re: Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has collapsed - container ship wrecked into it

I did some reading on that shipping board and learned some stuff. Evidently the mains use electric pumps rather than engine driven pumps for everything (fuel, lube, etc) and would have shut down on the blackout. I find that hard to believe but ill yield to their credibility. They are also saying the black stacking was from going full astern, and that timeline doesn't track in my head so I'm not sure what to believe. I dont think you could have blacked out, shut down, re-lit, cleared the faults and restarted the main all in that time but I don't have much slow speed engine experience. I'm sticking with my original theory, plant shut down main stayed online.

If main engine shutdown on blackout is accurate though, that's countless single point of failure possibilities and I'm amazed we allow stuff like that to operate without an escort around critical infrastructure. I'm amazed these things aren't crashing into shite daily.