@@timsmothers8740 It's so sad how much more actual information Sal can convey 30 seconds after rolling out of bed then the windbags can after a full business day on the major media outlets.
My jaw dropped that the CNN anchor was irresponsible enough to say “intentional”. If the crew followed the rules, reacted appropriately, and this happened - rules and structures need to be rethought, using reality and information as a guide
FYI... the people on the bridge were road construction crew working on the road. They were able to get the bridge closed in time to keep cars off, and the final 2 cars crossing did make it past the danger point of collapse in time.
@@marks6385The bridge is over a mile long. Stopping traffic is probably a radio call and button push to light up the warning signs. That stops traffic in seconds, and cars already on the bridge will clear it within 60 seconds at highway speed. Road workers were mostly on foot or in construction equipment. They would need to get the call, get to their car or truck, and then get up to speed - takes a few minutes minimum, and more if you consider the chaos of a group trying to gather from around the job site.
We have a Train Bridge here in New Westminster, BC. There has been damage from barges hitting. Now all traffic of any size requires two tugs to pass. I am wondering about the Golden Gate or so many others need rethinking?
@@ght33👋 up the hill from you in east bby, I can confirm that this waterways are out of control these ships are hard to turn it takes miles not min. Heart breaking news. Esysman always has the best info, you have a great day the sun is threatening to show up 😊
I live less than 20 min drive from the Key Bridge. Been over it hundreds of times since childhood and it hasn't really sank in yet that it's gone. Just unbelievable.
Just as an aside... when they first opened that bridge, they invited some of the public for an official opening day walk across... I was one of them. I've also sailed under her in a schooner. This hits a little harder than I thought it would.😢
Get over yourself. Every station did the exact same shit. But you blame the network... not the clown that should acknowledge this is literally not their wheel house.
McCabe was a never Trumper who tried to overturn the 2016 election. Then we got four years of Russia Russia Russia from the FBI ;without a shred of evidence. He should be in jail but crime does pay in the FBI.
CNN no clue indeed. A former ships Captain here. This is a typical black out as we call it. It happens seldom, and mostly unexpected. Every seaman has experienced this. That happening in port or confined waters is your worst nighmare. If this happens you cannot do anything than presenting the anchor as last resort. But the ships movement energy cannot be hold by the anchor. Very interested to see if they figure out the reason for the blackout. The crew will be questioned and the Voyage data recorder will give some clues. At the time of the accident, still in confined waters, I figure the captain, watch officer, the pilot and the helmsmen are on the bridge for sure, at least 2 sailors at anchors position on forecastle and in Engine Room at least 2 engineers and 2 assistants / oilers. Very upsetting indeed.
There is footage of the ship loosing power TWICE before hitting the pillar. All lights go off for seconds twice in very close proximity to the bridge, no power - no rudder.
@toxi_com_777 If the generators power down for some reason - no power to anything and there will be more than one generator. Weapon??? - you been watching too many sci-fi films...
@toxi_com_777 there is redundency, however, the power system can still fail, much like power supply from any land based power plant... also there is the emergency generator, but it takes a litle bit for it to come on, and even after it does, it is emergency power, it provides only to some systems and only small amouns, so its not like the rudder becomes completely imobile, ususaly the Emg Generator will power 1 of 3-4 pumps on the rudder, allowing it to move, although slow... it will not provide power to the propeller,
@toxi_com_777 There is redundancy, from what I've looked up, but the thing is these merchant marine ship will often be in horrible condition, deferring all but the most critical maintenance until later on the hope that if nothing has gone wrong yet, nothing will later. Maintenance is expensive and can take a ship that could be making money and turn it into a ship losing money for an extended period. Look up the El Faro disaster for what this can lead to. I can well see that a ship where the maintenance was constantly deferred for just one more voyage can have multiple systems fail due to said lack of maintenance causing disaster.
Those videos were sped up from time to time. The whole video was actually about 7 minutes in duration, condensed down to a bit over 2 minutes if you are watching the one with all the annotations.
Been there, seen that, got the T-shirt! I ,as Electro Engineer/1;st Engineer, was onboard a ship, entering Gothenburg harbor, with a LOT of rocks on the seafloor, and we lost all power! That was, nothing to joke about. We were in the engine control room, as usual at the time, but could not do anything. Skipper dropped ancors in "panic" (=as soon as he knew the situation) manually, just to stop that damn thing, and did it with a minimum to spare, luckily. Then the emergy generator kicked in, with a delay, and we could do some things with that power, to try to start again. But not enough, no time to spare. I do not want to do that again. My thoughts goes, to those poor "bastards" on that vessel. I sincerely hope, the casualties are least possible. And I feel sorry, for all those people involved. from a Finn in Diaspora do not want to do that again.
Thanks for the lucid, succinct report eSys! I look forward to your follow-ups. I didn't know they had responded to the Mayday and had closed the bridge!!
Thank you for the information about the data recording abilities on board. That certainly helps to alleviate concerns about finding the truth about the incident. I've traveled both under and over the bridge. It's hard to believe there was so much destruction.
As a fellow Merchant Mariner, your analysis is spot on and better than 99.9% of the coverage I have seen. Just speculating; as a semi-retired Master who had something similar occur, outbound, in Pilotage, from the Port of Tampa/St. Pete. About 1/2 way out the channel, the Helmsman informed me(the Master) and the Pilot, that he had lost steering. We immediately switched to Emergency Steering, but there was an obvious lag. In the same fashion, as you reported, then there was a puff of black smoke and almost instantly we had steering back. After calling the Engine Room, I was informed, by the Chief, that the 2nd Assistant had, UN-ANNOUNCED, decided to switch GenSets, so he could change fuel filters(while still in Pilotage). Okay, what was that you emphasized about "human error"? Keep up the good work!
It appeared to me that they lost power: (90% of the time it is the filters and fuel delivery. The Genny did come on, the lights came back on, but they cranked it wide open past the pin when the Genny was cold. The exiting black smoke points to full throttle and pray those inline Filters don't clog up and starve the Genny of fuel.. The fuel system has a Flow Rate capacity that is calculated at the dock in ideal situations as the age and if the Genny's filters have old untreated fuel you are playing Russian Roulette..If you need to do Filter Changes underway it is complicated and usually done at sea or Dock where drifting or being tied up is not dangerous to complete. When panic sets in and the emergency back up system has poor PM you are cruising for a bruising. Poor maintenance and operator error is my guess. RIP for the Construction guys who closed the bridge and saved lives.
