General News- Europe left in Black out due to transit of Norwegian Pearl

The U.S. press had little more to add as to the cause, Yachtluver, but here's something of interest:
Some years ago, a stretched 65 Irwin with a taller-than-stock rig motored up Fort Lauderdale's New River. Around the 7th Street area are some high-tension powerlines. Wrong tide, bad luck, who knows--the lines arced to the masthead and thirdhand reports had at least one crew member blown overboard, anchors welded to the pulpit, a mess.

I paid particular attention to this as I was trying to organize the transit of a 78' Cheoy Lee motorsailer up this same stretch of the river a couple of years ago and subsequent to the earlier incident. The Florida Power & Light engineer I spoke with mentioned that in hot weather, the power cables sag a bit, so there was no exact height he could supply. He did mention that if a metal object, i.e., a masthead came within roughly eight feet of the line, an arcing situation could occur.
We ended up hiring surveyors to map out the catenary of the cable, timed the low tide within minutes, crossed fingers, tightened sphincters, and went for it.

Wonder if "Norwegian Pearl" popped a fuse somewhere, hm?

Hi,

I am in Nth Germany near the EMS Canal, we suffered no power interruption on Saturday night.