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Originally Posted by Aerovette
It's incredible to me that the planets align in such a perfect way, that the ship managed to hit the support. All that open water and space to drift through and it managed to squarely hit a support.
It's like a car leaving the road and hitting the only tree in a 10 mile radius.
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Carries 4 lanes of I-695 Toll
Crosses Patapsco River
Locale Baltimore, Maryland
Maintained by Maryland Transportation Authority
Design Steel arch-shaped continuous through truss bridge
Material Steel
Total length 8,636 feet (2,632.3 m; 1.6 mi)
Longest span 1,200 feet (366 m)
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It appears the span to go under is 1,200 feet, so it could have crossed even at a 90-degree spin.
Those damn support beams!!
The original Sunshine Skyway Bridge was a piss poor, designed in 1950.
The span was narrow, had no islands / bumpers.
The new bridge, same name, was done right, huge islands to force ships being straight, with a much wider span.
Even if a ship is out of alignment, it will hit the concrete islands, never the supoort beams.
