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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Given the massive volume of cargo traffic passing through the Port of Baltimore and its singular outlet being under this bridge, it's hard not to suspect this was intentionally done by globohomo much like the Suez Canal incident, to disrupt the global supply chain and further skyrocket the cost and kill the availability of consumer products to help us more rapidly acclimate to owning nothing and being happy.
I don't know.

First, ever-rising costs is going to hurt Biden, not help him...secondly, it won't be DONE in time for November either way...thirdly, Baltimore is solidly blue so it's not like he can bend a swing state in his direction.
 
I'm surprised they didn't install deflector barriers decades ago after the Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapse. They aren't expensive to install in comparison to the total cost of the bridge..
That's going to be the key takeaway. I'm sure there was a recomendation to intall protective barriers of riprap around the bridge piers in every report on this bridge ever since the very similar Sunshine Skyway bridge in Tampa went down in 1980. Apparently Maryland had put the ship barriers up on another bridge fairly recently, at obscene costs.
 
Hm they are now talking about dirty fuel... you need very dirty fuel to get an engine as big as that to stutter to a point that it stops.
They're gonna put the blame on a billion things before they even think about the most obvious and blatant cause: low I.Q. streetshitters doing low I.Q. things.

The legacy media and the political talking heads may just as well sum it up as "It was God's will..." at let it go at that, except they'd have to admit the existence of God.

Don't streetshitters have a penchant for grappling high-voltage wires to the degree it's hard-wired (heh) into their DNA? That could explain the 'lost power' angle.

Edit: Android raptor, you're still pissed I called you a Jew? Stop acting Jewish and let it go, Jewboi. Or maybe you're a streetshitter.
 
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I’m confused as to why Jersh thinks the citizenship of the sailors (India) is so important to this situation. Container ships entering and leaving port are always under the command of local river pilots until they’re well away from shore (at which point a smaller boat meets up with the ship and takes the river pilots home.) So it’s not as Captain Pajeet was at the helm when this happened.

If you want to blame anybody, blame the owners of the ship, who purposefully register in it a cheap jurisdiction, hire people one step up from straight up slave labor, and defer maintenance until the darn thing is held together with duct tape and a prayer. They are far more at fault then the merchant marine guys doing the grunt work of sailing.
It's not, especially since it sounds like the crew did everything they were supposed to in the situation.

I doubt the CEOs that are actually at fault for not maintaining the ship properly mind the blame being shifted to retarded race wank, however.

Have we even figured out who actually owns the ship behind all the shell companies?
 
7 years to build.
you forgot a zero at the end of that number

but yeah I'm def feeling this was a pile of maintenance and minor errors all hitting at once rather than outright malicious attempts to wreck shit
at the very least not from the crew, _maybe_ 1337 h@x04z r0x0r3d 7h3 b0x0rz to make it blow up like the legendary news report van
 
Biden is probably really happy he can rush in and begin spending taxpayer money to fix the thing to solidify those blue votes in November, but he probably didn't instruct a bunch of indians to be incompetent.
So, to clarify, you expect Biden to commission a bridge that is budgeted, designed, and built without any major problems (that may or may not be due to liberal bias) that would make people deeply unhappy?
 
Called it !!!


Ultra low sulfur diesel fuel has much lower engine lubricity and is hygroscopic, so it could have soaked up water.

There are a number of famous passenger airplane crashes which were caused by fuel contamination. ( Air Ontario, West Caribbean, etc).

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Investigators Probe 'Dirty Fuel' In Baltimore Container Ship Disaster Amid Mid-Atlantic Supply Chain Crisis




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.

Do you have specific knowledge that this is horseshit?

Seems plausible.

The EPA mandates 10% corn-derived ethanol in our car gasoline, and I have to drive an extra fifteen miles to buy specialty ethanol-free gasoline for my generator, otherwise it gums up the carburetor and completely fails.

EPA has adopted exhaust emission standards for marine diesel engines installed in a variety of marine vessels ranging in size and application from small recreational vessels to tugboats and large ocean-going vessels.

Domestic Regulations for Emissions from Marine Compression-ignition (Diesel) Engines


For fucks sake. It's easy enough to find out. Some fucking twat comes on here stating that the fuel was changed and this caused the incident. And you buy that without even a questioning? You'd think with thousands and thousands of ships every day in US waters suddenly having their power go off from their "government mandated secret fuel" that this would be a pretty well known issue.

I mean come on. Do you see Diesel SUVs and trucks stalling?

And they say this is the cause with what evidence? None whatsoever.

Ultra low sulfur diesel fuel has much lower engine lubricity and is hygroscopic, so it could have soaked up water [from the air]

There are a number of famous passenger airplane crashes which were caused by fuel contamination. ( Air Ontario, West Caribbean, etc).
 
It's not, especially since it sounds like the crew did everything they were supposed to in the situation.
Go eat cow dung, angry little pajeet
I doubt the CEOs that are actually at fault for not maintaining the ship properly mind the blame being shifted to retarded race wank, however.
Knowing what pajeets are like isn't retarded race wanking. CEOs all over the world own ships in similar conditions that somehow don't crash into bridges and kill people.
Have we even figured out who actually owns the ship behind all the shell companies?
Some pajeet who runs ships to shithole India.
 
Go eat cow dung, angry little pajeet

Knowing what pajeets are like isn't retarded race wanking. CEOs all over the world own ships in similar conditions that somehow don't crash into bridges and kill people.

