The Captain of this freighter must have ben asleep or watch American
Idol or something like that. Nevertheless, a terrible accident do to
negligence I call "Ship To Tall Or Bridge To Low".
Greetings from Hansi
http://www.jumpingpixels.com/shiphight.html

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The Captain of this freighter must have ben asleep or watch American
Idol or something like that. Nevertheless, a terrible accident do to
negligence I call "Ship To Tall Or Bridge To Low".
Greetings from Hansi
http://www.jumpingpixels.com/shiphight.html


Wow! You can see the bridge move from the impact. That guy was having a
really bad day.

RCE

wrote:
The Captain of this freighter must have ben asleep or watch American
Idol or something like that. Nevertheless, a terrible accident do to
negligence I call "Ship To Tall Or Bridge To Low".
Greetings from Hansi
http://www.jumpingpixels.com/shiphight.html

Looks like a job opening for a guy with the proper master's license.

Hope nobody was hurt.

There isn't any detail about what led to the mishap... But I was
thinking there is a bridge tender opening. Why was the bridge coming
down when a ship was passing?

wrote in message
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The Captain of this freighter must have ben asleep or watch American
Idol or something like that. Nevertheless, a terrible accident do to
negligence I call "Ship To Tall Or Bridge To Low".
Greetings from Hansi
http://www.jumpingpixels.com/shiphight.html


That captain has 300 kids, and they all aim boats on Irondequoit Bay, where
I attempt to fish without being run over. Not drive, or pilot. Aim.

Good point. If you are only watching the ship you could miss that.
It would be interesting to see more of the details because the ship's
"airdraft" was nowhere near being close to correct if that bridge was not
lowering.
Assuming the ship had a pilot, there's more than one person in deep dodo and
as someone else said, considering the ensuing fire, let's hope no one was
hurt or killed.

otn

"Curtis CCR" wrote in message
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There isn't any detail about what led to the mishap... But I was
thinking there is a bridge tender opening. Why was the bridge coming
down when a ship was passing?

otnmbrd wrote:
Good point. If you are only watching the ship you could miss that.
It would be interesting to see more of the details because the ship's
"airdraft" was nowhere near being close to correct if that bridge was not
lowering.
Assuming the ship had a pilot, there's more than one person in deep dodo and
as someone else said

I am still trying to figure that out. If there was audio or anything
else that could have provided details then I might have a different
impression. But it certainly appeared that the drawbridge was in
motion, coming DOWN when the ship hit it. That leads me to believe
that the bridge was UP. Since it also appears that the ship's bridge
was the point of impact, you can be that the pilot and other
crewmembers got an up close, front row seat - I'll bet there was a lot
of yelling on the radio.

I would be quite easily pursuaded that this was the bridge operator's
fault - If not entirely, then a majority of the blame is probably
his/hers. How could you blame a pilot? The bridge was open... it
started closing. Around here bridges open for ships that size when
they are nearly two miles away - the ship can't stop if the bridge
starts coming down when it's a boatlength away.

, considering the ensuing fire, let's hope no one was
hurt or killed.

otn

"Curtis CCR" wrote in message
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There isn't any detail about what led to the mishap... But I was
thinking there is a bridge tender opening. Why was the bridge coming
down when a ship was passing?

"RCE" wrote in message
...

wrote in message
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The Captain of this freighter must have ben asleep or watch American
Idol or something like that. Nevertheless, a terrible accident do to
negligence I call "Ship To Tall Or Bridge To Low".
Greetings from Hansi
http://www.jumpingpixels.com/shiphight.html


Wow! You can see the bridge move from the impact. That guy was having a
really bad day.

RCE


I think it is a draw bridge and a lack of communication with the bridge
tender preceded the dismaster.

Bridge tender started lowering the bridge before ship cleared, read
more at. read more at:

www.boatnerd.com/windoc

-al-


On 20 Mar 2006 09:08:07 -0800, wrote:

The Captain of this freighter must have ben asleep or watch American
Idol or something like that. Nevertheless, a terrible accident do to
negligence I call "Ship To Tall Or Bridge To Low".
Greetings from Hansi
http://www.jumpingpixels.com/shiphight.html

Al Thomason wrote:
Bridge tender started lowering the bridge before ship cleared, read
more at. read more at:

www.boatnerd.com/windoc

I guess washing Darvocet down with a couple of glasses of wine doesn't
make an on-the-ball bridge tender.




On 20 Mar 2006 09:08:07 -0800, wrote:

The Captain of this freighter must have ben asleep or watch American
Idol or something like that. Nevertheless, a terrible accident do to
negligence I call "Ship To Tall Or Bridge To Low".
Greetings from Hansi
http://www.jumpingpixels.com/shiphight.html