(05-10-2020, 08:05 PM)robkelk Wrote: Something for early in Arc 2.
I did some digging for numbers... The Port of Montreal can dock a 300 meter long vessel in 12.9 meters of water (on average over the last 12 months), and that's as shallow as the St. Lawrence River gets from Montreal to the Atlantic Ocean. A Majestic-class aircraft carrier is 215 meters long at the flight deck and has a draught of 7.5 meters.
So it isn't unreasonable to assume the Academy Ship Ooarai could find itself suddenly sailing into port ... and Terry calling for help because docking a ship that size isn't cheap.
Any of the other Girls und Panzer Academy Ships would have to sail into deep-water ports, such as Halifax, Vancouver, New York, or Los Angeles. (Or maybe San Antonio - is that a deep-water port?)
PFFFT!
The Port of Texas City, on the other hand, sees all kinds of industrial traffic and is considered one of the busiest ports (ranked number 14 in the US) by tonnage shipped (47.7+ million metric tons annually). They even had their own version of the Halifax Explosion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster
But whereas Halifax had a single titanic explosion, Texas City had a chain reaction of multiple ships loaded with munitions and ammonium nitrate cooking off, and setting fire to inland oil refineries and oil storage tanks. The force of the initial explosion was such that a 2-short-ton (1.8-metric-ton) anchor of Grandcamp was hurled 1.62 miles (2.61 km) and found in a 10-foot (3 m) crater.