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Comment by testfoobar | Hacker News Reader

You can look back on the livestream here to see the collision and collapse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83a7h3kkgPg

The lights on the ship were going off and on, and it appeared to be smoking before hitting the bridge. Does not look like they had much control at the time.

Could it be that the power going off and on, and the smoke came from a panicky attempt to recover from a mistake and avoid hitting that bridge ?

The power going off is most likely what caused the accident.

Most likely it was engine failure which caused the steering to lose power and allowed the ship to be pushed by the current.

The dark smoke was most likely the diesel generator firing up to get some steering control back

Clip here, beginning at 1m23s, shows a (sped-up) edit of the ship approaching the bridge, with lights going out, on, and out again immediately prior to impact:

<https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Cs6PrRiIHEw&t=1m23s>

Curious, is there a specific reason you put links between < and >?

It was the standard way to format URLs on Usenet. GP is at least 40 years old.

Bless you.

Similar using " " to quote for reply vs. >.

Carry-over from Markdown, and it appears to help HN's URL parser in some instances:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32745065>

RFC 3986, from 2005: “Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax”:

    Using <> angle brackets around each URI is especially recommended as
    a delimiting style for a reference that contains embedded whitespace.

<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986>

In markdown (or at least some flavors) that is the typical way of making a hyperlink actually a link. It's equivalent to [link](link) in markdown.

Angle brackets are used for "naked" URLs & email addresses in Markdown:

<https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/#urls-and-email-a...>

Collision is at 1:28 EDT; you'll need to go back in the livestream.

Here's a clip from that livestream of the collapse, clipped by The Guardian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVdVpd-pqcM

Not sure how to yt-dlp a big section of that video without downloading hours and hours... I found this tool but not going to install C# for it.

https://github.com/rytsikau/ee.Yrewind/

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