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Yes absolutely. She would drag it for a mile at least, or part the chain, or more likely wreck the winch/brakes. It begs the question is...

Oh dear, I posted a link to the "streamtime live" camera making clear that it was only for info for anyone who missed it. Pulled...

Notice the Baltimore ship has the anchor chain out port side.

Well either you have an anchor you can use, (prudent), or not......

yes he did, I went straight to the online chart which seems to say 35m, so maybe he was talking about twice depth. Still should have...

To be fair, just turned the red lights and bridge closed signs on.

So the news is they had a mayday and managed to close the bridge to traffic, but really sad for the guys fixing the potholes, as...

At 01.24.32 all the lights went out including the stbd sidelight, then all came on again at 01.25.32. Within ten seconds the smoke starts.

You can see they switched on a lot of deck lights and forward searchlight or similar, then cloud of smoke from presumably going astern...

Not expensive to replace. There are other more flexible hoses, that variety is about the most rigid after a time.

Beating with a hammer works.