Subdeacon Joe Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Gun Jimmy Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 Imagine the cost and backlash from this kind of accident... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 I know this harbour! I don't need the Pilot! Full Speed Ahead! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tell Sackett SASS 18436 Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 Ho-lee SHIRT!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyesa Horg Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 Oh that bridge!! We'll fit, see, made it!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Joker Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 That's gonna be expensive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 I firmly believe that there are some instances that some people deserve a good ass-whoopin’. This would be one of them. The Captain should be shown on TV in cuffs with at least one black eye, a swelled nose and a busted lip favoring some obviously sore ribs and walking slightly hunched over. On the bright side, that dipstick wouldn’t be so easily recognizable later on when he heals up so folks won’t see him and hold it against him later. It would be a kind of public service for morons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noah Mercy, SASS #29066 Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cypress Sun Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 Boy, that pic brings back, not so good, memories from 40+ years ago. https://www.tampabay.com/news/2020/05/06/the-sunshine-skyway-bridge-plunged-into-tampa-bay-40-years-ago/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noah Mercy, SASS #29066 Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 5 hours ago, Cypress Sun said: Boy, that pic brings back, not so good, memories from 40+ years ago. https://www.tampabay.com/news/2020/05/06/the-sunshine-skyway-bridge-plunged-into-tampa-bay-40-years-ago/ I went over that bridge about six hours before it was struck, traveling from Palm Harbor to Pine Island. Didn't like it before that, and I've liked it even less since... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cypress Sun Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 Just now, Noah Mercy, SASS #29066 said: I went over that bridge about six hours before it was struck, traveling from Palm Harbor to Pine Island. Didn't like it before that, and I've liked it even less since... I was working in Tierre Verde that morning with two coworkers wiring a house (there was actually still land to build on then. We had started early so we could get off early. We had just got to the job because we were delayed by a blinding rain storm and were still sitting in the work van when the radio said that the Skyway had been knocked down. We couldn't believe it so we left the job and went to a vantage point to see it for ourselves. The rain had cleared up for the most part by then and we could see the southbound span was gone and the ship sitting there but making out details from that far away was not possible and we didn't have any binoculars. Even though we could plainly see it enormity of the disaster, it was surreal and hard to believe our eyes. Back then, there were no cell phones or instant everything like there is now so all we had was the radio to listen to until we got off of work and were able to see the news on tv. I couldn't believe that somebody had stopped just feet before going off the bridge and that someone else had survived the fall with somewhat minor injuries. I still don't like going over the new bridge (not so new anymore) because of all of the occurrences at the bridge location...Coast Guard buoy tender Blackthorn sinking, the collapse and the numerous suicide jumpers. They've recently erected a fence to prevent jumpers and I guess it has helped that problem. They close it completely when it's too windy or foggy also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 19 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said: Where/when did that happen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 19 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said: ............ don't worry, .... it'll buff out ...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted April 17, 2023 Author Share Posted April 17, 2023 24 minutes ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said: Where/when did that happen? https://www.murrayledger.com/opinion/columns/remembering-the-eggners-ferry-bridge-accident/article_15a2745a-821d-11ec-adea-ffe6caa27d0f.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 19 hours ago, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said: I firmly believe that there are some instances that some people deserve a good ass-whoopin’. This would be one of them. The Captain should be shown on TV in cuffs with at least one black eye, a swelled nose and a busted lip favoring some obviously sore ribs and walking slightly hunched over. On the bright side, that dipstick wouldn’t be so easily recognizable later on when he heals up so folks won’t see him and hold it against him later. It would be a kind of public service for morons. Plenty of blame to go around. Settlement made in Eggners Ferry Bridge lawsuit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 24 minutes ago, Sedalia Dave said: Plenty of blame to go around. Settlement made in Eggners Ferry Bridge lawsuit Sounds like the whole story isn’t available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Dan Troop 70448 Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 Decades ago I was working late at night at a Terminal. We were unloading a shipment of Bunker oil. About 1AM a ship was coming down the river, a 850' long Russian flying flag tanker which was coming close to our moored tanker. I called the ship and told them to halt transfer immediately, which they complied. The Russian Tanker came so close that its wake sucked our Tanker away from the dock and stretched our connection. We immediately called the field to shut all valves as we ran out to do same and have the ship shut theirs. Several mooring lines parted and our line broke but luckily the end stayed ashore and we only had Bunker fuel spill in a retaining pond. Coast Guard investigation write up showed that the Russian Tanker Captain was tired of waiting for the Pilot and against regulations, took it upon himself to navigate out. They were stopped before entering the ocean and clearing the Harbor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.