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Social Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses after getting hit by a container ship

idrankyourbeer said:
i cant even find any news stations covering this i have to follow it on twitter. you'd think something this catastrophic that surely killed alot of people and has left people in need of rescuing would be covered all over the place but so far there's nothing.
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What do you mean? Every major news stations have been reporting live:









 
The piece that's still standing makes me think that The Bandit wouldn't even be late for work today if he lived in Baltimore

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Yah, sounds like the ship had a catastrophic power failure and it all snowballed from there. 100k ton container ships need about 4 miles to stop under the best of conditions, with no power? It's the worlds largest uncontrolled battering ram. And I don't think that bridge had islands or barriers protecting the support struts, so it was a combination of worst case scenarios
 
Holy crap! Was the bridge shut down for repairs or something? It says there were only some construction crews on it at the time. That light have been really fortunate in a way
 
Jesus Christ, that had to be horrific for the people on that bridge. such a high fall into the water, which was probably only 50 degrees.
 
Apparently the cargo ship was having power issues, and they couldn't control it.

RIP to all of the victims.
 
Blayt7hh said:
Holy crap! Was the bridge shut down for repairs or something? It says there were only some construction crews on it at the time. That light have been really fortunate in a way
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They said on the news that there were 7 cars and a tractor trailer on it along with 20 construction guys doing maintenance pouring cement.
 
Thanks Biden. Never happened during Trump's Presidency. Time to build a wall to keep Singapore container ships out.

Looks like some people won't be getting their Trump sneakers any time soon.....


*All jokes aside, this is horrible. I hope causalities are non-existent or minimal.
 
Blayt7hh said:
Holy crap! Was the bridge shut down for repairs or something? It says there were only some construction crews on it at the time. That light have been really fortunate in a way
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Yeah, it is fortunate that it happened at the time it did considering that 1400 cars travel over it an hour on average. It wasn’t shut down though.

Heard they pulled two people out of the water. One refused medical care as they were uninjured.
 
Holy shit.

Be interesting to see the voyage data recorder from the ship.....

I gotta wonder when and how well that bridge was last inspected as well.
 
emefer said:
Yeah, it is fortunate that it happened at the time it did considering that 1400 cars travel over it an hour on average. It wasn’t shut down though.

Heard they pulled two people out of the water. One refused medical care as they were uninjured.
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Yeah that’s what I was thinking. They were lucky it wasn’t a much much bigger disaster. That’s crazy people survived. I figured there was no way. The water must be freezing right now
 
emefer said:
I don’t think that’s a maintenance issue.
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You'd be surprised.

Yes a big ass ship is going to fuck shit up, but if the bridge maintenance was neglected shit would be fucked up worse.
 

Cargo ship that hit Baltimore bridge was involved in Antwerp collision in 2016​

The Dali was reportedly detained in Belgium after scraping side of quay and significantly damaging part of hull in good weather

The same vessel that hit the Baltimore Key Bridge on Tuesday, destroying it and sending people and vehicles tumbling into the water, was also involved in a collision while leaving the port of Antwerp, Belgium, in 2016.

According to Vessel Finder and the maritime incident archive Shipwrecklog, the Dali – a 948ft (290-meter) cargo ship with a capacity of 10,000 containers – was leaving the container terminal of Antwerp heading to Bremerhaven.

As it did so, its bow reportedly swung around, causing the stern to scrape the side of the quay, significantly damaging several meters of the hull.

The ship was reportedly detained by authorities afterward and docked in Deurganckdok, Belgium. There were reportedly no injuries or adverse pollution.


According to Vessel Finder the weather was fine at the time, and the incident was reportedly blamed on the ship’s master and pilot on board.

It is unclear what crew were aboard the ship. Vessel Finder said at the time that the ship, which was built in South Korea in 2015 by Hyundai Heavy Industries, was owned by the Greek company Oceanbulk Maritime but was chartered by Maersk.

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) confirmed on Tuesday that the Dali was registered in Singapore and had 22 crew on board, with Maersk adding in a statement that the crew were all Indian but none of them were Maersk crew or personnel.

Maersk has been approached for comment.

About 2.6km of the Baltimore bridge collapsed on Tuesday when the Dali crashed into it, causing a number of vehicles to fall into the Patapsco River below. At least seven people were being searched for with two rescued, including one in critical condition, officials said on Tuesday at a pre-dawn press conference.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...e-bridge-ship-previous-collision-antwerp-2016
 
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