Handy Tricks Six

Step 35 Dirt Box Bridge Bumpers

The pillars of the Bay Bridge are surrounded by boxes of dirt and gravel at their bases.
That protects them from collisions with ships.
Recently a ship wrecked itself on that big cement pillar and leaked a bazillian gallons of oil all over the bay, but the bridge was unharmed.

Comments

[frankens]

Wait, which is better, damage to the bridge or oil all over the bay?

[Hycro]

Either way there would have still been oil all over the bay, without the bumpers there would also be damage to the bridge on top of that...or at least one would think that whether or not there were bumpers, that any oil tanker collision would result in an oil spill.

[benthekahn]

My class went on a field trip to Alcatraz that day. The water was shiny and rainbowy.