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To: MeganC

“Sometimes an accident is just an accident. It doesn’t have to make sense. It just happens.”

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


39 posted on 03/27/2024 9:33:07 AM PDT by odawg
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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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