The Suez Canal is 119 miles long, and Nimitz-class carriers transit it all of the time.
It’s my understanding that the Navy sometimes takes ships up the Columbia river for a time as a cheap way to kill saltwater molluscs. I can’t find a cite, somebody in the Coast Guard stationed at Portland Oregon told me that.
Other ships of this class were the USS Deadpool, assigned to Lake Champlain, the USS Punisher, which cruised the Great Salt Lake, and the USS Lobo, which defended Lake Tahoe.
I understand the USS Spider-Man could easily have prevented the Korean War but didn’t and learned a valuable lesson as a result.
And then she’ll slap you in the morning for taking her on a ride in an Air Force plane. (How the heck did you land the F-16 on a carrier?) You should’ve taken your joyride in an F/A-18F.
With great air superiority comes great responsibility.
The key factor here is “drunken”.
Cite? The weight of the air on all the tires all the airplanes and cars on a modern carrier is probably only about a… oh wait.
Based on the size of the Nimitz vs the local water volume, I bet you could cycle the engines on and off at the right tempo to get the river water to slosh back and forth, much like a kid in a bathtub. Time it right, and the Nimitz could “slosh” right over many shallow areas, and perhaps even under many bridges.
We’re talking about a ship that weighs more than two hundred million pounds. If it can’t cruise right through any given bridge in it’s way, it isn’t trying.
It’s not the deck of the bridge that gets you, its the gashes their concrete pylons put in your hull below the waterline. Google “Cosco Busan”.