Baltimore Bridge Collapse

[Gromit]

engine failure at just the wrong moment not sure what sort of defences can slow up a huge container ship.

Ironman could do it.

 

[editor]

God, I see the conspiraloons are hard at it already.

The thing is that there is no mystery for those idiots to unravel: the ship lost power and sent out a mayday right before the crash. The video even confirms this.

Mayday was issued

Officials confirmed the ship that crashed into the bridge had issued a mayday call and had lost power.

Maryland governor Wes Moore is then asked whether the bridge could have been closed after the mayday call was issued.

He says the boat was travelling at a speed of eight knots so there was limited time, but that those who received the distress call prevented vehicles from coming onto the bridge.

"Those people are heroes, they saved lives," he says.

 

[Gromit]

engine failure at just the wrong moment not sure what sort of defences can slow up a huge container ship.

To be honest I asked myself this morning “why they didn’t just drop anchor?”

This afternoon me realises that it would like throwing out a dental floss lasso to stop a car, when you consider a ship of that load and speed.

 

[planetgeli]

To be honest I asked myself this morning “why they didn’t just drop anchor?”

This afternoon me realises that it would like throwing out a dental floss lasso to stop a car, when you consider a ship of that load and speed.

Not to mention it can take 20 minutes to over an hour to drop anchor on a cargo ship.

 

[Cloo]

The thing is that there is no mystery for those idiots to unravel: the ship lost power and sent out a mayday right before the crash. The video even confirms this.

This from the sort of people who saw a defeated president and several thousand people literally enact a conspiracy to overturn an election in front of the entire world, but think that was totally OK.

 

[Mumbles274]

Plus anchors don't work due to the anchor hooking the seabed, they work due to the lenght of chain that subsequently lays on the sea bed afaik

 

[Gromit]

Not to mention it can take 20 minutes to over an hour to drop anchor on a cargo ship.

When you do it properly but don’t they have a beefy pirate with an axe that breaks it so it drops instantly?

 

[ddraig]

Surreal indeed

 

[passenger]

That is rather chilling, poor people, Is this to happen in the modern USA I freak out
going over the QE2 Bridge I just can not imagine how awful and what went through
there minds.

 

[likesfish]

it weighes 100000 tons moving at 10 miles an hour short of a cliff nothing's stopping it

 

[Elpenor]

it weighes 100000 tons moving at 10 miles an hour short of a cliff nothing's stopping it

The sound of him singing “living doll” would stop anything

 

[CNT36]

The thing is that there is no mystery for those idiots to unravel: the ship lost power and sent out a mayday right before the crash. The video even confirms this.

You can see the moment on AIS when it is received by local boats as they all start hammering it towards the Dali.

 

[gosub]

God, I see the conspiraloons are hard at it already.

A lot of it is AI piggybacking on trending tweets
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[Artaxerxes]

Maybe he watched Leave The World Behind last night

Poor bastard

 

[kebabking]

yeh so it is to me surprising you were a nurse and not in the royal engineers.

You should see what treatments he dished out to the patients/victims....

Cut yourself have you lad, well don't worry, I'll just cauterise it with this Greek Fire....

 

[Gromit]

God, I see the conspiraloons are hard at it already.

That’s what they want you to think!

 

[weltweit]

I heard that because the ship transmitted a Mayday the local police were able to close the bridge to traffic so that the only people still on the bridge when it collapsed were the construction crew.

 

[cupid_stunt]

I heard that because the ship transmitted a Mayday the local police were able to close the bridge to traffic so that the only people still on the bridge when it collapsed were the construction crew.

I don't think it was the police, it's a toll bridge, I got the impression it was the toll staff that stopped the traffic.

 

[weltweit]

I don't think it was the police, it's a toll bridge, I got the impression it was the toll staff that stopped the traffic.

Oh, ok could be, but would the toll staff have heard the mayday message? Perhaps the police got the message and the toll staff closed the bridge?

 

[cupid_stunt]

Oh, ok could be, but would the toll staff have heard the mayday message? Perhaps the police got the message and the toll staff closed the bridge?

Yeah, probably a combination between the two, but it happened very quick, there wasn't much time between the mayday going out and the bridge being hit.

 

[weltweit]

All that shipping trapped in the port and others not able to get in, I expect Lloyds names will be checking their exposure to this.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

Ships fuck up all the time, it's much more common that you may think, I deal with a company that goes out to try and salvage ships that have gone wrong and also provide expert testimony in the inevitable court cases. They are one of my best customers.

pseudonarcissus may have some thoughts on this, if not bobbing around in the middle of the ocean somewhere...

I’m actually bobbing around in Las Palmas. I’m going to have to no comment this at the moment.

 

[planetgeli]

Yeah, probably a combination between the two, but it happened very quick, there wasn't much time between the mayday going out and the bridge being hit.

I read the last car got off the bridge 15 seconds before it collapsed.

 

[Indeliblelink]

I read the last car got off the bridge 15 seconds before it collapsed.

About 34 seconds before, there's a clock on the livecam footage.

 

[CNT36]

I expect toll booths will have channel 16 piped in from now on. Brilliant responses all around by the sounds of it.

 

[dessiato]

I've had a fascination for blowing things up all my life, pretty much.

Ranging from blowing the windows out of the garage when my gunpowder went a bit wrong, to getting 'buried' in a culvert after firing 400 lbs of gelignite in a rock cutting.

My only two convictions were under (IIRC) the 1886 Explosives Act.

I love a nice explosion. My niece, with whom I've promised to blow something up, is coming to visit me soon. Should be fun.

 

[PTK]

A lot of it is AI piggybacking on trending tweets
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"Drone Sweet Drone" is a rather digusting slogan to put on a tee-shirt.

 

[two sheds]

Fucking size of the thing it took me a while to realize all those little square things are containers

and yes I'm surprised this sort of thing doesn't happen more often.

 

[petee]

explainer

https://archive.ph/jC1u3

 

[petee]

if you're very interested, here is the google map of the area. i used to have reason to drive that way, but not in the last dozen years about. i used 895, the harbor tunnel.

Baltimore Harbor Tunl Trwy · Baltimore, MD, USA

Baltimore, MD, USA

www.google.com