As a retired naval officer who served on giant Navy ships (not as huge because the container ship that struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge), I instantly questioned why the M/V Dali had no assigned tugs because it handed beneath the bridge.
It did have tugboats earlier, however they had been launched from obligation and no others had been assigned to escort the vessel until it cleared the final and most essential bridge. This class of vessels is designed for mainly lengthy, comparatively straight programs. A vessel the dimensions of the container ship requires nice distances to make important course corrections and even come to a cease by itself. The port’s very highly effective tugs may have saved the day or not less than enormously decreased the harm by lacking the assist construction. The very causes it had tugs escorting it earlier had been relevant much more contemplating the significance of the now-destroyed construction.
Mike Morrissey, Snohomish
