The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore literally collapsed early this morning after it was struck by a large cargo ship.
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Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed early this morning
I do not have a unlimited ton captains license but was not that ship moving way too fast for that area?
I say happened during morning commute/rush would have been even worse.
Looks like the footage was sped up.
Like traffic cameras. 1 frame every 2-3 sec.
Gotcha,thanks.
A certified US harbor pilot is assisgned before any ship passes under the Key bridge inbound and is relieved outbound. A USCG certified pilot should have been in command of that ship when it hit the bridge. Let’s hear from this man/woman completely responsible for that ship before we go any further….unless he/she is a DEI hire…In that case, the whole catastrophe will be swept away never to be heard from again.
https://www.oceangrafix.com/chart/zoom?chart=12281 (Note the red delineation box in the channel just before the bridge)
Let’s hear from him/her/they/them….
Keep in mind, it was Baltimore.
Yeah, that boat was smoking through the area. Yeow-za!
Had no power..was drifting until the final few seconds.
Maybe you know, is there no manual override for the anchors? Just wondering if they could have stopped it prior.. it’s about 400 yards west of the channel/ high span .
link to video on tgp appears to show it going very slow – a camera permanently fixed on the bridge view
I heard it was doing 5mph. Watch the seconds on the time stamp at the top of the video. It alternates between what appears to be real time and being sped up.
They say 6-8 knots in main channel. Tugs had left. Local pilot in charge. Local ship repair guy called in to news said it was having power failures in port and was unseaworthy.
They said the ship lost power. So it’s forward momentum would have been impossible to stop, probably hard or impossible to steer depending on the steering mechanics.
They also said the ship warned they had no power, but not how far ahead of the hit? If just minutes there was no time. Was the Captain piloting the ship? The harbor master? Or was a helmsman still at the helm? What powered the ship, coal? Oil? Boilers? Turbines? There will be a lot of lawsuits from builders to operators to the State.
Large vessels like these run on bunker fuel. Its like tar and has to be heated to be injected into the engine. These ships engines need a kicker to get the main engine running. Its not as simple as starting your cars motor by turning a key.
Kickers and the electrical generators run on diesel fuel which is odd why the electrical gens weren’t running while transiting or at harbor. These vessels are stuffed full with electronics and an electrical failure means disaster in inner waters, oceanic not so much.
The harbor pilot is responsible for safe nav in harbor waters. Both Captain and pilot are supposed to be on the bridge when entering or leaving the harbor waters. Here in canukistan anyway. There is always supposed to be a helmsman and the helm today amounts to a joystick or a tiny wheel, all electronic.
The only time a helmsman isn’t needed is when the two people on the bridge are making out instead of looking out. Queen of the North. When I took my marine ops courses all the instructors were captains at one time. Heard a few stories that would raise your eyebrows.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/officer-given-4-years-in-jail-over-fatal-b-c-ferry-sinking-1.1339515?cache=8
Bunker fuel (#6 fuel oil) is heated to pump and atomized with steam on a hot start and air until steam is available. I burnt #6 for a decade before environmental regs forced us to #2. A short outage shouldn’t be a problem restarting unless you have flame scanner or ignitor problems. Flame scammers problems would be more likely.
Up voted the second half comment, but not the first part.
22 crew members, all from India.
See no DEI! (sarc)
https://x.com/Matt_Bracken48/status/1772594097930268792?s=20
There are no major man caused accidents or coincidences.
Ever.
Cui bono?
Looks like Putin hired some hackers to payback for crocus lol.
Honestly, if that’s all the blowback we get from Putin, I would be greatly surprised.
It’s more likely just the garnish on the.appetizer for what’s coming.
Funny, I went right for OUR worthless government instead.
That was my first thought.
This is akin to a mass shooting and the immediate response that it is a white supremacist.
It’s all distractions to get us fired up to go to war so they can kill off the last of the whypepo.
Or it could just be an accident. Vessels flagged under countries known to be Flags of Convenience are pretty much always vessels that are very poorly maintained and ready to be scrapped. Very often crewed by foreign nationals like India, Philippian, chineese, etc etc. Hence a shore mechanic stating it wasn’t sea worthy.
I agree with Ray. Looks like the captain went full reverse, thick black smoke. Whats weird too is that when main engine went down all electrical was lost. These vessels have, usually, two large diesel gens for running electricals when in port.
Imo, it was just an ‘accident’ which shows just how vulnerable infrastructure, like OLD, all metal bridges, really are. Take out one support column and it all comes down. Not that govt cares a lick.
They had been talking about replacing this bridge for years…Now, in Baltimore’s terrible condition, no money without the Feds and probably will take years to finish…
A DEI architect firm will get the contract for the design followed by a Somali construction firm for the project. It’s going to be mythic.
