Dig a tunnel. It will cost more but that way you wont be dealing with the risk of collision caused by Bangladeshi ship pilot driving mutliton freighter while drunk and uneducated. It is a frightening fact that most merchant seamen nowdays are being pulled from the most impoverished and uneducated shitholes because it is cheaper. This is what happens when we offload manufacturing, supply and labor to the 3rd world instead of using our own Cletuses.
Tunnel fires are way worse than the few bridge collapses we've had, and they're way more horrifying.
If you really want to deal with this, you just make sure the bridge piers are on islands, artificial if need be.
It's not impossible to survive from that height, assuming that the surface tension of the bay was already broken by falling concrete and metal.
Sounds like we have a few, thank goodness. You know one of them was like "whelp, kinda expected some shit like this."
Im sure the designers who were making the bridge in the 70's learned a lot about how to make a bridge survive being hit by a quabillion ton steel boat from an incident that happened in the 1980's or maybe the time machine was down for maintenance that day idk.
We couldn't even make a fucking walkway in 1981
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse and as recent as 2018 we've been doing fuckywucky.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_International_University_pedestrian_bridge_collapse
The bridge did what a bridge does, I don't blame the bridge. Fuckoff humungoloid ship was not in the design parameters.
I wonder how many of the bodies will be unrecoverable. The uncertainty would honestly suck more than confirming a body of a loved one.
Likely they'll find all of them, because there's a ton of money being spent on dive crews, and they need to clear the wreckage (which they will do and quite quickly once the NTSB has enough info). The only way they'd not be found is if they just floated away, in which case they'll probably turn up eventually.
The I35w collapse recovered everyone in three weeks, but that was a bigger number of people.
Man looks like a huge mess in daylight
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And from what I read apparently 6 people are still listed as missing
As you can see here, those gay ass little bumpers around the power pylons are for smaller boats, not huge fuckoff ships.
Perhaps the power poles being part of the bridge might have made the navigation a bit easier, who knows.