Can you tell me any reason why they do not use tugs to maneuver vessels through precarious places with critical infrastructure,it seems to me that it was only going to be a matter of time before this eventuated. And considering it was calm I am surprised it took this long.
Perhaps better training. I think if the captain had reacted appropriately and dropped emergency anchor as soon as power went out, instead of attempting to correct, there would have been no accident.
@@ohsweetmystery The American local Pilot on the ship is suppose to be trained in protecting the people, economy, and environment of their area. The ships Captain is responsible in open waters. Tug boats should have been used to escort these ships past the old bridge.
Thank you for covering this. It's such a tragedy on so many levels. A reminder that we are all interconnected and dependent on the most delicate threads. My heart breaks for the crew, trying so hard to recover and avoid the bridge.
I'm surprised by two thngs 1) that they ship's captain/pilot seemingly tried to go full astern/stop (from the black smoke and speed drop) instead of turning. In boats or planes, reducing speed kills your rudder authority. I would hope that the emergency power at least supplied the rudder as well as the means to command the engines into reverse 2) that such a bridge has no surrounding concrete protection structures (Caissons?) to act as a defense against driect strikes on the supports. For such a busy navigation channel, that seems mad.
I am watching at 5pm EDT 26 March. Earlier today, around 5 hours ago, I saw video taken from local Baltimore TV fixed camera pointed at the Key Bridge for traffic and weather. The video clearly shows 2 seperate TOTAL POWER FAILURES on the ship PRIOR to striking the bridge. The first was approximately 20 seconds prior to impact, power came back on about 10 seconds maybe 12 seconds before impact. The 2nd failure of power happened approximately 2 seconds maybe 3 after power was restored from first failure. When the 2nd power failure happened about 5 seconds later the ship struck the bridge. Immediately after the first power failure, the boat turned to starboard (from the bridge of the vessel looking toward the bow) from the camera it turns port toward the piling. When power was restored after the first outage, the ship tried to make a correction toward the Chanel, the bow began to move back to Port ( from the bridge of the ship) when the 2nd outage happened the ship cut HARD to STARBOARD (again from ship's bridge). Reports are being stated there was a jammed PORT SIDE RUDDER. This is being reported by multiple news agencies. DOES NOT SURPRISE ME AT ALL, THAT CNN PUT AN EXPERT ON THAT HAS NO CLUE OF WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT!!!!!
on a moving ship, when the prop stops, water continues to flow over the prop, reversing the torque on the stern, conbine that with an emergency full reverse (black smoke) and that increases the torque pivioting the stern around.
Good to hear your comments as someone familiar with marine navigation and maritime operations, rather than speculation from the general media. Thank you for offering a respectful and informative report.
Some local videos are showing the ship going dark a short time before hitting the bridge support, then navigation lights coming back on shortly before impact. Also it has been said one of the anchors were dropped before impact. This bridge is not far from here. So sad lives have been lost in this very tragic accident.
They managed to get a warning out on channel 16 and traffic was haulted unfortunately there was several vehicle's already on the bridge. There was also road crews patching pot holes on the deck surface. Theres still not an exact number of people who were on the bridge yet.
When I hear about something going wrong in the U.S., I just Google the demographics of the state. That explains a lot. In Denmark, bridge pillars are protected by shallow waters, natural or deliberately made, so any ship of significant weight will run aground if it gets too close to a pillar.
I live about 2 miles from the bridge. I cannot even begin to recall the amount of times I have driven over it since 1977. The Span just celebrated is 37th anniversay three days ago. As of about 7:50 local time all further rescue attenps have been called off. 6 Constrution workers are missing. Two were rescued and incredibly one even released from Hospital already. At the last inspection the bridge passed with a decent score considering many of the bridges across the Country are pretty bad. The Port of Baltimore handled more than $80 billion in imports and exports in 2023... This collapse shuts the entire Port of Baltimore down for the foreseable future. Both cargo and ocean liners. The Cargo Vessel Dali based out of Singapor Lost power around 1:15 or so. She was able to call a Mayday and the bridge was closed to vehicles except for the roadcrew. Thankfully. All 22 of the crew and the two harbor pilots were unhurt. Agencies responded from the two counties the bridge joins. As well as the City and everal other agencies. The Coast Guard has a station about one mile over water to the bridge.
Thank you for reporting on this, because I dislike mainstream media at this point. They rarely get anything correct , and often increase the fear levels of people unnecessarily. You are always factual, pointed and relay information to us laypeople very well. Thank you for exceptional reporting as always
In the last report, I heard one of the construction crew's pickup was found in 25 feet of water with both the crew perished. The ship did appear to lose steerage after losing power. They may have hit a current pushing them into the bridge stanchion.
This was a terrible accident, and if anybody lost their lives as a result of this, my heart goes out to their family. What I must say is, such massive ships as these, really need a pilot through navigation hazards such as these. I realise that potentially there was a power outage on the container ship, but, if they had a proper pilot/tug escorting them, this wouldn't have been an issue. This happened at night, so visibility wouldn't have been great but, this is not good at all. That bridge folded like a cheap suit. The ship isn't even remotely small. Such vessels need a bit of TLC at times. Considering the cost of the damage, and the potential loss of life, a pilot/tug would have been cheap in comparison.
As has been commented on elsewhere, it can been seen that the ship has 2 power outages. Following the first one smoke for the funnel can be seen. IF this is indicating that the ship was put into FULL reverse (which seems probable) then on a 'single screw' ship this will have an actual physical effect - namely that the ships stern will kick out to port, regardless of speed. This will effectively steer the ship's nose to starboard and towards the pillion, as depicted by the videos. Ships captains would be trained to anticipate this. So one has to wonder just what was going on on the bridge between the pilot and the captain.
