Terry Turbin helped construct the Key Bridge and now reflects after collapse
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- Опубликовано: 1 апр 2024
- While we look at the wreckage of the Key Bridge, others remember what it was and what it took to put it across the outer harbor.
"I never imagined in my wildest dreams that the bridge would come down because I know how strong it was built,” said Terry Turbin.
It's been a week of reflection for Turbin. He was part of the construction of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, a monumental piece to his life.
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Mr. Turbin should be asked to turn the first bolt used in building the new bridge. And the salvage company should cut a piece off of the old bridge and give it to him.
Good idea.
Great story. This is the kind of journalism I wish we would see EVERY DAY. By the way, your work sir was not in vain. It served Baltimore for nearly 50 years and did its job!
Thank you for reminding everybody. Men are what built America. Blood, sweat and tears, and hours of labor went in to making what for the most part Americans take for granted. Thank you for everything you did. Thank you for helping make our lives better. I understand it's a part of you. You are part of a great achievement. Thank you.
I agree
and men destroyed america.
They should definitely give him a one day contract!
No hire him for consult and inspection. ❤
@@Sherlock245 Not even remotely qualified.
what a cool old dude, how good of a life to have a "I did something" feeling. Thanks for interviewing him! That was great!
Mr. Turbin, thanks for sharing the story. I hope they hire you for at least one day. 😊
This is the best story about this Bridge since it falling over. I could talk for hrs with him about the bridge. I started in 77 I was making 9.90 cents pee hr. Oct. 77. I retired as a union pipefitter. Hope they hire him. He could count trucks or something like that. He's right about how strong that bridge was. All the gusset held her together. Good job terry.
Yes..I noticed how all that steel fell around that concrete pier in the water, pulling on it and it didnt budge...amazing
Hats off to this grand gentlemen. His contribution, together with numerous others, enabled so many people to cut immense amounts of time off their journeys. However, either the depth of thought that went into the design, or the attribution of value in the sense of a sufficient budget for the bridge didn't do justice to the sweat and blood of those men who built it. The design of the new bridge needs a totally different philosophy to be generated before they draw the first line. The technical problems even then were solvable, more so with today's technology. Strong bridges are easy to build, virtually indestructible ones less so.
Please hire him for consult and inspection. ❤
Thank you sir for your services, God bless
Thank you,
Mr. Turbin
your work is an
INCREDIBLE STORY.
Good story....hope he gets his one day job on the new bridge
Wow, you deserve it as a. supervisor. Thank you for your service..
Most of the reporters for the news stations in Baltimore weren't even born when the Key Bridge was built.
Shocking
Awesome story piece WMAR-2, wonderful.
I hope the company has you work for them
Love you Mr. Turbin for doing this great state justice. We still may need your experience SIR. Thank you for making Maryland strong and proud.
Thank you sir for your hard work. And they should give you 1 day to work on the new bridge. Thank you for sharing your story
This is amazing
I think his advise will be valuable I hope he apart of what new designs could work for The new bridge..
Fantastic. I would employ him. The foundations did not budge even though they were only designed to handle smaller, less heavy and narrower ships of the time. Only designed to resist 3000T force.
The Dali hit with approx 12500-15000T force. If you look closely at the videos, the NTSD photos and other data, the ships bow overhang hit the steel truss structure... But Terry Turbin great job.
Wrong the concrete pillar collapse
@@Sherlock245he’s not talking about the stanchions. He’s talking about the foundation that goes down into the bedrock. That ship didn’t bust right through the concrete foundation. It held its own
@@jamesepperson5940 but that not why the bridge fail. It fails cause the concrete hallow pillar broke on impact the photo show it. I agree the foundation is strong but that cause the damage was down on the top now the bottom.
Foundation is useless if the bridge falls.
