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   Christopher Mims (mimsical@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2024 23:22:59 JST Christopher Mims

   As a person who has actually ridden with harbor pilots before and wrote a whole book about shipping goods across oceans here’s a tiny bit of possibly clarifying detail about this horrible bridge tragedy:

   If as reported there was a power failure on this container ship that could have been enough on its own to send it into the bridge.

   Maneuvers for ships this large are incredibly tight when they are going in and out of harbors. We don’t think about it but harbor pilots perform miracles every day

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     Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@futurist.info)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2024 23:22:59 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

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     @mimsical You've heard of the Halifax explosion in 1917. The pilot, William McKay, was unfairly blamed. He took to drink, and could no longer give adequate care to his daughters. My mom's family ended up taking them in raised them - and so Aunt Mona and Aunt Marjorie were always to me members of the family. I never learned the whole details till later.

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     Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@futurist.info)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2024 23:38:38 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

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     @mimsical The whole story is told here: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/1771083441/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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     Christopher Mims (mimsical@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 00:40:23 JST Christopher Mims

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     Little else can be said about whatever happened with this ship and bridge until there’s more disclosure. Which I imagine will happen soon. Whatever happened, everyone on board knows. No point talking about it until rescue is complete.

     I just hope the seven reported missing people are all found and safe.