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A cruise ship travelling at 20 knots and suddenly experiencing a full propulsion shutdown causing the props to essentially seize in place would create massive, but only momentary amounts of great friction when you consider aerodynamic principles. The stopped props on the ship, once you consider...

I’m surprised to have to bring this up considering this is a “physics forum”, but have you not heard of “Newton’s Third Law of Motion”? This is really all easily answered by these principles. The very size and weight of that cruise ship and the force at work to propel it through the water...