First Boat Goes Through NEW Alt Channel | Key Bridge Collapse
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- Опубликовано: 31 мар 2024
- This is the first vessel to pass through a temporary alternate channel
created by the Key Bridge Response Unified Command, near the Francis Scott Key Bridge incident, in Baltimore, Maryland, on April 1, 2024. The Crystal Coast is the first vessel to use the channel since the bridge collapsed into the federal waterway on March 26th. The tugboat Crystal Coast pushed a fuel barge through the temporary alternate channel.
You can see the fallen remains of the continuous truss section of the Key bridge along with the Dali container ship in the background. This new alternate route is meant mainly for tugboats and barges since it is only 11 feet deep. 
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THESE ARE SHIPS-WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE-even a tugBOAT is a SHIP
Then why did you call it a Tug Boat? I've never heard of a tug ship before, or a push ship.
That's not a tugboat, definitely isn't a ship. That is a towboat or pusher. Please, educate yourselves.
@@jeffostroff Everyone calls them tugboats. I've never heard tugship being spoken in my entire life.
Simmer down … Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.
@@jeffostroff because when they first started out tugs were just small boats.
Awesome! Thank you for showing this!👍
I just saw the video prom department of defense a half hour ago and had to rush this one up there, thanks for watching!
Shallow draft boats can get through. Thanks for the video
Thank You all the tradesmen for doing your job, great work!!! 👍👍.....
Alright!! Great job and congratulations to the people who made this happen! Thanks for showing us!!
For relatively shallow draft. Good work team.
Thanks Jeff, for keeping us all updated. Really appreciate your content!
My pleasure!
Barge = a long flat-bottomed boat for carrying freight on canals and rivers, either under its own power or towed by another.
Ship = a large seagoing vessel.
Don't make confusion even if both of them float.
You are so on top of everything. I wasn’t expecting anything new from you until tomorrow. Great job 😊
CONGRATS to everyone involved. I had confidence that you would make some good progress. Great job!!!
That’s amazing! Thanks for the update 👍🏻👍🏻
No problem 👍
Very cool! And by coincidence just today I read in a book why tugs push barges rather than pull them. I've lived on the Mississippi and now the Columbia and see barges all the time and never thought about it. It's because the water being pushed out the back of the tug by the engines would run into a barge it was pulling and make the barge harder to pull. This is avoided by pushing the barge out in front of the tug.
You've just taught me that as well. I always thought it was just about steering the larger vessel more easily
Thanks for reading up on it
@@TheVicar I'm not sure your theory would be correct based on my experience with shopping carts at the supermarket, LOL. My friend broke her wrist, and was struggling to push her shopping cart with only one hand. It's a real challenge to steer one that way! I'm not sure where I got the idea, but I showed her that if she simply grabbed onto the front center of the cart with her good hand and pulled the cart, if followed right behind her. Since that day I have shared this 2 or 3 other times when I have seen people struggling to push a cart with one hand -- one was holding a baby; one had an arm in a cast -- and they were all very grateful. Such fun!
@@peterchristensen9585 Top result! 10/10 thinking
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@@TheVicar I'd like to enchant myself with it! In the 70s we went into the So Calif desert and sifted sand to find old Indian trader beads. I made a little "necklace" with some beads and thread and tied a knot so that it fit my baby daughter's head with the beads on her forehead. It's had a knot for the last half century I can't get out, and I haven't wanted to cut the thread and spoil being able to see how small her head was back then! But then you said chain, and it's only thread.
@@peterchristensen9585 Sadly its got to be metal but its a skill I learnt by complete mistake when an X-girlfriend was shouting at me because she wanted to create an argument to divert away from something she was doing wrong
I happened to be sat at a table and my hand was on one of her necklaces and my hand was unintentionally moving around on top of it. As I listened to her ranting I noticed that the chain was unravelling and I was thinking "Bloody hell that's a solution to a problem that I wasn't looking for"
I didn't tell her about my discovery and the relationship with her didn't last much longer anyway. But at least I learnt two new things
1. To avoid her
2. How to unknot a chain
Win win
Wonderful thank you for showing thanks Governor and staff 🎉
Wonderful! I am surprised!
