take into 65 feet. We were shooting for 69 feet actually, and that's what we felt we could do at the time. And I remember his ears perking up and said, you know what, I think we'll just freeze this at 65 feet for now until we can get a better handle on what we're doing here and get some more information. We can go to the next slide. Parallel to this, we've had the rise in the size of the just astronomical increase in size of container ships. And that wasn't a big deal for us. We never ever thought that air draft would be an issue coming into the inner harbor. Then all of a sudden they just kept building the ships bigger and bigger. And again, the question that came to the pilots is: How big a ship can you put in that little hole back there in the inner harbor? And again, it was one of those deals that we said, "Well, I don't know, what do you think? Let's try." Are we going to keep getting bigger and bigger until we have an accident? And I said, "We got to come up with some sort of guidelines on how big is too big."
take into 65 feet. We were shooting for 69 feet actually, and that's what we felt we could do at the time. And I remember his ears perking up and said, you know what, I think we'll just freeze this at 65 feet for now until we can get a better handle on what we're doing here and get some more information. We can go to the next slide. Parallel to this, we've had the rise in the size of the just astronomical increase in size of container ships. And that wasn't a big deal for us. We never ever thought that air draft would be an issue coming into the inner harbor. Then all of a sudden they just kept building the ships bigger and bigger. And again, the question that came to the pilots is: How big a ship can you put in that little hole back there in the inner harbor? And again, it was one of those deals that we said, "Well, I don't know, what do you think? Let's try." Are we going to keep getting bigger and bigger until we have an accident? And I said, "We got to come up with some sort of guidelines on how big is too big."
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