Voyage Data Recorder aka ship's black box may include the following information: Position, date, time using GPS Speed log - Speed through water or speed over ground Gyro compass - Heading Radar - As displayed or AIS data if no off-the-shelf converter available for the Radar video ECDIS - A screen capture every 15 seconds and a list of navigational charts in use every 10 minutes or when a chart change occurs Audio from the bridge, including bridge wings VHF radio communications Echo sounder - Depth under keel Main alarms - All IMO mandatory alarms Hull openings - Status of hull doors as indicated on the bridge Watertight & fire doors* status as indicated on the bridge Hull stress - Accelerations and hull stresses Rudder - Order and feedback response Engine/Propeller - Order and feedback response Thrusters - Status, direction, amount of thrust % or RPM Anemometer and weather vane - Wind speed and direction
This is a sad situation but this was such a comprehensive video with video of the bridge collapse, information on how long it would take to survive in the water, the path of the ship, local news clip, a summary of the information that will be stored in the black box equivalent, and much more including expert commentary from an experienced expert. Thanks team this was great.
Feel for the people that died , when your Running these vessels its really hard to go through any deaths. Calling Mayday was important but calling on PA , Horns, wow , I sailed for 44 years all together , as Master had 4 Blackouts while entering Singapore,Hong Kong ,Pusan Korea. First time it happened yep 2nd eng changed gennys to change filters as per chiefs instructions, except he never gave him the job that night - he decided on his own at that hour. So many times we would have bridge chat on entering port , my last few years , I started adjusting speed to enter in the early 7- 8 am and call pilots then , hope they find the missing , my condolences to Family and or friends to those lost.
The local pilot cannot do any thing if the ship loses propulsion. The tug boats should not have been released until the ship was clear of the bridge. That should have been the local regulation.
Thank you ESYSMAN for this very important video & the correct information. We don't seem to get any correct information on this tragedy. The stupid remarks from that female CNN was way off base, as usual !!!! Great job guys, TMP from N.J.
This seems to me to be only a matter of time for this to happen to any bridge ,all it took was a single system malfunction . With such important infrastructure, why are the not being escorted through the channel and under the bridge with tugs? Well it's too late now ! My thoughts are with the families of the missing and kudos to the quick thinking personnel that closed the roads so no other traffic was allowed on.
As a Ship's engineer/surveyor I was surprised - 20 seconds from Blackout to Emergency Alternator starting and power back, was good - Engines would have shut-down on low LO pressure as pumps stopped - Am sure vessel has two Alternator Rooms, in my experience would have been operating on Split Board, arriving or departing port, 2 independent sources of electrical power - in theory total loss of electrical power unlikely (never quite impossible) be interesting to see the inquiry results - the condition/structure of the road bridge must be questioned
I'm kind of shocked that the channel is reporting on this event while not bothering to learn much about it, and instead making some assumptions from the GPS tracks. There is video of the incident that links up nicely with the GPS data. The ship appears to have suffered a sudden complete loss of power as it proceeded up the channel at 8 knots. It went completely dark. total loss of electrical and almost certainly propulsion and navigation. You can see them getting emergency power up and attempt to restart the engines. There were not one but 2 certified Harbor Pilots on board. The sudden drop in speed from 8 to 6 knots likely lines up to when the crew did an emergency drop of the bow anchors. It's unknown if they managed to restore helm or propulsion before they hit. Credit to the crew, they did immediately use emergency radios to call to the harbor alerting them that they had lost power and a bridge collision was possible. This gave the police enough time to shut the bridge to new inbound traffic. Saving a great number of lives. Sadly there was a construction crew out working on the bridge that could not be reached or evacuated in time. 2 of them were rescued, the others are still missing. I believe it remains unknown how many if any vehicles remained on the bridge when it collapsed. Initial reports put the victims as possibly as high as 20. But everyone has backed off that. Long term a bigger issue is that the bridge is blocking the entrance to one of the US's east coasts larger ports. With a number of ships trapped inside. It also severs US Interstate I695. a major highway in the Washington DC area.
I tagged him on Twitter, because of all the speculative conspiracy theories about hacking and sabotage, he is an expert in the systems involved and that's the subject he stuck to. His wheelhouse.
Reports mention due to the length of the transit in / out of the port, two Baltimore qualified pilots are present on transits until the MV clears the bay
At 7:28, the narrator of the video refers to the "number of the people on the bridge" (referring to the *ship's* "bridge"). Andrew McCabe (CNN interviewee) was talking about the number of cars on the *Francis Scott Key* "Bridge."
Thank you for giving out Professional Mariner information on your report of this. I so wish major news media would have reached out to you or SALs channel 😊 Whats going on with shipping.
Ships will always run into things. The bridge needed to have protection against such impacts. The I-35 bridge was built and put in service in under 14 months. Maryland needs to be contacting bridge companies yesterday.
As merchant vessel automation and technology has improved over the years it has resulted in reduced manning and what I think is important on this occasion reduced use of escorts tugs. Vessels having multiple thrusters bow and stern does give them fantastic manoeuvring capabilities, but in the event of a blackout you can’t beat a good tug hanging off the bow and stern. Looking back to the late 1970s the vessel would have had around 40 crew and it think we used five tugs in each port for vessel of 72,000 tonnes. When the RN aircraft carriers pass under the bridges on the Firth of Forth when leaving Rosyth they have a flotilla of tugs. All tankers passing up the Firth of Forth are covered by escort tugs. This might be a hard lesson but one that other ports should take onboard.
Check out the footage of the accident. You can see the lights flickers several times before they were under the bridge. I believe there was issues just prior to the accident. Watch the video again, you can see the lights go on and off a few times before the impact.
Bridge collapses from being hit by a ship are rare but they do happen. On the 27 of February 2024, a empty cargo ship hit the bridge supports of the Lixinsha Bridge in southern China. The bridge collapsed and two vehicles fell into the water and three other vehicles landed on the ship. Five were killed and one crew member was injured. In the past, there have been bridge disasters. The Tasman Bridge in Australia was hit by a ship and the bridge fell on top of the ship killing seven crew members and five motorists died from dropping 150ft into the water below. The supports of the Bold Street Bridge in Sydney Australia, were not hit by a ship but by a train. As the train approached the bridge it became derailed and slammed into the bridge supports. The bridge collapsed on top of the train killing 83 people and injured more than 200 others.
Second busiest strategic roadway in the nation for hazardous material now down for 4-5 years - which is how long they say it will take to recover. Bridge was built specifically to move hazardous material - fuel, diesel, propane gas, nitrogen, highly flammable materials, chemicals and oversized cargo that cannot fit in the tunnels - that supply chain now crippled.
