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Building a bridge over the Likoni channel shouldn't be so hard

There is nothing like panic induced by the fear of imminent death to enhance human senses. In 1998 when I took my first ferry crossing at the Likoni channel, the contraption briefly stalled mid-channel and started to drift.

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