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Re: Image comments for How not to unload the barge
Posted by: skizzix
Date: 11/11/2005 12:00AM
The photo itself, unlike some of the comments, is not in any way "somehow directed towards the president." It's simply a mishap I witnessed and photographed on the island where I live. The truck was actually halfway onto the landing just before this happened. The barge operator had to keep the barge going full-ahead to hold the ramp against the landing, but the sheer weight of the truck and cargo-- about 70,000 tons --forced the front end of the barge downward, causing the rear of the barge (and therefore the propellers) to raise up out of the water. Props out of the water = no forward motion. Brake failure on the truck caused the whole she-bang to roll right into the harbor. And I'm reasonably certain the president had nothing to do with it. ;-)

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