Bridge Collapses In Baltimore After Ship Crash

[Katheryne Helendale]

And the bridge was also of a bad design. It clearly lacked bridge pillar protection which new bridges do have. Even worse, the type of protection required probably could have been retrofitted easily, it's being called concrete dolphin and looks like below. This is the Sunshine Sky bridge in Florida, and old truss bridge, and the newly one build aside it has these concrete dolphins clearly visible in the water to protect its pillars.

Jeff here has quite a lot to tell about the potential deficencies of the bridge which went down.

Those dolphins wouldn't have been able to stop a ship the size of what hit the bridge. I doubt they'd even slow it down.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

And the bridge was also of a bad design. It clearly lacked bridge pillar protection which new bridges do have. Even worse, the type of protection required probably could have been retrofitted easily, it's being called concrete dolphin and looks like below. This is the Sunshine Sky bridge in Florida, and old truss bridge, and the newly one build aside it has these concrete dolphins clearly visible in the water to protect its pillars.

Jeff here has quite a lot to tell about the potential deficencies of the bridge which went down.

Of course you can improve upon and reinforce any design, but I'm not really convinced it was cost effective or practical to make this bridge impervious to a 400 meter boat hitting it at a decent speed without the gift of hindsight. I'm sure more bridges will get bigger dolphins now, but requesting this money in advance without knowledge this would happen would have been very hard.

 

[Noodles]

Those dolphins wouldn't have been able to stop a ship the size of what hit the bridge. I doubt they'd even slow it down.

Yeah, Dolphins are not strong enough to stop.a boat, even with like, a hundred of them.

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[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

New temporary channel open!

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Boom! A combination of precision cuts and specially timed charges has dropped away the portion of the Key Bridge that was still resting on the bow of the ship.


Word is they expect to be able to move the ship away from the site sometime in the next couple of days.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Another boat, another bridge.

Barge hits bridge connecting Galveston and Pelican Island, causing partial collapse and oil spill

Officials say a barge has hit a bridge in Galveston, Texas, spilling oil into surrounding waters and closing the only road connecting the city to Pelican Island.

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[Dakota Tebaldi]

Hopefully the bridge is okay overall. Completely took out those train tracks on the side though, derp.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

The Dali has been refloated and removed from the site!


For now, the ship has been moved to the Seagirt Terminal where its cargo will be offloaded over the next few days. The crew is not able to leave the ship at this time on account of their visas having expired in the two months since the incident.

 

[Free]

Local news video explaining that the Army Corps of Engineers have announced full restoration of the Fort McHenry channel.

 

[Free]

BUMP

Maryland settles with owner and operator of ship that crashed into Baltimore's Key Bridge

Maryland officials have announced a settlement with the owner and operator of the massive cargo ship that crashed into a Baltimore bridge two years ago, causing its deadly collapse.

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Maryland has reached a settlement with the owner and operator of the massive cargo ship that crashed into a Baltimore bridge two years ago, causing its deadly collapse, state officials announced Thursday.

The settlement in principle was reached with Grace Ocean Private Limited and Synergy Marine Pte Ltd, owner and operator of the M/V Dali, Attorney General Anthony Brown said. The settlement resolves a portion of the state’s claims arising from the ship’s March 26, 2024, crash into the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

“For two years, Maryland workers, families, and communities have carried the weight of a disaster that should never have happened,” Brown said in a news release. It did not give details of the settlement.