There are no “accidents” that take out $100bn/yr shipping ports for months or years. Baltimore is the 9th biggest port in the US and crucial. This was intentional. The only question is who did it?
Cui Bono?
Liberia is a big one.
https://x.com/Matt_Bracken48/status/1772585829283549525?s=20
No symbolism here, is there? /s
A big, beautiful metaphor for what is happening to the former USSA.
And…to further your point, it won’t be rebuilt, there’s not enough time before the US collapses. It took five years to build originally, and that was after years of planning, design and site prep. Add in the time to remove the fallen bridge, from a busy ship channel, many months at least. It would be ten years before a new bridge could be built, longer since they would probably chose the general contractor based on diversity, not competence. The FUSA doesn’t have ten years.
China might buy the scrap.
I got that.
Did they have a 100 dump trucks on standby?
Dont forget that MDE, the MD Dept of “environment” will slow roll any required permits cause Chesapeake
Isn’t that a major thoroughfare bridge? What’s the detour alternatives?
Today Baltimore, tomorrow the country.
Baltimore’s increasing dystopianism is a preview of coming attractions.
General Flynn is calling it a black swan event. Ron Paul was recently discussing a black swan event in his Tucker Carlson interview.
Consider the possibility that the ships com system was hacked by the bad vodka man, and deliberately rammed into the bridge. That would be an enormous black swan event.
Or was blocked off by Maryland staties with empty cars, ship deliberately hit it. Lights cameras action.
“How does this even happen?” How does this not happen more often? We have a complex society with innumerable moving parts. The average IQ in the US is a little below 100. And a shipping crew from India? Probably about 86. This is way too inconsequential to have been a coordinated attack. When the I-35W bridge collapsed here in Minneapolis in 2007 it turned out to have just been crappy engineering in 1967. The steel plates holding the joints together were woefully too thin. Add 40 years of weathering and layering new surfaces onto it. Shit happens.
The bigger issue in my mind is WHY weren’t a series of dolphins in place to protect the piers? They learned the hard way in Fla at the Sunshine Skyway. Guarantee there was a “study” done and it was determined we cant spend the $$$$$$ .
They had 44 years of warning, and yet nothing was done to protect the bridge. Will wonders ever cease.
https://www.dalipaintings.com/bacchanale.jsp
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GJllCe1WIAA_VYq?format=jpg&name=900×900
No biggie the port of Baltimore is off line for probably months.
The biggest handler of US imports and exports of cars and light trucks — looks to be out of commission indefinitely
And N/S truck traffic will be effed for decades!
Going after infrastructure now?
Oopsie.
At least they didn’t blow it up or set it on fire.
I would say that ramp cries out “Evil Knievel”!
On the upside,seems Baltimore has a sunnier day then New England.
Baltimore not worthy to shine New England shoes
Having a ship hit the bridge at 5 mph doesn’t seem certain enough to have worked. I doubt it was a planned operation, although I remain open to evidence.
Several thousand tons moving at 5 mph is enough to collapse almost any structure.
F=ma where m is massive.
There are videos that show possible explosions at certain points on the bridge after the ship hit it.
Lots of cables and pipes on big bridges. Lots of lights, warning lights for aircraft, channel marker lights, navigation lights, and especially lights for illuminating the roadway. That means lots of amps and lots of gigantic sparks when the magnetic field back-feeds as the cables break. Any sudden break in the power cables will become an explosion.
Also some of those live cables could have hit the water causing a hell of a short.
Much too early to call hacking, but do we remember the bunch of US Navy ship accidents , collisions a few years back ?
Ship collisions raise specter of Chinese electronic warfare
By BILL GERTZ
AUGUST 29, 2017
China has developed some of the world’s most advanced military electronic warfare weapons, including jammers, disruptors and cyber tools that can cause electronics to malfunction mysteriously, or to operate in ways that can cause them to self-destruct.
On July 30, the PLA showed off some of its new electronic warfare gear at an annual military parade in Inner Mongolia. Among the hundreds of armaments on display at the event was equipment used to disrupt enemy radar and communications in air defense and ground combat.
Just so we’re straight, Bill Gertz, a CIA spook who writes for the MSM and works hand and glove with Mossad to impugn Russia and China with made up stories, including the weapons of mass destruction fiction from the Iraq era is the go to guy?
Got it.
In 1997 he reported on Russian aid to Iran’s nuclear weapon program, based on information given him by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad.[13] In 1998 he reported on United States sale of missile technology to China.[14] In 2004, Gertz wrote that Syria, possibly with the aid of Russian troops, transferred Iraqi weapons of mass destruction stockpiles to its own military installations.
K. Ignore all other reporting on those events.
Francis Scott Key bridge. Author of The Star Spangled Banner. Nope, no symbolism here.
2023 – LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND ship scene. The White Lion was a slave ship in days of sail.
https://www.dalipaintings.com/bacchanale.jsp
I believe this also bottles up the Dundalk naval and coast guard station.
