g'night, bud. thank you. we'll get through this, God willing.
not an engineer, but I do know that ANY contact between a vessel and ANY bridge, land or water, MUST IMMEDIATELY have engineers looking at the structural integrity of the bridge right away. i don;t think bridges can be reinforced sufficiently to protect them from anything.
i remember dispatching a hauler carrying a loader somewhere and somehow the loader's hood opened up and smacked a bridge. engineers had to be called in first thing next morning to check everything out. very expensive. loss of integrity means lives are at huge risks.
>under-engineered
likely. infrastructure insufficient for todays world. didn't this happen somewhere in the mid-west too 3 or so years ago? didn;t Biden say something like our infrasctructure was top notch before bridges all over started falling? and places in 2nd world countries had their bridges repaired within days while biden sat on repairing ours for months.
because the ship was on fire a while before the bridge actually collapsed