A bad day at work

[Black Panther 1,767]

 

[funlovincriminal 218]

Holy Heka

Sounds like Bridge had construction workers on it, imagine if it happened at peak traffic flow 😵

[Psyche 807]

Apparently it was travelling at 13kts and lost steerage and power, they had enough time to call in a mayday and clear the bulk of the bridge traffic. 

 

 

[funlovincriminal 218]

Watched a Webcam recording of the lead up and collision.  Definitely was making some speed alright. Was a fair amount of traffic on bridge eight up to impact.

[aardvarkash10 1,105]

Amazing that only 6 people have been reported lost. The collapse was spectacular and disconcerting to watch.

[harrytom 697]

Learnt something too Didn't know ships have a black box.

[Psyche 807]

Cant happen here, right!

[waikiore 483]

Almost did in January with two tugs fighting hard to control a ship in strong Westerly , took her to Chelsea -then back down the Harbour when the wind died to the Port.

[khayyam 101]

I'm told everything big under the bridge has two tugs. Obviously not guaranteed but a lot more redundancy at least.

[rjp 4]

Definitely a sad day for the city as well.  The port was hanging on a bit as the 105miles up the Chesapeake added a lot of cost to carriers.  This could be the death knell.

Over the years we sailed under that bridge many times, Also Wed night racing the harbour side for about a dozen years. It is a busy port and always fun.  Was often cat and mouse with the ship movements and interesting to see if anyone got an immediate disqualification from5 honks -and it did happen