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03-26-2024, 8:49am | #61 | |||||||
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I almost got crushed by a motor lifeboat on a lift once when the winch shorted. Saw it lifting with nobody at the controls so I ran over and started banging on the emergency stop. It didn't give a shit! Cable snapped when it ran out of slack and the boat dropped splitting a half inch thick steel deck. It was so close I could reach out and touch it. |
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Damn Jewish Space Lasers!
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It was originally called the Harbor Crossing but was dubbed the FSK Bridge just before the opening. We all called it The Key Bridge.
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Ooof....
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In all seriousness, it's a horrific tragedy. I can't even imagine the terror the people on that bridge felt. The only bright spot, if there is one, is the bridge seemed to be virtually empty at the time.
There were two people rescued, one severely hurt, and one, miraculously unharmed. Pretty sure that's going to be it.....there won't be any more survivors. |
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Prognostication: Our government will spend tens of millions investigating this, and come up with a bunch of new diktats intended to prevent something like this from ever happening again, but won't suggest the obvious, which is, have the same tugboats that get the ships out of the port stay with those ships until they get past this bridge and are in the channel, heading the right direction.
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I knew a couple of men who were harbor pilots, and these guys were very highly experienced and very good at their jobs. They board many different vessels and run them in and out of harbors. And they are very very well compensated. |
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Here's a much better video of the incident.
The pilots were along for the ride once power was lost at a critical point in the passage. It wouldn't have mattered if the pilots were little green men, gay militants, lumberjacks, or DEI wonderkids. |
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Bill and Lars know stuff. |
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Several of those semi's just made it over before impact. And it may be camera angle but it looked like the ship was outside the channel before losing power and impact. |
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It was in the channel. There's a lot of info, video, photos and route maps here. The Captain made a distress call saying they lost power. The root cause analysis will focus on the how and why it lost power. |
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A little like the Sunshine Skyway, Tampa/St. Pete, disaster in 1980.
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Wonder if there's any correlation between increasing human error during a period where some people don't eat during the day because of some superstition
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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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