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Anonymous wrote:What is with ships losing power?!

Some bad agent or foreign spy is contaminating the gasoline at ports or going on board as a mechanic and snipping some wires. Good times.

Trump caused this.

Trump caused the Baltimore container ship to fill its fuel tank with over oxygenated petrol and jam its engines off? lol.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is with ships losing power?!

Some bad agent or foreign spy is contaminating the gasoline at ports or going on board as a mechanic and snipping some wires. Good times.

Trump caused this.

Trump caused the Baltimore container ship to fill its fuel tank with over oxygenated petrol and jam its engines off? lol.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is with ships losing power?!

Some bad agent or foreign spy is contaminating the gasoline at ports or going on board as a mechanic and snipping some wires. Good times.

Trump caused this.

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Anonymous wrote:Masts have a fixed height. The Brooklyn Bridge also has a fixed height. This should never have happened. When do the manslaughter charges get filed.

Clearance can change based on water level. It's still a huge eff up, but it's not like driving a truck under a highway bridge.

Knowing the tides and current flow at what time given location is basic sailing.

Who was the Captain? And the tug boat operator? Seems like just a hot mess all around.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is with ships losing power?!

Some bad agent or foreign spy is contaminating the gasoline at ports or going on board as a mechanic and snipping some wires. Good times.

Anonymous wrote:What is with ships losing power?!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Masts have a fixed height. The Brooklyn Bridge also has a fixed height. This should never have happened. When do the manslaughter charges get filed.

Clearance can change based on water level. It's still a huge eff up, but it's not like driving a truck under a highway bridge.

Knowing the tides and current flow at what time given location is basic sailing.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s a Mexican navy ship. Not sure where PP got the pirate ship?

Yeah; that seems kinda racist.

Yes, this is a good time to consider the various racial aspects. Racist ship. Racist water. Racist current. Racist bridge.

Everyone knows pirates are somali these days. Before that they all looked like Johnny Depp.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s a Mexican navy ship. Not sure where PP got the pirate ship?

Yeah; that seems kinda racist.

Yes, this is a good time to consider the various racial aspects. Racist ship. Racist water. Racist current. Racist bridge.

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Anonymous wrote:Masts have a fixed height. The Brooklyn Bridge also has a fixed height. This should never have happened. When do the manslaughter charges get filed.

That was my first thought. A power outage does not alter basic geometry conflicts.
That Mexican training vessel had a lot more problems than the power outage.
One has to wonder about its level of training.

True, but would a power outage keep them from stopping or turning?

Yes, 100%. I'm a sailor, and without either a motor or wind power (under sail), you would not be able to control the ship well.

Hence one of the 100s of tugboats should hav e been preventing this fatal disaster

It looks like the tug that pulled the ship out of it's berth had already uncoupled, and so wasn't attached to be able to pull it away from the bridge. At the time of the impact it appears to have been trying to get around behind the ship, to push it, but didn't get there fast enough.

They push. Tugboats usually push large ships for better aim/ steering when docking or in busy urban waters. Their whole front is rubber for pushing and tapping.

Anyhow. Each sail mast bar had 3-6 sailors on it so this is devastating

When things started to go badly the ship was moving away from the tug, and the tug was by the bow. There is no way to push the bow of the boat that will stop it from going backward.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Masts have a fixed height. The Brooklyn Bridge also has a fixed height. This should never have happened. When do the manslaughter charges get filed.

That was my first thought. A power outage does not alter basic geometry conflicts.
That Mexican training vessel had a lot more problems than the power outage.
One has to wonder about its level of training.

True, but would a power outage keep them from stopping or turning?

Yes, 100%. I'm a sailor, and without either a motor or wind power (under sail), you would not be able to control the ship well.

Hence one of the 100s of tugboats should hav e been preventing this fatal disaster

It looks like the tug that pulled the ship out of it's berth had already uncoupled, and so wasn't attached to be able to pull it away from the bridge. At the time of the impact it appears to have been trying to get around behind the ship, to push it, but didn't get there fast enough.

They push. Tugboats usually push large ships for better aim/ steering when docking or in busy urban waters. Their whole front is rubber for pushing and tapping.

Anyhow. Each sail mast bar had 3-6 sailors on it so this is devastating

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Masts have a fixed height. The Brooklyn Bridge also has a fixed height. This should never have happened. When do the manslaughter charges get filed.

That was my first thought. A power outage does not alter basic geometry conflicts.
That Mexican training vessel had a lot more problems than the power outage.
One has to wonder about its level of training.

True, but would a power outage keep them from stopping or turning?

Yes, 100%. I'm a sailor, and without either a motor or wind power (under sail), you would not be able to control the ship well.

Hence one of the 100s of tugboats should hav e been preventing this fatal disaster

It looks like the tug that pulled the ship out of its berth had already uncoupled, and so wasn't attached to be able to pull it away from the bridge. At the time of the impact it appears to have been trying to get around behind the ship, to push it, but didn't get there fast enough.

So it was docked at the Manhattan Seaport, was pulled/ pushed out, had engine power and was let go, then did not and drifted quickly north into the bridge!?

Very similar to the mechanical difficulties of the container ship in Baltimore harbor port. Got tugged out and never worked.

Who’s vetting the petrol quality and on-port mechanics at American ports?!?