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by avar 3y ago
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- hinkley 3y agoI can't recall the details, but there is precedent for someone building large vessels in a shipyard on a river and then discovering that they can't deliver the it because they fucked up their research on bridge clearances. I think the implication was that nobody bothered to check, which is humorous and so we are willing to jump straight to it. But I suspect the truth is subtler if still as dumb. A tall vessel is likely to have a large draft, so a dry spell may mean bridge clearance but getting stuck on a sandbar (or worse, bedrock). There may be very few days a year where the water level is high enough to avoid sandbars but low enough not to clip the bridge.