Friday, April 1, 2016

Oops!


A whale-watching vessel had a close encounter of the entirely too speedy kind with a dock in San Diego today.





At first guess, I'd say the engines and/or propeller(s) didn't respond to the throttles - failing to switch to a slower speed or go into reverse pitch.  The inquiry will be asking questions about all that, of course.

Peter

7 comments:

Snoggeramus said...

Did anyone catch that "hornblower" was part of the name of the ship?

ASM826 said...

Yes, Snoggy, I was going to make the same comment.

JK Brown said...

Something went wrong mechanically as they blew 5 short early on, which is the emergency signal. At the start of the video, reverse engines was all that would have prevented this. I expect they have variable pitch propellers so something hydraulic may have happened.

Anonymous said...

OH THE HUMANITY!!!!


Antibubba

RGRANT said...

Dang! Almost got Granny.

Anonymous said...

Washing State Ferry system had a boat do something like this. A failure in automated control systems.

Anonymous said...

Apparently they had a bearing failure and could not reverse. Or so it says on the 'Net.

LittleRed1