Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "I Was Supposed To Be On The Bridge That Collapsed..." video.

Another engineer here and I agree. Bridges are NOT designed to take a hit like that. I was just watching Sam Mercoglianos YT channel "What's going on with shipping?" and he's THE BEST when it comes to shipping news. He's the sort of person others are talking to and Kyle should start showing some better judgment and simply asking guys like Sam what's happened. Couple of points Sam brought up. - The bridge was built around 1977 at a time when container ships were much smaller. - The MV Dali is a 10,000TEU ship which is less than 1/2 the size of the ship that blocked the Suez BUT its still around double the size of anything that was around when the bridge was built. I CHECKED and in 1980 (a few years after the bridge was built) the Neptune Garnet was the largest container ship in the world at 3,268 TEU less than 1/3rd the capacity of the MV Dali. As to Kyles "It looks fragile" comment, he can go jump. I wonder how many times he went over that bridge without EVER considering its structural integrity. This is one of those moments I HATE YouTubers who mouth off without any thought.
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@JackDaniels-ru2xy SHIT4BRAINS Can you read and think or is that TOO MUCH to ask these days? This bridge was built in 1977. At that time THE LARGEST container ships had less than 1/3rd the carrying capacity of the MV Dali which is actually less than 1/2 the carrying capacity of todays largest ships. Whatever they might have done in 1977 would not have been planned for a ship of this size.
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@ilcyclista1 Yeah great idea but how are they supposed to upgrade the bridges and who is supposed to pay for it? So you know the largest container ships that operated at the time the bridge was built had less than 1/3rd the carrying capacity of the MV Dali. Plus the MV Dali is actually smallish by todays standards. The vessel that got stuck in the Suez a couple of years ago was almost 2-1/2 times the carrying capacity of the MV Dali.
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