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Huge ship ALMOST hits bridge in the Panama Canal

submitted by grinter

1 decade 1 year 4 months 4 weeks ago

Momentum is a bitch.

4 Comments

PlayhousePals

jokingly says...

SO close! Who put that bridge in the middle of the Panama Canal anyway?

The bridge is over the Chagres river, which supplies water to the canal. All road and rail traffic in and out of the town of Gamboa must cross that bridge.
The canal itself continues off the right of the screen. The ship should be heading roughly parallel to the rail tracks. The tanker was out of the shipping lane; so, collision with the bridge was not the only danger, it could have run aground in shallow water.
An oil spill here would flow both directions, to the Pacific and to the Caribbean. Clearly someone f@^k'd up bad.

PlayhousePals

SO close! Who put that bridge in the middle of the Panama Canal anyway?

Hmmm.. Google suggests that the "Pacific Bless" is a cargo ship... it does have a lot of cranes on it. Either way, a wreck would have sucked.
Also note: That loud clattering in the video is the anchor chains spooling out. The smoke you see at the front of the ship is coming off of the anchor winches.

Moving this video to grinter's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

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