Disaster "Mass casualty incident" declared after Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses

No article yet as this just happened, but could be big. One of the largest bridges in the world according to Wikipedia.

https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/breaking-news-key-bridge-collapsed

 

[trash cat]

Give me a single incident where a ship collision caused the entire bridge to collapse, all i got is partial collapses, exactly what I was talking about.
Here just a few weeks ago a container ship collided with a bridge in china, only a partial collapse:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/world/asia/china-bridge-collapse-ship.html

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This is poor engineering.

Dali-Key collision


Chinese Lixinsha collision


That Chinese container ship you reference is (1) empty and (2) much smaller.

Assuming that the empty Chinese container ship is approx 40m wide and 200m long, this means it's a medium sized container ship, and it's empty mass might be around 20,000 metric tonnes.

The Dali was a large container ship with a length of approx 300m and a width of 50m. It's empty mass would be in the ballpark of 50,000 metric tonnes and it's fully loaded mass might be around 400,000 metric tonnes.

400,000 metric tonnes / 20,000 metric tonnes = 20x

The Dali's mass could have been as much as twenty-fold (20x) higher than the Chinese ship you showed in the picture.

Thus the impact energy of the ship in the Dali crash could also have been as much as 20x higher assuming the impact speeds were the same.

 

[Golden Boy]

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(do we know if it was a sheeboon yet I haven't read the whole thread) crashing into the damn thing.

Apparently it was Pajeets. Edit: Apparently the STANDARD CREW was Pajeets, but they had a local ... pilot? Captain? ... piloting them out of the area, which apparently is standard.

The question is: Is that person a DEI hire? 1:30 AM, slow as fuck, that's where I'd stick the DEI hires...

New bridge is going to cost 100X what the original cost and take years to build. Shit won't pay for itself amigo!

Decades. Not years. Decades. With them putting pork in at every single point they can.

https://twitter.com/CarterElliottIV/status/1772591874810785992

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5 hours since a tragedy? Time for a photo op!

They haven't even got all the bodies out of the water yet.

 

[Lone MacReady II]

Too many shekels put towards anti-White D.I.E. hiring policies, and not enough on simple fucking infrastructure upkeep... just like in Killadelphia. Fall Babylon Fall.

 

[dustbuster]

Decades. Not years. Decades. With them putting pork in at every single point they can.

It will be built by a chinese company, with chinese workers housed in barges to get around laws against importing illegal workers, using chinese steel because there is no more US steel production.
Don't worry though, they'll never roll back the absurd communist regulations that resulted in the utter dependence on hostile foreign powers for basic infrastructure.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Looks like they made at least some coms to the shore about losing propulsion and power.

One thing some other countries have is a “fuck the bridge is gonna blow” emergency systems where they can shut down the bridge at a moment’s notice - alarms bellow and crossing guards go down and traffic no longer enters.

Something like that here could have helped - depending on when the warning went out.

 

[CharlesBarkley]

The boat was piloted by obviously the dude I hate the most.

Fong Jones was the new captain and was too busy being buttfucked by large black men instead of steering the boat.

“Captain! Even with no power, which I remind you, was due to you plugging in 500 bad dragon dildos, we should steer away from the pillar.”

“Shit up, assist captain Keffals! Now fart in my mouth while Tyrone fucks my holes!”

That’s why they hit the bridge.

 

[The best and greatest]

Dali-Key collision
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Chinese Lixinsha collision
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That Chinese container ship you reference is (1) empty and (2) much smaller.

Assuming that the empty Chinese container ship is approx 40m wide and 200m long, this means it's a medium sized container ship, and it's empty mass might be around 20,000 metric tonnes.

The Dali was a large container ship with a length of approx 300m and a width of 50m. It's empty mass would be in the ballpark of 50,000 metric tonnes and it's fully loaded mass might be around 400,000 metric tonnes.

400,000 metric tonnes / 20,000 metric tonnes = 20x

The Dali's mass could have been as much as twenty-fold (20x) higher than the Chinese ship you showed in the picture.

Thus the impact energy of the ship in the Dali crash could also have been as much as 20x higher assuming the impact speeds were the same.

No guy trust the expert. He's a true and honest ENGINEERING MAJOR

 

[ZazietheBeast]

Amazing how so much incompetence is afflicting the West right now. You now have literal cargo ships ramming into bridges which for decades have been something they have successfully navigated around.

