RAW: Cargo ship loses power, crashes into the Baltimore Bridge
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- Опубликовано: 25 мар 2024
- Francis Scott Key Bridge collapses after being struck by a large cargo ship.
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Thank you for posting the raw video without useless narration on top and cutting the footage half way through!
your'e welcome dippy
No picture if the Islamic ship captain ?
@@timothy4557 WTF are you taking about?
@@NinjaNick636 Always sit in the front of the class.
@@timothy4557 What drugs did you take?
Imagine looking back at your rear view mirror and seeing the bridge you were just on collapsed. My prayers go out to those families affected by this.
I'd rather not think about that... Just asking for a panic attack even in folks without anxiety issues...
It would be terrifying. I once had a similar thing where a major car accident happened in a road I just passed less than a few minutes. Someone hopped the median and did a head on collision in the same lane I was in. Just count your blessings and just know you never know when your last day will be.
Imagine being ON the bridge and the road suddenly disappearing under you
Your prayers to your imaginary friend in the sky will not help the families.
@@brijmsn as they say it’s the thought that counts and you being so annoyed about someone sending prayers from an “imaginary” sky God really shows your intentions
Those poor road workers. Can you imagine one min you’re filling potholes and the next you’re sliding down the road and falling into twisting metal and water? God rest their souls.
I guess they didnt have time to jump in their trucks and get to safetey
I'm sorry about this tragedy! Terrible. I live in Russia, we recently had a terrorist attack, and in the USA there was a tragedy with a bridge. People, let's love each other. I'm crying.....
How humble you are to be dealing with such devastation of your own and still send concerns across the globe. A spark of hope. Stay safe, Prayers for more love, peace, & unity.
I agree. the powers that be are trying so hard for us to hate each other and send our children to kill each other. We wont have it. God bless you.
Sad, that we have no way to End the War madness Politicans and Military drop on us Worldwide. Greetings from Germany, and much Love to you all
United States citizen here, massive respect for the strength to show compassion and concern for those across the globe from you, we're all human in the end, we share one world
I'm sorry for what the west has done to Russia.
0:36 The luckiest truck driver of today passing the brige just ten seconds before it colapsed....
😮😯😨
That was me!
True
@@seeharvester fr? Dayum that crazy. Good for you.
@@seeharvester Really? Wow... I assume you had some drinks with your guardian angels last night?!
I cannot IMAGINE the sheer terror the people on the bridge felt when they knew it was going down.
Or the guy who thought he was turning off the porch light and got it mixed up with another power switch
It looked empty, but a car/truck went each way 30 seconds before the hit.
@@ljprep6250 it wasn't empty, many cars went down with it.
Yes exactly, those poor men who go to work and do a difficult job, provide safety, but where was it when it was needed? The bridge construction is out of date for the massive containers ships, and there should have been more adequate buffers for this incident to have not happened.
The terror is after. You don't have time to think AND you don't understand what's happening in the middle of the night. You would be very disoriented, NOTHING at first but shocked Surprise then disbelief, "AM I DREAMING??!!" then about a second of just knowing . . . just knowing . . . just knowing . . . you are over.
I believe they were able to stop traffic BEFORE the ship hit the bridge. What hero's!
But somehow the construction crew wasn’t saved. I’m guessing nobody wanted to drive to the middle to tell them and they just had time to block the entrance to the bridge
@@Homer-OJ-Simpson Do you understand how long that bridge is? There wasn't time to drive to the middle, and also, there wasn't anyone available to do it.
There was one transit police car at each end enforcing speed limits (because of the road works being done) and so that's who stopped the traffic. If the construction foreman had given the details to cops or dispatch of which radio channel his crew was using, then maybe those guys could have been warned on time, but nobody expected this, and there was only 90 seconds between the mayday call and the impact.
@@Homer-OJ-Simpson I read reports that the cops did try to go get them but the bridge collapsed before they made it. I heard the crew did not receive the alert though.
Clearly you didn't here the dispatch where only the police officers even thought about the workers and one was about to drive to get them when he saw the bridge collapse
I saw an 18 wheeler cross it in this vid
Me and my family were supposed to go over this bridge that day and that night , but something called us to stay home! Keeping everyone in prayers 💗
be fr
@@Janicvvvv dead serious rn
Wow. God saved you all
@@catrinahartz944 yea
I guess you could call it godly intervention. Most would just say it’s dumb luck.
In less than 30 seconds, the entire bridge span is gone. It's chilling how quickly a structure like that can collapse.
gotta love 100 year old infrastructure
@@thanosianthemadtitanic was built in the 70s. And that ship has almost 5000 53’ cargo containers on board.
Well it supposed to have barriers around the support like every other bridge in america
@@thanosianthemadtitanic Ah yes.. modern bridges are made to take on head on collisions from container ships.
@cefb8923 you would think? Your telling me the smartest engineers in the world who could design such a system did not once forsee the possibly of thousands of moving shipments per day could statistically cause catastrophe such as this?. Maybe there overpaid
I take that bridge twice a day. I feel so lucky to be alive. This has been devastating to our community. My heart goes to those poor guys who were doing construction on the bridge. None of this seems real. Thanks to everyone sending thoughts and prayers our way. Baltimore most definitely needs your support right now.
