Tall Order for the Columbia River
The giant 490ft wide crane sits firm on its Post-Panamax (too big to fit through the Panama Canal) carrier and rests briefly after a month-long journey from China.
Before sunrise Thursday morning, when the tide was low, the Columbia Bar Pilots quickly outran the fog that was rolling in from Young's Bay and slipped the Zhen Hua 17 under the Astoria-Megler bridge with four feet of clearance. (Daily Astorian)
It's hard to see just how giant this structure is with the massive mouth of the Columbia River. But you can get a little reference if you look at the little dots (windows) on the sides of the ships and consider that each row of windows is about one story high.
After clearing the Astoria-Megler bridge just ahead of the fog, the Columbia River Bar Pilots turned the ship over to the Columbia River Pilots for its more difficult challenge: the 195ft Lewis and Clark Bridge at Longview, Washington...
3 comments:
I wish I had known that was happening I would have watched it out my dining room window. I'm always up before sunrise it would have been a good show.
Yeah, I would have liked to watch it go under the bridge. It amazes me how well the Bar Pilots can navigate ships like that through such tight spaces.
I saw it closer to Portland, but didn't have my camera with me. Amazing sight.
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