Some pajeet who runs ships to shithole India.
It could be worse, they could have been hired from the US Navy.
USN diversity hires don't need their ships to break down to collide with massive objects, shorelines, piers, or bridges.
 
It's not, especially since it sounds like the crew did everything they were supposed to in the situation.

I doubt the CEOs that are actually at fault for not maintaining the ship properly mind the blame being shifted to retarded race wank, however.

Have we even figured out who actually owns the ship behind all the shell companies?

You know, except proper maintenance on the ship.
 
Hm they are now talking about dirty fuel... you need very dirty fuel to get an engine as big as that to stutter to a point that it stops.

With those giant MAN and Wartsila diesels, yes, they burn really nasty shit to begin with. As for the medium-speed auxiliaries that provide ship service power, however, they typically need pretty clean diesel in order to avoid completely shitting themselves.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/baltimore-container-ship-crisis - https://archive.md/wgfql

"The vessel went dead, no steering power and no electronics," said an officer aboard the ship.

"One of the engines coughed and then stopped. The smell of burned fuel was everywhere in the engine room, and it was pitch black," the officer said, adding that the vessel didn't have time to drop anchors before hitting the bridge. Minutes before the crash, officers on the ship issued a mayday call to the Coast Guard.

This could be all sorts of things. Clogged, leaky, or broken fuel line, bad injector, clogged or leaking fuel filter, et cetera.

@trash cat Yep. Leave ULSD or ULSD/Biodiesel blend in a tank until it forms a water-fuel interface, and then you get bugs.


The Effect of Water on ULSD
Water does not mix with the fuel, instead of forming a thin layer around it. Microbes live where the fuel and water meet, and eat the organic compounds in the bio-fuel. This degrades the fuel, which can cause problems both in the storage tank and in vehicles that use the fuel. This includes:

  • Clogged filters.
  • Accumulation of sludge.
  • Pump and injector problems.
  • Malfunction of the water monitoring system.
In addition, if salts are present in the water in the tank, they can alter the chemical structure of the fuel, damage the tank, and potentially cause a leak.

How does water get into fuel storage tanks?

  • Leaks due to damaged components of the delivery system.
  • Condensation.
  • At the refinery/during transport from the refinery to the tank.
  • Inadvertent drainage of spill buckets into the tank.
  • Stormwater runoff.
What are the signs of water in a ULSD tank?
The following are caused by microbe growth.

  • The smell of sulfur in the fuel or filter.
  • Corrosion of metal filter/irregularity in filter covering.
  • Inversion rag layer in tank bottom sample.
  • Spotted water coalescing the filter.
The next signs are caused by the formation of solids/semi-solids in the fuel.

  • Corrosion – the presence of red-orange silt.
  • Degraded fuel – brown/black particulate matter.
General symptoms also include:

  • Failure of system components.
  • Clogged fuel lines.
  • Inconsistent gauge readings.
 
Let’s review:

1. There’s no evidence Baltimore did anything wrong (in fact, they shut the bridge down incredibly quickly).

2. There’s no evidence the crew or harbor pilots did anything wrong (in fact, it looks like they responded by the book).

3. There’s no evidence that the bridge was structurally unsound or had any glaring design flaws.

4. There is evidence that the ship’s power plant suffered catastrophic failure which could be due to a lack of maintenance, design flaw, or freak accident.

What this means is all these takes about Baltimore being a shithole and pajeets being retards and other stereotypes are really meaningless and based on nothing. They are satirical at best and ignorant at worse. In fact, this was handled incredibly well for what could have simply been an act of God.

The ship’s maintenance record is the only missing piece of the puzzle here. If it turns out to be clean (which is not unlikely), there is really nobody to blame, and in fact the crew and first responders of Baltimore should be praised:smug:
^^^^ This.
This whole thing could have been much, much worse. Gott sei Dank and all that.

The river pilots aren't touching the engines or electrical systems. The crew is.
The crew has an extremely good motivation for not mindlessly throwing wrenches into their engine system; their lives are in danger if the boat sinks. I also dispute blaming the low-level sailors for problems that are at least the responsibility of the ship's officers, but more likely the shipping company who owns the hull. And it can be that none of these parties did anything wrong. (The White Star Line didn't do anything incorrectly per the law, but the Titanic sank anyway.)
I doubt the CEOs that are actually at fault for not maintaining the ship properly mind the blame being shifted to retarded race wank, however.
TBH honestly me too. The only two situations I'm familiar with that are anything like this would be the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and the wreck of the Pharos, and both of those involve ships out to sea during extreme storm conditions that battered the hull until it broke.
For decades shipping companies have gotten away with hiring people who are willing to work for peanuts and saving all the money they can on maintenance/upkeep of their vessels.

The classification societies that approve these practices which allow vessels to get insured are a fucking joke and are in bed with the equipment manufacturers, the shipowners and the governing agencies like the IMO.

You would be safer working on a ship built in 1924 (with a First World crew trained by 1924 standards) than one built in 2024 (with a flag-of-convenience crew that crawled out of a Mumbai ghetto).

This is a situation where the globohomo is absolutely to blame.
Following this logic, everyone who buys things that travel on container ships (which is literally everybody in the modern world) are somewhat at fault for incentivizing the shippers to implement shoddy practices and cut corners so we can have our plastic widgets from China that much cheaper and faster.
 
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