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

 

[Klugii]

Sunshine Skyway 2: Baltimore Boogaloo.

 

[Zaryiu2]

Spoiler: .

The consequences of adding a "Feature thread" function has been an unmitigated disaster for Kiwifarms

Anyway, why were there no tugboats when this ship was leaving the port?

 

[trash cat]

I can't make out what they're saying, are they just swearing at each other?

It's a joke someone dubbed in the meme pajeets

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

This without a doubt, will go down as the most expensive boating accident in history.

Nigger this is not even in the top ten, maybe if you include all the increased cost to shipping and such.

Here's one off the top that blows this out of the water: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Doña_Paz (ok, so racism says 4k dead ain't worth shit, let's use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster )

If you qualify it down to "idiot ran a boat into someshit" it probably isn't even as expensive as the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill

Capacity 10,000 TEUs, onboard 4,679 TEUs. So apparently the ship was only half full when it crashed. Where the hell do they put the other 5,000+ because it looks pretty full in the pictures.

You stack them even fucking higher!

 

[RodgerDodger]

This is I think what pisses me off more than anything. Everyone is so retarded they can't even understand the systems that keep day to day life functioning. They hear about a ship plowing into a bridge and just assume it's some unavoidable tragedy. This was entirely preventable and is the result of deliberate action. Even if it's not directly the action of crew on the ship there is someone somewhere who is responsible. Whether it was the choice to use an engine that isn't fit for purpose, poor construction, improper maintenance, someone did not do what they were supposed to do and now people are dead and a major US bridge is gone. These disasters will keep happening until we resolve the competency crisis. But it seems like people are more willing to die than admit that there's a problem.

It's a little more complicated than that. Coast Guard and NTSB will tear the ship apart to determine root cause of the mechanical failure. It can be a maintenance failure. It can be a manufacturing failure. A part failing inside its expected lifespan. It can be a fuel issue. It can be operator fuckup in the engine room. Some of these are considered more accidental or "outside the ability to reasonably predict" than others.

What can be said is at least at an initial glance, the ships crew, and the harbor pilots do appear to have done more right then wrong. As soon as the power was lost they radio'd the Mayday to shore. And communicated the possibility of a bridge strike occuring. This saved a lot of lives. Kudo's to the crew and to the police/bridge management for acting very quickly and cutting off traffic flows. Tragically there does not appear to have been enough time to reach the construction crew working on the bridge, or for them to evac. The ship had crew stationed at the forward anchors prepared for an emergency drop in the event of a problem while navigating the bridge. As was required by harbor rules. They did drop the anchors. This was clearly insufficient to prevent the collision. But this was the textbook remedy to perform. They obviously tried to regain maneuvering power, which seems to have failed repeatedly. A question will be whether they had any rudder control at all.

Someone mentioned the possibility of "diversity hire harbor pilots". Unlikely. Most harbor pilots are retired ships masters. They've spent years out at sea, and have just taken a more or less 9 to 5 job that lets them go home at night. As much as there may be a push for "diversity" there really isn't a huge supply of qualified candidates or color. And it's one of those areas that business tends to balk at going all DEI, as incompetents cost an astronomical amount of money. The ship had 2 harbor pilots aboard. And right now there are no indications that they did anything incorrect. Youtuber "what's going on with shipping" did an analysis synching the video of the crash up with the ships GPS positioning, and it looks like it was more or less where it was supposed to be until it lost all power.

There were clearly some failures of imagination at the macro level here. It was an unprotected bridge in one of the world's busiest shipping channels. Ships above a certain tonnage were not required to be under tug past the bridge. And the operating rules were way too optimistic regarding the means to emergency stop a modern fully loaded cargo vessel moving at a moderately high rate of speed. (was 8 knots really the permitted speed?)

The preliminary and final reports on this will be interesting. It will also be interesting to see the Sept 2023 US Coast Guard Inspection report.

 

[Betonhaus]

Spoiler: .

The consequences of adding a "Feature thread" function has been an unmitigated disaster for Kiwifarms

Anyway, why were there no tugboats when this ship was leaving the port?

Money

 

[NSA]

Spoiler: .

The consequences of adding a "Feature thread" function has been an unmitigated disaster for Kiwifarms

Anyway, why were there no tugboats when this ship was leaving the port

There were 2 tugs, but they left by the time of the power loss because they were in the main shipping lane.

