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<blockquote data-quote="Amiga500" data-source="post: 1181777" data-attributes="member: 56767"><p>- They were. Mayday called and the result was the authorities just about had time to get the bridge closed to traffic by time of collision. Only people in the water are from the unfortunate work crew who probably were too far away to be made aware. Seconds counted and the poor bstarts were on the wrong end of the equation.</p><p></p><p>- Just not possible. Container ship weighing what, ~100,000 tonnes. That weight at just 10 mph is the energy equivalent of you driving a car into the bridge at around Mach 3.3 - and the boat still has around 270 times more momentum. The structure just cannot be feasibly built strong enough in that direction to take that kind of impact and follow on load.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Amiga500, post: 1181777, member: 56767"] - They were. Mayday called and the result was the authorities just about had time to get the bridge closed to traffic by time of collision. Only people in the water are from the unfortunate work crew who probably were too far away to be made aware. Seconds counted and the poor bstarts were on the wrong end of the equation. - Just not possible. Container ship weighing what, ~100,000 tonnes. That weight at just 10 mph is the energy equivalent of you driving a car into the bridge at around Mach 3.3 - and the boat still has around 270 times more momentum. The structure just cannot be feasibly built strong enough in that direction to take that kind of impact and follow on load. [/QUOTE]
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