How Big Is Too Big?
Posted by Francis Kent on October 12, 2011, 3:17 pm
In the news today is a story about a 775-foot container ship breaking up off the coast of New Zealand after striking a reef. It is discharging oil into the sea and losing cargo containers over the side. Are there experienced Merchant Navy seamen here who share my (admittedly uneducated) suspicion that we've gone too far in building ever-larger seagoing vessels? Isn't there a logical, natural limit?
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