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Offline Hugh Pines

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Panama Canal mule crushed by containership
« on: April 30, 2014, 08:04:05 PM »
Oh dear, this is not good.

http://gcaptain.com/panama-canal-mule-crushed-containership/

Cap Trafalgar 1 Mule 0

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Re: Panama Canal mule crushed by containership
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2014, 11:43:04 PM »
I bet the return passage three weeks later was 101%.

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Re: Panama Canal mule crushed by containership
« Reply #2 on: May 01, 2014, 02:28:06 AM »
I had almost similar incident in the canal, a wire broke on leaving the lock and you can do nothing then watch how it makes BOOM. Here it looks like they contact on the port side the guide fenders (in the locks are no fenders) and virtually get pushed over to the other side, like a billiard ball.
NOW!!!,,,if we could get rid of the sailors,,how safe shipping would be !!!!!!!!

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Re: Panama Canal mule crushed by containership
« Reply #3 on: May 01, 2014, 09:02:17 AM »
Has there ever been a case of a mule failing to let go and getting pulled into the water?

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Re: Panama Canal mule crushed by containership
« Reply #4 on: May 01, 2014, 12:16:42 PM »
To my knowledge not and so far as I know they can not because they running not on regular tracks,, They are like locomotives in the swiss alps which have additional a center track which prevents them from toppling over,,same in the PanCan
NOW!!!,,,if we could get rid of the sailors,,how safe shipping would be !!!!!!!!

 

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