❤️❤️❤️
You could have been on it but wasn't... thus how are you lucky to be alive!? Don't make it about you darling. Lol
not any more, you don't
@@jasonexploringbecause they weren’t on the bridge at the time…? lol what
@@jasonexploring He feels lucky because theres this little phenomenon called “being at the wrong place at the wrong time”, in which he’s implying could have been his fate. Develop social cues before making ignorant statements.
This is so heartbreaking! I did not realize that the ENTIRE bridge collapsed. My prayers go out to all involved. 🙏🙏🙏
That ship turned right at the bridge pillar. Went right at it, like it was intentional
Ms13
Exactly!!!!! The lights going on was just a distraction! Because every time the lights came back on it’s like the boat intentionally curved into the pillar of the boat !!
Watch were it breaks apart you will notice explosion 💥 flashes. Controlled demolition
@@user-ct4ff8no2u when the lights turned back on it was just a backup diesel generator for power and it didnt turn the engine on it wasnt on purpose
Probably how the pilot figured it would stop the ship
Jeez. The guy who drove across just moments before the impact has a hell of a story to tell.
as if.. if you are in that situation u are probably dead preasure debries
@@emmanm5633 What?
Unlike the people still on it.
Final destination. That guy needs to go into protective custody.
Let have some respect for the guy approaching the bridge just before it collapsed. Now he has to go the long way around through town. I feel bad for that guy.
Raw footage = good journalism.
Right. I guess there were cameras constantly recording otherwise I would think it was all planned.
I want needless narration, music, cartoon special effects and avatars, whatever happened to real journalism.
@infamousgrizzly1358What complete nonsense … hence the harbour pilot steered it into the bridge … warning authorities in advance they will collide as ship out of control! Its called accident … happens frequently … just that the consequences here were pretty severe.
@@GanymedeXD The ship's power loss could have been engineered. That is not nonsense. The captain had no ability to change what might have been done intentionally by someone else. The first Twin Tower to be hit was also called an accident. I'll wait for additional information before I poo-poo reasonable speculation about terrorism.
I'm sure there are people in government scrambling about that very question, because they DARE NOT be so submissive.
@@upturnedblousecollar5811 Needs more, “Hey bros, don’t forget to smash the like and subscribe buttons…”
White lights at break points visible starting at the pillar @ 0.49 & 0.58 then seen to the LHS at about centre of span followed by orange flame @ 0.50 & 1.00 (first section to fall) then RHS @ 1.02 (break point- 2nd section) then very clearly around the second pillar @ 1.13 -1.15. Stop, start, stop, start makes it easier to pick out the white flashes some followed by orange flame from the background lighting.
very good observation i can see it too!
Thank you for sharing this information.
First footage anyone has shown that actually showed the ship on approach.
Thank you for posting this! I can see the ship having power problems with the lights going on and off and on and off.
@@MoneySavingVideos Really? People lost their lives, perhaps have a LITTLE decorum...
OR, it pretended to have trouble and intentionally struck the bridge.
Why was a ship that size going that fast?
@@seeharvester the video is sped up slightly you can tell by how fast the semi truck passes over. The ship was definitely going normal speed
@@seeharvester🤨🙄🙄🙄
As of right now the full live video of this disaster can be seen, this video was actually filmed live on RUclips, and as of right now YT hasn't filmed over the footage prior and during this accident.
Thanks for posting the raw footage without any bullshit added in.
Thanks for supplying the bullshit.
@@Kube_Dog tf are you talking about
The bullshit is calked news.
It's a breath of fresh not having to listen to some talking suit drone on in the background.
Some people aren't getting the perspective on this.
That ship is _not_ moving parallel to the bridge at any point in this video, not even close. You might think that's the side silhouette of the ship in the dark, but that ship is _way_ longer than it is tall. We're seeing it way closer to the front than from the side.
From side on, if it were travelling parallel to the bridge, you'd see a silhouette that wouldn't even fit between the pillars at the side of the screen, a silhouette almost as long as between the two central pillars.
The ships initial heading here was 141 degrees, i.e. it's heading for the middle of the gap between the two center pillars, to pass under the middle of the bridge. The yaw to starboard when it went of course was just 12 degrees.
Also, this version of the video is playing at about 6x the speed this happened in real life.
Heart-wrenching videos! Prayers to all the poor souls on that bridge!
My truck driver came home that day. My sympathy goes out to all affected.
Notice three points on the bridge with small explosions?
@@marsonofjo344 The only time I see any fire or anything related to explosions is after the fact that the bridge has collapsed and fallen onto the ship. What are you on about?
@@marsonofjo344 this is literally how bridges are made. What do you mean though
@@marsonofjo344 there were no explosions, stop trying to gaslight a conspiracy theory that this was a terrorist attack.
@@marsonofjo344 We just noticed a few explosions into your small neurones
Just imagine, you just crossed the bridge and in your rear view mirror you see the bridge that you just passed collapsing....
@@nadecha5326They absolutely would’ve heard it though.
I imagine it's very '2012' like ...
