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Originally Posted by ithos
So you disagree with the engineers in the article?
A slightly larger budget would have allowed for more protection that may have significantly limited the damage.
What are your credentials?
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Significantly, that quote does not appear in the article you linked. However, this quote does:
Nonetheless, he explained that not all protection systems will be up to the task of stopping a more than 100,000-ton ship like the Dali, and sometimes these accidents will simply happen due to human error - or as early reports indicated in this case, power failure.
It is a fact that the protection systems that were in place for the Key Bridge were not up to the task of stopping the "more than 100,000-ton ship like the Dali." But do such protection systems even exist? How much land is required to beach a ship that size to prevent it from striking the bridge? It is possible there would be no channel left if sufficient space was set aside for a protection system to ward off a 100,000+ ton ship.
It is easy to Monday-morning quaterback, especially when you have no skin in the game. It is much more difficult when you try to design a perfect system in the real world.