« Reply #56 on: March 26, 2024, 04:56:52 pm »
Just to add a bit more context, the bridge was a ~1970 design, and thus designed for stresses foreseeable at the time. The ship that brought it down, apparently, was a modern container ship, possibly larger than the designers foresaw.
Correct. Containerships of the 1970s were much smaller than the super ships of today. Personally, I think that the modern ones are way too big, such as the one that got stuck in the Suez Canal a few years back. But that's the economics of the 21st century maritime trade.
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