@Spoonforkbowl easy on the aggression, the ship was a pitch black silhouette when power was out
Though there were dozens of lights so something would have casted on it
Though regardless of lights, drivers on their fares may not be checking their rear views that much, especially since it looked like some of them hauled ass (assuming that's not a byproduct of a sped up video)
@@Spoonforkbowl hahahaha! Tell him how you really feel!
Now how the hell am I going to get back home again?
We had in Sweden in 1980 a similiar thing happend , Tjörnbridge disaster ... and the horror when the bridge just falls down like nothing ..
Why did the power go of on the ship, and is that the main reason the ship crashed into the bridge or was it captains fault in general?
That one trucker is about to star in his very own Final Destination movie
Just imagine him watching it replayed now.
😂
Why? Because he escaped what was supposed to happen … him going down?
This is hilarious 😂😂
Isn't the point of those movies that you CAN'T escape your death?
Driving to work, thinking about your finances or maybe your children one second, plunging into freezing waters at terminal velocity the next. It could've been any one of us on that bridge. Ominous thought.
Terminal velocity? LMFAO. 🙄
@@shelbyseelbach9568 Made me chuckle.
So devastating
There was like only seven people on there. I think they’ve found a couple so far according to my mother
Driving to work at 1:30am, aint no way in hell, you couldnt pay me enough for that.
Condolences to the families of the victims and a speedy recovery to the wounded. From Russia.
Absolutely terrifying, RIP to all those who perished
How many died?
@@FutureLegend100 about 6 million according to some scholars
@@g_rr_tt 6 people, not 6 million😅
@@FutureLegend100many
@@FutureLegend100 6 people have been presumed dead, they were construction workers that were working on the bridge at the time
Thank you for posting this without usless commentary
or music.
You provided the useless commentary.
@@Kube_Dog TROLL ALERT!!
@LrisKaneJewelry - there is plenty of us commentary, read on
The footage is spead up a bit. I'm not mad at this at all so if people have time to fully watch go to first coast news is quiet there also
Lights goes off and comes back and then it make turn in to bridge, was it hacked?
Imagine watching this afterward if you were one of those trucks that made it over just in time... 💀
True. It gave more context to what happened with the power going out and the exhaust fumes. Befoe the black out the ship was on correct course, power goes out they drift for a while and when the power comes back, they are on course to hit the bridge so they go full throttle (black smoke from the exhaust stacks) but because of how big and heavy the ship is, there wasn't enough maneuvering time. Sad.
What is wrong with India: what a great infrastructure ;)
@@hithere3035which is why there should be backup systems. This is beyond stupid
Франческо Скеттино опять получил права 😏😁
@@thesanatanscientific1390 I don't get it?
"looks like we're going to miss-"
"HARD TO STARBOARD"
Cost of concordia moment.
Where can I find the raw footage?
Where was this camera situated?
Those cars at the end got so lucky.
you can still see there are cars on the bridge while it colapsing ....
@@maisasB Construction vehicles, possibly empty. They don't know yet
@@StrangeScaryNewEngland there were at least 4 with lights on moving, westbound
I think they cleared the bridge just before it happened and stopped ppl from driving across
The ship did a mayday call and they did close the bridge to traffic, 7 cars are reported to remain on the bridge. Lucky this was 1:28 am and not during morning rush hour when traffic is gridlocked, casualties could have been in the hundreds
It's nice to see the raw footage. Thank you. So much speculation while only showing the actual collapse. Seeing the ship go dark twice with billowing black smoke as they come back on is all pretty telling.
Yes, sadly the US are thankful it wasn't terriosts 😐😐😐
Paranoid
It was a loss of power and onboard fire.
@@seanbonella It wasn't terrorists?
@@binderdundit228You need to learn the difference between electrical power and propulsion.
@@HaroldBriceWhy should it … thats just conspiracy trolling … the harbour pilot was in charge … just an accident …
what are those explosions on the bridge?
Yup i said same thing
Perhaps the electrical power cables sparking as they get snapped.
The way the bridge just crumbles like that is mind blowing 😮
No bridge can survive such a heavy ship hitting it without at least some damage and loss of structural integrity
WAs driving over it comming home for work and strangely thought to myself how I must have been over the bridge cose to 800 times over the last 3 years. i have the dashcam footage. never thought it would be my last time driving over. I drive over it 4:50 am every morning.
Glad you safe, God bless
Yes thank God you are ok.
god bless you. thanks for your service
Post the footage
That's scary
I live in Maryland. A couple of yrs ago a friend gave me a ride to go buy a truck from someone who lives in Edgemere. So we drove over the Key bridge and I bought the truck. When I drove back over the bridge it was dark and I remember thinking how scary it would be if it ever collapsed - a thought I quickly dismissed because "there's no way that could ever happen"😳
U jinxed it!
Boys, we found the mastermind!
Jk
In fact it wasn't an accident.... To the wise man, a few words...
🇷🇺
FBI Agent: “interesting. Thanks for the information”
Any bridge that gets completely taken down by one structural failure needs to be investigated.
The entire incident needs to be investigated.Something is amiss here.
