Analyzed footage of the Baltimore Harbor incident.
The MSM says this was an accident, with no evidence of foul play. What say you?
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It’s hard to say. Look at the vehicles zipping across the bridge right before the container ship hits the bridge.
Here’s something interesting. The ship had two Masters. One is a citizen of Ukraine!
Ship would have been under control of the harbor pilot, not the ships captain.
The pilots don’t actually steer the ship, they just advise. Ultimately the captain has the com and is responsible but he normally doesn’t drive either. It’s not like driving a car everything happens very slowly.
Seems fishy? Why didn’t they drop the hooks? I don’t know about the black smoke. You can’t just back down and stop, it takes like a mile. Almost like it sped up.
Nemo, as you state it takes a lot to stop several thousand tonnes of container ship , dropping the hooks would have just snapped some chain. I suspect the black smoke was from the exhaust as the main engines were restarted, only for them to cut out again, resulting in loss of propulsion and steering.
No vehicles on the bridge. Very fortuitous timing. What were the odds?
The main engine and the generators are separate systems. You can’t just start the main like it’s your suburban, it takes time. They didn’t need the main anyway, only steerage because they had way. They rather obviously drove directly into the bridge. Ships pass under critical bridges hundreds of times daily and this doesn’t happen. I used to put the pilots on and off the ships, this is suspicious.
If the harbor master is on board he is responsible. Captains do steer into the berth, never a helmsman.
If that ship sustains damage the Captain is relieved, and probably fired. Military ship ends his career.
The harbor master is a bureaucrat and was at home in bed. The harbor pilots are onboard, but not responsible for the vessel, they only advise. This boat was headed to sea not to berth. It should have been under the control of a steersman but it seems a hacker might have been at the wheel. When going to berth they have several tugs to assist. Sometimes they have tugs following when they leave if it is questionable navigation. This is not normal and should be questioned.
Hopefully the three cops that make up the Baltimore Police Dept weren’t on it at the time.
Looks like the pothole crew was. It’s gonna be a bumpy ride….
Russia said it was ISIS.
This place has the best cynics on the web.
You win the internet for today. Well played.
The CIA said on national television that it was themselves and not the Islamic State.
Why attack Crimea when Baltimore is much closer!
A bridge is a bridge, right?
Somehow…………..this is all Trumps fault.
I saw the same event, I’m not sure that was the first power loss event.
I thought I was watching the crappy movie version of Atlas Shrugged.
Ship visibly veers into bridge pier
River Current.
Capt heard saying…turn…turn…turn…FUCK….we rota get routa here……
lol
Steve Sailer & his Unz reader-posters on the disaster:
This Is Bad
https://www.unz.com/isteve/this-is-bad-2/
EXCERPT from Sailer:
“Personally, I would at this point avoid jumping to conclusions about how this must be an example of whatever is your favorite complaint, such as the Crisis of Competence or DEI or Crumbling Infrastructure or whatever you learned about the Port of Baltimore from watching the second season of The Wire.
“I also wouldn’t immediately rule out a 9-11-style hijacked kamikaze mission. If the harbor pilot were on the radio to the harbor master, we could know quickly whether that happened or not.” ~ Excerpt by Sailer
If it was intentional you would think they would do it during peak rush hour traffic with hundreds of vehicles on the bridge unless they are just idiots.
Could it be a DEI/die scenario, such as these?
Part 1:
Part 2:
My thoughts exactly!
If the purpose was to create a mass casualty event, then yes, but if this was an economic hit, not so much.
This is a major thoroughfare on the Baltimore beltway. Many trucks are prohibited from the tunnels so much of the goods from this multi-billion dollar port cross this daily.
Huge economic issues
If it was intentional, isolating Port of Baltimore is the goal.
173 ships a day. That’s a lot of cargo.
plus a fuckton of containers or drive-offs and plenty of jobs.
Suspicious as hell that they immediately deny that it is any form of terrorism…..
If this was a purposeful terrorist attack of some sort I think the perpetrators would have planned to hit this bridge during rush hour traffic for maximum loss of life. There were only a handful of vehicles on that bridge at 1:30 am. Imagine that thing collapsing at 7:30 am when there would likely have been dozens crossing.
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which can control anything from GPS data to engine revs and rudder control. If the lights on the ship went out and it rammed full speed, they may have been trying to reset the power and regain control. This could have also just be evidence of the hackers taking control of even the lighting systems (impeding the crews response to stop the ship by flashing lights). This threat profile has been known since at least 2014/2018/ 2022, since there are free white papers out there in those times alone (not to mention what cleared groups get to see). AIS data shows it sped up and changed course materially to hit the bridge support. (Purple line is original heading just before the bridge).
Hi Everyone,
The speeding up to hit the bridge does not appear accurate to me. The huge smoke billows from one of the stacks would indicate the captain going full astern at max power to keep from hitting the bridge. Also, it is clearly evident in daylight that he had dropped one anchor to also try and stop the vessel. When you see the ship’s lights go out that could also mean that he had lost steerage and propulsion.
