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

 

[Fungible penis]

I'm going with drunken helmsman.

... What shall we do with the drunken helmsman?

 

[CHARizard]

I think you watch too much Deadliest Catch... The Chesapeake Bay is far from "Frigid" right now.

Temperatures of the Patapsco river for the past week have been a steady 49 F. According to NTSB and Coast Guard calculations you can swim in that for 30-60 minutes before exhaustion and 1-3 hours before death. Boats were on scene within minutes. If you could get out of your car and away from wreckage you'd be cold but probably alright.

Or you'd die immediately from cold shock.

https://wow.uscgaux.info/content.php?unit=092&category=cold-water

Yeah news was saying 46F this morning, and if you are a Maryland native, thats nothing.

 

[30+GameOvers]

Hold on, why was a Singaporean ship being run by poos? Is this something that happens there or another wonderful side effect of DiversityTM?

 

[AN/ALR56]

your post (and the neg ratings) got me curious, so I asked the only engineer I know IRL and fwiw he agrees with you.

People on A&N write 100 page long rants about how american infrastructure is shit, but the moment a foreigner points it out, its 100 dumb ratings and a multitude of copes and explanations of why a bridge in the 9th largest harbor overall can't account for a cargo ship hitting it at slow speeds.
If this happened in congo, or in china or in india, you wouldn't see such a passionate defense of the bridge and its design and construction.

Port authority, ship's crew, bridge designers, it doesn't really matter, does it? disasters are seldom caused by a single thing, b ut you plan for the worst possible event in your design, or at least that's what i've been told.

 

[Ebony Odogaron]

Anyone else disappointed it didn’t happen at rush hour?

What an evil thought. Neck yourself.

 

[Dirty Harry]

There is no such thing as the Baltimore-DC beltway. Baltimore and DC have their own separate beltways. This affects the Baltimore beltway only. They were able to put out an distress signal which allowed them to shutdown the bridge the moment before impact which kept cars from crashing in the water. If this had been rush hour, we be talking about 100s dead or missing.

 

[Otterly]

Hold on, why was a Singaporean ship being run by poos? Is this something that happens there or another wonderful side effect of DiversityTM?

Google flags of convenience.

 

[Cedric_Eff]

Have American bridge designers not learned from the Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapse?

That was more than 40 years ago.

 

[FedPostalService]

Hold on, why was a Singaporean ship being run by poos? Is this something that happens there or another wonderful side effect of DiversityTM?

It’s just how shipping has been for decades. Nothing to do with DEI.

There’s a bunch of seadogs in the thread who can explain things better than me.

 

[37yearolddickrightnow]

So apparently there was a mayday sent out by the ship a few moments before the collision. That explains why the trickle of traffic crossing the bridge abruptly stopped just before impact. Could have been quite a few more casualties otherwise.

 

[Chongqing]

so maybe the tunnel isn't the solution

Something else about the tunnels is that, apparently, they're not allowed to transport hazardous materials through them. So this bridge was the only way.

 

[Black Yoshi]

Have American bridge designers not learned from the Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapse?

That was more than 40 years ago.

Because the key bridge was finished in 1977

 

[AltisticRight]

The flag doesn't matter, it means the ship itself is owned by a company in Singapore and registered there, assuming the Sinkie flag was true.
Sinkies play the fiddle of China and USA, pretending to be a neutral party. They act as the connection between the East and the West. All of my shit from the three chong countries will go through Singapore.

Then the logistics company will outsource to some consultancy, they find companies to get a crew, these companies find others to get the personnel, the layers go on and on and on, like an onion.
You'll end up with a ship crew that's from countries completely unrelated to the ship's origin, composed of many different groups of people from different nations.
The likelihood of a Black person working on the ship is minimal.
The likelihood of female crew members is practically zero, let alone a female driver.

This being a deliberate terrorist attack makes no sense too, can the crew control the capacity of the ship? How about the routing? You know this shit is public by AIS right? The same thing we've used to dox idiots with? If they go off track with cargo worth potentially countless millions, a flag will be raised, right?

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.

It was featured, so a lot of normal users came here expecting autism analysis of water levels, the ship's size and weight, maybe a full dox of the ship's blueprint.

Instead, we got this:
- Ship piloted by WAMEN
- Ship piloted by NIGGERS
- CPC state sponsored TERRORIST ATTACK ACK ACK
- NIGGERS
- NIGGERS AND WAMEN

 

[TheBigZee]

Hold on, why was a Singaporean ship being run by poos? Is this something that happens there or another wonderful side effect of DiversityTM?

Tax dodges, liability dodges labor cost cutting, etc, etc. The ship was probably owned by a bermuda llc with investors in london, ny, etc.

Port authority, ship's crew, bridge designers, it doesn't really matter, does it? disasters are seldom caused by a single thing, b ut you plan for the worst possible event in your design, or at least that's what i've been told.

They might have when the design work was being done. Cargo ships are much bigger now.

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/Jgtxa

 

[Dr. Ricearoni]

I’d be dead then, my headrests take me about ten minutes to get off… I think I’m going to pick up a seatbelt cutter and hammer this weekend. Those poor people, such a terrifying way to go

Get a fire extinguisher too. Believe me, burning to death in your car isn't any better.

 

[Hitman One]

Hold on, why was a Singaporean ship being run by poos? Is this something that happens there or another wonderful side effect of DiversityTM?

It happens all the time. Very few countries demand that their merchant fleet is crewed by sailors from the same country as the ship is registered in.

 

[SlipNHonkMach2]

Hold on, why was a Singaporean ship being run by poos? Is this something that happens there or another wonderful side effect of DiversityTM?

It's called maritime trade and what you're complaining about has been the standard for thousands of years.

 

[AltisticRight]

Have American bridge designers not learned from the Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapse?

That was more than 40 years ago.

2024-1977=47
47>40>average IQ of AH posters


Why is this a question?

 

[Google.com]

Have American bridge designers not learned from the Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapse?

That was more than 40 years ago.

Im sure the designers who were making the bridge in the 70's learned a lot about how to make a bridge survive being hit by a quabillion ton steel boat from an incident that happened in the 1980's or maybe the time machine was down for maintenance that day idk.

 

[Meat Target]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...e-bridge-ship-previous-collision-antwerp-2016
The incidents with this ship aren't new.

I'm going with drunken helmsman.

I'm getting Costa Concordia vibes, which was caused by the captain's negligence and a language barrier cock-up.