Will also put increased traffic pressure on all other ports , esp. East coast , NY , Savanah , Port Everglades.
Charleston has a huge vehicle transport facility for BMW & Volvo as well.
Because forward momentum , crosswind on the hull and direction and speed of river flow have nothing to do with vessel behavior, with or without power.
Bingo. Lost power, started to drift. No helm control as no power. Bang!
Not only that but an anchor was supposedly dropped.
A dropped anchor def wouldn’t have an effect either, along with current, momentum and no steering… Obviously a jew plot /s
Now it will need even more foreign workers. I think that might be called a positive feedback loop. X ponential.
All the official and media people are saying this is not a terrorist attack. B e very suspicious.
It wuz climate change , duh !
Rayssissm pure and simple.
Trump”s fault-Obama says so.
Ship would have had a local pilot taking the ship out of the harbor. Captain was supposedly from Ukraine but he would not have been in charge.
Captain is ALWAYS in charge. Pilots do not touch any controls – ever. They provide guidance only. There were two pilots on board.
The ship lost power. Why? No one knows yet. No power = almost no control. Rudder is hydraulic or electric and often computer controlled so may have lost rudder control as well as thrust.
The captain managed to slow the ship down and issue a warning which prevented many deaths as traffic was stopped.
Yeah, each ship is different, no one could pilot every ship coming into port.
This has Donald J Trump all over it. Republicans tearing down bridges and wanting to put up walls…
I honestly don’t know whether you are joking or not, but either way, that is so wonderfully stupid and typical leftist that I had to give you a thumbs up for it! I expect to hear this as a CNN or The View talking point immediately.
Msnbc said it was Trump’s fault. Something about the start of a bloodbath?
Oops forgot the sarc!
Would I be right to state that the shipping company has probably “burned their bridges” with the port in Baltimore?
Asking for a friend.
Ash Bridges Bay?
Dog memes now? I like it😁
I have and have used plenty of dogs(though cats are me dominant critter in posts),here Mary,have a new one with a dog and cat working in tandem like the govt. and illegal invaders!
🤣
As laughing/smiling important here is one more with a mutt:
Oldie but goodie!
What going on with shipping channel. Y/T
Ships losing power is not uncommon. Some have back up systems to provide limited power for emergencies. Harbors used to have tugs on standby for emergencies like this not sure if they do any more. As for the Chinese hacking the Navy ships a few years ago. That is not what happened. Both cases were operational error primarily due to loss of situational awareness. Unfortunately, it happens more often than it should and not just to military vessels.
The inertia generated by any large vessel takes time and power to slow down even at 5 miles per hour. Vessels such as this are actually harder to control at slow speeds as rudder(s) have less effect. Tugs are often used to moor large ships in harbors for this reason. Just have to wait for the investigation.
Peet Buttplug’s D0T minions are right on it.
Depending where the Harbor starts there may have been a harbor master on or directing the ship.
The Role of the Harbour Master
Ports can be busy places and, by the very nature of their business activities, may be hazardous places to work. The Harbour Master has a key role to play ensuring that people living and working in or close to the port, the port’s staff, customers or visitors to the port environment can go about their business safely. Harbour Masters must be familiar with all relevant safety, environmental and health laws at the international, national and local level.
Ship Arrival
From initial information provided by the ship on draft, length overall and displacement, the Harbour Master will allocate a suitable berth and apply any restrictions he may feel necessary for the safe passage of that particular vessel in his port. Vessels arriving at a port will normally contact the port control or VTS station to receive instructions on the plan for their arrival and stay in the port. This exchange usually involves confirmation of the time the pilot will board and the berth to which the vessel is proceeding.
https://harbourmaster.org/harbour-master/role-of-harbour-master
Who ever gave you a down vote is a total moron. Everything you said is true.
Maybe it was this bon mot?
Just have to wait for the investigation.
Same Captain ?
Guy is obviously ready for admiral or at least commodore rank in the merchant marine with a Naval Reserve commission of equal prestige.
Opinions are like…oh never mind. Here is LTC Steven Murray’s opinion for those interested. We will all be guessing about this for a couple days then on to the next thing. One thing I do agree with Murray about is
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This is the first in a series of actions by our own govt to restrict logistics, food supply, and access to ports. Who owns the port infrastructure in the US? China. Who owns a bulk of the remaining food processing and meat packing plants in the US? China. Who controls logistics across key sea lanes of communication? China.
This is the first of many coming attacks against out critical infrastructure. You think the cost of living is high right now? Wait a week or two. This is the first of many coming events folks. Have some food and water on hand. Be ready for the next round of FBLIE “non-attacks” that take down infrastructure.
My team and I called this a year ago. We knew the elite would take down communications, social media, infrastructure and logistics. All the while enabling the Chinese to flood across our borders.