The suddenness with which the ship steered at the last moment seemed to defy the physics of a vessel that size. The only thing I can think of that could steer it that quickly would be a dragging anchor suddenly catching the bottom.
Thank you for delving into this unfortunate situation. I am keeping my observations quiet. Very interesting how the news put such a tail on this story, as always. They should just keep quiet when they know not what they are talking about (but if that were such the case, they would be off air). 3/26/2024
Here on the Fraser River, RoRos and container ships are always taken in and out using tugs. I was wondering why ships there aren’t despite having local pilots.
Thank you for bringing your professional perspective to this horrible disaster. FWIW, the CNN interview with Andrew McCabe shows what kind of utter BoZo that guy really is. I live in the New Orleans area and a number of years ago the Bright Field lost power in the Mississippi River and crashed into the New Orleans River Walk shopping mall. Heart felt condolences to those whose lives have been lost.
The camera facing the port clearly shows the ship losing power , coasting , power restored briefly, black smoke from the funnel and a second power outage! Appears momentum took it into the bridge pier.
I saw on here on RUclips a longer video (or CNN), that had about a 4-5 minutes before the impact, showed the lights on the ship went off for about a minute before they came back on before hitting the bridge. Also a lot of black smoke from the funnel like the were trying to reverse. Also if of you look at the bridge deck to the right toward the opposite pillar, close to the pillar the are flashing maintenance vehicles on the bridge and I assume people out on the bridge working when it collapse. The video also mentioned the mayday and the bridge just got closed before impact.
track is correct. ship went all back full. the prop walk caused it to turn. they did try put port anchor down but bottom is mud and has nothing to grab.. There where TWO Maryland Pilots in command at the time.
Local news in Chile is reporting in June 2023, inspectors at a port in Chile flagged it for multiple deficiencies including navigation and stearing issues.
When they rebuilt the Sky Way Bridge they put barriers around the bridge supports some distance from the bridge so they could never hit the supports again and collapse the bridge.
They've announced about an hour ago that the 6 construction workers who were on the bridge are presumed dead. So sad! Shortly before the collision one can clearly see the entire ship went black - lost power...then after a bit the lights come back on, then heavy black smoke is coming out the port exhaust stack.
As can be seen from the video, the generator(s) are restarted, power is restored, and the main engine restarts. Heavy black smoke suggests the engine was put astern and throttled up to emergency power. THIS was a mistake, as can be seen from the AIS track. The 'paddlewheel' effect pulled the stern to port, pushing the ship over to starboard and in to the bridge pier. In my opinion, it would have been better to have left the engine in neutral, or slow ahead to improve flow over the rudder, and keep the track under the bridge. I see that the data recorder doesn't seem to capture bow-thruster status, that would be good to know...
Great report, thanks for the great explanation. I watched the footage they played last night and it looked like they knew they had problems because all the traffic had been stopped and only emargency response vehicles were parked on the bridge, unfortunately they should have not been on the bridge at all.
There was scheduled work being done on the bridge at the time of accident. Traffic had been limited to one lane each direction. Traffic was very light. You can see the bridge workers in the video at the center of the bridge and to the right of that point.
I have heard there were two pilots on the Dali .Also someone got out a mayday call and called the bridge authority. The authority managed to close the bridge to vehicle traffic in both directions and get most of the vehicles off before the impact.
Two things to separate here: (1) The fault of the ship impact (allision). (2) The fault of the consequences of the collapse (loss of life, vehicular traffic interrupted, port closed). The former is with the MV Dali, and it's the subject of this video. The later may or may not involve also the owner of the bridge. This last one is because there is not an insignificant risk of bridge collapse under heavy maritime traffic. This means mitigation efforts need to take place to reduce the risk, as probably the original mitigation efforts of 50 years ago might not contemplate the gigantic vessels so popular today. If those measures were not taken, or were done incorrectly, then there's something to investigate. Like if someone enter to rob your house while not at home, they are at fault of the crime. However, if you didn't lock your doors, your insurance claim may be denied as you didn't take reasonable steps to make your home safe.
The plant shut down in the channel, so they were coasting. They managed to restart it, but only for a few seconds, too late to do more than try to slow them down (their anchor was deployed too).
As a previous native of Maryland, this is a horrible accident. The connection to the Eastern Shore and Annapolis is huge, as over 80,000 cars a day travel this bridge for work and going to Ocean City, Maryland. My heart goes out to the workers and their families!❤
The people on the bridge other than unlucky motorists were an 8 man road crew. Maryland usually puts road crews out in the wee small hours to patch pot holes and do other road works maintenance. This eight man road crew was filling potholes when the bridge failed. 2 of the six road crew members survived and the others are missing presumed dead at this point. I live in Maryland. I can see the bridge from my house or at least I used to see it. It's gone now!🥵
Maryland police reported two pilots on board and port authorities video shows the lights going off on the ship prior to the collision. Speculation is a loss of power. The bridge had a maintenance/repair crew on it at the time.
All lights went off on the ship for several seconds, and the ship veered off course immediately. When the lights came back on, the ship seemed to correct a little, black smoke pouring from the funnels, but too late.
Such a tragic accident and we pray for those who may have been in harm's Way. I really feel like it would be of good service for you to offer your expertise to the national and international news media so that your knowledge and professional opinions could and would make a big difference.
Vulnerable bridges such as this should halt all traffic for the few minutes that the ship passes underneath. I understand this bridge did not have 'dolphins' to protect the structure of the bridge. That alone should have required vessels over a certain size to be guided by powerful tugs, as the risk of going off course would result in significant damage.
I believe there were TWO Pilots on the ship at the time of the crash. And, given the density of water, you can succumb to Hypothermia 25 times faster in water than in the same temperature of air.
There were private contractors working on the bridge at the time. Also, our local news had very good video and there were vehicles on the bridge when it fell but not many around 7
I live 10 miles from the Key Bridge. you gave me ten times the info that any media on TV so thank you for being so knowledgeable. cheers
@@Melanie16040thank you Melanie. So sad our major media outlets are. Just talk to Captain/Professor Sal from the get go.
Mainstream media is utterly useless. Leave it to CNN to have such a clueless reporter and "expert" guest spreading incorrect information.
The Francis Scott Key Bridge disaster was brought to you by the same people dropping airplanes out of the sky with their software.
@@timsmothers8740 It's so sad how much more actual information Sal can convey 30 seconds after rolling out of bed then the windbags can after a full business day on the major media outlets.
