Container Ship Hits Baltimore Bridge

My daughter lives in Charleston and said that yesterday a freighter lost steering or power and luckily got through the middle of the span of the Ravenal Bridge. I don’t know what conclusions to draw from this. I believe within the last 5 years or so a ship lost power in the Cape Fear and ran aground. Are these large ships hackable or is loosing power somewhat common occurrence.

When you consider the vast number of ships plying the oceans, there's relatively few occurences.

I just saw a video of a concrete mooring pier being ripped out of its foundation by the wake. Not sure what happened to the ship that was to it, hopefully the other piers and lines held up.

hard to Believe they didn’t have a emergency shut down, whether air or fuel.

A shutdown is what happened in Baltimore. Lose power - lose steering. Maybe better to cause a little damage than a lot of damage.

Shut down, lose steerage. Drop anchors also will likely divert the path more so than stop the movement.