Terry, the bridge builder should hire you to do community outreach
Why is there not a live feed of the cleanup effort that people can watch? They should have cameras set up everywhere to capture different angles and have someone remotely controlling it like a RUclips channel where the audience can request zoom in shots on certain activities they are doing. Would be cool and help keep interest in the project and maybe inspire future engineers, welders, divers, etc
Because they made no progress on the cleanup I tuned in a lot for the update and so far no updates just old news
Streamtimelive homie
there are several hours of live cams each day but it's so early in the game that there's little to see.
Cool story!
The new bridge will have a new name, will overrun cost projections by hundreds of millions and take longer than expected to complete.
Because of building it fast it of course will have cost overruns. In this case to state otherwise is silly. A 100s of millions of dollars project normally has plenty of time to design, create a bill of materials, take bids, set lead times, etc......this will not have that benefit. It will cost more and be an unstable cost estimate specifically because it needs to be done quickly.
Considering normal jobs with planning go over budget, this one has to by nature of the project.
Why wasn’t barriers put up after the sunshine skyway bridge was destroyed
you could ask this for every truss bridge in the country
@@jaquan123ism but this one didn’t and it suffered the consequences and you have put them on a list of which ones first that need to have barriers put in so that the country doesn’t have to go through this
Awesome guy awesome story ✊🏽🇺🇸
thank you for your comment from this video
This was an awesome interview
Gotta get that steel cutting video in there. Seriously did they take any other angle than that? It’s the only clip 100 news outlets have shown
You see what they want you to see, nothing more, nothing less.
I hope he is hired for a day. Just like an old football player coming back for a day. I hope they dont change the bridge name.
2:21 I was a machinist on Canada's largest single-leaf bascule bridge, and that's exactly how I felt about the work I was doing. It's going to be there a very long time, so do your very best work, it counts!
Thanks that was great
Much respect. Love these stories. HIRE HIM!
Supervisor for a day. White hat. Vest. Clipboard. Whole nine yards. Take an hour for lunch. 😁
Thanks!
Thank you for your hard work.
Great story Ashley. Enjoyed seeing the old footage of when the bridge was built. Very sad and tragic though to see it now in the Patapsco river on top of a container ship with part oF I-695 draped across it.
I am very close friends with his youngest son. Mr. Turbin is a good man and I hope he does get to work on the new bridge!
Sadly, those puny dolphins just marked the channel, they didn't protect the bridge.
The ships in '75 are nothing compared to current offerings. And you have to remember the ships running the channel were easily 10-20 years older than that.
Goes to show, nothing stays forever.
Back when workers took pride in their work
Lets see you make that comment in a crowd of iron workers... If ya got it in ya...
Notice how much concrete goes into supports nowadays as to those toothpick ones back then why would they even have signed off on those in the first place.
Hindsight is 20/20, but it sure seems like the Key Bridge should have had protective concrete buttresses surrounding the bridge’s legs just like the nearby Betsy Ross Bridge has.
Oh they should hire him as a consultant let him make his hours.
So what union was he in? Concrete finishers or steel workers?
Imagine how the Titanic builders felt
You have to say the dolphins for that bridge were inadequate.
They are supposed to stop exactly the type of event that happened here.
Hopefully they will upgrade them for the new bridge.
They also couldnt have imagined how large and heavy modern container ships and oil tankers would be. No one ever planned on something as large and in charge as the Dali wacking support
Whenever progress for profit exceeds guidelines for safety is an accident waiting to happen. In this case it was an incident that caused a catastrophic collision killing 6 people with probably billions in damages.
44 years ago we had a horrific accident to the Sunshine Skyway bridge in Tampa Florida. Many lives were lost and a phenomenal amount of damage was done. Different circumstances but the one good thing came out of it were new federal mandatory safety regulations. Protocol was refined with safety being on top of everyone's list.
