tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388955582331555724.post394209900116869961..comments2023-10-02T03:34:55.520-04:00Comments on Andy (Avraham) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡: Paper Navy TigerAndy Blumenthalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15596996878697985867noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388955582331555724.post-90768069553957227942017-06-19T08:37:02.882-04:002017-06-19T08:37:02.882-04:00Andy,
I agree that it seems incredible and should...Andy, <br />I agree that it seems incredible and should be investigated but there could be a lot of factors to consider. <br /><br />Those are very tight and busy shipping lanes so close proximity is required.<br /><br />The ships in these tight lanes are very hard to maneuver (think 5 miles to stop in full reverse). Now, take 500 ships per day with this kind of tight/slow motion handling and that means that everyone has to do what they are supposed to and when they are supposed to OR bad stuff happens.. And when bad stuff happens, it looks like a pile up on the freeway - it's slower but your reaction time is 700 times slower too so...<br /><br />So it might have been 20 ships involved in this wreck and those two might have been executing flawlessly and still just couldn't avoid the mayhem.<br /><br />Then there's the damage to the destroyer.. bad right? but that container ship hit the destroyer's starboard side with it's bow (hard)... and the container ship would have been cruising at about 17 knots (20MPH).. Given it's weight, that's about a billion joules of kinetic energy that had to be absorbed by the destroyer.. Said differently, it's like someone detonated 550lbs of TNT just below the bridge... thinking of it that way, she doesn't look too bad.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14598708997108620019noreply@blogger.com