Thinking about what happened in Baltimore and wondered if huge ships have a way to rapidly deploy anchors if the ship becomes uncontrollable close to shore. Independent of engine power.
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Dropping an anchor is usually a gravity-powered event. They just release the lock on the anchor and it free-falls into the water, as far down as they need it to go.
In the case of the Key Bridge in Baltimore, the *Dali* did, in fact, drop anchor; it just didn’t do a whole lot. Anchors won’t do much of anything to stop a moving ship, *especially* one that clocks in at just under 100,000 *tons*. At best, all they could have hoped for was that the drag caused by the anchor could pull the ship in a different direction.
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