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To: odawg

“Well, the ship, supposedly out of control, did make a right hand turn into the support.”

It’s a massive ship with a deadweight of 116,000 tons and the power went out and then they went full reverse...the equivalent of slamming on the brakes in your car.

Cars tend to lose control under the same conditions.

The Titanic attempted a similar crash stop and they also lost rudder response when they went full reverse on the engines.


50 posted on 03/27/2024 9:46:29 AM PDT by MeganC ("Russians are subhuman" - posted by Kazan 8 March 2024)
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To: MeganC

“It’s a massive ship with a deadweight of 116,000 tons and the power went out and then they went full reverse...the equivalent of slamming on the brakes in your car.”

The Titanic has no bearing on this event.

Why would going in full reverse cause it to make a right turn, travel some distance, and bullseye the support structure?

And why not wait until it reached the long expanse to start making maneuvers? It had just about cleared the support structure.


63 posted on 03/27/2024 9:55:10 AM PDT by odawg
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To: MeganC
Titanic

Examination of the hull exterior, does not show the famous, long gash. (Setting aside all the OBVIOUS damage!)

Instead, on the port side, there is a large puncture hole - the middle of which, is at the waterline. IMH GUESS (Using another image for reference.)

The hole is vertically, almost directly beneath the foremost position of the ship's 4 exhaust stacks. (I think?).

Middle of the following image:


73 posted on 03/27/2024 10:11:33 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: MeganC

You have to be making way for the rudder to bite. And a huge laded cargo ship like that is not going respond like a Criscraft power boat. But none of that is going to affect the conspiracy nuts.


96 posted on 03/27/2024 11:09:52 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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