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"I mean, how hard could it be?" It's an incredibly rare event. Retro-fitting things in the water is crazy expensive. Somebody estimated that the force hitting
by vr46 3y ago
"I mean, how hard could it be?"
It's an incredibly rare event. Retro-fitting things in the water is crazy expensive. Somebody estimated that the force hitting the bridge was 30 Million Pounds. That's a lot of protection needed.
- toomuchtodo 3y agoThe Florida Sunshine Skyway bridge uses concrete “dolphins” to protect in water support systems, after a similar catastrophic cargo ship collision event. https://maritime-executive.com/article/baltimore-bridge-collapse-revives-hard-learned-safety-lessons https://maritime-executive.com/article/baltimore-bridge-coll... https://www.structuremag.org/?p=20417 https://www.structuremag.org/?p=20417 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin_(structure) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin_(structure)