dustie wrote:
One prime mover, one propeller, very common on vessels that size and category.
Looking at the publicly available videos of the movement leading up to the resulting crash, in all their weaknesses due to camera distance, available lighting, camera viewing angle, etc, there is something else that arises as a question, and I keep genuinely hoping can be determined and publicly reported.
Just going by the low level of being able to determine detail in those videos, it appears to me that ship made a more rapid course change than would be expected possible by use of rudder control, especially in those conditions. After there was an initial course change, the ship does not appear to continue in a turn, but takes a rather straight course in the new direction.
Now, if that course change is more rapid than the rudder can produce, I am highly interested in knowing if it can and will be determined if there was any contact with the bottom or an unknown obstruction on the bottom that deflected the ship to the side that way.
Wind above the water surface? ........well, maybe.......but, still what appears to be a too rapid course change. If the online places that report conditions there are correct there was a six mile per hour breeze at the time of the incident.
The videos don't seem to show more than a rather gentle ripple on the water surface.......six mph seems reasonable.
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Yep, just for fun calculated the force of a 6mph wind against a vessel this size/loaded directly abeam, and it’s not trivial (26,600 Newtons), BUT we don’t know the wind direction or currents at this location. Anyone here a professional mariner that’s sailed these waters?