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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Still confused how the shipping container hit the pillars even if it did lose power…[/quote]

Get on a boat. It doesn't have stop on a dime breaks.  Or rudders that work powerless. [/quote]

Plus it is the size of the Empire State Building.  You can just put the brakes on. [/quote]

This thread has been surprising, highlighting many people's lack of general knowledge about water safety, boats and bodies of water. That has scary implications for drowning risks when they head off to the beach or river. You don't need to be expert, but getting a bit of knowledge makes sense.[/quote]

It’s a huge leap from “is unfamiliar with how container ships work” to “will drown if they ever go to a beach.” Those things are not similar. [b]I had no idea it takes over 20 minutes for a container ship to drop anchor[/b] but that doesn’t mean I’m going to die on a beach. [/quote]

NP. I have never been on a container ship nor have I ever seen one in real life up close. I do live on the Bay so I see them go by from miles away every once in awhile, but I probably know the most about how they work from watching the second season of The Wire. However, given that I am vaguely aware of their massive size, and because I took physics in high school 30 years ago, I feel like I could piece together some logic regarding the length of time it would take to drop an anchor off a ship that tall and going that fast. So basically, by using some common sense plus some vague knowledge of the topic, I feel like I could surmise that it would taken quite a bit of time to drop an anchor in a way that would actually stop or slow such a massive ship. Perhaps this is PP's thought - that people seem to be lacking some basic common sense when it comes to issues like this. But maybe my "common sense" is more rooted in actual knowledge to which most people are not privy, in which case I'm just being an elitist, which is possible. [/quote]

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