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

 

[Fake News Anchor]

"Like, all the people on the bridge just died."

I hate so much how young people talk.

That bridge do be lookin mad sus tho. On god, finna clap them cheeks in jail when they find the homie responsible. Fereal fereal.

 

[Stoneheart]

i'm not an engineer, but i personally think that if the entire bridge relies solely on one point then maybe we should consider trying to find a better design

Well the force that hit it was very very massiv, like a fat woman crashing into you at the speed of light.

 

[Retink Retunk]

Bridges aren’t designed to be hit by cargo ships, just like buildings aren’t designed to be hit by planes.

Considering the diverse times we live in that may become more of a necessity in design.

 

[grapeshark77]

I agree wholeheartedly that infrastructure as a whole needs looked at. I do not agree that poor infrastructure caused this. Sone of you guys would see a bomb detonate on a road and blame poor infrastructure for there being a hole in it.
That being said what's more likely is that the ship was being poorly maintained. Unless there was some serious incident onboard that couldn't have been prevented, I'm willing to bet that some maintenance or safety checks went overlooked for way too long. Like that swinging boat ride a while back that was rusted through and they just painted over it. If there was any negligence that caused this accident, it was on the ship, not the bridge.

Yes, I'm willing to bet we get a lot of info about the people on the ship either not doing proper procedures or just a bunch of stuff left to rot for years. We definitely need to fix roads/bridges but nobody wants to spend the money.

I like the conspiracy theories because usually the dumbest answer is the right one (lack of maintenance/incompetence) rather than a mysterious thing.

 

[macrodegenerate]

Just sweeping by to tell everyone that frigid water kills in 3 minutes, so even if you had an escape tool you would have still died.

 

[Mexican Molotov Marauder]

Why is it that suddenly everyone in this thread is an engineer who specializes in bridge design and maintenance?

I don't know about the others, but I played Poly Bridge 2 once when I got really shitfaced.

 

[Almighty Space Duck]

Only you faggots could turn a freak accident of a boat running into a bridge into a fight about current year politics.

Sir, this is A&N. Did you expect anything less?

 

[Male Idiot]

After a healthy education of watching a dozen ship crash videos, these big civilian ships turn like ass. It will take miles for them to change course.

It is also Yuge and Bigly, and thus heavy.

If it looses steering, there is nothing you can do about it.

Now we need to know why it lost power. If it was poor maintenance, expect a giant sue-ance.

Bonus fact, harbor pilots are local steersmen who know the area, this was important in older times when a captain couldn't memorise all the hidden reefs in every port he visited.

 

[Ponzo]

I don't know whats worse, being on a bridge when it collapses and dying or making it to the shore and being in baltimore.

 

[Dr. Ricearoni]

Just sweeping by to tell everyone that frigid water kills in 3 minutes, so even if you had an escape tool you would have still died.

I am simply built different.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

Dig a tunnel. It will cost more but that way you wont be dealing with the risk of collision caused by Bangladeshi ship pilot driving mutliton freighter while drunk and uneducated. It is a frightening fact that most merchant seamen nowdays are being pulled from the most impoverished and uneducated shitholes because it is cheaper. This is what happens when we offload manufacturing, supply and labor to the 3rd world instead of using our own Cletuses.

All Harbor pilots are local to the harbor. Local Baltimore pilots get all those ships in and out. What a pilot can’t do anything about is a poorly maintained ship that shits the bed and loses power while he is piloting it out to the bay.

There is already a massive tunnel just down from the Bay Bridge but it was so congested they built the bridge to help with the traffic flow. Tunnels are a lot harder and more expensive to build. Also, a big drawback is hazardous materials can’t use tunnels, lots of hazardous materials are transported in and out of the port.

 

[BigUUUU]

Look, all I know, roight, is corporations been pushing for die-versity, roight, in every level of engineering and high level mechanical operation. Now, I’m not a ray-cist…I just don’t think them brownies ought to work those engines, thats all.

Why is it that suddenly everyone in this thread is an engineer who specializes in bridge design and maintenance?

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

What are the chances of a computer virus on the ships computers that caused the strike while making it look like an accident.

Is assuming omnipotent Bond-esque villains are puppetmastering everything the conservative equivalent of comparing geopolitics to the Avengers and Harry Potter?

 

[Anti Snigger]

The bridge didn't send bobs and vagene, that violated the NAP for the pajeets, ergo it is justified.

 

[nvrwastetree]

$20 says a nigger was involved.

Sand nigger or regular run of the mill nigger??

 

[Gar For Archer]

hoh boy:

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Bridges in navigable water have been designed for vessel impact for decades. It used to be a pretty common mode of bridge failure. This bridge was built before such provisions. Looking at recent pictures, they have installed dolphins but they seem pretty far from the pier. I don't see any structural retrofits to the pier either. I am shocked that better countermeasures weren't installed; the dolphins did not prevent the ship from colliding head on with the pier and I don't think any retrofit will make a pier capable of withstanding that if it wasn't originally designed for it.

I only did a quick skim but it looks like the minimum criteria is that it must be able to withstand an empty hopper barge drifting in the current, so even a bridge built to these standards likely would not have survived a direct hit from a (full?) cargo ship with plenty of momentum.

 

[#FF0000]

Jesus christ this is my biggest fear in life. I can't even stomach the absolute horror those innocent people had to witness.
Guess I'm never crossing bridges again

 

[coof coof]

Only you faggots could turn a freak accident of a boat running into a bridge into a fight about current year politics.

Sir, this is A&N. Did you expect anything less?

God all of you "I'm so above the place I am currently posting" fags are insufferable. People are sperging out about bridges and stuff and then out of nowhere you faggots are complaining about how muh /pol/tards are in the room and muh politics. Ironically doing the exact thing yourselves that you are complaining about.

 

[Popper Whiting]

What a pilot can’t do anything about is a poorly maintained ship that shits the bed and loses power while he is piloting it out to the bay.

OK so maybe the tunnel isn't the solution. I'll concede that.

But I am right about offloading the labor and maintenance of shipping onto pajeets. As a culture they are everything that people say about Jews and Muslims only with worse hygiene and safety practices.

 

[Dick Mason]

https://x.com/Aristos_Revenge/status/1772632361861022166

I am also hearing that apparently tugs were not deemed required to do this maneuver in the port of baltimore, and Sal is following up on scuttlebutt that the longshoremen in baltimore reported power issues with the ship while loading it.