[image] Massive sailing vessel collides with Brooklyn Bridge in dramatic NYC crash... A 150-foot Mexican Navy ship collided with the Brooklyn Bridge, causing a dramatic rescue effort. The NYPD confirms no structural damage to the bridge.

I am seeing conflicting specifications……from the link at post #266 it is 1800hp and from my own research, it is 1800hp yet yours is the second reference on this thread to 2800hp. A little confusing. She is running twin Cat D-398’s. [IMG_4736] [IMG_4735] [IMG_4737] Edit: My apologies, you are qu…

I agree that it looks like they’re making 4 knots astern. If the tug had any hope of staying alongside, they’d have to either 1: Have a line up and twist against it to try and keep a 90, which they didn’t. 2: Push hard with hard right and hope your bow pud is nice and sticky, which doesn’t seem to …

Why don’t we see if we can find some ways to overthink this with calculations, charts, and graphs, before we even know the pertinent facts?

One key piece of information would be when did the bridge team on the Cuauhtemoc realize what was happening? Air France flight 447 dropped in a stall for about 3 minutes and 30 seconds. (AF 447 is not the topic of this thread) It was only understood what was happening after it was too late. There…

KC, This is a very interesting thesis but more importantly……. [IMG_4743] So……there is not an alarm requirement under SOLAS. The bridge team were no doubt unaware that they had a CPP failure on their hands.

[image] Ausmariner: there is not an alarm requirement Summarising my post #225 above itemising my experiences: 1st incident (Berg) had alarms going from everything but pitch system, 2nd (SKL) had no alarms, just no response to pulling back pitch control, 3rd (KaMeWa pic) shows multiple ala…

KC, Additionally, throughout all of the detailed incidents and simulations in the thesis……not once was the ES activated. On two occasions the duty engineer rang the bridge to ask them whether they were aware that one of the props had been running astern for some time.

As a naval vessel isn’t it exempt from SOLAS regs?

Generally exempt but encouraged to comply. What this has highlighted is the SOLAS black hole in the commercial arena.

Another bridge incident - Mexican sail training vessel Cuauhtémoc - #281 by Kennebec_Captain - Professional Mariner Forum

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