gustafson
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Huh?Yea, but 20 minutes before it hit the bridge people on board were already unable to wipe their asses. If that's not a warning sign, what is?
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Huh?Yea, but 20 minutes before it hit the bridge people on board were already unable to wipe their asses. If that's not a warning sign, what is?
Huh?
I like to admit my mistakes as I make them...See, this is where your story telling falls short. For it begs the question...just how did your colleagues discern your failure to wipe your ass?
Who cares about worker safety and overworked tired workers maybe causing problems like forgetting to steer the ship instead of falling asleep at the wheel.
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Well hell....The bridge is built to accomodate the size of ships and traffic back 50 years ago.Cost of someone not speaking up.
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> 'We're gonna Build a Frail Bridge thru a Busy Waterway, and Just Hope Nobody Ever Hits it'
Seems like the NTSB issues a pre-lim report in about 30 days and then the results of a full investigation in two or three years...which if that's the case a replacement bridge will probably up and handling traffic by then (miracles do happen they say).How much are the pilots responsible? If they knew the ship had problems and went ahead anyway instead of telling them they need tugs to get them to clear sailing?
Ok, folks...the point of a bridge is for cars to travel over (like the aforementioned one in Pittsburgh that couldn't even do that).
You're not supposed to hit the dang bridge with a ship! It's not a matter of "the bridge was too chintzy and couldn't hold up to a freighter slamming into it!"
No kidding! Those split-rail fences people put in front of their homes do jack-squat to prevent a car that veered off the road from smacking into the house, but when it happens, we don't say "Gee, what a chintzy fence that couldn't keep this F-250 out of the living room!"
The bridge wasn't necessarily underbuilt...you're just not supposed to hit bridges with a freighter.
This could go on ad absurdium "what happens if a fifteen-ton meteor hits it? We have to build it stronger!"
You have to put expense into the project proportional to the risk...we've been building bridges for a long time, with relatively few freighters losing control and ramming directly through the middle of them...therefore, the designers of the bridge weren't "planning on ships of fifty years ago"...they were just planning on the ships not to hit the bridge!
rant over. Thanks
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