No harbormaster pilot or supervisor's have spoken out or been quoted yet. Don't know who greenlighted the Dali as seaworthy as to leave port? She was having unresolved electrical problems while docked. The freezers were tripping the breakers. Still the Dali was okd by someone to start it's 27 day voyage halfway around the world to SriLanka. Coincidentally moments after the tugs left Dali's sides she lost all power. Backup power and emergency power. The ship was uncontrollable. What happened next can only be answered by the commander of this ship the Harbormaster pilot. It's been a week a d all we know is what the experts are telling us about the dismantling and salvage operations to once again clear the channel. I still hear those words in the back of my mind from previous president proclaiming that with the new federal laws and mandatory safety regulations America will never face this sort of tragedy again. Yet here we are with no answers asvto why or how..
@@user-co7fb6qe5w not to point out the obvious, but that bridge was designed in the same era when they mandated seatbelts and airbags followed some 30+ years later, yet people still die in accidents. When will enough forethought be enough? We can't predict the future and prevent things that have not been thought of yet.
@@rupe53 listen up. Fact: new federal laws and mandatory safety regulations were instilled after the tragic and devastating Sunshine Skyway bridge accident in 1980. I remember a previous president proclaiming to the people after that , " no American will ever witness a tragedy like this again." and in over 40 years we haven't. We've had natural disasters and we've had bridges collapse due to inadequate maintenance . The problem with laws, rules, guidelines and mandatory regulations is human nature is still at play. This catastrophic and tragic incident of the Key bridge is a result of that. That is why you've haven't had anyone jump up to the podium and claim responsibility or offer an actual, honest and factual answers to many reasonable questions. This horrific incident was 100% preventable. If you choose to prioritize profit before mandatory laws and safety regulations is prescription for disaster.
@@user-co7fb6qe5w it's been 40 years so anything mandatory has likely happened already. That tells me this bridge falls outside those guidelines that were set forth decades ago. Maybe it doesn't fall far enough to suit everyone? Maybe we will have more answers in the near future? Your guess is as good as mine.
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No bridge ever will stand a 200000t ship knocking down on a pillar or pylon…
Now he cant say "I built this" every time he drives over it.
Found out the other day my uncle helped build it.Not sure what he did on it. Next time I see him gonna say,"no wonder it fell!" lolol jk... Apparently there was a lot of drinking going on that job site from what I hear.
Obviously he had no idea about preventative measures.
Impressive resume. Maybe they will hire you, if even for the inspiration to others. Fingers crossed.
Man he has a cool race car name
that thing came down like something in an old Godzilla movie
6 yrs later, another bridge has been collapsed in the US. Italy was back in 2018.
How about this guy or any one built a scale model and show us how it would be possible for the road above could simply break in half ?? Engineering 101 will show that the removal of either stanchion , left or right would not show us such a result. The bridge would remain in tact falling either right or left. Street level section still tied in from above. Why is no one talking about the sparks atop bridge on both ends that helped fall it?
$8.10 in 1975, adjusted for inflation in 2024 is $47 an hour. the national average for bridge construction workers in 2024 is about $52000, which equates to $25 an hour, which would have been $4.50 ish in 1975.
well, if you figure that way it's chump change today. In that era minimum wage was around $2 so $8 was 4 times higher. Minimum is now near $15 an hour so 4 times more is closer to $60 an hour. Back then they hired guys who knew how to work, just not lean on a shovel.
Union Strong 💪
Is he under investigation ?
Not yet but......he'll probably get a court date.
Worked fine until now. Nobody ever expected to see a ship that big. They didn't exist.
did not know what he was doing
It was a great bridge and I salute the engineer!
However, with the gargantuan ships now using the port --
My solution would be a tunnel as on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel and the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel and I-664 Bridge-Tunnel.
No bridge over the shipping channel.
At least 4,000 feet of open waters and no vertical restrictions. Like on the CBBT and HRBT (actually about 7,000 feet on the HRBT).
The approach tunnel portal causeways are already in place.
That was the original plan there and the causeways projecting from shore were intended to have the tunnel portals for a single-tube two-lane 6,200-foot-long harbor tunnel. The two-lane freeway was placed under construction, the causeways (landfill for roadway across a water body) for the tunnel portals were built, and when the tunnel was advertised for construction in 1970, the bids received on July 30, 1970 were so high that it was determined that a four-lane high-level bridge could be built for about the same cost as the revised estimate for the tunnel project.