@@deliveryguyrx Yeah this is getting real suspicious, the way the bridge couldn't handle a bump (don't get me wrong that ship is massive but still)
The way the ship seems to intentionally turn towards the bridge-? If I were the captain I'll lower all the anchors and shut down the ship and call for help.
@@Plab1402 It’s physical science dude look up how much that ship weighs. They sent out mayday calls but you can’t just stop something that weighs that much
@@Plab1402 I've worked on bridge design. No bridge can take a 100,000 ton lateral hit. Unfortunately, this bridge was not designed with sufficient protection around the pylons (I believe it had some basic "dolphins", but not enough to stop this) to be able to absorb all of the kinetic energy in that ship. On many bridges, there are extensive underwater structures built around the structural parts of the bridge (in an oversimplified way, think of a huge pile of boulders) that would potentially be able to stop the ship before it hit the actual bridge. Like everything else, those doing the construction must weigh the cost of these sorts of things when proposing a cost for construction. If anything I would say this should be a wakeup call for us as a country to look at the most critical bridge infrastructure and consider such an investment. From what I've read, this is going to create quite the supply chain snafu for this area. Very sad.
tell me you know nothing about structural engineering without telling me you know nothing. Derrrp!
This is a complete tragedy RIP to the ones who lost their life ❤
Oh my gosh!!! My heart was racing watching those people cross!!! They were so lucky to get across before this happened!! So horrific!!😭😭😭
Some didn't. You can see vehicles on the wider angle shot going down with the bridge.
Mine too. I was like go go go. And for the people before just saying stop stop don’t keep going.
So sad for the ones that didn’t make it though…
@@mirandahotspring4019 I couldn't see any vehicles moving on the bridge at all when it collapsed. There are lots of lights but no movement.
@ShellyCline Watch around the 1:00 mark and look at the bridge where cars would be. You can see some sitting still. One has it's blinkers on, near the middle of the video frame.
@@trashfire9641 There were workers doing maintenance work on the bridge.
I dunno why but the scariest part of the whole thing is the way all the lights go out
Yeah apparently her primary power plant died for reasons currently under investigation. The lights you see later are her emergency lights which are on their own generator and are intended to save lives in case of evacuation and allow the crew to attempt to right the situation.
Yes almost like a signal, on off on off,
But they came back on in seconds. Then it was turned toward the bridge. Something fishy.
They say that the fuel the vessel just put in at the stop prior is Tainted which caused the power to go out. The vessel was only going 9mph as you can see they clipped with the side of the vessel, so they tried moving it
@@josephkolozi9364 yes tgars called a emergency generator.
That turn was the vessel swinging as the screw lost propulsion, though it may also be the anchor slack. They cannot change rudder positron without power
How week was that bridge though
So sorry for the victims of this tragedy and their families, my heart goes out to them.🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Also, in Vancouver's harbour, tugboats have been required to accompany all oil-carrying freighters and many container ships as well as they go under the Lions Gate Bridge. The tugs don't use lines, just travel alongside ready to nudge the ship if it loses control.
There were two tugboats with it.
@@Objectified where do you see the tugboats?
No tug boats when the ship leaves the port on its own power. They use to have to guide the vessel under the bridge till it was clear. Policy was changed.
Of course they change policy to save dollars lol. Guess they’re gonna have to change it back.
@@user-ns9bk2si6zThe ship appears to be out of power for quite a while. It sounds like the cargo ship was going about 8kts or about 12mph. It also seems like the ship turned quite sharply and two tugs(which have an insane amount of thrust) could have helped mitigate the impact or at least given more time to close the bridge.
They are saying that they were able to stop traffic, but the last vehicle crossed ten seconds before it hit.
They only had a two minute warning no joke :/ it’s a miracle they even stopped them
This video is sped up
@@huh0123 Having now seen several other videos,I agree.
It was probably 20 to 30 seconds in real time.
I did noticed that omg , a few seconds before it collapsed there were like 2 cars crossing or 3 😢
I've heard about the bridge falling but I didn't know how it fell. Question is how did the captain hit the supporter of the bridge?
What's up with those little explosions maybe in different spots at the too of the bridge? Like placed charges? Or did that bridge have big power lines running up there and they ripped? Anyone notice or know?
Metal bending involves reshaping metal through physical force, like pressing or hammering, while dynamite causes sudden explosions and fragmentation. If you see metal changing shape instead of exploding violently, it's likely metal bending, not dynamite.
@@JustMemesFYit doesnt need to be dynamite to sevre metal like that
@@GradestCollectibles99 read what I said again
Completely bizarre how it turned right into it !
It was drifting out of control … the harbour pilot tried to avoid collision … in the clip the speed is increased … hence it just looks as if not just drifting.
I find it strange.... generators didn't function. .after the ship ran out of power!!
Someone actually told me last night that it was planned. Said his friend had calculated all the numbers down to the date and everything. Another conspiracy theory but it is pretty strange how instead of continuing to drift away from the legs of the bridge, it turned right into them. How the power shut off just before it got that close. Not saying it was planned, but not saying it wasn’t either. Strange and incredibly heartbreaking.
