(03-26-2024, 12:50 PM)JagsorDie Wrote: Crazy situation. One thing I find odd is there doesn’t appear to be a tug boat. I thought those were pretty standard when entering and leaving a port. Feel like that could have budged the trajectory into something maybe a little less. 


On the surface of this, I don’t see anything deliberate. Not ruling anything out. But system/power failure with a freighter moving at 8 knots in a channel can be catastrophic. Couple that with the mayday signals and it doesn’t seem like this was an attack.

Seriously unfortunate set of events. But for as bad as it is, it could have been 10 fold if it occurred 7 hours earlier.

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