The pictures say it all

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The pictures say it all

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... pment.html
You know, I don't think the ship would have made it under the center spans either!

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Yeah, that's what first came to my mind. That's a pretty big ooops.

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it's a pretty funny picture, if you aren't directly involved-the steel girders draped gracefully across the bow of the ship!

It's even funnier to read that it was built to transport the launch equipment, not a commercial job that is leased. No one measured the bridges where the ship was even remotely to go under? LOL
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I am going to guess that they were mean't to pass under the center span, but someone forgot........ooooops.......dang........darn it all.....
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Cargo Law has some pictures of the ship showing the rocket loaded in the hold.
I wonder if the river level was higher then normal and no one took it into account.

http://www.cargolaw.com/2012nightmare_delta_marine.html
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River levels were up, but I had heard that he was actually in a small craft channel. :oops:
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