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05-09-2022, 09:11 PM | #1 |
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42 years ago today
May 9th, 1980
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05-09-2022, 09:32 PM | #2 |
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Re: 42 years ago today
Did the ship take out the bridge? Was it too tall? Did it take out the abutment in a collision? Looks like a really unhappy situation.
Edit: found this In 1980, the M/V Summit Venture, an empty phosphate freighter headed for Tampa to load cargo, struck a pier supporting the southbound span, causing the bridge to collapse.
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05-10-2022, 07:44 AM | #3 |
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Go to youtube and search for "Summit Venture", there is a short video of the mayday radio call from the Summit Venture and there is also a 20 something long video that explains it all, including the NTSB findings......35 people died.
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05-10-2022, 04:55 PM | #4 |
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Re: 42 years ago today
Thanks!
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05-10-2022, 08:52 PM | #5 |
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Re: 42 years ago today
My Grandpa worked on that bridge. I remember when it collapsed. My neighbor was on the downhill of bridge when the ship hit. He felt the bridge shake.
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05-10-2022, 10:15 PM | #6 |
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Re: 42 years ago today
I remember that day well. We used to dive the Skyway quite a bit and I had actually dove the bridge the day before the collapse. We had done very well on fish that day and the visibility was very good so I had decided to go back the next morning. I was awakened early that morning by very loud thunder and lightning so I decided to just go back to sleep and skip diving that day. Turns out that was the storm that reduced the visibility to near zero and this was a key contributing factor in the ship colliding with the bridge. Sadly, quite a few innocent people lost their lives that day.
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05-11-2022, 12:51 AM | #7 |
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Re: 42 years ago today
Captain was drunk.
I've quite a few spots in that channel from where they dug it out. I've gotten legal lobster and Hogfish East of the Skyway. As I recall, there's been several tournament winning Sheepshead coming from the bay. ) That channel has some good diving all the up to the port. I cut my teeth freediving those waters. Stone crabs, mussels, fish, etc... BTW, I'd avoid the idea of spearfishing around the pilons of the Skyway. There are huge boulders protecting the pillars. They have 'caves' all thru them and the mangroves zip in and out of them with great speed enticing you to dull your spear tip on the rocks. They suck. I haven't seen any groupers to shoot around them. You'll occasionally find a grouper holed up in the bottom swash around the pillars if'n your not being all bubbly. Non-native green stripped clams have infested all the pillars. There's no limit on them. Go down, collect the biggest and suspend them in the water column (5 gallon bucket of seawater kept at consistent ideal temps ) in a mesh bag for a day or so such they spit out any sand. Scrub/prepare/cook them like you'd get served in any nice restaurant with the clam/wine sauce, fresh bread, and olive oil/herb dipping sauce. Make u wanna slap your mama j/k.
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