just before?
or hours/days before?
If it was just before then nothing could be done with a 100,000 ton vessel in motion.
If it was hours/days before then someone is in trouble.
This was posted on xkcd a few days ago...
“warned of power issues before the collision”
just before?
or hours/days before?
If it was just before then nothing could be done with a 100,000 ton vessel in motion.
If it was hours/days before then someone is in trouble.
It seems from the article that it was just before.
The Ship lost power.
Then it restarted.
Heavy black smoke came out the exhaust before it lost power again.
They dropped an anchor to try and stop, but the energy took them into the pylon.
Their warning minutes before the crash saved many motorists’ lives by allowing traffic to be stopped.
It seems only the construction crew working on the bridge at the time were impacted and 6 are still missing.
Only a few minutes warning from the ships pilot, I think.
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.
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.
just before?
or hours/days before?
If it was just before then nothing could be done with a 100,000 ton vessel in motion.
If it was hours/days before then someone is in trouble.
This was posted on xkcd a few days ago...
Singapore is just the flag. There is a ship owner. This ship was leased. There is a ship leaser, put they have insurance.
I am hoping that when Biden says they will rebuild the bridge he is not saying he will pay for the rebuilt bridge. And then there is the harbor pilot. Normally the captain is responsible for the ship even if its under the control of the harbor pilot. But the harbor pilot may have been the one who is guilty. I don’t think so. But there must be a investigation. They don’t know yet.