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Offline Shuffler

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Re: The Baltimore Bridge
« Reply #45 on: April 17, 2024, 12:13:31 PM »
It was the port anchor and it was dropped to try to slow ans counter the movement to starboard. The quick turn to starboard looked more like propwalk (full reverse) as a ship that size does not maneuver like that normally.
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Offline Professor_Fate

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Re: The Baltimore Bridge
« Reply #46 on: April 17, 2024, 01:17:30 PM »
Quote from: Shuffler on April 17, 2024, 12:13:31 PM
It was the port anchor and it was dropped to try to slow ans counter the movement to starboard. The quick turn to starboard looked more like propwalk (full reverse) as a ship that size does not maneuver like that normally.

Been on the bridge most of my adult life and that’s what it looked to me too. Does the captain risk going under the bridge as intended hoping he doesn’t hit it or do everything possible to take all way off using engines and anchors.  With a ship that size all it takes is a small tap and it’s going break something.  Kinetic energy is biatch.
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