My jaw dropped that the CNN anchor was irresponsible enough to say “intentional”. If the crew followed the rules, reacted appropriately, and this happened - rules and structures need to be rethought, using reality and information as a guide
FYI... the people on the bridge were road construction crew working on the road. They were able to get the bridge closed in time to keep cars off, and the final 2 cars crossing did make it past the danger point of collapse in time.
I wonder why the construction crew wasn’t evacuated from the bridge.
@@marks6385The bridge is over a mile long. Stopping traffic is probably a radio call and button push to light up the warning signs.
That stops traffic in seconds, and cars already on the bridge will clear it within 60 seconds at highway speed.
Road workers were mostly on foot or in construction equipment. They would need to get the call, get to their car or truck, and then get up to speed - takes a few minutes minimum, and more if you consider the chaos of a group trying to gather from around the job site.
We have a Train Bridge here in New Westminster, BC. There has been damage from barges hitting. Now all traffic of any size requires two tugs to pass. I am wondering about the Golden Gate or so many others need rethinking?
why dont they build bumpers around the pilings? @@ght33
@@ght33👋 up the hill from you in east bby, I can confirm that this waterways are out of control these ships are hard to turn it takes miles not min. Heart breaking news. Esysman always has the best info, you have a great day the sun is threatening to show up 😊
I live less than 20 min drive from the Key Bridge. Been over it hundreds of times since childhood and it hasn't really sank in yet that it's gone. Just unbelievable.
Yeah, so incredibly sad that the bridge died….🧐🙄
And the loss of life, has that affected you?
Unbelievable indeed! I'm 25 miles down the road.
poor choice of words 💀
Just as an aside... when they first opened that bridge, they invited some of the public for an official opening day walk across... I was one of them. I've also sailed under her in a schooner. This hits a little harder than I thought it would.😢
CNN interviewing someone that has no clue. As usual.
Such a tragedy. God Help the families that lost their loved ones.
This is so upsetting!
Get over yourself. Every station did the exact same shit. But you blame the network... not the clown that should acknowledge this is literally not their wheel house.
McCabe was a never Trumper who tried to overturn the 2016 election. Then we got four years of Russia Russia Russia from the FBI ;without a shred of evidence. He should be in jail but crime does pay in the FBI.
CNN no clue indeed. A former ships Captain here. This is a typical black out as we call it. It happens seldom, and mostly unexpected. Every seaman has experienced this. That happening in port or confined waters is your worst nighmare. If this happens you cannot do anything than presenting the anchor as last resort. But the ships movement energy cannot be hold by the anchor. Very interested to see if they figure out the reason for the blackout. The crew will be questioned and the Voyage data recorder will give some clues. At the time of the accident, still in confined waters, I figure the captain, watch officer, the pilot and the helmsmen are on the bridge for sure, at least 2 sailors at anchors position on forecastle and in Engine Room at least 2 engineers and 2 assistants / oilers. Very upsetting indeed.
Andy McCabe...a lawyer bureaucrat that's the posterboy for clueless wonk.
@@voyager645 At least they stopped the traffic from going over the bridge. Some fast work there.
This is easily the best description of the situation, and the technology required I have seen all day. Thanks for the information.
There is footage of the ship loosing power TWICE before hitting the pillar. All lights go off for seconds twice in very close proximity to the bridge, no power - no rudder.
@toxi_com_777 If the generators power down for some reason - no power to anything and there will be more than one generator. Weapon??? - you been watching too many sci-fi films...
@toxi_com_777 there is redundency, however, the power system can still fail, much like power supply from any land based power plant... also there is the emergency generator, but it takes a litle bit for it to come on, and even after it does, it is emergency power, it provides only to some systems and only small amouns, so its not like the rudder becomes completely imobile, ususaly the Emg Generator will power 1 of 3-4 pumps on the rudder, allowing it to move, although slow... it will not provide power to the propeller,
So all power goes out n the ship goes perfectly into a main structure? Nooooooo.
@toxi_com_777 There is redundancy, from what I've looked up, but the thing is these merchant marine ship will often be in horrible condition, deferring all but the most critical maintenance until later on the hope that if nothing has gone wrong yet, nothing will later. Maintenance is expensive and can take a ship that could be making money and turn it into a ship losing money for an extended period. Look up the El Faro disaster for what this can lead to.
I can well see that a ship where the maintenance was constantly deferred for just one more voyage can have multiple systems fail due to said lack of maintenance causing disaster.
Those videos were sped up from time to time. The whole video was actually about 7 minutes in duration, condensed down to a bit over 2 minutes if you are watching the one with all the annotations.
Been there, seen that, got the T-shirt!
I ,as Electro Engineer/1;st Engineer, was onboard a ship, entering Gothenburg harbor, with a LOT of rocks on the seafloor, and we lost all power!
That was, nothing to joke about. We were in the engine control room, as usual at the time, but could not do anything.
Skipper dropped ancors in "panic" (=as soon as he knew the situation) manually, just to stop that damn thing, and did it with a minimum to spare, luckily.
Then the emergy generator kicked in, with a delay, and we could do some things with that power, to try to start again. But not enough, no time to spare.
I do not want to do that again.
My thoughts goes, to those poor "bastards" on that vessel. I sincerely hope, the casualties are least possible.
And I feel sorry, for all those people involved.
from a Finn in Diaspora
do not want to do that again.
Thanks for the lucid, succinct report eSys! I look forward to your follow-ups. I didn't know they had responded to the Mayday and had closed the bridge!!
Thank you for the information about the data recording abilities on board. That certainly helps to alleviate concerns about finding the truth about the incident. I've traveled both under and over the bridge. It's hard to believe there was so much destruction.
As a fellow Merchant Mariner, your analysis is spot on and better than 99.9% of the coverage I have seen. Just speculating; as a semi-retired Master who had something similar occur, outbound, in Pilotage, from the Port of Tampa/St. Pete. About 1/2 way out the channel, the Helmsman informed me(the Master) and the Pilot, that he had lost steering. We immediately switched to Emergency Steering, but there was an obvious lag. In the same fashion, as you reported, then there was a puff of black smoke and almost instantly we had steering back. After calling the Engine Room, I was informed, by the Chief, that the 2nd Assistant had, UN-ANNOUNCED, decided to switch GenSets, so he could change fuel filters(while still in Pilotage). Okay, what was that you emphasized about "human error"? Keep up the good work!
