re: likely hood of container ship sabotage has to be pretty high

Well dude, it's obvious you have never, ever been involved in investigating complex industry mishaps. Information evaluation requires an open mind which you do not have.

The international shipping industry is very shady. The crew, except for the captain, is likely all poor barely trained Asians. The probability of a poor maintenance mishap is light years higher than sabotage.

Rodo

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Not all tragedies are conspiracies. shite does happen

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True and based on what little info we have so, it seems reasonable to assume this was an accident.

Yet why is it so many people harbor suspicions that something is nefarious at work in disasters such as this?

You can thank the MSM and the U.S. Government itself for that.

This was not an accident. Period. Full stop.

Until you understand the safeguards that are in place to keep this from happening and the situation that took place I suggest you look at your meme and adhere to it. This was not an accident period.

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Until you understand

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Full stop

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I work at a port, I'm 63 and started at 17. I've seen ships lose their engines, rudder, radar, etc. shite happens, this MIGHT be some kind of attck but this happens more than one might think, not every day but it is not unheard of. I've seen ships smash into our dock due to mechanical malfunctions AND/OR human error.
At this point in time I think it is just a freak accident, had this happened several minutes earlier or even two minutes later the bridge would still be standing. What I can't understand is why the bridge piers were not not protected by bulwarks to keep a ship from hitting them because this is a VERY VERY busy port terminal complex.
There are now a half dozen ships trapped inside of this area NOT counting the MV Dali. Plus it appears from my Marine Traffic app there are 11 ships waiting or were waiting to get in there.

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likely hood of container ship sabotage has to be pretty high

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Yeah. In years of working offshore, I never saw anything on a vessel break. Ever. Totally reliable and well maintained.

So all four generators (if so equipped) and presumably at least two diesel engines failed at the same time? These ships are built with redundancies to prevent that. Also, electrical failure could have been in the switch gear, but then all four? Plus the diesels are usually isolated from the electrical system, but things like bow thrusters are not.