Bridge Collapses In Baltimore After Ship Crash

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Major disaster in the middle of the night in Baltimore. A container ship ran into a support piling under the Francis Scott Key Bridge and the entire bridge collapsed - with all of the traffic on it.

The Key Bridge is a toll bridge that carries the I-695 beltway across the Baltimore Harbor/Patapsco River.

Hard to find a solid news source as it's the middle of the night, but expect to see coverage tomorrow.

 

[Isabeau]

Major disaster in the middle of the night in Baltimore. A container ship ran into a support piling under the Francis Scott Key Bridge and the entire bridge collapsed - with all of the traffic on it.

The Key Bridge is a toll bridge that carries the I-695 beltway across the Baltimore Harbor/Patapsco River.

Hard to find a solid news source as it's the middle of the night, but expect to see coverage tomorrow.

There will be a press conference at 7 this morning.

Baltimore Key Bridge collapse: vehicles fall into water after ship hits bridge

 

[Cristiano]

This video of the collapse is shocking

 

[Cristiano]

 

[Cristiano]

 

[Cristiano]

I moved this out of Nobody Cares: PRS

 

[Free]

Live updates: Baltimore Key bridge collapses after ship collision

Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed early Tuesday after it was struck by a large ship, according to video obtained by CNN. Follow live updates here.

www.cnn.com

 

[Isabeau]

Can you imagine being on that bridge the moment it collapsed? So lucky it wasn’t during morning rush hour.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Sped up like this it makes it really easy to see what happened - after the ship recovered from the first power failure, it started really laying on the engines to correct course - that's why all the smoke. But then it lost power again, and the correction became an overcorrection. By the time the power came back the second time it was really too late, they tried to correct again in the other direction but just didn't have the room anymore.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

According to the governor's office, the ship was able to issue a "mayday" call during the incident which allowed authorities to close the bridge to any oncoming traffic right before the collision. That suggests all of the missing people belonged to the construction crew that had been working on the bridge at the time.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

According to the governor's office, the ship was able to issue a "mayday" call during the incident which allowed authorities to close the bridge to any oncoming traffic right before the collision. That suggests all of the missing people belonged to the construction crew that had been working on the bridge at the time.

That also suggests it was a genuine malfunction and not something done intentionally. Still... a very costly mistake.

 

[Lexxi]

Saw first video. Thought bridge collapsed super fast. Then recalled that was a time lapse video. Found a non-time lapse video and . . bridge collapsed fast. Just not super fast. Slower speed did allow me to watch individual vehicles drive on bridge. I kept thinking 'that truck isn't going to make it', then boat drive tiny bit closer to bridge, truck drove across fully. Then moments before ship hit bridge, I didn't see any more vehicles and was confused (and glad). Then saw Dakota's message above.

Video: Maryland's Key Bridge collapses after struck by container ship | Daily Mail Online

Maryland's Key Bridge collapses after being struck by a container ship as astonishing footage shows the 9,000ft structure crashing into river.

www.dailymail.co.uk

ETA: Oh. Watched several more times, including watching bridge collapse in slow motion. I think it is possible the Mayday actually caused people to stop while on the bridge (vehicles which would have fully gotten across before the collapse, based on watching ship approach, and other vehicles fully getting across while ship approaching), which is why I stopped seeing traffic going across, because it looks like, in slow motion, there are stopped vehicles on the bridge as it is collapsing. At least 12 vehicles on bridge when ship hit.

ETA2: oh2. The 'stopped vehicles' were on bridge while the other vehicles were crossing. I'm either watching lights on the bridge shaped car like still on bridge as it collapses (thought stopped cars because it looks like headlights on bridge, which collapses with bridge, so stopped car collapsing with bridge), or those are construction vehicles.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Sped up like this it makes it really easy to see what happened - after the ship recovered from the first power failure, it started really laying on the engines to correct course - that's why all the smoke. But then it lost power again, and the correction became an overcorrection. By the time the power came back the second time it was really too late, they tried to correct again in the other direction but just didn't have the room anymore.

That's pretty much how I see it. If the navigation controls were all electronic, power failures in such a confined area would end badly, like this one did.

 

[Free]

 

[Free]

According to the governor's office, the ship was able to issue a "mayday" call during the incident which allowed authorities to close the bridge to any oncoming traffic right before the collision.

Some people couldn't care less for why a bridge might be closed.

 

[Cristiano]

The armchair shipping and logistics experts from the Evergreen ship in the Suez, along with the armchair professional civil/structural engineers from the Miami condo collapse are teaming up for Speculation As Fact Fest 2024.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

This guy has a dedicated shipping channel. I know that sounds like his channel should be about anime or something but no, I mean as in like actual ships. He did this video which shows the GPS track of the ship before the accident:


While we're all speculating, I think my earliest guess about what happened is wrong. Earlier, I said:

Sped up like this it makes it really easy to see what happened - after the ship recovered from the first power failure, it started really laying on the engines to correct course - that's why all the smoke. But then it lost power again, and the correction became an overcorrection. By the time the power came back the second time it was really too late, they tried to correct again in the other direction but just didn't have the room anymore.

We don't know a WHOLE lot more now than we did this morning, but we know a couple of small things, and they and the possibilities the video guy brings up have completely changed my mind. In the livestream video, when the power comes back on the first time, there's a bunch of black smoke coming out of the ship's stack, and I THOUGHT this meant they got the engine restarted and were pushing it hard to prevent the collision but I don't think that's true anymore - I think the smoke was just from the emergency electrical generators coming on. I think once the power cut that first time they never got the actual engine restarted at all. When you look at the GPS track, you can see the ship is going perfectly straight right up until the power failure, and at that point the ship just starts slowly nosing to the right and keeps doing that right up until the end. It doesn't look like they were ever able to apply any corrective steering at any point, even after the lights came back on. In the last few seconds before the ship hits, on the livestream video you see it start to turn the other direction but apparently that wasn't because of steering, that happened because the ship dropped an anchor on that side in a last-ditch attempt to prevent the crash.

If the lights going out the first time shows the engine dying and the ship is never able to regain propulsion or steering control again after that moment, that explains why the ship just drifted right like that.

 

[Khamon]

US citizens talk about immigrants like there are not millions of US citizens living in other countries. We don't know how many are living in other countries illegally though I personally know a few including some that are documented in a neighboring country and use tourist visas to "live" and work in the other. But even when they're caught, they're usually not labeled as terrorists, or drug dealers, or job stealers.

We have similar rhetoric in Selma about housing. A tornado damaged and destroyed many homes a little over a year ago. Some of us are still having work done due to insurance and contractor delays. Both HUD, and our state-funded housing authority, are replacing some of the destroyed homes with prefabricated houses on slabs and pylons respectively. There is much uproar that the units are not historic in appearance and some of the color choices are "just plain ugly" and concrete slabs and prefab!

Explaining to them that these are homes, for people who have been living in hotels, with family, in cars, makes no impression on the indignation. That property values are higher with occupied homes, rather than dilapidated structures or overgrown lots, makes no impression on the indignation. Facts and truth are meaningless to the indignation. They are Deplorable Indignates.[/rant]

edit: forgot to add supporting linkage

https://247wallst.com/special-report/2022/03/21/countries-with-the-most-american-expats/

American Expats by Country 2026

Details on the number of American expats in each country, the reasons people become expats, and which countries have the most and fewest American expats.

worldpopulationreview.com

 

[Isabeau]

Karen’s and armchair know-it-all‘s. It’s a plague.

 

[Cristiano]

Not conspiracy here:

Three ships have hit bridges in different countries – in just three months. Should we be worried?