It appeared to me that they lost power: (90% of the time it is the filters and fuel delivery. The Genny did come on, the lights came back on, but they cranked it wide open past the pin when the Genny was cold. The exiting black smoke points to full throttle and pray those inline Filters don't clog up and starve the Genny of fuel.. The fuel system has a Flow Rate capacity that is calculated at the dock in ideal situations as the age and if the Genny's filters have old untreated fuel you are playing Russian Roulette..If you need to do Filter Changes underway it is complicated and usually done at sea or Dock where drifting or being tied up is not dangerous to complete. When panic sets in and the emergency back up system has poor PM you are cruising for a bruising. Poor maintenance and operator error is my guess. RIP for the Construction guys who closed the bridge and saved lives.
Can you tell me any reason why they do not use tugs to maneuver vessels through precarious places with critical infrastructure,it seems to me that it was only going to be a matter of time before this eventuated. And considering it was calm I am surprised it took this long.
@@captjay7823 Amen!
Andrew McCabe Former FBI Deputy Director as an expert? What a joke!
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You have a brilliant, succinct and level headed way of describing the current situation. It should help people to better process the situation.
Very interesting non-partisan analysys -- great video eSysman!
Maybe it is time to keep the tugboats with the ship until open water. We took a cruise ship out of Houston and had tugs with us until the Gulf.
Apparently they had a tug for initials maneuvers that had already withdrawn.
Perhaps better training. I think if the captain had reacted appropriately and dropped emergency anchor as soon as power went out, instead of attempting to correct, there would have been no accident.
@@ohsweetmystery The American local Pilot on the ship is suppose to be trained in protecting the people, economy, and environment of their area.
The ships Captain is responsible in open waters.
Tug boats should have been used to escort these ships past the old bridge.
@@fgerv Haha...Each port is different but morons are all the same.
Thank you for covering this. It's such a tragedy on so many levels.
A reminder that we are all interconnected and dependent on the most delicate threads.
My heart breaks for the crew, trying so hard to recover and avoid the bridge.
I'm surprised by two thngs
1) that they ship's captain/pilot seemingly tried to go full astern/stop (from the black smoke and speed drop) instead of turning. In boats or planes, reducing speed kills your rudder authority. I would hope that the emergency power at least supplied the rudder as well as the means to command the engines into reverse
2) that such a bridge has no surrounding concrete protection structures (Caissons?) to act as a defense against driect strikes on the supports. For such a busy navigation channel, that seems mad.
You don't know what occurred. 100% speculation. So stop being surprised and get informed. Until then shut your trap.
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@Look_What_You_Did u must have mistaken where u r - this is a COMMENTS section and u r not the boss of any of us.
I am watching at 5pm EDT 26 March. Earlier today, around 5 hours ago, I saw video taken from local Baltimore TV fixed camera pointed at the Key Bridge for traffic and weather.
The video clearly shows 2 seperate TOTAL POWER FAILURES on the ship PRIOR to striking the bridge. The first was approximately 20 seconds prior to impact, power came back on about 10 seconds maybe 12 seconds before impact. The 2nd failure of power happened approximately 2 seconds maybe 3 after power was restored from first failure. When the 2nd power failure happened about 5 seconds later the ship struck the bridge.
Immediately after the first power failure, the boat turned to starboard (from the bridge of the vessel looking toward the bow) from the camera it turns port toward the piling. When power was restored after the first outage, the ship tried to make a correction toward the Chanel, the bow began to move back to Port ( from the bridge of the ship) when the 2nd outage happened the ship cut HARD to STARBOARD (again from ship's bridge).
Reports are being stated there was a jammed PORT SIDE RUDDER. This is being reported by multiple news agencies.
DOES NOT SURPRISE ME AT ALL, THAT CNN PUT AN EXPERT ON THAT HAS NO CLUE OF WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT!!!!!
on a moving ship, when the prop stops, water continues to flow over the prop, reversing the torque on the stern, conbine that with an emergency full reverse (black smoke) and that increases the torque pivioting the stern around.
Good to hear your comments as someone familiar with marine navigation and maritime operations, rather than speculation from the general media. Thank you for offering a respectful and informative report.
Some local videos are showing the ship going dark a short time before hitting the bridge support, then navigation lights coming back on shortly before impact. Also it has been said one of the anchors were dropped before impact.
This bridge is not far from here. So sad lives have been lost in this very tragic accident.
🙋♂️THANKS ESYSMAN…FOR YOUR CAREFUL,CONSIDERATE ASSESSMENT OF THE SITUATION…WE WILL LOOK FOR YOUR UPDATES 🤗💚💚💚
This seems to be one of the most credible channels to go to for an early analysis.
Thank you for a professional assessment of what is publicly known.
They managed to get a warning out on channel 16 and traffic was haulted unfortunately there was several vehicle's already on the bridge. There was also road crews patching pot holes on the deck surface. Theres still not an exact number of people who were on the bridge yet.
When I hear about something going wrong in the U.S., I just Google the demographics of the state. That explains a lot. In Denmark, bridge pillars are protected by shallow waters, natural or deliberately made, so any ship of significant weight will run aground if it gets too close to a pillar.
I live about 2 miles from the bridge. I cannot even begin to recall the amount of times I have driven over it since 1977. The Span just celebrated is 37th anniversay three days ago.
As of about 7:50 local time all further rescue attenps have been called off. 6 Constrution workers are missing. Two were rescued and incredibly one even released from Hospital already.
At the last inspection the bridge passed with a decent score considering many of the bridges across the Country are pretty bad. The Port of Baltimore handled more than $80 billion in imports and exports in 2023...
This collapse shuts the entire Port of Baltimore down for the foreseable future. Both cargo and ocean liners.
The Cargo Vessel Dali based out of Singapor Lost power around 1:15 or so. She was able to call a Mayday and the bridge was closed to vehicles except for the roadcrew. Thankfully. All 22 of the crew and the two harbor pilots were unhurt.
Agencies responded from the two counties the bridge joins. As well as the City and everal other agencies. The Coast Guard has a station about one mile over water to the bridge.
