With cargo ship continues to dominate the sea, the San Francisco Bay still continues to serve as a major seaport. The Port of Oakland is one of the largest cargo ports in the United States, while the Port of Richmond and the Port of San Francisco provide smaller services.[1]
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This cargo ship is featured in Bound and Buried, as a general coverage for the San Francisco Bay and the ships within.
It was first introduced in 2 days after people when the only sound on the waterfront are the wavelets lapping at the hull of a cargo ship. Despite the explosion of technology, ships were tied to the same piece of equipment used by ancient mariners, a piece of rope. Steven S. Ross explains that the ropes hold the ship to the pier. After people, eight ropes made of a synthetic as strong as wire secure the vessel to the deserted pier with each single line holding 125,000 pounds.
A cargo ship set course to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
In 2 years after people, the eight high-strength lines still held the massive cargo ship for two years. Steven S. Ross stated that the ropes hold the ship rather loosely, allowing it to rise and fall with the tide. He continues that the San Francisco Bay that the tide is about 6 feet. The rope is then put on the ultimate test in a howling gale. Steven S. Ross stated that the ship weigh 50,000 tons. Rocked by wind and waves, the ship generates tremendous stress on the ropes, and once the first line snaps, the other swiftly follow and the ship sets a course for disaster. Steven S. Ross stated that if a ship breaks free of its moorings, it will propelled from the south then north toward the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. He continues that the cargo ship will hit a very large object and if the central part of the hull is hit, it will take on water making it heavier and while the two ends of the ship becomes a buoyant, will snap the ship in half. As said, the rest of it then begins to sink into the San Francisco Bay.
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