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Hold All Traffic on The Key Bridge
Posted on 3/28/24 at 9:12 am
Posted on 3/28/24 at 9:12 am
“Hold all traffic on the Key Bridge.”
The terse command from an officer in Baltimore’s busy commercial shipping port was one of the first warnings of a disaster that experts now predict will transform shipping on the Eastern Seaboard and change how ships and bridges function around the world. But after the cargo ship Dali lost power early Tuesday, there were precious few minutes to act.
In those minutes, many people — from the ship’s crew, who sent out a mayday signal, to the transportation authority police officers, who stopped traffic heading onto the Francis Scott Key Bridge — did what they could to avert catastrophe, most likely saving many lives.
And yet — no matter what anyone did — several factors made catastrophe all but inevitable. When a ship of this size loses engine power, there is little to be done to correct its course, even dropping an anchor down. And the Key Bridge was particularly vulnerable. As long ago as 1980, engineers had warned that the bridge, because of its design, would never be able to survive a direct hit from a container ship.
The collision and subsequent collapse of the bridge swallowed up seven road workers and an inspector who could not be alerted and pulled off the bridge in time; two were pulled alive out of the water, but four others are still missing and presumed dead. Two bodies were retrieved on Wednesday, authorities said.
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The terse command from an officer in Baltimore’s busy commercial shipping port was one of the first warnings of a disaster that experts now predict will transform shipping on the Eastern Seaboard and change how ships and bridges function around the world. But after the cargo ship Dali lost power early Tuesday, there were precious few minutes to act.
In those minutes, many people — from the ship’s crew, who sent out a mayday signal, to the transportation authority police officers, who stopped traffic heading onto the Francis Scott Key Bridge — did what they could to avert catastrophe, most likely saving many lives.
And yet — no matter what anyone did — several factors made catastrophe all but inevitable. When a ship of this size loses engine power, there is little to be done to correct its course, even dropping an anchor down. And the Key Bridge was particularly vulnerable. As long ago as 1980, engineers had warned that the bridge, because of its design, would never be able to survive a direct hit from a container ship.
The collision and subsequent collapse of the bridge swallowed up seven road workers and an inspector who could not be alerted and pulled off the bridge in time; two were pulled alive out of the water, but four others are still missing and presumed dead. Two bodies were retrieved on Wednesday, authorities said.
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This post was edited on 3/28/24 at 9:15 am
Posted on 3/28/24 at 9:15 am to Eurocat
there's an 11 million post thread about this
Posted on 3/28/24 at 9:15 am to Eurocat
Are dolphins going to be standard from here on out? I read in the other thread that they might not have even saved this bridge.
Posted on 3/28/24 at 9:29 am to Eurocat
quote:
The collision and subsequent collapse of the bridge swallowed up seven road workers and an inspector who could not be alerted and pulled off the bridge in time; two were pulled alive out of the water, but four others are still missing and presumed dead. Two bodies were retrieved on Wednesday, authorities said.
The two that were recovered were found in a vehicle, right? That makes me think they did get the message and were trying to drive off the bridge and just did not get off in time.
Posted on 3/28/24 at 9:40 am to Eurocat
Seems like critical systems such as steering on a ship of that size would have backup power sources or there'd be some kind of redundancy to keep it from losing complete control in the event of a power loss. I would think that forward momentum would allow it to be steered for some time after engine thrust is lost.
I don't know crap about ships, though.
I don't know crap about ships, though.
Posted on 3/28/24 at 9:42 am to Eurocat
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The collision and subsequent collapse of the bridge swallowed up seven road workers and an inspector who could not be alerted and pulled off the bridge in time; two were pulled alive out of the water, but four others are still missing and presumed dead. Two bodies were retrieved on Wednesday, authorities said.
So 6 dead
A different part of the day and it could have been 600
Posted on 3/28/24 at 10:56 am to Eurocat
But the tards say it was intentional.
An intentional act doesn't begin with the crew doing whatever they can to minimize damage.
People are dumb
An intentional act doesn't begin with the crew doing whatever they can to minimize damage.
People are dumb
Posted on 3/28/24 at 11:10 am to Eurocat
I wonder how many people got caught on wrong side and couldnt get home.
Posted on 3/28/24 at 11:39 am to Eurocat
I think they have to, it doesn't exist anymore
Posted on 3/28/24 at 12:04 pm to Eurocat
So why didn’t they build protection around the pylons? They figured that out quick after Tampa, you would think that all bridges would be forced to retrofit them in. Got to love useless azz government.
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