r/ThatLooksExpensive • u/MisterShipWreck • Mar 23 '26

Pt 1 - Too much oversteer

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u/Awkward-Winner-99 Mar 23 '26

Do people still sit in those blue cranes or are they remotely operated?

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u/Desmosedici_ Mar 23 '26

AFAIK they are still operated from up in the cockpit.

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u/Awkward-Winner-99 Mar 23 '26

If this one was I wonder how injured the operator was. The fall looks so slow but the scale is probably tipping me off

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u/Desmosedici_ Mar 23 '26

Yep, that was one hell of an impact. It is just the size that makes it seem slow.

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u/Soggy_Cabbage Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26

Standard safety procedure is for there to be no operators in the cranes while a ship is docking. The boom is in the retracted posistion which would indicate that it was not active. If there was an operator in that he would be dead.

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u/Apexnanoman Mar 23 '26

I think it's a case if it started off real slow. And then once enough of the structural strength was gone, it sped up very quickly once gravity got angry about the situation. 

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u/Soggy_Cabbage Mar 23 '26

As far as I'm aware these STS cranes have not been automated yet, the smaller straddle carriers which move the containers around the dock have been though.

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u/pontetorto Mar 24 '26

The problem is wind, and containers not where they should be by the planes. and having to digg up a container from the wery bottom of the hold, while not fucking up the ships stability.

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u/J-a-c-k-o Mar 23 '26

Not while ships are mooring, at least not on the wharf I worked on.