Well,not sure if this is “it” but tis why we prep.
Memphis, TN, is another choke point for transportation. There are two big bridges for wheeled traffic and two bridges for rail across the Mississippi River. The two roadways are already close to capacity and the talk at present is to shut down and destroy the older of the two so that a new one can be built. In other words, they want to cut total road capacity about 40% for likely at least a decade at one of the major crossings connecting eastern US with western US.
Yes, the Greedy Evil Bastards are actively destroying the United States, Western Civilization, and White Culture and race.
Another short analysis
Clear and concise report. No BS theories at this point. It will take years for the NTSB to actually tell us what “really” happened sadly and it will be well sanitized.
” IF ” this was enemy action, we must ask what plane number two will be.
Years? Mayor Pete is on it, and he only has months at best.
Biden claims he wrote the Star Spangled Banner and that while traversing the Northwest Passage with Henry Higgans he taught an Eskimo girl the tune and it is very popular in Antarctica, so popular in fact that it became the longest running show on Broadway.
Seriously though biden is one fucked-up individual, only rivaled by his wife and children.
And that’s not Joe Biden, soooo…..
Ok mumbles.
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.
Thinking of the revised motto for the Port of Baltimore:
A. Ships an shit, yo.
B. Who needs mariners?
C. Royal Wakanda Navy Base
D. Closed.
E. All of the above.
When did “B” (belonging) get added to DEI? Is it something to make sure they didn’t miss anybody (except YT) that DEI might’ve missed? Or is it something added so it can’t be called DIE?
A tantalizing pick-the-new-name contest is born.
St George of Fentanyl needs a bridge, racists.
No vehicles on the bridge? Am I wrong? Because if no vehicles were on the bridge, and in light of the two course corrections before impact… it was very fortuitous timing indeed. What were the odds?
See the video. 00:02- 00:05
There was a stream of vehicles on the bridge.
Apparently, also construction crews.
Not at the time of collapse, tho
Looks that way, except for the unfortunate souls working on the bridge at the time.
If the harbour pilot was non-white, expect that fact to be suppressed.
An infrastructure attack made to appear as an “accident”. Who was the culprit? Nee-grow harbor pilot, Third world ship crew, China/Russia, CIA/Langley, or all of the above? My money is on the latter. All part of Operation Chaos, where governments fight the real ‘enemy’ – the average citizen.
Not too hard to say what’s is happening here. Apparently, its another zionist bolshevik move since it was another cultural attack (francis scott key) on america. Similar to removing statues and the like. I’m sure the power went out since that can be rigged fairly easily with a good hacker… but what of the backups for power? Surely they have battery operated lights, fog lights and search lights…no? Shipping is heavily regulated by maritime law, and rigidly so. So while you are departing a port and heading to a bridge, and you lose power, and you dont take emergency manuevers??
it would be more believable if it were foggy, rainy, high winds, stormy….but all we had was a full bright moon. Funny how strange things happen on a full moon.
“March’s full moon, the Worm Moon, rose over Earth on Sunday, March 24, exactly two weeks before the total solar eclipse that will sweep over North America on April 8, 2024.
https://www.space.com/march-full-moon-lunar-eclipse-2024-photos
https://www.bustle.com/life/march-full-worm-moon-2024-spiritual-meaning
This year, the March Full Moon is the first Full Moon after the March equinox (which occurs on March 20), so it can be also called the Paschal Full Moon. The Christian holiday Easter always occurs on the first Sunday following the Paschal Full Moon; in 2024, Easter will fall on March 31. https://starwalk.space/en/news/full-moon-march
We’ll never get the truth on this accident. Thats a fair assumption. Take heed for the solar eclipse in a few weeks.
Mebbe the pilot and the captain were busy watching the March Madness jungleball tourney?
The choke point of the Straight of Hormuz ain’t got nothin’ on the Port of Baltimore, where the new George Floyd Memorial bridge will eventually be reconstructed.
By DEI hires, no doubt.
I betcha those construction workers filling pot holes on the humpty dumpty couldn’t breath, either, after dropping to an unexpected bath.
Breeve, bro. Breeve.
Let’s make everything a conspiracy. Let’s all be retards.
Yeah. Let’s ignore a history of the incidents where we’ve been lied to.
Especially concerning horrific and tragic loss of infrastructure, vital property, and lives.
It’s hard to imagine you being on a site like this and saying something like that.
It’s like someone who is lactose intolerant hanging out at the Korova.
I suspect that Paragon is just another of The Scrotumizer’s many sockpuppets.
Note – Baltimore is the #1 Child Trafficking City on the East Coast.
There are now 4 U.S. Navy Roll On/Roll Off ships stuck in Baltimore Harbor for a period of time. There are only a few others on the East Coast. Hard to move Tanks or other Heavy Equipment to Europe without them.