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

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

It also brings up a good question for the shipping industry, what are they going to do about subpar ship maintenance? Because there are an handful of examples within the last 30 years of ships sinking, capsizing or even getting into major collisions or incidents like this due to subpar maintenance or non-approved modifications.

This is a huge issue especially with how many ships fly under flags of convenience and have such convoluted ownership structures.

It's time to require all ships seeking entry into US ports to be registered with a country that holds them to effective standards for maintenance and modifications. If they don't do that, they don't dock at our ports. We should also have the right to inspect ships and if they are in violation to hold them in port until the issues are addressed to our satisfaction. There's no right for foreign ships to dock at our ports, if they don't comply we have every right to bar entry.

If it's not economical to ship without using shitty, poorly maintained boats, tough. Make your plastic dog shit in the Americas and ship it by land.

 

[National Defense Advocate]

Bunch of fucking Jeets ran a ship into a bridge, killing dozens, if not hundreds of my countrymen.
Gee, fuckin thanks India, you are truly a nation worse than niggers. At least negros can't crew cargo vessels.

 

[SlipNHonkMach2]

You mean the American taxpayer..

Maryland state taxpayer. The bridge is part of the Maryland state highway despite its I-695 signage.

 

[Michael Wade]

I know Cino, he is not a Vatinik, he is a Anglo-Australian Pro-russia guy. He was a good source on the Ukraine war and military equipment until the Israel-Palestime war started and his brain melted into paranoia and absolute obsession with Israel

You know what scares me? There's enough intelligence behind his assessments that I don't think he went crazy. The problem is he's a rapid fire and emotional in a lot of his posts.

Still the timing of all this is suspect to me. They have a history of being able to conduct false flags, then again so does the CIA.


Don't tell me Jews can't be spiteful cunts.

Hacking is not possible on a ship like that. It’s either incompetence or if we’re going down the tin foil hat route, sabotage.

But in all seriousness though, the only realistic thing you can “hack” on these vessels are the GPS on board these vessels. Even then, can you call blacking out GPS as “hacking”?

How do you know? Seriously I want to know. These guys are likely following the rulebook to the letter and just going on autopilot so there's no way they were prepared for that possibility

And Theoretically I don't think it's impossible if we don't know how they used their wi fi or the tech they were using.

 

[D_Tractor]

 

[Car Won't Crank]

Boeing exhales a sigh of relief as the heat for poor engineering gets monetarily removed off them.

 

[Male Idiot]

The captain is Ukrainian. Really.

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If the pilot is some Ukie, I bet he was downing vodka on the job like the average slav.
He probably saw the bridge contorting like that bus in Harry Potter and thought it'll be fine.

Hohol ship captains are horrendous. The hohols make for ridiculously bad seamen. Their captains are also often drunk. A few years ago one bulldozed through a tourist ship with like 40 gooks on it in Budapest, said he couldn't see it, and did the river traffic equivalent of quickly trying to sail away through the wreckage. You'll be better off with a pajeet as your skipper.

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No one can say right now that's definitely what happened right now... But is a hacking possible? The power shut off is convenient and the Indians are an excellent scapegoat. Evidence is still coming out but I don't know how impossible this is.

Very unlikely.
The ship had its power cut, it wasn't "somehow turned on remote control" , which may not even be possible. Also a good terror attack would have done it by day.
Not even the jewest of Mossad can time a power cut that well to hit a bridge without the crew's help. This was likely a mechanical failiure.

Now, the bridge should have had these fortified rings around it, though refitting that would have eaten very harshly into the gibsmuh budget.

 

[Kirtto]

> "Do you think hiring under-qualified workers for the sake of diversity might bring problem in the future?"
> "We will cross the bridge when we get to it"

It had nothing to do with Diversity, it was an asian ship bringing cargo. To be an average poster of this board you must have to be a product of a few generations of incest, sad!

 

[Michael Wade]

Hohol ship captains are horrendous. The hohols make for ridiculously bad seamen. Their captains are also often drunk. A few years ago one bulldozed through a tourist ship with like 40 gooks on it in Budapest, said he couldn't see it, and did the river traffic equivalent of quickly trying to sail away through the wreckage. You'll be better off with a pajeet as your skipper.

Very unlikely.
The ship had its power cut, it wasn't "somehow turned on remote control" , which may not even be possible. Also a good terror attack would have done it by day.
Not even the jewest of Mossad can time a power cut that well to hit a bridge without the crew's help. This was likely a mechanical failiure.

Now, the bridge should have had these fortified rings around it, though refitting that would have eaten very harshly into the gibsmuh budget.

Could the current be calculated and the ship be remotely deactivated?

 

[CHARizard]

Someone got a pic of all the boats lined up near the Bay Bridge waiting.

 

[Black Yoshi]

Incredible that a disaster of this scale would end up killing only four construction workers.

Because it happened at 1:30am

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

What I’ve learned from this is that poos and water don’t mix.

 

[TheBigZee]

Discussions of the bridge aside, i'm more curious about some things:

1. How fucked is the economy?, did it block the harbor, and if so, by how much?
2. How long will the clean up take?
3. How will this look on biden in a election year?
4. How bad will they try to spin this?

1. The broader economy will be fine. The local economy is fucked. The harbor is currently closed .

2. Nobody knows right now. They'll have to conduct a survey of the wreckage. The cargo from the Dali will need to be removed before it can be refloated.

They aren't going to be able to start work until they know for certain there wasn't anything hazardous that will catch fire, explode, or make lethal gas when submerged. They might just let it sit for a month in case the manifest was wrong.

 

[Quandaries Sage]

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

Faggot

 

[AltisticRight]

Their captains are also often drunk.

Nah, they're always drunk.
Vladimir Lenin did nothing wrong. They cannot be trusted with alcohol.

 

[FedPostalService]

Eh, people aren’t wrong to say that the entire thing is companies saving Pennie’s by hiring third world retards under DEI or whatever

They are completely wrong as shipping has ran like this for decades and it has fuck all to do with DEI, it’s about getting people who will do hard work cheaper than in the west.

 

[mandatorylurk]

Apologies if late:








Mayor of Baltimore looking completely out of his league, Tommy Carcetti where are you now:

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Maryland state taxpayer. The bridge is part of the Maryland state highway despite its I-695 signage.

I can see the US appointing a special master to make awards given the scale of this thing. So many people and businesses affected. Plus the waterways are under the jurisdiction of USCG/Homeland Security and someone has to pay for the clean up. One way or another the Federal government is paying at least some of the costs.

 

[Male Idiot]

Because it happened at 1:30am

The ship managed to get out a SOS and the bridge was closed rapidly.

 

[R00T]

It just seems very odd to me that they seem to swerve into it. If power goes off, and it seems to be going on and off at least once why would you expect to swerve? These ships have huge inertia, it should have kept its course but instead it swerves.

Could the power failure have locked it into a turn? At that point wouldn’t matter what you did.