@@virginiawiles5373 yo yo shut this nonsense.The authorities were sent a warning way before this happened.Tell that friend of yours to not be a stupid conspiracy plotter and instead collect some actual knowledge.
@@Zzzffee3833with all the crazy stuff the states has done even to themselves for the sake of distraction I wouldn’t doubt it if this was planned. Whatever it takes to keep the eyes off Moscow and Palestine
After learning more during the past 24 hours: 1. The Dali lost steering (rudder) but the single screw engine was running. The ship was experiencing power outages while underway. 2. Dali was moving forward at 7-8 knots when the exhaust cloud was seen on the video. This was caused by reversing the engine to slow or stop the vessel. 3. Like any single screw vessel it pulled hard to starboard (right hand direction) when thrown into reverse but kept moving forward. Even in reverse a nearly 1,000 ft. container ship will not stop on a dime. The rudder was not available to counteract this pull to starboard. This is what caused the hard right turn toward the pylon. 4. The Dali ran directly into the bridge pylon.
Seems that someone purposely hit that bridge knowing how that particular ship reacts
@willowsloughdx ~ Thank you so much for the helpful explanation of that hard right turn! It boggled my mind.👍
"...like any single screw vessel..."
That's a regular thing it does? What causes it?
@@justsayin._. We can't post links here. Search for "single screw engine".
Wrong. Anchor made it turn but nice try
Baltimore Bridge collapse full Video
ruclips.net/video/Lzm6AGkphus/видео.htmlsi=oi6O9nkGQOedIt_9
This video should have something to say that it is playing at multiple times the actual real life speed. It makes the ship look faster, and everything else look even more dramatic and unreal than it was.
Also the angle makes the ship look like a shorter ship going _parallel_ to the bridge, as many of the commenters have mistakenly believed (as if the ship was heading for the shore at Dundalk, rather than aiming to go under the center of the bridge).
Ship was at about 8kts heading 140, and then drifted starboard by about 12 degrees. This video makes the ship look like it was doing much greater speed.
0:48
Looks like a blast. You can see a small explosion on the upper left part in the middle of the bridge. And why are the lights going out on the ship?
Loss of power. Loss of propulsion.
That’s smoke from the engine on the boat my dude!
I agree
There’s also smoke at the end on right side 😮
It's interesting how people will see things completely differently even when presented with the same video!
I am not a captain and dont own a boat. I never have been on one tha big. I leave the judging to professionals.
I am a professional but I'm leaving the judgement to professional's who are there and know exactly what happened rather then Monday quarterbacking
I don't think they are seeing things differently. I think some just don't understand what was going on and why the shipped moved certain ways and what happened when they dropped anchor. Some believe it to be intentional when there is just absolutely nothing that appears intentional here.
@@jeffhaggarty9879the question for me is always...why is everything big like this intentional? They WANT it to be intentional. 😅
@@GreyMatterEnergywell it's a lot less scary to believe that there are horrible people out there we can hunt down who cause things like this rather than things like this simply being a roll of the dice that we can realistically do little about. And people don't like to be afraid.
Very grateful it was early AM and not during busy hours. Prayers out to everyone who's involved likewise their loved ones.
The ship sent out a mayday, which saved lives. Also, the bridge was being worked on so it wasn't as busy.
@@kandykane2160 Why it collapsed like that easily? I've seen Japanese engineered bridges survived ramming on its ports by big ships, but wasn't totally wrecked ,just repaired and retrofitted and good to be use again.
@Hook1229 people were wondering the same thing, but the bridge is up to code. I guess the heavy cargo. It's terrible all around.
@@Hook1229 there’s nothing you can do to stop that much weight. Science class should’ve taught you that. You need a mountain to stop a ship like that and bridges are not mountains.
This was a hit to take out critical infrastructure and to incidentally poison the Bay, and thus Maryland's seafood industry. It was not intended to be a mass casualty event. This time. Otherwise, it would've happened during rush hour.
Did the power go out on a massive container ship in NYC two weeks before this event?
praying for all those affected!!!
From Russia our deepest condolences to the families and friends of those affected in this disaster...
Thank you. As an American, our condolences to those affected by the Moscow shootings.
Yes im British, condolences to the Russian citizens and American citizens.
Thank you sir. Our condolences to the families and the lives lost in the tragic terrorist attack in Moscow. I hope we can strengthen relations in the future.
Again from the UK, condolences to both the American and Russian citizens.
Same, from Canada. This is terrible how the whole bridge collapsed. Too bad that not everyone got off of it (from what I heard).
Is it just me or does it look like the ship steered right into the support column?
It lost power so it couldn't steer anymore to change the angle
anyone can see that.
When the ship lost power I'm sure the steering was not functional. Kinda like when yiur car dies and so does your power steering.
looks like he steered right into it@@dannydorito4675
Looks like they got power back, tried to avoid it and then lost power again
How much does the bridge cost?
It looks like the decks were lit up and smoke was coming from the stack was it an accident?
The power did come back on, and then off again, and then on again. Thick smoke and soot from the stack is either an engine restarting, or being put into hard reverse or something else unusual. The ship was slowing down, and they dropped the port side anchor in an attempt to reduce the drift off course.
