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

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


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This really just seems like a freak accident.
A boulder smacking into a car driving near a mountainside is a freak accident. A container ship losing all power, destroying a bridge valued at several hundreds of million and sending a dozen people into the river to their deaths is a colossal fuck up.
It doesn't matter if no one gets punished, this wasn't an act of God, ships don't just plow into bridges all the time
 
I do have one interesting thing to add about the ship management company, Synergy. This is bit of a powerlevel, but i hope you'll let it slide. I once had to work with a crew that was hired and managed by Synergy to retrieve some data from their engine room. The entire process was 2 weeks worth of "sir pls advise" in extremely broken english, when they were the ones who were supposed to produce this data for us. Bear in mind I was talking with technical staff, not just regular deckhands.
I'm not saying this had anything to do with this collapse in particular, but i can definitely attest to Synergy hiring extremely low quality crew.
 
Fun fact, most of the worlds sailors are Filipino, this should give you an idea of the average quality of your typical commercial seaman.
International ship crews are just a smidge above slave labor in many cases. People whining about diversity hires in this thread are cracking me up. They give no fucks about diversity in international shipping, it's a true unfettered, ruthless capitalism to its very core and the cheaper the crew the better.
 
A boulder smacking into a car driving near a mountainside is a freak accident. A container ship losing all power, destroying a bridge valued at several hundreds of million and sending a dozen people into the river to their deaths is a colossal fuck up.
It doesn't matter if no one gets punished, this wasn't an act of God, ships don't just plow into bridges all the time
8 people were on the bridge at the time of the collision and only six remained unaccounted for. Those six were part of a construction crew filling potholes on the bridge.
 
On the bright side all the American lolcows are waking up and will be posting making it all about them, somehow, in short order. So at least we have that constant.
After my shock, the first thing I thought of was Kailyn Wilcher.
We will hear her talk about this for several days ("Tho thcary giggle exhale) and she will post videos complaining and crying about her not getting her Amazon packages in two hours just like she cried over not going to the Cheesecake Factory for her birthday during the lockdown.
"I know people died, but I need my Amyzon order!"
 
I wonder how many of the bodies will be unrecoverable. The uncertainty would honestly suck more than confirming a body of a loved one.
Usually when bodies go missing in rivers connected to the Chesapeake bay, they're eventually found as they wash up on shore. Few people died over time because they swam in the Potomac River and got sucked under only for their corpses to be found near the mouth of the Bay.
Again, we're talking about 6 people missing whom were part of a construction crew maintaining the bridge, not an exaggerated amount that some (whether retarded or have a hidden motive) want to proclaim. The quick response of closing the bay bridge before impact was vital which is worthy of applause.
 
Let me make something very clear to you. It is a 200k ton ship that's out of control at full speed and ramming directly into what's essentially a major support beam. Nothing is surviving that. There is no structure we have made that CAN survive that. It's just not going to happen no matter what theoretical physics say. It's a cargo ship.
Motherfucker, this is literally what I said. Nobody implied, EVER, ANYWHERE, that there existed a bridge that could leave such a collision unscathed. The only thing that could vary is SEVERITY OF THE DAMAGE. Truss or suspended bridge = complete destruction. Other types = partial damage with the possibility not having to rebuild from scratch.

Why is it that suddenly everyone in this thread is an engineer who specializes in bridge design and maintenance?
I guess in my case it's the result of being a son of one. There is precisely one truss bridge in my town that goes over a river and houses two sets of railroad tracks which my father oversaw the construction of. After its completion, every time we drove by, he'd say that if a single major crack appears basically anywhere on the bridge, the whole thing will collapse. I never took it seriously because up close it looked indestructible.

<i am le smart and U ARE LE DUMB, i win>
Didn't read, kill yourself. I trust my father more than some random ass faggot on an Internet forum.
 
You guys need to get better at your racism. Focus on how the shipping company hired pajeets (terrible at maintenance) instead of Filipinos (who know how to run a ship) to save money. If you blame stronk black whamens for everything that goes wrong instead of things that provably went wrong because of stronk black whamens then you are not very good at racism.

My hypothesis on how this went down: Terrible maintenance causes total loss of power leaving port, pilot and/or captain panic and use auxiliary steering to hard turn to the right, ship regains power and now the propellers are driving the ship straight into the pier. Also someone fucked up by not having the tug boats take ships past the bridge before turning around.
 
I don't know about that as according to @MirnaMinkoff the ship may not have meet EPA standards and still may have had its diesel engine. However, according to my step dad, even with high power diesel engines it is uncommon for the power to go on and off as a lot of energy is needed to make these ships function. They are after all pulling hundreds of tons of cargo. It is much like how a brown out happens in California. Too much energy is needed to make something run which leads it having a brown out.

I gave up on the thread because lol A&N. But at least you know things that aren't jokes about brown people.

I've always been afraid of bridges. I'd hate going over them. I don't even like the highway.
 
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