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re: Breaking: Baltimore - Container ship causes bridge collapse
Posted on 3/26/24 at 5:19 am to LB84
Posted on 3/26/24 at 5:19 am to LB84
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e. I don’t think a ship would make a structurally sound bridge crumble down in it’s entirety.
Tell me you didn’t pay attention in physics class without saying you did not pay attention in physics class.
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Posted on 3/26/24 at 5:20 am to Chromdome35
Biden’s America!
Posted on 3/26/24 at 5:24 am to Meauxjeaux
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Tell me you didn’t pay attention in physics class without saying you did not pay attention in physics class.
https://www.caixinglobal.com/2024-02-23/gallery-partial-bridge-collapse-kills-five-102168174.html
A month ago and the whole thing didn’t collapse like tinder.
Posted on 3/26/24 at 5:26 am to momentoftruth87
We're witnessing truinanashabadepressure in real time!
No joke!
No joke!
Posted on 3/26/24 at 5:28 am to Chromdome35
Posted on 3/26/24 at 5:34 am to Chromdome35
The whole thing collapsing like that, it's insane.
Baltimore finna eat with federal money, but traffic is going to be utter hell there for a long time.
Baltimore finna eat with federal money, but traffic is going to be utter hell there for a long time.
Posted on 3/26/24 at 5:34 am to Chromdome35
Posted on 3/26/24 at 5:35 am to POTUS2024
Nobody likes pointing out how fricking terrible Joe Biden and his transportation secretary Pete Buttwhatever are than I do however...
I'm no civil engineer or physics guru, but unless we get new information later on proving this was some kind of terrorist attack our govt agencies missed or that the structural integrity of the bridge was vulnerably compromised already due to years of government negligence and incompetence, I really don't see how this is something one can assign partisan political blame to.
A private company's giant arse cargo vessel plowing full steam directly into the center column of a bridge causing the entire thing to collapse resulting in the deaths of who knows how many seems to me on the surface to be solely the fault of...well...the cargo ship captain and the CEO of the company at hand here. Happy to change my opinion on this should new info come out, however this just seems like a Hall of Shame clusterfrick of a tragedy.
I'm no civil engineer or physics guru, but unless we get new information later on proving this was some kind of terrorist attack our govt agencies missed or that the structural integrity of the bridge was vulnerably compromised already due to years of government negligence and incompetence, I really don't see how this is something one can assign partisan political blame to.
A private company's giant arse cargo vessel plowing full steam directly into the center column of a bridge causing the entire thing to collapse resulting in the deaths of who knows how many seems to me on the surface to be solely the fault of...well...the cargo ship captain and the CEO of the company at hand here. Happy to change my opinion on this should new info come out, however this just seems like a Hall of Shame clusterfrick of a tragedy.
This post was edited on 3/26/24 at 5:42 am
Posted on 3/26/24 at 5:37 am to SouthEasternKaiju
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11.5 million vehicles use the bridge every day
That's annual traffic, not daily. Daily traffic volume is 31,500.
Posted on 3/26/24 at 5:38 am to LB84
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I don’t think a ship would make a structurally sound bridge crumble down in it’s entirety.
Google the Sunshine Skyway disaster, this exact event happened before.
Something is fricky here, foreign captains have to relinquish control of the ship inside the sea buoy (COLREG) demarcation line, to an American Pilot. This should have never occurred.
Pray for those affected and pray this was not an act of terrorism.
Posted on 3/26/24 at 5:45 am to psk_Vol
quote:The question almost answers itself; couldn’t have hit that pillar/pylon anymore dead center than if it had a bullseye painted on it.
giant arse cargo vessel plowing full steam directly into the center column of a bridge causing the entire thing to collapse
I for one, will not be convinced this wasn’t deliberate until unequivocal information indicates otherwise…
Posted on 3/26/24 at 5:48 am to Knight of Old
Yea, I mean incredibly reasonable suspicion to have. Like how does a ship "accidently" do that? It's not like you couldn't see it coming from a mile+ away if you are the one driving the boat. That sucker couldn't have hit the very center column of that bridge at full steam more flush than it did...
Posted on 3/26/24 at 5:52 am to psk_Vol
I can only imagine there was some loss of control.
Posted on 3/26/24 at 5:54 am to Ricardo
I thought most of these were gps controlled along with escorts. That ship straight up hit the support.
Posted on 3/26/24 at 5:56 am to MrLSU
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The Port of Baltimore is now shut down for the foreseable future.
Posted on 3/26/24 at 5:57 am to psk_Vol
I’d be curious to know if a river pilot was onboard the vessel, or if calling Seagirt doesn’t require one.
Posted on 3/26/24 at 6:01 am to Chromdome35
Likely a River Pilot driving?
Posted on 3/26/24 at 6:03 am to Statestreet
fricking MS fiver pilots are about to leverage this into another raise. Probably will ask for a cool half mil a year now.
Posted on 3/26/24 at 6:03 am to MrLSU
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Over 20 construction people who were working on the bridge are currently missing right now according to CBS News. No idea on the number of vehicles that went into the water.
Damn that is sad.
Prayers to them (if they survived) and their families if they didn’t.
Posted on 3/26/24 at 6:04 am to ibldprplgld
No clue. Cargo shipping is an industry I know diddly squat about. I'm sure we will all learn more about the inner details of this industry as we read about what exactly went wrong here in the near future.
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