No clue how boats work, but why did it look like it turned into the bridge?
Lost power and shipping channels especially this one has currents so if your turning into a channel and lose power you will continue on your path until u regain power and try to correct the ship .but with the momentum of this size of ship it is not instantly corrected
From the few knowledgeable folks who have already made videos about this: When the ship briefly regained power, it appears the captain reversed thrust. With but one propeller, the reverse thrust will cause the ship to veer, not even accounting for the anchor being dropped on one side of the ship to slow it down. The captain here would have been better off allowing the ship to continue unpowered on its original course rather than trying to slow it down.
The port side ( left ) bow anchor was dropped to slow the vessel which turned the vessel into the bridge abutment.
Well, my guess is that the ship's captain ordered all engines full astern a couple of minutes before impact. When the power started, they saw they were getting dangerously close to the bridge. Full astern means throwing the ship into reverse immediately, usually only used in emergency situations because of an impending impact. The reason I think this is because of the speed at which the ship's stern turned a few seconds before impact. Ships, especially cargo ships, don't usually turn that fast unless they've already been slowed down (in this case, by the full astern order). When they saw how close they were, orders were probably given to turn hard to port (turn right) in order to quickly correct course and navigate under the bridge but sadly the ship ended up turning too fast and it ended up making it collide head on. However, the power failure looks like it started before this footage even began. This is all speculation, though, and we won't know for sure what happened on board until the rescue efforts cease and investigation begins. All we can do as people right now is pray for the people who went into the water if you're religious and keep your thoughts with them if you're not.
Cuz it did. A hard right turn.
Apparently, this is not the first crash this cargo ship was involved in. Back in 2016, it crashed into a bridge (?) In Belgium. This was only a year after it became seaworthy. I don't know if it was the same captain at that time.
It hit a berth in the Belgian port of Antwerp and no, that captain was fired the same month. He's the Ukrainian captain that all the 'rumor mongers' keep saying was captain in this incident, supposedly angry about lack of US support for his country... all of this despite not being captain for over 7 years and the new captain being from India.
@@jimbobeire Apparently he didnt know how to drive the ship either
@@mrcoz1764 power outages not much bro could do with no controls
When it struck the bridge in Baltimore it was being piloted by a local boat captain who works to move vessels in and out of that port "Safely"
@@OldManMuskrat I think the tugs lead it correctly and it was all fine until the cargo ship got some power outages, got pulled by some currents toward the pillar, the crew of the ship noticed something wrong and sent emergency calls, the tugs tried to go back but it was too late
Very sad for families of those lost. Condolences
This video is heart-wrenching.
Imagine driving home from work and you see the bridge coming up…then you don’t
Yeah or just chilling outside near there and seeing that happen...
Certainly tragic. I was amazed by how easily the bridge collapsed in it's entirety, it looked like it was so fragile. I realise the cargo ship weighed in excess of 155,000 tons and was surprised how quickly it stopped in relation to the bridge just collapsing.
It was the center span, not the entire bridge. The ship stopped dead on the pillar it destroyed.
That is my exact thought. The bridge collapsed on both sides nearly simultaneously. Seemed so fragile Absolutely tragic
but now watching again i see the center pillat went and pulled the rest of the span with it.
It’s all connected.If one span collapses,it put unanticipated stress on the others,above what can be practically constructed.What is needed is a long pile-driven wedge shaped deflector,filled with rip-rap and concrete,both fore and aft of the channel supports.
Dunno if this is true, but apparently the ship realized the loss of control and contacted local transport department before throwing anchor. It probably slowed down enough to the point it stopped easily when it collided.
Sadly not in time to stop before collision
A massive cargo ship (like this one) is like a freight train...they take FOREVER to stop even if everything is working properly.
HOWEVER, the MAIN reason this cargo ship stopped so fast was BECAUSE it hit the bridge which collapsed on it. Also, since it was just leaving port, it wasn't going anywhere near full speed either.
Where did those videos come from? ???
A livestream camera from a bunch of shipwatchers. It's been livestreaming for about 7 years.
Was there no Anchor on board ?
The kinetic energy of a fully loaded 900ft container ship traveling at 8knots, is around 2.5 times the kinetic energy of an Airbus a320 flying at cruising speed. That’s a lot of energy!
Almost like the fortnite bus
nerd
And caused a lot of damage
Fr. If it hit land for example it’d stop 1/4 mile-ish inland? Or further?
@@GelosGod compliment
I own a 50 ft boat and if you loose power there isn't much you can do . I have friends with me and when coming into dock I tell them all the time don't try to stop the boat it will break your arm or legs let the motors work ,but if they quit I will ruin a dock or the boat . Thoose cargo ships are massive in size and tonage . It takes almost 2 miles to stop a aircraft carrier from full speed . What a sad and tragic day for baltimore and for years to come .
Have you ever heard of an anchor mate?
The should be square before ever approaching the bridge... I find this to be beyond suspicious...
@@mangore623 lol
@@mangore623an anchor would do absolutely nothing in this situation lol
That's why cargo vessels, normally, use tug boats and pilot boats near infrastructure.