Thank you for reporting on this, because I dislike mainstream media at this point. They rarely get anything correct , and often increase the fear levels of people unnecessarily. You are always factual, pointed and relay information to us laypeople very well. Thank you for exceptional reporting as always
At some point you start to think "they cant be that stupid. This bad reporting is on purpose."
@@deltalima6703 I'd be ashamed of the 'reporting' they do, if it was me. It's so bad 😭
Great reporting of the technical aspects relating to this incident.
Thank-you for the informative report. Much better than any main stream news report. Condolences to the families of missing accident victims.
Considering there is a vital bridge at that location I would have thought there would have been tugs helping the ship under the bridge.
In the last report, I heard one of the construction crew's pickup was found in 25 feet of water with both the crew perished.
The ship did appear to lose steerage after losing power. They may have hit a current pushing them into the bridge stanchion.
This was a terrible accident, and if anybody lost their lives as a result of this, my heart goes out to their family. What I must say is, such massive ships as these, really need a pilot through navigation hazards such as these. I realise that potentially there was a power outage on the container ship, but, if they had a proper pilot/tug escorting them, this wouldn't have been an issue. This happened at night, so visibility wouldn't have been great but, this is not good at all. That bridge folded like a cheap suit. The ship isn't even remotely small. Such vessels need a bit of TLC at times. Considering the cost of the damage, and the potential loss of life, a pilot/tug would have been cheap in comparison.
As has been commented on elsewhere, it can been seen that the ship has 2 power outages. Following the first one smoke for the funnel can be seen. IF this is indicating that the ship was put into FULL reverse (which seems probable) then on a 'single screw' ship this will have an actual physical effect - namely that the ships stern will kick out to port, regardless of speed. This will effectively steer the ship's nose to starboard and towards the pillion, as depicted by the videos. Ships captains would be trained to anticipate this. So one has to wonder just what was going on on the bridge between the pilot and the captain.
Voyage Data Recorder aka ship's black box may include the following information:
Position, date, time using GPS
Speed log - Speed through water or speed over ground
Gyro compass - Heading
Radar - As displayed or AIS data if no off-the-shelf converter available for the Radar video
ECDIS - A screen capture every 15 seconds and a list of navigational charts in use every 10 minutes or when a chart change occurs
Audio from the bridge, including bridge wings
VHF radio communications
Echo sounder - Depth under keel
Main alarms - All IMO mandatory alarms
Hull openings - Status of hull doors as indicated on the bridge
Watertight & fire doors* status as indicated on the bridge
Hull stress - Accelerations and hull stresses
Rudder - Order and feedback response
Engine/Propeller - Order and feedback response
Thrusters - Status, direction, amount of thrust % or RPM
Anemometer and weather vane - Wind speed and direction
New information is that the black boxes were inoperable during the approach and collision with the bridge.
People on CNN don’t know what they are talking about? Say it ain’t so.
CNN is not news anyways.
Thank you, You gave us the best Report.
This is a sad situation but this was such a comprehensive video with video of the bridge collapse, information on how long it would take to survive in the water, the path of the ship, local news clip, a summary of the information that will be stored in the black box equivalent, and much more including expert commentary from an experienced expert. Thanks team this was great.
Feel for the people that died , when your Running these vessels its really hard to go through any deaths. Calling Mayday was important but calling on PA , Horns, wow , I sailed for 44 years all together , as Master had 4 Blackouts while entering Singapore,Hong Kong ,Pusan Korea. First time it happened yep 2nd eng changed gennys to change filters as per chiefs instructions, except he never gave him the job that night - he decided on his own at that hour. So many times we would have bridge chat on entering port , my last few years , I started adjusting speed to enter in the early 7- 8 am and call pilots then , hope they find the missing , my condolences to Family and or friends to those lost.
The local pilot cannot do any thing if the ship loses propulsion.
The tug boats should not have been released until the ship was clear of the bridge.
That should have been the local regulation.
Thank you ESYSMAN for this very important video & the correct information. We don't seem to get any correct information on this tragedy. The stupid remarks from that female CNN was way off base, as usual !!!! Great job guys, TMP from N.J.
This seems to me to be only a matter of time for this to happen to any bridge ,all it took was a single system malfunction . With such important infrastructure, why are the not being escorted through the channel and under the bridge with tugs? Well it's too late now ! My thoughts are with the families of the missing and kudos to the quick thinking personnel that closed the roads so no other traffic was allowed on.
As a Ship's engineer/surveyor I was surprised - 20 seconds from Blackout to Emergency Alternator starting and power back, was good - Engines would have shut-down on low LO pressure as pumps stopped - Am sure vessel has two Alternator Rooms, in my experience would have been operating on Split Board, arriving or departing port, 2 independent sources of electrical power - in theory total loss of electrical power unlikely (never quite impossible) be interesting to see the inquiry results - the condition/structure of the road bridge must be questioned
My hometown... I am heartsick at what has happened to the city and the people of my youth. Baltimore Proud!
Thanks for covering this accident so we all can learn from this in the future.
Yes not your usual subject but I appreciate the technical aspects you provided.
I'm kind of shocked that the channel is reporting on this event while not bothering to learn much about it, and instead making some assumptions from the GPS tracks. There is video of the incident that links up nicely with the GPS data. The ship appears to have suffered a sudden complete loss of power as it proceeded up the channel at 8 knots. It went completely dark. total loss of electrical and almost certainly propulsion and navigation. You can see them getting emergency power up and attempt to restart the engines. There were not one but 2 certified Harbor Pilots on board. The sudden drop in speed from 8 to 6 knots likely lines up to when the crew did an emergency drop of the bow anchors. It's unknown if they managed to restore helm or propulsion before they hit. Credit to the crew, they did immediately use emergency radios to call to the harbor alerting them that they had lost power and a bridge collision was possible. This gave the police enough time to shut the bridge to new inbound traffic. Saving a great number of lives. Sadly there was a construction crew out working on the bridge that could not be reached or evacuated in time. 2 of them were rescued, the others are still missing. I believe it remains unknown how many if any vehicles remained on the bridge when it collapsed. Initial reports put the victims as possibly as high as 20. But everyone has backed off that.
Long term a bigger issue is that the bridge is blocking the entrance to one of the US's east coasts larger ports. With a number of ships trapped inside. It also severs US Interstate I695. a major highway in the Washington DC area.