Us too!
Why it's not like it took all that much to make this happen these are all shallow water draft boats. Its not like the important boats can make it through.
@@deannelson9565 ANYTHING making it through will help. It was stated that this secondary channel was going to be limited and NOT handle all the traffic the main channel could. But they need a way for the boats working on salvage to get around. Plus this allows critical material in to port and keeps port workers employed/etc.
Thanks Jeff! Love your vids!
Glad you like them!
Amazing. Really enjoying your coverage, Jeff.
this is an amazing feat for man.
Do they check every ship to make sure they have paid their electricity bills before they let them pass?
Good to see this. Although it's a tiny ship compared to the Dali, it is a step in the right direction and I hope it gives the people in Baltimore hope that their port will re-open soon!
……couldn’t agree more! How marvellous showing the ingenuity of humans’, when things start out bleak………well done to ALL who’ve made this happen!
Thanks for keeping us posted on all of the developing details!!!
Thank Jeff for showing us and for keeping on top of this situation. Amazing recovery efforts here.
great job Jeff
Thanks for the update!
This is just great! Thank you.
This is very good news and important for the area
Thanks for the update so soon....Javi G.
Those are shallow draft vessels. That first channel is said to be only 11 feet deep for shallow draft. A deeper one of 15 feet is due to be opened later for heavier boats of deeper draft.
I wouldn't call that a cleared channel, just one that has been surveyed not to be blocked. After all it passes under an uncollapsed portion of the bridge.
There is probably structural damage to the remaining supports due to the impact of the ship that hit the bridge and the falling and twisting of bridge.
We must remember barges and tugs have way less draft than a ship.
I don’t think any ships will be going in that channel because of height and draft.
Yay! Thank you for your excellent work!
Impressive work by some talented people. Thanks for sharing. Now to open the deep side for cargo ships to get through will be awesome.
It's a good sign of fast action.
or propaganda
There was nothing in the water there. Nothing fell from the bridge there. They just plopped buoys some in the water. And said use this spot.
Hello Jeff 💯👍
thanks, jeff, for showing the video.
Good thinking. Kudos for the team who are thinking out of the box.
I wasn't aware this was being done. Great!
Good videos Jeff. Sense of humor is good too.Lighten up man enjoy life 👍
Good work.
Thank you, keep working.
Much impressed with how fast this was implemented. Well done!
They were lucky there was no debris there, all they had to do was drop a few buoys
A low-draft barge is the perfect vessel to do this. I wonder if the tides can be used for deeper ships.
Great stuff Jeff 😊
That will work with a tug and barge, but not the larger ships. If memory serves me, at least around ft. carroll island, the water gets shallow really quick. Not gonna see a container ship or anything that size getting through. Also the height of the bridge span won't permit larger boats through. But it nice to see this...
The visible pier at then end of the remaining portin of the nort end of the bridge is NOT where the truss began. There were what appear to have been 3 more concrete box girder spans between that pier and the beginning of the truss. That's why, in the aerial views, there are what appear the be the stumps of 2 more pairs of piers between the end of the still-standing north end of the bridge, and the north end of the truss remains in the water. Those 3 box girder spans collapsed along with the truss, and brought down the piers supporting them.
All box girder spans on the southern end of the bridge appear to have survived -- but not on the northern end.
No, that is not correct. There were more iron truss sections up to this last standing pier. They collapsed when the main span collapsed. Check the original video of the collapse.
@Rob2
Go back and look at the original video again, from a source that does NOT crop it, such as ruclips.net/video/XeAEXNrdxBs/видео.html. You can see the far-north end of the truss near the right edge of the video. When the truss collapses, you can see it push down the piers supporting both that end of the truss and the southern end of the last non-truss span on the north. That collapse dropped 3 of the much shorter non-truss spans.
