When I was attending SUNY Maritime, the Throggs Neck bridge the campus resided under had a maintenance worker fall from it into the drink in 2012. Even with the USCG on site immediately (their academy was on the opposite side of the Long Island Sound), the currents toke that dude and he was presumed dead. A lot of people don't understand…
When I was attending SUNY Maritime, the Throggs Neck bridge the campus resided under had a maintenance worker fall from it into the drink in 2012. Even with the USCG on site immediately (their academy was on the opposite side of the Long Island Sound), the currents toke that dude and he was presumed dead. A lot of people don't understand that operating on the water is a lot like operating in outer space--albeit with oxygen present so long as you're not a submariner. The environment is constantly trying to kill you and it's up to human engineering and protocols to prevent the environment from killing you via hypothermia, dehydration, or spatial drift, etc.
Correction: the USMMA academy is on the other side of the LIS. USCG academy is in Connecticut or something. Either way, USCG was on site hella quickly given how seriously NYC took terrorism post-9/11 (with USCG being part of DHS and not DOD) and that dude was still presumed dead really quickly as well. And that's a pretty busy channel as far as ship traffic goes.
When I was attending SUNY Maritime, the Throggs Neck bridge the campus resided under had a maintenance worker fall from it into the drink in 2012. Even with the USCG on site immediately (their academy was on the opposite side of the Long Island Sound), the currents toke that dude and he was presumed dead. A lot of people don't understand that operating on the water is a lot like operating in outer space--albeit with oxygen present so long as you're not a submariner. The environment is constantly trying to kill you and it's up to human engineering and protocols to prevent the environment from killing you via hypothermia, dehydration, or spatial drift, etc.
Correction: the USMMA academy is on the other side of the LIS. USCG academy is in Connecticut or something. Either way, USCG was on site hella quickly given how seriously NYC took terrorism post-9/11 (with USCG being part of DHS and not DOD) and that dude was still presumed dead really quickly as well. And that's a pretty busy channel as far as ship traffic goes.
The US Coast Guard Academy is in New London CT.
Ya' gotta have "the right stuff", as Tom Wolfe put it, to do that work.