Depends on the ship and the fitment. A lot of ships of this size are "drive by wire" from the bridge, meaning its electronic control, but there are redundant controls in the engine room, which on a ship like this is also always manned. In a perfect world all electronic controls and functions are backed by mechanical redundancies. But thats not always the case and corners get cut. For instance these ships rudder controls (and even propeller pitch if equipped) are operated hydraulically, requiring a hydraulic pump providing pressure. In an "ideal" setup you'd have electronic primary pumps providing this pressure and control to the rudder in every day operations, but a set of mechanical hydraulic pumps operating on the engines. If electrical power is lost from the electrical generator set (also not part of the engine) you'd lose hydraulic pressure, but could switch over to the mechanical. This electrical with mechanical redundancy is not a requirement. A ship could have 2 sets of electrical pumps incase a pump failure...but total loss of electricity production could render you unable to control the rudder. This could also be the case for propulsion. Even if the propulsion engines were running, they may rely on an electrical system to operate, such as the aforementioned hydraulics, which could cause additional issues with safe navigation around tight harbors.
Hahaha, Indians behind another disaster, huh? Indians are the worst people in the world.
I wonder if they tried to throw anchors down to stop or slow it down. I have no real ship knowledge at all but what I have gathered is that there seemed to be some sort of malfunction on board prior to the collision. My first thought, if the steering capabilities are gone, would be to throw anchors in the water. I wonder if one side's anchors caught something and the other side drug through sand. If that is what happened- how awful to know that your last ditch efforts to stop or slow the momentum probably made the collision much, much worse.
Also you have absolutely unheard of forces in a case like this - nothing a bridge normally experiences involves sideways pushing and pulling; the falling deck of the main span may have pushed the other deck off the pier. California bridges aren't even connected to the piers anymore to let them slide around in the case of an earthquake.
Only because the ships are niggers and afraid; one ship took down the bridge, the rest could just go ramming speed and crush the wreckage below their massive tonnage. Faggots won't even try.
I mean, you could have built an identical bridge 50 feet away, and it would have saved this bridge, so you can (and some places do) build giant concrete weirs and shit to protect the pillars. Ships is big as fuck but giant blocks of concrete can be bigger (remember Ever Given was stopped by some sand).
It could be that, or it could be that everything they did only reduced the collision energy slightly. Even if it did (like the titanic) cause it to happen or be worse, I'm not going to assign blame immediately for trying.
That's what I'm thinking might've happened, they dropped the anchor and it pulled it to the side hard. Wouldn't surprise me.
Nor does it connect DC and Baltimore. Someone clueless wrote that highlight text.
Not anymore it ain't. It's probably the worlds longest harbor blockade now, though.
In the USA harbor pilots are usually sturdy old white guys. But nothing much any harbor pilot can do without propulsion on a cargo ship. Like trying to drive a car with the accelerator down and steering column locked.
