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And I'm just appalled that the power line that ran parallel to the bridge had better protection from ship collision than the bridge did.

The titanic happened because of incompetence, excessive hubris and idiot cost and corners cutting.

I am 80% certain it was a series of idiotic fuck ups and greedy that led to this with maybe 20% entertaining the idea that it was...

That’s because for reasons of stacking calculations, the maximum mass of a container is standardized at 67,200 pounds regardless of...

A small point of detail since I researched standardized shipping containers a few years ago (in the context of certain...debates people...

Journalists get things wrong. Someone I know who used to be involved in mountain rescue here in South Africa once told me that no...

Well - maybe the people in those govt agencies know that the media cannot be trusted to report anything either competently or honestly.

It is still monitored, just not for shipping purposes.

This makes sense to me. Calling Bob on the radio to tell Billy to do X should take more time then calling Billy on the phone ...

On paper, a handheld 5-watt marine radio can reach up to 15-20 miles. In practice, it’s reliable for a mile or so, but in a big high...

For receiving radio signals, I think it's antenna size that's the big deal. Transmission on the other hand? Power becomes much more...

It's not that I 'blame' the pilot for anything, not at all. It's more about the ship not having a battery power handleheld radio in the...

Fifty thousand tons is her net tonnage, i.e. a rough measure of her cargo space. The actual ship tonnage is just under one hundred fifty...

Yeah, sabotaging the ship seems pretty unlikely. People in charge trying to cover up stuff to save their own asses? Well I'd be...

Would have to be extremely precise sabotage to take out the engines/electric grid the moment when the ships is moving in the exact...