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

Being reported it was this ship

The Dali

Vessel Finder


Here it is crashing into a berth in Antwerp as it was undocking in 2016:

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Watching the live feed of the bridge before the collapse, it seems to have hit when the bridge only had construction workers on it. It was the slowest point in the moments leading up to the collapse, which is a silver lining.

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Just did the same, and it was so stressful watching the cars going across the bridge as the mammoth tanker slowly approaches, but you’re right, it didn’t look like there were any vehicles crossing at the moment it hit and collapsed.

Looks like the networks are starting to cover the story.

YT link for live feed.

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Just did the same, and it was so stressful watching the cars going across the bridge as the mammoth tanker slowly approaches, but you’re right, it didn’t look like there were any vehicles crossing at the moment it hit and collapsed.

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That's how I saw it. I kept rooting for the cars to clear the bridge. It looks like all the moving cars cleared the bridge.

You sure that’s the same ship? I know ships can be reflagged but the Dali is currently flagged out of Singapore. That one says Majuro or something.

That gif is crazy. RIP to the construction workers. I can’t imagine what the cleanup is going to be.

Holy shite. Terrible way to go if in a car

So it has a history of great captains.

Feel terrible for those workers.

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At least it was at 3am and not 3pm.

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For sure. At 3AM there isn't a lot of traffic on the FSK, it is the eastern perimeter and there isn't a ton of stuff out there and usually only has heavy traffic at drive times. The through traffic on 95 will just stay on 95 because it is shorter/quicker when the traffic is light. Other than a little local traffic at night the only other thing is trucks with Hazmat since it is prohibited in the tunnels on 95 and 895. An LA analog would be 210 in Lake Chuck where unless the traffic is backed up on 10 it is mainly local traffic and people afraid of the Calcasieu River Bridge.


Someone mentioned they were surprised all the spans went down. The FSK is a through truss bride with a continuous span. Continuous span bridges have all the spans connected. The bottom chords (where the road deck is) are all in axial tension so if you take out a piling even if all the truss joints fail it will still pull the entire continuous span down. This took out everything to the points on each side where the continuous span met the simple (single) span sections of the concrete bridge spans. Bridges are remarkably strong in some ways and surprisingly delicate in others.


I haven't seen an update but I hope at least some of the workers were saved.

Jesus. I'm not doing the whole "it could have been me" thing - but I just picked up a load of Mccormick Spices from Sparrows Point, had to use that bridge to get there and leave.