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

 

[Gay Baby Jailer]

She is responsible for the ship not being properly maintained?

Maybe she could be responsible for checking the ship you retard. Did that ever cross your mind?

 

[Norbert the Tiger]

As in the past, a very concise and informative update from the YouTube channel What is Going on With Shipping.

https://youtu.be/DoPRz7wk3WY?si=6Rj8alDAEPk1puel

 

[Betonhaus]

 

[Male Idiot]

This is generally preventable by bleeding fuel tanks, performing scheduled maintenance on diesel purifier centrifuges, and changing out fuel filters regularly, though.

All of those tasks seem way too hard for a jeet.

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.

Designated fuel tanks? I mean if it was too cold on the poop deck, Pajeet needed to do the needful...

 

[Drain Todger]

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No, it was owned by Grace Ocean and operated by Synergy Marine Group.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/us/ship-labor-baltimore-bridge-collapse.html - https://archive.md/PDOCh

Ships belonging to the company whose container vessel crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on Tuesday have been cited in recent years for labor violations, which include underpaying ship crews and holding crew members onboard for months past their contracts, according to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority.

In 2021, the authority detained the Western Callao, another ship formerly owned by the company, the Singapore-based Grace Ocean Private Ltd., after it found that the management was in arrears paying 13 crew members and had kept them on the ship for more than 12 months, well beyond their nine-month contracts. In 2020, an inspection of the same ship in Australia found that eight sailors had been aboard it for more than 11 months.

Another ship owned by Grace Ocean, the Furness Southern Cross, had 10 seafarers aboard for more than 14 months. The infractions were “serious and shameful” violations of an international convention on maritime labor, Michael Drake, the executive director of operations for the authority, said at the time, in October 2021.

underpaying ship crews and holding crew members onboard for months past their contracts

Sounds like one of those outfits that basically runs slave ships.

"PLEASE, SIRS, CAN I GO HOME? I MUST DO THE NEEDFUL."

 

[Breadbassket]

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Is there any source for this claim? All evidence points toward the Dali not being owned or managed by the Foremost Group.

 

[Josip Tito]

NPR is already talking about how the bridge needs to be renamed because Francis Scott Key was a slave owner. They also say the bridge was built poorly and neglected because the USA is so racist. It couldn’t be poor management by local officials, no, white people are the problem.

 

[CHARizard]

 

[GunCar Gary]

She is responsible for the ship not being properly maintained?

as funny as it is to highlight a DIE hire who is most likely completely incompetent at her job, she is probably not at fault

as funny as it is to make fun of the crew who are part of a culture that still hasn't figured out the primary building block of civilization, sanitation, it's also probable that it isn't wholly their fault as well (they will definitely take the fall for this though)

i'd guess the infrastructure accidents from the last few years are more linked these things:
- boomers are incapable of caring about anything other than themselves and only care about stripping away as many resources for them and them alone as possible
- women and bughivers falling for the covid lie, causing massive a wealth transfer from the bottom 50% to the top 1% (who are probably also boomers as well). this is on top of all the funny money in the system since the 2008 recession
- women and bughivers falling for the climate scare, giving governments powers to strip away reliable and working resources/materials away from both citizens and government agencies alike

more than any conspiracy, people's greed, weakness, and ignorance has caused us to move into another gilded age. everyday goods are unaffordable. poor men are forced to cut back on basic needs while rich men ignore laws. the government is in bed with the corporations and covers for them. the only things that get properly maintained are appliances, by brands that normal people have never even heard of, kept in mansions

this is just the kind of shit that happens in a gilded age

 

[PaladinBoo]

Some lefties are upset by this. Where is the lie?

https://twitter.com/phil_lyman/status/1772647920124211378

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Sadly this is all too common in port cities as they all tend to lean Left. In my city's recent election we had a vote on who would be our new port commissioner. It was either a retired captain of the Navy or a danger hair woman who knew nothing of ships and ports and put diversity, equity and inclusion first. Can you guess who the city voted for? Yep! It was the danger hair woman. You get what you vote for.

 

[AgendaPoster]

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.

Maybe the crew lacks the genetic acumen that usually accounts for the correct amount of self-preservation instincts?

 

[2LtMashengo]

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.

The CEO that is actually at fault is also a Pajeet.

 

[Pocket Dragoon]

Baltimore FD radio traffic, first 90 minutes:

 

[Dracula's Spirit Animal]

AKSHUALLY, starboard is "right" if you are facing forward (towards the bow) and port is "left" is you are facing forward (towards the bow). If you are looking aft, your left will be starboard and your right will be port.



They fire up the engines 1 hour before departure, and put any additional generators online. Considering they were in a SECA, they would need to run ULSFO which can absolutely have bacterial growth if not properly treated. If the shipowner was too cheap to install a centrifuge for the ULSFO and have it constantly run on the service tank(s), I can absolutely see clogged filter(s) causing this issue. To reduce on manpower requirements, so-called auto-filtration units are installed for the fuel before going to the engines, and they might have 2 (one for the main engine and one for the generators if you are lucky). If this thing got clogged, lights out. Maybe the one for the aux engines got clogged, then the crew switched those engines over to the main engine auto-filtrator and that got clogged too.

