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A 2-mile long bridge sounds massive, but do-able. Louisiana has a 20+ mile bridge over water.
Napoleon said: ‘Italy is like a boot. You have to enter it from the top. “
Pensacola here has a 3 mile bridge and there’s a 7 mile bridge in the Keys...........
Spartacus made a bargain with Cilician pirates to transport him and some 2,000 of his men to Sicily, where he intended to incite a slave revolt and gather reinforcements. However, he was betrayed by the pirates, who took payment and then abandoned the rebels.
Seems like this should have been done decades ago.
My big concern if I was engineering it would be Sicily’s motion with respect to the mainland. The motion of the African plate causes it to move significantly every year. I don’t know how you engineer a bridge to handle that.
Our ‘Bay Bridge’ in Maryland is 4 miles, but I don’t think it’s entirely suspension.
“Pensacola here has a 3 mile bridge and there’s a 7 mile bridge in the Keys...........”
The water under the 7 mile bridge is shallow enough to see the bottom. The Strait of Sicily is over 1000 feet deep at parts.
Muztards licking their chops. I am surprised they haven’t attempted something under the English Channel. I guess England is not considered a threat.
Maybe a suspension bridge would be the best choice, with the entire middle a bit flexible.
It’s going to be tricky. I think I read a long time ago that Sicily moves north up to 3 inches per year, which would cause a sideways shift the way the bridge is aligned. Over 40 years, that’s 10 feet, more than a lane width. It will have implications for expansion joints as well as for the cables.
Plus the current rips through the strait.
As you pointed out it is also very deep. Which is why a tunnel will not work.
Plus the two Earth crust plates are moving/separating.
Throw in the Calabria and Sicilian Mafia and I will say Areva Derchi.
Are these waters troubled?
Not in Sicily...................
What am I missing here?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackinac_Bridge
Total length 26,372 ft (8,038 m)
“the (Sicily) bridge is planned to stretch 3,300 meters (10,827 feet) across the strait”
Last time I checked, 26,372 was more than 10,827. But grade school was a long time ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIKELNkdYEw
My husbands great grandparents, 4 of his grandmothers siblings,
many cousins, aunts, uncles, a huge part of the sizeable ex-pat community
died in the Dec. 28, 1908 earthquake.
The earthquake collapsed poorly built stone/concrete stucco homes,
and produced a tsunami with a wall of water that was as high as 30 feet on the mainland and Sicilian side in the Straight of Messina.
It is assumed that his great grandparents and the 4 children were washed out to sea by the tsunami, which followed minutes after the quake. Many people rushed out of their homes when the quake occurred, only to be washed out to sea.
Were it not for the fact my husband’s grandmother(age 14 in 1908) and her sister(age 16) attending boarding school outside of Messina, they would have perished as well.
A Russian Navy ship was the closest to Messina, after the disaster and were the first foreign nation to arrive and begin recovering survivors from the city streets and
those who were trapped in the rubble.
There were 2 major earthquakes in 1693 and 1783 which affected Messina and Calabria.
The Mormon genealogy website, familysearch.org has most all of the ATTI DI MORTE, available for this disaster.
That would be the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway.
Here it is.
Doesn't look much like a suspension bridge, does it? You might want to study the Straits of Messina a bit more.
Yes, Paul ... they are, in fact, VERY troubled.
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