Was the ship supposed to pass under the bridge between two pillars or did it crash with one of the bridge pillars?
Yes, the ship was initially right on course in the shipping channel to pass under the middle of the bridge. It looks like it lost power and drifted into the bridge pillar.
That last driver, could you imagine 🥶🤯
That ship was way too close to those pillars even before they lost power. Condolences to everyone involved.
What nonsense … you got no clue when they lost power! The power cut happened way before. The flickering was the start of the emergency generators. The harbour pilot even had time to call authorities that they have no control and most likely will smash into the bridge … to evacuate the bridge. But that takes plenty of time.
@@GanymedeXD even the minister of transportation said the the ship was not in the main canal. Before the crash. According to the news report they reported a power outage minutes before hitting the bridge.
@@GanymedeXD they sent a sos to warn the authorities what else could they do-?
@GanymedeXD yea but no boat should ever be pointed in the direction on those pillars or that part of the bridge in case they loose power.
@@Zzzffee3833not point their boat in the direction it did in the first place.
Why does the ship turn right before the blackout??
Warum dreht das Schiff vor dem Blackout nach rechts ??
Look again, there were _two_ blackouts. This video is sped up. You should watch the original at normal speed. that first loss of power was just under a minute long. So the ship was turning off course before the _second_ blackout.
why does the engine appear to be ramping up and the rear of the ship is turning into the bridge rather than kicking the ass end of the ship towards the bridge See (black smoke) pour out of the smoke stack as it looks as if (it was attempting to gain speed to hit the pylon support.) Also Does this ship have front steering thrusters?? that would be nice to know. AND is there on the 1 CCTV for the entire port covering the bridge??
That’s horrific😢 thankfully there weren’t as many cars on the bridge stuck in a traffic jam or the situation would be a lot worse!
Слава Богу!🙏
Oh man, thank goodness for coincidence.
Bidumb in his sopeach said they had just closed bridge to traffic as a precaution 2 mins before colapse... there were still cars passing accross when it was closed
@@williamhaynes7089 There are rumors that the ship was piloted by a Ukrainian, perhaps this was done in order to distract world society from the terrorist attack in Russia...Sorry for my bad English :)
Thank you for posting
What happens to the cars on the bridge ? Is there any injury or death ???
no crossing traffic left on the bridge, the port transit cops stopped all vehicles entering the bridge after hearing the mayday from dispatch. a construction crew filling potholes in the middle of the bridge was the only casualties. 8 men went in the water, only two lived.
That same ship had a similar incident in Antwerp, Belgium about 5 or 6 years ago!
It was July 2016.
What I don't understand is how can a major harbour like this with very obvious obstacles and giant ships operate without TUG boats. If this ship had TUGS this disaster wouldn't have happened.
IIRC This harbor requires pilots but not always tugs, so there was likely a harbor pilot on board familiar with the area, with the real problem being how and when did the mechanical issues start? Cause they were just leaving the port when this happened. Tugs are not without their own challenges and safety issues.
@@Nope_handlesaretrash Forreal. It looks to have lost power twice but how was the ship accelerated and turned STRAIGHT into the support beam.
Of all places to find the first channel I ever subscribed to, I didn't think it'd be here. Love your chanel. I agree that this ship should've been accompanied by tugs and I don't know why it isn't the standard everywhere. I lived within a short distance of the skyway bridge and I sometimes wonder if that could've been avoided if there were tugs assisting that ship as well.
Tugs arn't safe to use above 4 knots so they're let go once the ship is in the middle of the channel in order for the ship to speed up and power out of the channel under its own power.
00:50 what's that fire on the top left side of the bridge? What caused that?
They were roasting hot dogs and marshmallows.
When metal bends it gets hot and makes sparks
did u guys see the alternate angle on twitter of the bridge exploding its crazy i wonder whose responsible ☠️
I'm devastated at seeing this and praying for those who lost their lives. I'm so very sorry and heartbroken.
Why did the ship turn heavily to starb'd without power?
That ship was steered right into that column!
The turn looks more dramatic from this angle, especially because people are misjudging the angle the ship is travelling at, at the start of the clip. The ship is WAY longer than it is tall, but it looks shorter here because of perspective, and assuming it was going _parallel_ to the bridge and then made a 90 degree turn. In fact it was heading to pass under the middle of the bridge, heading about 140 or 141, and it drifted off starboard maybe 15 degrees... not 90.
They also dropped the _port_ side anchor, which would be an attempt to reduce the drift to starboard. In other words, trying to _prevent_ it drifting into the pillar.
did it lose power, or was it hi-hacked
Why did the captain take a hard right turn after the power came back on? Looks like he decided to steer right toward the bridge support.
Either they had to steer to "stay in lane" (not wanting to hit land, other ships, etc.), but you can see that power turned off again after they started turning. So the rudder was still turned to make the ship crash into the bridge.
Or, as others have written, the ship threw out its anchor, and turned in the worst direction possible.
But I am not an expert on ships and have not read much into the situation so take everything with a grain of salt.
Loked like the power turned back on. Maybe the back up power takes time to turn on.
