Someone wasn't thinking:
The capsizing of the Golden Ray cargo ship off the Georgia coast two years ago, which resulted in more than $200 million in damage, was caused by incorrect calculations about the vessel's stability, the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday.
It didn't help that a couple watertight doors had been left open, which made the problem go from bad to worse much faster than it had to.
Have you heard the one about the Los Angeles bomb squad blowing up a neighborhood? They incorrectly estimated the weight of some explosives by more than a factor of two. They thought they had less than 17 pounds, it was actually 42. The priming charge alone was a pound or two, and the contained vessel they blew it all up in could only take 25. The lid landed a block or two away. They brilliantly set off a pressure-cooker bomb on a city street.
ReplyDeleteThe LAPD now promises to actually weigh explosives before blowing them up.