Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapses !

[Red Baron]

It was apparent to Captain Obvious and everyone else just who was at the helm at the time of the disaster. Perhaps a little Manischewitz was involved? Hmmm?

[LATB]

Originally Posted by Steve_R

It was in the channel. There's a lot of info, video, photos and route maps here. The Captain made a distress call saying they lost power. The root cause analysis will focus on the how and why it lost power.

Excellent links there

It appears the power was restored 2x before impact.

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[Vandelay Industries]

Originally Posted by slewfoot

Damn Jewish Space Lasers!

You know that's not a real quote, right?

[Red Baron]

Who knows?

[Onebadcad]

Originally Posted by Aerovette

It's incredible to me that the planets align in such a perfect way, that the ship managed to hit the support. All that open water and space to drift through and it managed to squarely hit a support.

It's like a car leaving the road and hitting the only tree in a 10 mile radius.

Based on this info of wiki:

Carries 4 lanes of I-695 Toll
Crosses Patapsco River
Locale Baltimore, Maryland
Maintained by Maryland Transportation Authority
Design Steel arch-shaped continuous through truss bridge
Material Steel
Total length 8,636 feet (2,632.3 m; 1.6 mi)
Longest span 1,200 feet (366 m)

It appears the span to go under is 1,200 feet, so it could have crossed even at a 90-degree spin.
Those damn support beams!!

The original Sunshine Skyway Bridge was a piss poor, designed in 1950.
The span was narrow, had no islands / bumpers.

The new bridge, same name, was done right, huge islands to force ships being straight, with a much wider span.
Even if a ship is out of alignment, it will hit the concrete islands, never the supoort beams.

[Bill]

Originally Posted by LATB

I'm pretty certain that all these ships are run by "Harbor Pilots" whose sole job is to navigate the ships in and out of the harbor safely. The entire reason for the harbor pilot is most sea captains are not familiar with every port they go to.
I knew a couple of men who were harbor pilots, and these guys were very highly experienced and very good at their jobs. They board many different vessels and run them in and out of harbors. And they are very very well compensated.

Originally Posted by GS Ragtop

Here's a much better video of the incident.

The pilots were along for the ride once power was lost at a critical point in the passage. It wouldn't have mattered if the pilots were little green men, gay militants, lumberjacks, or DEI wonderkids.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDce...nnel=3DOgaming

Originally Posted by LATB

Great video.
Several of those semi's just made it over before impact.
And it may be camera angle but it looked like the ship was outside the channel before losing power and impact.

All of this is true. The ship was not only outside the shipping lane in the center of the channel, it was perpendicular to it, and because the power failed, it was unable to get properly positioned in the channel, thus my suggestion that, whatever failure caused the ship to lose power, this could have been prevented by having the same tugs that escorted the ship out of its slip stay with the ship a little longer, making sure the ship gets to the channel, facing the right direction, and past that bridge. That would add cost for shippers and consumers, and be a windfall for the tugboat industry, as the tugboat companies get paid to basically do nothing but stand ready to get involved if there's a problem, an exceedingly rare possibility.

[LATB]

Originally Posted by bill_daniels

All of this is true. The ship was not only outside the shipping lane in the center of the channel, it was perpendicular to it, and because the power failed, it was unable to get properly positioned in the channel, thus my suggestion that, whatever failure caused the ship to lose power, this could have been prevented by having the same tugs that escorted the ship out of its slip stay with the ship a little longer, making sure the ship gets to the channel, facing the right direction, and past that bridge. That would add cost for shippers and consumers, and be a windfall for the tugboat industry, as the tugboat companies get paid to basically do nothing but stand ready to get involved if there's a problem, an exceedingly rare possibility.

Actually, the harbor pilot navigates the ship into and out of the harbor...but the tugs take over once close to the pier and the tugs take over and safely dock the behemoths. The tugs also get the ship off the pier upon departure.

[DAB]

you can be sure that the new Key bridge will be well protected from future impacts, similar to Tampa. it'll be tough, that's some deep water there near the bridge, news said about 50 feet to bottom.

at least 4 bags of concrete.....

[Onebadcad]

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[LATB]

Originally Posted by DAB

you can be sure that the new Key bridge will be well protected from future impacts, similar to Tampa. it'll be tough, that's some deep water there near the bridge, news said about 50 feet to bottom.

at least 4 bags of concrete.....

Gonna be a nice contract for the bridge builder.

Hell, the salvage contractor is going to clean up. Pun intended.

[LATB]

Originally Posted by Onebadcad

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In pete's case that mean the bonus hole not the pie hole.

[DJ_Critterus]

Originally Posted by Onebadcad

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It's not like they have a choice unless they want to go swimming, too.

[LATB]

Originally Posted by DJ_Critterus

It's not like they have a choice unless they want to go swimming, too.

I know every route intimately and every one is the suck when the bridge was not swimming.

[Unsuspicious]

Originally Posted by Onebadcad

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We live in a society that needs Yield signs at railroad crossings, some people really need the guidance.

[Vandelay Industries]

Originally Posted by Onebadcad

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He's so smart. Maybe even smarter than Brandon.

[LATB]

Originally Posted by Vandelay Industries

He's so smart. Maybe even smarter than Brandon.

My dog is smarter than FJB.

[Onebadcad]

Originally Posted by Vandelay Industries

He's so smart. Maybe even smarter than Brandon.

The collective iq of fjb, knee pads hoe, press secreliar and entire cabinet, times 81M, is still single digit.

[LATB]

Originally Posted by Onebadcad

The collective iq of fjb, knee pads hoe, press secreliar and entire cabinet, times 81M, is still single digit.

does that include "protest voters"?

[vettemed]

Originally Posted by LATB

My dog is smarter than FJB.

Even a dumb dog usually remembers to take a shit in the correct place.

[Onebadcad]

Originally Posted by LATB

does that include "protest voters"?

What the hell, throw them into the IQ math, it still stays about the same sum.