The Dali is the size of a Ford class super carrier. Apparently people have a hard time understanding that modern cargo ships are really fucking massive.
Yeah, totally. I just mean that the ship is so big that itβs comparable in size to the bridge that it hit. Itβs not like a car driving into a building, itβs like a building hitting another building.
The biggest ship on the Great lakes is 1,013 feet long and 105 feet wide. That's slightly larger than Dali. They just can't practically build them much bigger than that. There once was a 1,500 foot long ship that had to be taken out of service. So far 1,300 feet seems to be the best we can do