Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore...

MarylandWHODAT said

I think that unfortunately, this kind of stuff happens a lot more than we realize however, it is not in the media spotlight. Case in point was the summer of 2001. That was the "summer of the shark". It seemed like everyone was getting attacked by sharks. Shark attacks were actually higher in the summer of 2000 but there was no media coverage so life went on. The media grabs it in 2001 and now sharks are everywhere.

Fast forward to this unfortunate accident, you now have the media hunting down every single bridge, waterway incident.

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This is true, sorta. I usually tell people that the problem with the marine business is not that we have a good reputation or a bad reputation, it's that we have NO reputation. The only time anyone ever hears about us is when there is a major casualty. Which is a shame because moving goods by water is the safest, most efficient mode (outside of moving liquids through a pipeline) and we should be putting as much as we can on barges and ships.

Its still an outdoor sport and, as we saw here, there are a lot of things that can go horribly wrong, but relative to the damage caused to life and property by trucks and railways, it the safest way to go and should be something we heavily invest in.

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