As for dropping anchor, something tells me those anchor windlasses haven't been exercised since the last 5 year survey. It's a container ship, it ties up alongside for cargo, it has no need to use the anchor.

While it could be water in the fuel, I'm kind of doubting that, although fuel contamination seems reasonable to a degree. The lighting was fucked, but if there was significant water in the fuel, the smoke plume would have come out with some white exhaust. It looks black in that video, suggesting when they got it going again, they tried to hammer it into full reverse.

Regarding the anchor issue. Nope. You need open moorings and everything can be occupied. From what I've seen on charts and for real, any major port has an anchorage area for ships as they wait for their own chance to load/unload. I sailed in between dozens of large cargo ships moored waiting their turn in a large European port this summer. Having to wait your turn to dock is not at all uncommon.

I don't have any idea of the layout of how Chesapeake Bay deals with things and can't be arsed to look up good charts, but the following pic may have an anchorage area for everything coming into Chesapeake bay in the white squared off area on the bottom right of this pic. It seems pretty far out, but it's possible.



One thing I'm kind of interested in was how long they were docked. Maybe they were held up due to the on/off and an impatient captain decided to head out on a retreating tide (no idea what Chesapeake Bay tide levels are like) and all sorts of pre-voyage checks/any maintenance were either ignored or glossed over due to pressure from the company to head out. Likely just regular incompetence regarding maintenance and upkeep, but possible. I wonder how long before they got underway they loaded with fuel. If they had contaminated tanks already, that could have agitated debris enough that they fucked their fuel systems if they loaded fuel in a short period before embarking.

Edit: For anyone interested, this is a shot of a chart of the bridge. Plus, there is a large anchorage area to the north of the bridge.

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

I don't have any idea of the layout of how Chesapeake Bay deals with things and can't be arsed to look up good charts, but the following pic may have an anchorage area for everything coming into Chesapeake bay in the white squared off area on the bottom right of this pic. It seems pretty far out, but it's possible.

Primary anchorage for Baltimore is south of the Bay Bridge around Annapolis. The Norfolk anchorage off Cape Charles is already getting a few Baltimore ships.

 

[Me262PrinceOfTurboJet]

He's Babu the sailor man! He just crashed a giant tin can! This nautical asshole is always a hassle, he's Babu the sailor man!

 

[Stan]

Maybe the crew lacks the genetic acumen that usually accounts for the correct amount of self-preservation instincts?

Your tendency to make everything about the supposed racial inferiority of non-whites beggars belief at times. Not everything is about race homie, and there are plenty of extremely smaht Pajeets doing fancy stuff at Harvard and MIT.

 

[MisterNeurotic]

The collapse of the west demonstrated as clearly as day, ironic cause it happened at night. How much longer will it take us today to rebuild this infrastructure as fast as it's falling? Wasn't even taking ship ramming into account before now. RIP anyone stuck blind on that bridge and not even knowing what happened as they fell into the fucking void. Awful.

The United States has a transportation secretary with no experience. The only reason why he's transportation secretary is because he's a queer... And labels are important to the left.. no qualifications needed for the job if your trans gay whatever you got the job... LOL. if they actually had someone in charge with experience disaster after disaster would be averted but hey gotta give the queers and freaks the stage...

 

[RodgerDodger]

There are giant concrete piers on either side of the channel to protect the bridge piers. Unfortunately, they can only protect from a ship going straight at a bridge pier. The Dali turned into the bridge pier and completely missed the protective pier.

Watching the video more carefully, the ship did not simply strike the bridge pier. The upper levels of the ship took out one of the diagonal bracing trusses supporting the main bridge truss, right below the bridge deck. The ship was tall enough that by getting close enough to the vertical pier it could slice off part of the main horizontal supporting structure.

Indeed.



"One of the engines coughed and then stopped.”

One out of the 4 generators. OK, then what?

“The smell of burned fuel was everywhere in the engine room”

So.. a fuel leak spraying on a hot manifold? A fire? Were they bleeding injectors and removing filters and spilling fuel everywhere?

“adding that the vessel didn't have time to drop anchors before hitting the bridge. “

And that’s at odds with other reporting.

Forgive me for being skeptical, but this anonymous source sounds like they’re telling a story.

Contaminated fuel is definitely a possibility, but even then is far more likely to be the result of poor maintenance rather than evil EPA mandates carrying out a Jewish plot to take your car.

It was a 116,000 ship moving at 8 knots and about 4 minutes from impact at the moment it lost power. The anchors were not going to stop it in time even if dropped instantly. There was just too much mass in motion.

 

[MisterNeurotic]

Sadly this is all too common in port cities as they all tend to lean Left. In my city recent election we had a vote on who would be our new port commissioner. It was either a retired captain of the Navy or a danger hair woman who knew nothing of ships and ports and put diversity, equity and inclusion first. Can you guess who the city voted for? Yep! It was the danger hair woman. You get what you vote for.

THATS WHAT IM SAYING!! look at the us transportation secretary buttigeg.. no experience but HES A QUEER!!!! wooh first queer transportation secretary.. and what have we had disaster after disaster