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Four things: (A) super-large freight or tanker vessels, even at just steerage way of 5-10 knots, have huge kinetic energy, way more in excess to the design collision strength of bridge pedestals built 40+ years ago; (B) Ship board steering and engineering casualty are not unheard of, they occur, albeit rarely, but the consequences ofContinue reading “Baltimore Francis Scott Key Bridge Disaster March 26,2024”