I surely do not rule out some sort of cyber sabotage especially since all ships are so electronically controlled and vulnerable. Imagine a few decades ago someone being able to turn a car off from outside the vehicle. Crazy talk. But now it is indeed possible. Probably, the same principle.
If I was sketching a possible scenario, it might go like this: “Hello American CIA. You want to fuck with our innocent young people, well keep an eye on Baltimore tonight. We are thinking you have lots of other pretty bridges at seaports and they are very crowded at the rush hour, no?”
Here is a useful short video:
Ray
Thank you Ray for that video and your input.
The video is interesting, Ray. I get the impression he has no reason to believe the crew was inept or distracted or was necessarily complicit. If it was a cyberattack that caused the power loss, I’m wondering how the attacker would know when to attack and that the ship would hit the pylon?
I believe it is basic video game level interception of the ship’s steering controls. Sitting in a van near the bridge with a few screens guiding it to its target.
I agree the loss of power operating in a restricted area turning and aligning for an exit to more open waters is potentially catastrophic . Well there it is !
The tracking by I assume AIS shows a poor alignment to exit the harbor under the Center Span without tug assistance !
The power loss set a scenario that was unrecoverable .
11 years mechanical maintenance on merchant vessels and 33 on medium to big yachts , electronics , generator , air conditioning and refrigeration . Installation repair and maintenance . We started a family and so working marine service on the Chesapeake I was home most every night !
Could the ship been hacked absolutely but I doubt the Captain , crew and pilot had anything to do with it !
Poor bastards could only watch it unfold horrified for those on the bridge
Ex Coast Guard search and rescue coxswain and boarding officer and I agree with you.
This is fine.
Container ships have always crashed into bridges.
Since the US has no enemies, this is obviously just an accident.
The question I have is, was it a friend or foe?
When the Don shows weakness, the soldiers get ambitious.
Fried, foe, or insider (CIA, FBI, etc. – not that they are not foes).
Maybe it was a vaxident.
I read that there were 22 crew members, all from India.
Hindu India or Muslim India?
What’s the difference?
We haven’t been bombing Hindus for 25+ years?
lol
Rags hate Hindus more than they hate us. Big difference.
Perhaps Nuland should have kept her disgusting Jew mouth shut. Putin’s first cyber shot across the bow. Can’t wait till they collapse the air traffic control system next.
We’ll know who was behind it by who they don’t mention.
The first salvo against the US has been sent. It was pretty apparent that the ship turned and then throttled up before contact.
Looks like they may have stolen the script right out of Obama’s movie–with some minor changes. O, I forgot, very few self-respecting TBP ers watched that cinematic signaling.
Didn’t see it. I suppose it was pretty similar?
Its clear The ship Lost power. until we Know WHY power was lost we do Not Know if it was a terrorist attack.
I’m sure will know the complete truth by noon because President Sniffum, Gropem, and Biden is on the job. lol
These ships also have a backup power system in case of things like this. FUBAR of some type.
This is a MAJOR infrastructure hit.
The Port of Baltimore is the major port serving Baltimore and Washington DC. All of the shipping north of the bridge is now trapped in place. No other shipping can get in.
Just think if it was the Chesapeake Bay bridge. It would close Baltimore and Philadelphia, and Phlly has a lot of naval infrastructure. Do you think the daily drone swarms interrupting operations at Langley AFB have anything to do with this?
Well that’s not sketchy at all, maybe we need to send more aid so they will leave us alone.
What a cruel doubt, isn’t it!
Giant diesel engines belch huge smoke clouds when they restart.
Partial paralysis of control makes a nice cover story.
Did Maersk just receive the Tesla/Porsche/Onstar treatment?
Or FULL throttle applied in a HURRY
I was wondering, when did Boeing start building boats?
Of course all this is above my pay grade so comments made here by those that actually work or are retired from this field about what LL said, have more weight. e.g. Sailor Ray Jason and the video he posted
Don’t know why she says that. From what I understand there was one. This is why I question what she says if she didn’t know that.
A harbor pilot knows the harbor, not the ships power system. If they lost power what is the harbor pilot supposed to do?
The short clip I seen earlier close up, that ship looked like it really made a tight turn to hit that pylon / support.
Funny shit
She’s is the First Black Woman To Serve As Maryland Port Commissioner. In addition there is one black male Commissioner and 4 Whites on the Commission.
What could possibly go wrong!!!
Racist white ships maybe.
How do we know she is the first black woman if we can’t define woman or if a man before her now identifies as a woman?
The MLK of course.
The George Floyd Bridge of course. Not MLK…he’s all about content of character and other shit they no longer care about.
Funny. About a week ago I was listening to NPR and heard a story about how important cyber security was for ports. They didn’t say why, just stated it as a fact and hailed this EO as being essential for protecting America’s shipping or whatever. I remember thinking what kind of cyber security do ports need that they don’t already have when it comes to their networks, etc. That stuff has been in place since 2001, it’s not like they just thought of it. It struck me as mighty odd, but then so does almost everything on NPR.
Now we know what they were prepping their listeners for.
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Capt. Sum Ting Wong
That bridge identified as dominoes.
ZFG, out.
P.S. those trucks identified as acorns. Too bad there werent any cops around to put holes in a cruiser when they fell.