Regards a ship that size should never be pointed at the bridge.
Didn’t you see that they had no steering? Also it was someone from the harbor driving the ship not the captain
My little sister lives in Baltimore I had to check n make sure she was good. Praying for those workers
prayers one love
Is she a construction worker? As they said … no other cars were involved. Only the construction team was on the bridge … which is tragic enough.
@@GanymedeXD there was legit multiple cars that went thru right before impact 😂
why was there a spark on the top part of the bridge when it collapsed?
The bridge that has miles of electrical cables supplying power to lights and other systems? Why that would spark? Is that what you're asking?
Metal fast glide on metal = very hot
= make spark
How does it loose power, pass it, then reverse into it? Weird
How the boat went completely dark for a second and the fact that ship curved into the path of the bridge looked wild as heck!
Exactly!!! Ppl need to wake up and stay woke
The ship clearly lost engines stop with this non sense
It was possibly hacked
@mtbjorng5166 imagine not knowing how cargo ships work and them commenting false information. Go do ur research, ships that big with that much cargo, even during a power loss, have not one or two, but multiple backup generators. ALSO ships don't just fucking turn when power goes out, they don't loose control. This was a setup, open ur fucking eyes buds
@@mtbjorng5166 take your boosters
I'm confused - the ship was heading straight, lost power, but then the power came back on and the ship made a HARD turn towards the support. Then it lost power again, only for the power to return just in time for the ship to look as if it corrected course to make sure the support was indeed struck - before power was lost a final time. I'm not saying it was deliberate, but it sure looks odd...
Right
It's physics. the ship's propeller spins clockwise, so if there was a loss of rudder control, the vessel would turn to the right due to it's mass and inertia. if we lived in a "reverse" universe where propellers spin anti-clockwise, the ship would have turned to the left and may have avoided the pylon.
Wow, I guess I'm not the only one who thought of this. All imma say is something something just ain't right with this whole situation. My gut feeling tells me it was purposely done. Then, you aim directly towards the main beam, make it look like the lights went on and off to then purposely steer towards the piece you decided to hit. R.I.P to anyone that lost their lives❤️Only woke ones will understand & see the real. Oh, and of course, make it look like it was a power issue for people to believe.
@@mindbodysoul9718 Considering it was crewed by Indians I'm surprised the thing could even cross an ocean.
Yeah, you’re not supposed to see that this is not an attack on our country. Totally just an accident I’m sure.
Very strange.
The ship supposedly lost propulsion, but the reason it crashed into the pillar is clearly because it drastically changed course.
Did the rudder get stuck in position?
The story makes no sense.
Of course the rudder is stuck in the turn, no power no rudder. They do have emergency generators for essential power, fire pumps, etc and also for the rudder, but it looks like it was not aligned.
An anchor can only do so much to the momentum of this floating skyscraper.
Would there be smoke coming out of the engine smoke stack if engines were off?
If power was restored and they threw the engines full astern that would cause a lot of sudden black smoke. Seems to coincide with the lights coming back on. We can only make guesses here.
Tuned awfully sharp too all of a sudden. But who knows
@@davidmathews9633 But that could be a couple of factors. If they lost power as they went past the Curtis Channel (which is between the bridge and the port, look on a map) then without full engine or rudder control, the current hitting the stern would push it to port (tide was going out at that time).
Also, if they got power back on, and then ordered full reverse on the engine in a desperate attempt to stop, there's another problem waiting to bite them in the butt.
If you put the engine into reverse, it takes a while for it to take effect along the line of the ship, and initially it is kicking water to starboard, thus kicking the stern to port, which makes the bow tend to starboard. If there was limited power there's not much to counteract that, (eg. small bow thrusters that are used for berthing at slow speed) and dropping the port side anchor.... and they did in fact drop that port side anchor. The chain is visible in the water in all the daylight images of that side of the bow.
Sometimes a lot of things have to go wrong at the same time for something like this to happen. It's rare, but I can think of 4 other bridge collapses in the US caused by ships or freight barges in my lifetime, and a few more in places like Sweden, Australia and just last month 5 people were killed in China when the bridge they were driving on partially collapsed after being hit by a cargo vessel.
Everyone jumping to conclusions without all the information is ridiculous nonsense
Who's doing that?
@@felina7849 As astounding % of people commenting the "stupid news" channels covering this.
A number of later comments are screaming intentional, etc.@@felina7849
I'd say it more people just calling out what they can clearly see...
@@felina7849 All the comments claiming this is some sort of sabotage or intentional act.
It appears to be the bridge workers they're recovering, maybe a car or two. Insane the lucky ones who made it across before the collaspe.
There were a lot of trucks up there with yellow flashing lights. So sad.
the ships crew notified officials that they might hit the bridge. the bridge was closed (no idea how if it has toll booths that go ❌ or traffic lights or something) but it gave enough seconds for all moving traffic to clear the bridge
@@joeym.7642 - almost clear it as 7 cars still got the dunk treatment
@@joeym.7642The bridge was not closed … you can see cars and trucks passing till the ship hit and downed it. The harbour pilot onboard asked to evacuate bridge … but that takes time .. and they had none to action it.