Ship removes US bridge

ardmacha · 28-01-2012 9:43pm #1

Is it just me or have standards slipped in the nautical navigation field recently?

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-01-27/kentucky-bridge-collapse/52813592/1

MyKeyG · 28-01-2012 9:47pm

What a plank. It doesn't even look as if it would have gone under the highest point never mind the the point he actually went for.

Overature · 28-01-2012 9:48pm

well theres your problem

Irish and Proud · 28-01-2012 10:10pm

...and that bridge does not look very well maintained to me either - of course, the US (and now Canada it seems) has a great history of collapsing road bridges as well as the unscheduled bridge demolitions by ships.

Great way to manage infrastructure! :rolleyes:

dowlingm · 29-01-2012 4:38am

Of course, if the political nature of NASA funding didn't require space industry construction to be liberally sprinkled into every square mile with a vote in it, maybe ships wouldn't have to be bringing rocket parts down rivers. (Or they could at least use C-5s or a Beluga or something instead of cheaping out with a cargo ship)

dubhthach · 29-01-2012 4:02pm

Given that they probably been shipping parts on that route for years I would imagine that vessel has passed under the bridge many times. It definetly looks like they didn't take the right navigation channel. Given that the Bridge is in Kentucky it's definitely not tidal stretch. So unless the river is at a high level due to winter I'm not sure if there would have been an incident if they had selected the right span to go under.

ardmacha · 29-01-2012 4:12pm

and that bridge does not look very well maintained to me either

As noted in the newspaper article linked, preparatory has already started for a replacement bridge.

The ship took the wrong channel. But even a layman can see the bridge is higher in the middle, so why did it do that?

Carawaystick · 30-01-2012 10:47pm

She is the pronoun to use...

The article linked mentions she went aground on a sandbar before, so the main channel may have shifted away from the highest point of the bridge.

ardmacha · 03-02-2012 1:40am

She is the pronoun to use...

So I should have said why did she do that?
Who on earth knows why "she"s do anything

corktina · 03-02-2012 10:49am

Carawaystick wrote: »

She is the pronoun to use...

The article linked mentions she went aground on a sandbar before, so the main channel may have shifted away from the highest point of the bridge.

some ships may be "feminine", but that ugly great slab-sided thing is at best "female"....

SeanW · 05-02-2012 9:38pm

As bugs bunny would say, "What a Maroon" :rolleyes:

05-02-2012 10:53pm

Well, the captain now has two bridges on his ship! :pac:

Ship removes US bridge

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