To: backpacker_c
Funny how seamanship 101 says if steerage is lost and the ship is making way ( heading for a bridge!!! ) DROP THE ANCHOR!!!!
210 posted on
03/26/2024 2:06:30 AM PDT by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: central_va
very true.
Plus if you watched the exhaust got very black, indicative of a diesel under a very high load. they were trying to stop, but at that weight and speed no way, in that short of distance.
They were doing 12 kts.
Remember your physics, F=MV.
316 posted on
03/26/2024 4:04:46 AM PDT by
rellic
To: central_va
Unless you have worked on a ship you do not understand how much time it takes to drop emergency anchor.
448 posted on
03/26/2024 5:26:41 AM PDT by
New Perspective
(As Leonard Cohen said once in an interview, “You won’t like what comes after America”)
To: central_va
Funny how seamanship 101 says if steerage is lost and the ship is making way ( heading for a bridge!!! ) DROP THE ANCHOR!!!!Unless you have worked on a ship you do not understand how much time it takes to drop emergency anchor.
450 posted on
03/26/2024 5:27:00 AM PDT by
New Perspective
(As Leonard Cohen said once in an interview, “You won’t like what comes after America”)
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