MV Delta Mariner Strikes KY Bridge - Bridge Collapses

[ZenGum]

What Sundae said. Captain of that vessel is in trououououble!

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by Sundae

How can a ship that size not have navigation charts with clearance?!
Unless he was on an unscheduled route like Francesco Schettino.

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

Was that ship riding high in the water, so it was a collison waiting to happen ?

Originally Posted by ZenGum

What Sundae said. Captain of that vessel is in trououououble!

The captain will prolly have to answer some tough questions. He, for whatever reason, used the 'recreational channel' instead of the 'main shipping channel'. The lower end of the span he struck was only about twenty feet off the water.

FTR, the water level was up a bit, and the ship was carrying empty rocket engine cores, so may have been riding somewhat higher than usual. It was noted this ship makes this run regularly and has for some time. Usually carries fully fueled/filled cores up from Alabama, over to the Ohio River, down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico, to launch facilities in Florida, or transits the Panama Canal carrying the engines to Vandenberg in California.