| Ferry Background |
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The Susitna ferry could act as a quick rescue boat should any large passenger airlines fall into icy Cook Inlet. Unfortunately this scenario is not far-fetched, as the January 2009 crash of the U.S. Airways jet into the Hudson River illustrated.
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"It’s an omnivore. It’s not optimized for any one task, but it has a wide range of tasks it can do, and that’s what makes it useful. It can work in deep seas, it can work in rough waters, it can break ice, it can work in shallow waters and go up to the beach. There’s no other ship in the world that can do that." — Lew Madden, Susitna Co-inventor |
