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I briefly saw something in the news here in the US that they had to take down dome power lines to let a cruise ship get through somewhere, and it ended up blacking out i think over 1,000,000 customers in 8 countries. Does anyone have more info on that?

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That's exactly the incident we were talking about. They shut off the 400 or 380kV line (don't know the exact figures, the articles mention both) to let the cruise ship pass from the wharf to the sea (the line crosses a river) and the shutdown resulted in an overload condition of other lines, leading to several emergency shutdowns to keep the frequency stable.

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Hmmm, is someone sending an invoice to the cruise company ??

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Ooops! You did say that, TexasRanger. I should have read more carefully.

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