Matt BlazeRemarkably many experts on container ship piloting out there on social media right now.
"Why don't they just teach ship pilots not to hit bridge pylons?"
Fritz Adalis@mattblaze
They did, just not this bridge.
They did, just not this bridge.
spv@mattblaze this sounds like an onion article. fuck me, they are so versatile
petes_bread_eqn_xls@mattblaze just put magnets 🧲 on big boats 🚢 and opposite magnets on bridge legs. it’s so simple.
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Lari Lehtomäki@mattblaze just like they should build ships whose front don't fall off https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM?si=0YQZDmiaOA_uldZj
Clarke and Dawe - The Front Fell Off
Raphael (he/him)@mattblaze can’t be harder than avoiding huge ships
https://www.amazon.com/Avoid-Huge-Ships-John-Trimmer/dp/0870334336
Negative12DollarBill@mattblaze Point of information is that a "pylon"?
Jonathan HendryWhy don't they make the bridge pylons out of container ships.
Grumble@mattblaze This tragic event finally made the penny drop in my ex-Navy brain about why the "sea and anchor detail" remains on station as long as they do after the ship leaving the pier.
Shit happens, and you really want folks on hand to drop the anchor if you need to.
Lou Katz@mattblaze As usual, the crucial technical term is "just" ...
@mattblaze You'd think that was in Piloting 101.
Codhisattva@mattblaze in the future everyone gets 15 minutes of expertise in a hot topic of their choice
@Codhisattva Yeah, and every 15 minutes.
BerlinFokus
AI6YR Ben
Andrew@mattblaze I used docker once that counts right
John BurnsProbably the ones that can't back their trailer boat at the launch dock, eh?
@mattblaze
Fortunately, I haven't seen these newly-minted experts, probably because this is the only "social" media I use.
Fortunately, I haven't seen these newly-minted experts, probably because this is the only "social" media I use.
ArtemesiaThey are here, too. So far I have seen one asshole in switzerland assert the collapse was due to inadequate maintenance of the bridge, and a fuckwit in canada blather about cofferdams. It was a 116,000 ship moving at 8-9 knots. Do some very simple high school level newtonian physics.
Matt Kilgore@mattblaze Dockers logo is a container ship whale thing. That has to make me a fully qualified captain of an actual ship!
JR@mattblaze That is a lot of boxes on a boat.
C.Suthorn 
Schachteldampfer.
Paper Clip@mattblaze I proclaim my expertise in bridge construction, as I have gotten to Level 15 on Bridge Constructor Mobile Edition.
"Hitting a bridge with a big boat will cause problems."
Alternatively, "boats can't melt steel beams."
@paper_clip Definitely counts.
Jef Poskanzer
@jef I was thinking of that. I've wanted to go ever since John McPhee wrote about it.
Crofton@mattblaze I suggest looking at @cybergibbons posts on the network formerly known as Twitter. Intersection of cyber stuff and container ships.
mcc@mattblaze "Speaking as the container ship 'Ever Given', I think these kinds of problems are essentially unavoidable…"
CurlyParakeet@mattblaze you’ve just reminded me that when I advertised a job recently asking for experience in containerisation (software role) the recruitment software scored everyone poorly due to a lack of container shipping experience…
Alan Miller 
🇺🇦@mattblaze my expertise in the piloting of large ships starts and ends with "Inertia doesn't care about your thoughts and feelings"
Frank Bennett@mattblaze Let me explain to you how water under a bridge works.
@jef hard to imagine that scene becoming more ironic than it already was, yet here we are.
The Wire fans recall Frank Sobotka scene following Baltimore bridge collapse
Fans of the acclaimed television show, The Wire have been paying their tributes to the Key Bridge in Baltimore.The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland has collapsed after a huge container ship crashed into the structure in the early hours of Tuesday morning.The Singapore-flagged Dali shi...
Ryan SingelI got a theory
MemphisDaPlaya 🎲🎲I worked on large marine tankers. Ask me anything. (I have one idea about that, lost steering system)
Quinn Norton@mattblaze *puts gaza hat down next to ukraine, election, and covid hats, and picks up container ship hat again*
@mattblaze Are these experts also the ones who are election experts or just photography experts?
Cat West@mattblaze We have social media medical professionals (who never took a class), law experts (who never practiced law) Nutrition experts who… well, you get the idea. Amazing what can sprout on Soc Med, iddnit? I figure people are just wishing, wanting, ruminating outloud.
Andrew Feeney@mattblaze “Why didn’t they simply apply the emergency brakes?”
North Easton 
@mattblaze No way to take them seriously until they have twenty hours in Container Ship Pilot Simulator 2024.