It seems like the ship kept losing power (rumor is a fire on board), and kept losing control because of it. Looks like it was stuck in a turn for a bit, which is how it got pointed at the supports in the first place. You can see at the end, the ship is almost drifting straight ahead, and just barely starts turning away before it hits the support.
Hard to say for sure yet, but I'm guessing that it wasn't incompetence on the part of the harbor pilots. For a ship this size, if you start a turn thinking about where the ship will be a full five minutes from now, that's basically hauling ass. If you start losing control at random intervals, there's absolutely no way of knowing where you're going to end up.
but I'm guessing that it wasn't incompetence on the part of the harbor pilots.
There was no smoke in this view until after the power went out.
Ship was built in 2015. That's not that long ago so I doubt it was mechanical failure.
I bet they put it in full power reverse. It has fixed pitch blades so to put it in reverse they'd probably have to shut the engines down. It's not normal procedure anyway to quickly go from forward to reverse and that probably led to the smoke and power failures and crazy steering (steering in reverse while moving forward will not go as expected).
Here's the cam footage. You can go back and watch the whole thing happen.
It seems like the ship kept losing power (rumor is a fire on board), and kept losing control because of it. Looks like it was stuck in a turn for a bit, which is how it got pointed at the supports in the first place. You can see at the end, the ship is almost drifting straight ahead, and just barely starts turning away before it hits the support.
Hard to say for sure yet, but I'm guessing that it wasn't incompetence on the part of the harbor pilots. For a ship this size, if you start a turn thinking about where the ship will be a full five minutes from now, that's basically hauling ass. If you start losing control at random intervals, there's absolutely no way of knowing where you're going to end up.
There was no smoke in this view until after the power went out.
Ship was built in 2015. That's not that long ago so I doubt it was mechanical failure.
I bet they put it in full power reverse. It has fixed pitch blades so to put it in reverse they'd probably have to shut the engines down. It's not normal procedure anyway to quickly go from forward to reverse and that probably led to the smoke and power failures and crazy steering (steering in reverse while moving forward will not go as expected).
Somebody fucked up many times in this incident.