<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com" target="_blank">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">IMHO "floating bridge" is hardly to be misunderstood when speaking about bridge types, and also the Google image search seems to confirm that this is an established term. Where ships might beconsidered "pontoons" when used as bridge support, or not, doesn't really change the game, it will still be a floating bridge, and also wikipedia:en confirms this ("pontoon bridge or floating bridge")</blockquote>
</div><br>I agree. The pontoon is just the mechanism to float the bridge. Seattle bridges are referred to as floating bridges. The public just got an education on what floats the bridges when some of the pontoons started leaking. The brand new and not even in use pontoons started leaking. Then again if I made a pontoon out of concrete, they'd just sink.<br>
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