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Re:The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland Has C... by xienze on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @06:52AM (#39826290)
Ships are hundreds of thousands of tons in weight and the momentum acts as a force multiplier. Plus it hit the pylon dead center, which is the worst case scenario. It’s not terribly surprising.

I think there’s also an underlying expectation that any competent ship captain would at least be able to see that they’re on a collision course with the pylon well ahead of time and be able to compensate. Which obviously didn’t happen in this case.

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Re:The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland Has C... by ponector on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @07:07AM (#39826381)
There is another video where we can see two power outage occurred. Ship was uncontrollable but with enormous amount of inertia.

I'm sure captain tried to do anything he can to avoid collision.

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Re:The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland Has C... by TheHypnotist on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @09:16AM (#39827427)
The trajectory of the ship seemed near perfect right up until just before the bridge where I suspect it experience it's mechanical issue.
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Re:The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland Has C... by KineticLensman on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @09:49AM (#39827788)
Interestingly, a surprising number of ship-ship collisions occur due to an unnecessary last minute evasive-action manoeuvre between ships that weren't actually on a collision course in the first place. There's a whole section devoted to this in the outstanding book 'Normal Accidents' by Charles Perrow.
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