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Bridge Collapse in Baltimore

It's not a silly question but I would guess that it would take a significant amount of time to organise dropping an anchor for a 110,000 ton (101,605,000 kg) ship already travelling at 8 knots (4 metres per second) and it sounds like they didn't have much time BUT a few back of an envelope calculations....

The ship's momentum (mass x velocity) was 400,000,000 kg/metres/per sec. For an idea of the equivalent force to stop the ship, it would be the same as trying to stop a 737 airline that weighs 40,000 kg (2500 times lighter than the ship) going 2500 times faster than that ship (roughly 36,000 km/h).

There's no anchor and steel chain in the world that could bring that ship to a stop without snapping instantly if it got stuck in something or with it's weight it would take hours for it to slow down. A ship has to be stopped to put an anchor down.
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This was quite clearly a case of the ship losing power, but no doubt the yanks will want to blame someone. I wouldn't be surprised if the pilot gets thrown under the bus

You can see the moment the lights go out here -

 
Here we go again, this time in Galveston, Texas. A large barge crashed into the bridge linking Galveston to Pelican Island and causing an oil spill.

Looks like you wouldn't be getting the train to there anytime soon.



 
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