 

[H3llonwheels]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster )

Not to derail, but I had forgotten all about this:

 

[30+GameOvers]

The way the trannies took over is the key, it started with liberal cat lady types... see how BP gets preferential treatment.

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Lol noticing it's pajeets and niggers all the way down is a "dogwhistle"

These retards really think that if they say the magic word, people will just shut up and stop noticing, huh?

 

[Breadbassket]

Maritime job placement company BalticShipping shows the captain of the container ship is a Ukrainian.


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Also the employees of Synergy are ... well.. diverse.

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None of this specifically answers why the power failed though.

Maybe the ship had a different captain at the time of the accident? Only Indians have been counted, no Ukrainians have been thus far. Synergy Marine Group seems to have its headquarters located in Singapore but most of its employees (along with its founder) are Indian.

 

[Racist Trash]

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Shame it didn't finish with "hello I am under the water"

 

[PaladinBoo]

Got some more info from my step dad. Apparently it is not the engines that the EPA and Biden had switched but the fuel that they use. Apparently EPA regulations have it that when ships come into American waters they have to use this green friendly, EPA approved fuel that my step dad says is not as good as normal fossil fuel and just doesn't work. There have been numerous complaints from foreign shipping companies over this fuel being unsafe and unreliable with their ships sometimes turning on and off when using it when in American waters. So, yeah, this looks like the fault of government regulations.

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

1. Fucked. That's the 2nd largest port on the east coast and the port is entirely blocked.

Port of Baltimore is 6th or 7th largest east coast port by tonnage and only 25% of that is containers. Over half their tonnage is RO-RO.

This is a major Mercedes port, the main port of entrance for their vehicles produced in Germany.

It is the largest RO-RO port on the east coast and the majority of euro cars are imported through it.

 

[Meat Target]

Someone mentioned the possibility of "diversity hire harbor pilots". Unlikely. Most harbor pilots are retired ships masters. They've spent years out at sea, and have just taken a more or less 9 to 5 job that lets them go home at night. As much as there may be a push for "diversity" there really isn't a huge supply of qualified candidates or color. And it's one of those areas that business tends to balk at going all DEI, as incompetents cost an astronomical amount of money.

Generally speaking, DIEversity hires aren't the root of the competency crisis, they're a symptom. The competency crisis is caused more broadly by misplaced priorities and mission creep.

 

[Red Frida]

This kvetching about it being an op is just cope. A cyber attack would be less embarrassing than this shit.
This incident is part and parcel of the Biden administration in general. Something embarrassing or fucked up has been happening constantly since Biden became president, and this bridge collapsing is just filling that quota.

 

[Übertroon]

Competence in naval crews is dwindling fast. Back in 2018 you had the norwegian naval vessel Helge Ingstad plow right into an oil tanker.
There were two officer of the watch on the bridge that night. One was a Norwegian male who got put on trial and found guilty of negligence, the other was a female US officer there for training as officer of the watch. She has never been identified and didn't even get a slap on the wrist. Hopefully won't sink any more million dollar vessels

 

[Devious Dave]

So If the accident is the fault of human error and not some sort of malfunction can someone get the death penalty

 

[MadStan]

Nigger this is not even in the top ten, maybe if you include all the increased cost to shipping and such.

Here's one off the top that blows this out of the water: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Doña_Paz (ok, so racism says 4k dead ain't worth shit, let's use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster )

If you qualify it down to "idiot ran a boat into someshit" it probably isn't even as expensive as the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill



You stack them even fucking higher!

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You know I forgot about the texas 1947 and a few others. But those were explosions but yeah it counts.

 

[Meat Target]

This incident is part and parcel of the Biden administration in general. Something embarrassing or fucked up has been happening constantly since Biden became president, and this bridge collapsing is just filling that quota.

Speaking of which, Pothole Pete Buttplug is holding a press conference on the scene.

East Palestine wasn't given the same prompt courtesy.

 

[MadStan]

Got some more info from my step dad. Apparently it is not the engines that the EPA and Biden had switched but the fuel that they use. Apparently EPA regulations have it that when ships come into American waters they have to use this green friendly, EPA approved fuel that my step dad says is not as good as normal fossil fuel and just doesn't work. There have been numerous complaints from foreign shipping companies over this fuel being unsafe and unreliable with their ships sometimes turning on and off when using it when in American waters. So, yeah, this looks like the fault of government regulations.

What a load of horseshit.