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Panama Canal ship accident

submitted by Kulpims T'dna

(kulpims)
9 years 9 months 1 week ago

action starts at around 1'20"
a tow train (or mule) is being crushed as it's pulling a container ship up the channel

5 Comments

What happened? Once the mules have you, it's supposed to be safe!

probably some kind of winch failure

Yea it is real hard to see the cables, but someone was either ahead of themselves, or a cable that was to feed out stopped unexpectedly. The ship was dragged sideways practically.

Probably a cable on the left (right from our POV) snapped (or winch failed). People on deck seem to run there as if something important was happening there. It would also explain the movement of the ship.

At around the 1:20 mark the ship starts to suddenly move screen left. There are also loud sounds. I believe the ship struck the canal on the port side, where we could not see. Forward momentum (which is massive on these ships) caused the path to divert starboard, crushing the mule. Massive ships like that barely fit through the canal, so it is critical they align straight as they enter. You can see earlier in the video that the ship's stern was much further away from the side of the canal than the bow. They simply can't enter at such an angle. Clearly somebody was in a hurry to move traffic along and ignored proper protocols.

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