I know this is a newbie question, but how can sinking a few ships in a passageway 31 miles wide? Is the navigable channel just not deep enough.
I am sure I am not the only landlocked couch admiral out here.
I sincerely appreciate the free education.
I think the ‘concern’ is not that they could block the pathway, but that it is a ‘pinch-point’ where the moving ships are almost ‘sitting ducks’. They would be maneuvering around the flaming wrecks at slow speeds.
If you were being hunted, and you came to river with a footbridge, and there were dead bodies with arrows sticking out of them laying all over the bridge, would you cross it ?
Those that know, ain’t tellin’. Loose lips sink ships.
Those that speculate are doing just that. I know, I want to ask every seaman around if we can kick ass and just how much to worry about this stuff but it didn’t get me anywhere. So I read all day long.....Jane’s is a good place to start.
www.janes.com