Hopefully the retards that have destroyed the bridge and fucked up the ship gets rekt for it.

 

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Dali-Key collision
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Chinese Lixinsha collision
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That Chinese container ship you reference is (1) empty and (2) much smaller.

Assuming that the empty Chinese container ship is approx 40m wide and 200m long, this means it's a medium sized container ship, and it's empty mass might be around 20,000 metric tonnes.

The Dali was a large container ship with a length of approx 300m and a width of 50m. It's empty mass would be in the ballpark of 50,000 metric tonnes and it's fully loaded mass might be around 400,000 metric tonnes.

400,000 metric tonnes / 20,000 metric tonnes = 20x

The Dali's mass could have been as much as twenty-fold (20x) higher than the Chinese ship you showed in the picture.

Thus the impact energy of the ship in the Dali crash could also have been as much as 20x higher assuming the impact speeds were the same.

The Dali was built in 2015. It grosses 95,000 tonnes (95,000x2,200 pounds). It's an average sized container ship that can carry up to 10,000 container units. If they're 20-foot containers they can weigh anywhere from 4,000-5,000 pounds empty and up to 20,000 pounds full. I don't know if the 95,000 tonnes is empty or fully loaded. 95,000 tonnes is 209,000,000 pounds

The bridge was built in 1972. It wasn't a flaw of design or maintenance, the pier had no chance with that much weight hitting it. For comparison this average sized container ship at 95,000 tonnes weighs almost 12% of the total weight of the Golden Gate Bridge, which is about 887,000 (non-metric) tons. These ships are fuckin huge and if they hit something that something is gonna crumple like paper

EDIT: I've seen 117,000 tonnes as the max capacity total weight of this ship

 

[CHARizard]

Purple is the Key Bridge.

Also apparently boat traffic is starting to back up around the Bay Bridge to the south. This can be a pretty cool sight, I remember snapping a picture of a bunch of ships off the Bay Bridge a few years ago.

 

[beautiful person]

Mildly educated opinion on this.

I've watched the video like 20 times. Ship loses the plant. Looks like the vessel is lined up to pass under the center span of the bridge before loss of power. Thirty seconds after power loss either plant is restored or the EDG finally trips. Vessel goes full astern (black exhaust out the stack means she's really pushing it) and the ship begins turning to the right.

Why? Because a standard propeller backs to the left, turning the bow to starboard.

If I were making a guess, I'd say the accident was caused not just by a loss of power but also likely a poor response from the conning officer. While I like "oh shit dump it" commands as much as the next guy, I think this was probably the cause of the vessel veering and ultimately the allision.

That's about what this guy says as well:

Ship loses power, ship master panics and tries to reduce momentum by backing down the propeller, inadvertently turning the ship towards the bridge support.

 

[Pierre D'Olnique]

The bridge was built in 1972. It wasn't a flaw of design or maintenance,

But it was. Truss bridges are like that pretty much by design. Something breaks and the whole thing collapses. It was known around 20 years before that one was built.

 

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Also apparently boat traffic is starting to back up around the Bay Bridge to the south.

Can we all agree that if the Bay Bridge is knocked down too, then obviously someone pissed off Posiedon in that region and we should start considering animal sacrifice?

 

[InterestRateHawk]

I have some sympathy for the crew if it was a legitimate fault with the ship. It's not often that you get to witness an inevitable crash over the course of minutes.

 

[anti SJW]

So how many other container ships are in that port and are stuck until they finish the resuce attempts, investigation, and clearing the debris?

 

[Bec Noir]

That's about what this guy says as well:

Ship loses power, ship master panics and tries to reduce momentum by backing down the propeller, inadvertently turning the ship towards the bridge support.

You forgot to mention the anchor was deployed and had already begun dragging, but yea that's a good video.

 

[Fascist Frederick]

They are going to offer to pay for the damages with stolen google play cards.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

Every ship going in or out of port requires a local harbor pilot in the ship. There were reportedly two Bmore pilots aboard Dali. They radioed in that they had lost propulsion. Basically they had no control of the ship due to mechanical failure. Shit heap should not have been on the water, much less heading out to sea.

Harbor pilots have to clear the Chesapeake Bay before control handed over to ship’s captain and they jump aboard ship or helicopter to head back to their port.

 

[JamusActimus]

Somehow this is related to women, demonrats, diversity hires and the Jews.

I know it!