> easily see a scenario where the barrier ends up ripping through the lower hull while the rest of the ship continues forward I don’t think that is likely? My

> easily see a scenario where the barrier ends up ripping through the lower hull while the rest of the ship continues forward I don’t think that is likely? My intuition is that in order to stay seaworthy ships are constructed with more integrity than that. I don’t have any hard evidence though, just that I have looked at many ship collision/allision aftermath photos and what you describe is not a failure mode I have seen so far.