The causeways are wide enough to accommodate a second tunnel tube.
yeah, but tunnels are restricted with hazmat so things like gasoline, propane, etc must go by bridge.
@@rupe53
There are designated hazmat routes around the inner harbor some on city streets and some on I-95 and I-395.
I am opposed to a replaced outer harbor bridge. To many issues with today's super-ships.
@@scottkozel1519 um ok, so get enough people to oppose it and you win, right? Just remember that the needs of the masses will dictate what eventually happens. (right or wrong)
@@rupe53
I am just stating my opinions and stances.
There will be a public involvement process and an official study to determine what alternative to select.
i got to thinking shadie constution
Terry Pays the bill 😅😅😅
Tinker Toy bridge
Fell like a Lego set. Wasn't built that strong😂
MAKE HIM THE TOOLROOM GUY!
Dolphins were designed poorly. They are too weak. And we could see what happened 1 week ago.
They should have fired him for building it poorly
If actually bother watch the interview, one will know he was part of construction of the pillars still standing there. Both we do not bother looking into things
And the all indian crew tested the structural strength of the bridge and proven the bridge were built weak in 1975
Bridge was fine, it was the supports.
Even the supports were strong enough to do their job. They were not designed to withstand lateral forces. I'm sure the engineers who designed them knew that. They needed protection from ship strikes, but nobody wanted to pay for that, I suppose.
@@GH-oi2jf the shipping company Synergy Grace Ocean will bear the brunt ire of reconstruction cost. It was the Singapore office who are at fault. I supposed they do not supply enough spare parts for preventive maintenance schedules due to lack of spares replacements. Indian managers are fond of cancelling requested parts by ships crew. I have been with indian culture of cost cutting
@@johngreydanus2033 do you have any idea how far those supports are from the actual channel when the boat was supposed to travel?
No idea, let me watch a few more videos and then I will be an expert like you, thanks! @@rupe53
Ted Nugents twin brother right here
You was drunk when You did it
😊
Lackadaisical democrats
Sorry, but it clearly wasn't "very strong".
It was obviously not very strong. Poorly designed. Not enough protection.
It was as strong as it was designed to be. Through truss bridges don't have redundancy. Once you take out a main support the whole thing goes. They should have bare minimum upgraded the dolphins at some point,and they were going to but they got too cheap,and now they are paying the price.
1:55
@@RomeKG471 I agree
@@RomeKG471 No Schitt Sherlock. @ least when the Sunshine Skyway was rebuilt, they did put in more than adequate protection.
Nothing stopped them from adding more protection. But we all see how Baltimore is ran.
We should definitely put a memorial at the Key bridge, but we cannot rebuild the bridge during a climate emergency. Constructing bridges need to be a thing of the past.
Any future bridge built MUST be able to stand a glancing blow from a container ship given the base must be encased in a concrete 'dolphin'. The Key Bridge took 5 years to build & 5 seconds to demolish. That tells you it was not strong enough in the first place, especially given there was no protection around the bases. It was sheer luck it never came down earlier!
It was hit by a ship years ago, it DID NOT FALL. The ships at the time it were built were A THIRD of the size.
It actually proves the bridge was "strong enough". The concrete foundations were designed for ships of the time...one third the size of the Dali. Designed to withstand 3000T force.
The Dali hit with 12,500-15000T force (engineers calculation based on 8mph/130,000T/known current and wind speed). So the Dali impaled on the concrete foundation. However the steel truss section which bolted to the concrete pylon footings was hit by the ships very wide and pronounced bow overhang. That sheared the steel and if you understand that continuous fixed trusses are rigid (no give) then the whole truss folds on itself. There are many engineering modelling sites that will show you exactly this.
Terrible accident...possibly avoided if two more "dolphins" had been placed closer to the bridge as deflectors but...