to stop the ship, and they were going too fast; the anchor “flew” across the bottom.
Right, the smoke was from the ship backing down.
What bridge?
Shipping containers damaged by the ship hitting the bridge.
Were any of the illegals harmed?.
You are correct, provided the anchor windlass been manned at the time, those sailors would have probably been injured or killed when the bridge structure fell on the front end of the ship. None of the crew was reported as injured or killed, therefore the focstle was probably unmanned at the time the ship hit the bridge support structure. JMO
The ship was still in the harbor which should be a controlled area. Until it cleared that bridge it should have had escort tugs which serve to guarantee it stays in the deep channel. As soon as the ship started turning right one of those bigaxx tugs should have been on it. And they are powerful enough to keep it straight.
Looks to me like another case of working on the cheap.
Remember the Evergiven ship that hit an island just south of here, close to the Naval Academy, awhile back? It had left its escort behind and wandered out of the channel. Lot of dumbassness involved.
That’s actually a really interesting point. I don’t know what the situation is with those docs. Do things usually get tugs? Are they escorted through there? I don’t know. Certainly a tugboat or 2 would have really useful there, they are the true emergency brakes of big ships.
WHY DIDN’T THEY DROP BOTH ANCHORS IMMEDIATELY!!!!
The Sonny Liston Memorial Bridge.
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