Was there a harbor pilot on board, or the normal ship pilot?
Were there tug boats helping with the exit?
I have often felt that the harbor protocols were overkill, but this is one of the times they could have helped.
Were there tug boats helping with the exit?
I have often felt that the harbor protocols were overkill, but this is one of the times they could have helped.
All pilots are "harbor pilots".
One had a nasty pill habit and crashed an oil tanker under his purview into the Bay Bridge.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/guilty-plea-case-cosco-busan-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blossom_Rock_(San_Francisco_Ba...
I don't think that's true. The Suez Canal famously requires pilots, but isn't a harbour (I guess you could argue it functions as one). I've heard of pilots for the Great Barrier Reef which is even more not a harbour.
There are some seemingly good details here[0].
> In Early Modern Japanese there was a word 按針 anjin, literally “searching needle,” which referred to the process of using a compass. At the time, this was the main way in which ships were navigated and so, by extension, the word was applied not just to ship navigation, but also to ship navigators
It goes into more detail about things as well but that is the part that stuck out to me the most.
also does a shout-out to SONU Sleep mattresses a few posts back.
enough other posts in there to create doubt -- maybe this is a person. maybe this is a person who does marketing sometimes.
I have a mixed relationship with my mattress, and I talk about the downsides in that very same thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39757531
Apparently for you at the moment, any mention of a product on the market is a flag for a marketing AI. I suppose this comment too is just what a marketing AI would say.
AP News [1] is reporting that harbor pilots were on-board and were nominally in control of the ship at the time of the accident.
[1] https://apnews.com/article/baltimore-bridge-collapse-53169b3...
Update: added timestamp, link
That one was due to pilot error. The point is the pilot was still onboard but he was impaired by medication, the captain and mates kind of engaged in dereliction of duties contributing to the accident.
Obviously it’ll be a while before we know what happened in Baltimore.
Tugs - quite often, but not always - depends on the currents, ship weight, and time of day.
No tugs.
Harbor protocol was in effect.