Christopher Mims on Nostr: As a person who has actually ridden with harbor pilots before and wrote a whole book ...

As a person who has actually ridden with harbor pilots before and wrote a whole book about shipping goods across oceans here’s a tiny bit of possibly clarifying detail about this horrible bridge tragedy:

If as reported there was a power failure on this container ship that could have been enough on its own to send it into the bridge.

Maneuvers for ships this large are incredibly tight when they are going in and out of harbors. We don’t think about it but harbor pilots perform miracles every day