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Originally Posted by davew
It sounds like they were leaving port and lost power. They could not steer or stop and it takes a couple miles coasting to stop. They did radio ahead to tell about the emergency and they closed the bridge to new cars entering ...
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So no fail-safe mechanism, nice. Not saying it was terrorism but think how easy it would be to hijack one of these ships and do some major damage to bridges or ports. 25 years ago, nobody expected planes to fly into skyscrapers. Perhaps they should be brought into or out of a port using tugboats.