In aerial views covering the entire scene following the collapse, you can see the northern truss section extending well above the water level, roughly the bottom half of the broken supports at what was the north end of the truss, then a gap with two more broken off supports where there were 3 more bridge sections where the bridge has completely disappeared. Those were NOT truss spans -- they appear to have been concrete box girder spans.
@@Rob2
See also:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2024_Francis_Scott_Key_Bridge_collapse_labeled_(en).svg
showing which segments of the bridge collapsed. South is on the left, North on the right. The last standing pier on the north end is at the right-hand junction between red and black segments.
Looks like they are making a lot of progress clearing the main channel too!
They have not started on the channel yet, they are working on removing what is on top of the ship. The fallen bridge is under the water.
Thank you!
The poor skipper: "please dont hit the bridge pleasepleaseplease"
Fantastic!
Nicely done
Looked like the fuel barge was headed right for that end support again lol
its all about perspective
Key Bridge PTSD
The temporary channel requires a pair of tight turns from the main channel to the bridge and back.
i knew 2 weeks they would have a channel clear. Im a ironworker from cleveland ohio ive worked some of these salvage scrap jobs everyone is a top hand..
Jeff you should review the buildings that have fallen in Mexico. A lot of corruption has to do with it but it’s a really good dive you should look into it
F mexico
Agree.i enjoy all your analysis content!
Sounds like an interesting dive!!
Good monitoring. Reminds of my primary school days when they had "monitors" on the school bus to report any misbehavior by the students. That was in the late 50s and early 60s.
There wasn't any structure that fell in that part. No container ships going through that shallow channel with the low overhead. They'll get it done though because those guys are good at what they do.
Clearing the channel is the highest priority of the cost guard and the ports authority
Once they get the plan in place it won't take long
They said it will take months
Great footage! It’s amazing how quickly the Federal Government can get things done when it suits them. The depth over there is charted at 19 feet, so all they really did was permit the vessel to transit through the security zone under that span. And of course, they only allowed it because that fuel barge happens to supply flight operations at Joint Base Andrews. Can't have Air Force One and DCANG grounded due to a lack of fuel, now can we?
Great speed getting passage for ships go through great work all skilled workers 😊
Impressive!
To have people come together for the greater good is fantastic. Everyday it's the opposite, people lying, B.S. ing, and fake azz news. Thank you Jeff, for always keeping it real, telling the truth and keeping us updated on the real sh-t. Keep it coming sir.
wow such amazing much applause.
they moved 800ft to the left in the same river and called it a Alt Channel.
the amount of effort they put into that was as much as one who swerves to avoid a pothole on the road. we must celebrate with cake and pats on the back.
@jeffostroff Love the videos, one suggestion though you should make your engineering disaster playlist chronological. Oldest first. Right now it is impossible to figure out where a given series starts or ends since the order is random and the video titles arent numbered.
When a ship loses propulsion suddenly, the bow goes further into the water and the boat turns in either direction. A ship needs steering speed and propeller water over the rudder to be able to steer. That was a large ship with very large mass in motion that needs a lot to stop or change course. Keep an eye out to see if they have dropped any anchors that they dragged on the bottom to stop and that may have affected how the boat turned. Greetings a sailor.
Is that a boat 🚢 looks like a good place to go fishing 🎣 enjoy!
The indicator lines on the side of the vessel show it's mostly empty. Maybe it's just a test run.
Stuff does go out of this port also. So they may be going in for bulk cargo. Could be a test run also. Everyone is an expert so I thought I would join in the game.
Everyone driving real careful rn
11 ft is pretty shallow. Not going to help with the large container ships but at least some progress is being made.
Great video. NOAA has not updated their ENC yet.
It won't take long to get the ports open.. they only need to clear 700 feet of debris. Its not rocket science.. cut some steel and crane it to a bardge.. Working 24/7 it shouldn't take long at all. I believe the Army core or engineers to figure it out!
