Bridge Collapses in Baltimore
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A huge one, maybe artificial island with steel/concrete walls!
If you go off that bridge you aren't surviving the impact with no seat belt. Probably wouldn't do well with one on either, but definitely screwed without one. There are tools you can buy to break windows and cut belts if you are that paranoid about it.
The kind you use in "I'm rubber, you're glue, everything you say bounces off me and sticks to you". They need that kind. Good and bouncy.
Good to know. We’ve got about 150 containers showing up over the next month and a half through Philly. I was just worried about Philly being the next port north of Baltimore. Sounds like not much overlap because these are smaller ships out of central and South America.
You need to go over the Mackinac bridge sometime.
Da comrade equipment failures never happen in our Workers' Paradise.
Open the door and jump out 10 ft before the car hit the water. a moon roof is good for this too.
Mission Impossible theme needs to be playing while you do this.Open the door and jump out 10 ft before the car hit the water. a moon roof is good for this too.
Shockingly enough - that's the second time in a year that that same ship's funnel has caught fire. This time they're saying it likely was lightning that struck it.This was close a few days ago:
Update on Next Cruise After Carnival Cruise Ship Fire
Carnival Cruise Line has updated guests on ship operations and the next cruise after Carnival Freedom had a second funnel fire.www.cruisehive.com
I play it on the radio every time I cross a bridge just in case.
This picture is of the bridge south of St. Pete, Florida across the mouth of Tampa Bay...
They basically built a layer of pylons up to the water level shielding the actual pylons.
I would have to imagine that hundreds of thousands of ships went under this bridge in it's 47 years of existence. It's honestly kind of amazing that nothing happened until now, knowing that the bridge was not designed for a collision like this, and there was no protection in place.
This is where my mind goes. It is INCREDIBLY difficult, expensive and I would argue unrealistic to remove all potential risk and failure opportunities. Sometimes **** happens.
RMBK reactor cores don't explode.
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It sounds like the piers did have some protection, but not enough to stop a ship of that weight. More to prevent smaller boats from causing damage. Making it robust enough to withstand a collision from a shipping freighter of that size probably isn't practical.
Not great. Not terrible.
