Ships like that cargo carrier must have passed underneath it loads of times before. Wonder if the captain of the boat was like one of these people like in those planes at 9/11?
Considering it’s a bridge where lots of ships will come near to it ,it seemed to completely collapse quite easily.
Yeah it looked rather flimsy - an accident waiting to happen. It was early in the morning local time but they had pilots on board and the centre span was over 300 metres wide - so even in the dark it would be difficult to miss.
I've heard reports that some minutes prior to the collision all the lights on the ship went out as if there was a problem. I wonder if the steering was affected by the power outage.
I watched the live video. It's like he couldn't see the main support leg in front of him and ran absolutely plumb straight into it.
Maybe, but a craft that big, we all know you adjust the steering from quite a way away from it. It hit the bridge support pretty head on…
And so it starts even on here, the ship had a problem loss of power it sent an sos to warn of a serious problem, no steering no stopping just an accident
If your engine fails on a ship you have no brakes. In order to be able to steer a ship like that with just a rudder, no thrusters (cruise liners usually have these) you need to be travelling quite fast, or have tugs doing the steering. So fast , maybe 10 knots that even if the engine is working you are going to take a couple of miles to stop. So a steering or an engine failure in a harbour means a crash. Theres just one engine. Just one rudder. Just one failure and you have had it. You want your bananas and TV sets cheap, you dont pay for redundant hardware. On a modern cruise liner there are several engines, multiple thrusters so they can cope with failures, keep the punters happy, theres lots of money changing hands.