This is good but until they get the main channel open those huge freighters sitting 50 miles down the bay aren’t going anywhere
Do you think they will get alternate port calls? I know it's not possible with bulk loads.
@@mmmd3429 This is not an airport chucklehead.
I'm sure they will be weighing the options, all depends on the cargo and it's destination as well, so many variables to consider, not one answer for all. @@mmmd3429
Don’t you think they are doing the best they can?? They need to clear access to the mega ships but it needs to be done safely without anymore loss of life…
NSS.
I saw people posting about how it would be years before anything would move freight wise and while for now it’s only barges it would appear these guys have things well in hand.
Thank you for your coverage Mr. Jeff. Question: Am I the only one that feels unsettled that they opened channel before finding the final four workers?❤❤❤❤
This section is nowhere near where the constructions guys went down
@@jeffostroff that’s good to know. Thank you!
My question is whats the draft of the ships going through the 'alternate route', surely they won't be able to accommodate larger vessels.
They’re probably going to drudge the bottom of channel to be able to get more ships out.
Not likely, that is an expensive process and requires permits due to ecological reasons. It is far easier and faster to clear the bridge debris from the main channel.
That is a tow: A shallow water tug and a shallow water barge. They are bringing equipment for the salvage operation.
0:47, did they check the security of the connection between bridge and support, it looks like it's hanging on by a thread?
im just wondering if theyve made sure that section of the bridge is sturdy.
Even the small boats could be loaded up somewhere and now shipped thru to deliver supplies. It would take longer but at least supplies can be delivered.
12ft maximum draft. Container ships need closer to 50 feet of water. So the port is still shut down of all cargo.
What is the maximum allowable draft for this temporary channel?
Anything is better than nothing, baby steps but still progress. Carry on
Cap says hold my beer 🍺
😂lol
So what became of the container ship that HIT the bridge??
Goodness, it looks precariously ominous, but I don't know anything about ship navigation. I did live there for several DECADES and have relocated to the Gulf Coast, where they have their own share of issues (not including SNOW!). However for the most part, the local people are a lot more friendly, IMO. I lived in Florida too but it was hard to find anybody local, AKA amenable!
What is so amazing about reading some maps and laying out some channel markers?
I don't think the truss started right after the span over the new channel. Didn't a section or two of the girder spans fail on one side?
Well, those barges are probably the only ships that will be able to leave the harbor for a long time.
how did they dig a new channel when no dredgers have been seen in the area ??
wow!! awesome work !!!
They literally didn’t have to do anything physically when it comes to opening that up. All they had to do was change the security zone. I’ve crabbed and fished under the Key Bridge for over 25 years. It’s deep enough for commercial maritime vehicles that needs less than a 12’ draft to thru. To give a comparison, the channel is 50’ and the Dalis draft is like 40’ to 42’ draft. Of course the draft changes depending on the tidal movement.
How did no one learn from the 1990 Florida bridge collision and in 1975, Hobart Tasmania? Putting guard rails around the support beams.
Shallow-running vessels, for sure. I wonder how a container ship would do? Maybe they can load them lighter and make a go of it that way.
It's 11 feet deep, so no.
Is there a limit to the size of ship that can go through there? Is the water deep enough for a ship the size of the one that hit the bridge?
Yes. No
Dann Boat. I worked with them from time to time.
What is the depth of theis alternate channel?
The Army Corps of Engineers is a force to be reckoned with. Look at all those cranes in the background.
Did you get video of the captain picking his nose
I guess the section of bridge that fell off the end of this structure is completely under water ?
The pressure on these guys must be enormous
It are situations like these, where a small error can end your career or, if you're close enough to the accident site, your life
Ya’d think they’d have a pair of tugs escorting…
Is it not cheaper to build another port in another place so the boats won't have this task of going so far
Not to take away from your video jeffostroff - but nothing fantastic has happened.
It has merely been determine by survey that there are no underwater obstruction under the bridge spans that did not collapse. Just what is the usable draft of navigation?