Well there are a lot of these ships going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that tankers aren’t safe.
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A catastrophic failure is a sudden and total failure from which recovery is impossible. Catastrophic failures often lead to cascading systems failure. The term is most commonly used for structural failures, but has often been extended to many other disciplines in which total and irrecoverable loss occurs, such as a head crash occurrence on a hard disk drive. Such failures are investigated using the methods of forensic engineering, which aims to isolate the cause or causes of failure. (Wikipedia)
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Was this tanker safe?
Well, I was thinking more about the other ones.
I would collapse too if a friggin' cargo ship hit me
the phrasing is so weird in that report, "bridge collapsed... after it hit a cargo ship"
No it didn't. Bridges don't move like that. It was hit.
After being hit by a cargo ship.
Awful, this is worst than the Fern Hollow bridge collapse from a couple years ago.