I tagged him on Twitter, because of all the speculative conspiracy theories about hacking and sabotage, he is an expert in the systems involved and that's the subject he stuck to. His wheelhouse.
Reports mention due to the length of the transit in / out of the port, two Baltimore qualified pilots are present on transits until the MV clears the bay
I tagged you specifically because of your knowledge of the systems in question. Thank you!
Thank you.
My main question is, Where are the tug boats? This is exactly why they are used.
news channels in Denmark report that there was two local pilotes onboard at the time
Excellent update on the ops side of things..thanks for sharing..😊
At 7:28, the narrator of the video refers to the "number of the people on the bridge" (referring to the *ship's* "bridge"). Andrew McCabe (CNN interviewee) was talking about the number of cars on the *Francis Scott Key* "Bridge."
Thank you for giving out Professional Mariner information on your report of this. I so wish major news media would have reached out to you or SALs channel 😊
Whats going on with shipping.
Ships will always run into things. The bridge needed to have protection against such impacts. The I-35 bridge was built and put in service in under 14 months. Maryland needs to be contacting bridge companies yesterday.
As merchant vessel automation and technology has improved over the years it has resulted in reduced manning and what I think is important on this occasion reduced use of escorts tugs. Vessels having multiple thrusters bow and stern does give them fantastic manoeuvring capabilities, but in the event of a blackout you can’t beat a good tug hanging off the bow and stern. Looking back to the late 1970s the vessel would have had around 40 crew and it think we used five tugs in each port for vessel of 72,000 tonnes.
When the RN aircraft carriers pass under the bridges on the Firth of Forth when leaving Rosyth they have a flotilla of tugs. All tankers passing up the Firth of Forth are covered by escort tugs. This might be a hard lesson but one that other ports should take onboard.
Check out the footage of the accident. You can see the lights flickers several times before they were under the bridge. I believe there was issues just prior to the accident. Watch the video again, you can see the lights go on and off a few times before the impact.
Bridge collapses from being hit by a ship are rare but they do happen. On the 27 of February 2024, a empty cargo ship hit the bridge supports of the Lixinsha Bridge in southern China. The bridge collapsed and two vehicles fell into the water and three other vehicles landed on the ship. Five were killed and one crew member was injured.
In the past, there have been bridge disasters. The Tasman Bridge in Australia was hit by a ship and the bridge fell on top of the ship killing seven crew members and five motorists died from dropping 150ft into the water below. The supports of the Bold Street Bridge in Sydney Australia, were not hit by a ship but by a train. As the train approached the bridge it became derailed and slammed into the bridge supports. The bridge collapsed on top of the train killing 83 people and injured more than 200 others.
Second busiest strategic roadway in the nation for hazardous material now down for 4-5 years - which is how long they say it will take to recover. Bridge was built specifically to move hazardous material - fuel, diesel, propane gas, nitrogen, highly flammable materials, chemicals and oversized cargo that cannot fit in the tunnels - that supply chain now crippled.
The suddenness with which the ship steered at the last moment seemed to defy the physics of a vessel that size. The only thing I can think of that could steer it that quickly would be a dragging anchor suddenly catching the bottom.
After reading a million takes on Reddit, it's very welcome to have your insight, thank you
I figured eSysman would bring the technology angle. Much better source than the talking heads on cable news.
Thank you for delving into this unfortunate situation. I am keeping my observations quiet. Very interesting how the news put such a tail on this story, as always. They should just keep quiet when they know not what they are talking about (but if that were such the case, they would be off air). 3/26/2024
Here on the Fraser River, RoRos and container ships are always taken in and out using tugs. I was wondering why ships there aren’t despite having local pilots.
Thank you for bringing your professional perspective to this horrible disaster. FWIW, the CNN interview with Andrew McCabe shows what kind of utter BoZo that guy really is. I live in the New Orleans area and a number of years ago the Bright Field lost power in the Mississippi River and crashed into the New Orleans River Walk shopping mall. Heart felt condolences to those whose lives have been lost.
The camera facing the port clearly shows the ship losing power , coasting , power restored briefly, black smoke from the funnel and a second power outage! Appears momentum took it into the bridge pier.
Thank you sir, very informative video! Many prayers to all the people involved in this tragedy.
How come this beige had no ship buffer or ship bumper on the pilon
I saw on here on RUclips a longer video (or CNN), that had about a 4-5 minutes before the impact, showed the lights on the ship went off for about a minute before they came back on before hitting the bridge. Also a lot of black smoke from the funnel like the were trying to reverse. Also if of you look at the bridge deck to the right toward the opposite pillar, close to the pillar the are flashing maintenance vehicles on the bridge and I assume people out on the bridge working when it collapse. The video also mentioned the mayday and the bridge just got closed before impact.
track is correct. ship went all back full. the prop walk caused it to turn. they did try put port anchor down but bottom is mud and has nothing to grab.. There where TWO Maryland Pilots in command at the time.
Local news in Chile is reporting in June 2023, inspectors at a port in Chile flagged it for multiple deficiencies including navigation and stearing issues.
When they rebuilt the Sky Way Bridge they put barriers around the bridge supports some distance from the bridge so they could never hit the supports again and collapse the bridge.
They've announced about an hour ago that the 6 construction workers who were on the bridge are presumed dead. So sad! Shortly before the collision one can clearly see the entire ship went black - lost power...then after a bit the lights come back on, then heavy black smoke is coming out the port exhaust stack.
Very helpful information. Thank you.
Says they called in a Mayday for traffic on the bridge. Loss of power seems to be the cause.
Absolutely frightening situation indeed, just being possible is frightening let alone actually happening in today's world, 😢.
As can be seen from the video, the generator(s) are restarted, power is restored, and the main engine restarts. Heavy black smoke suggests the engine was put astern and throttled up to emergency power. THIS was a mistake, as can be seen from the AIS track. The 'paddlewheel' effect pulled the stern to port, pushing the ship over to starboard and in to the bridge pier. In my opinion, it would have been better to have left the engine in neutral, or slow ahead to improve flow over the rudder, and keep the track under the bridge. I see that the data recorder doesn't seem to capture bow-thruster status, that would be good to know...
Great report, thanks for the great explanation. I watched the footage they played last night and it looked like they knew they had problems because all the traffic had been stopped and only emargency response vehicles were parked on the bridge, unfortunately they should have not been on the bridge at all.
Thank you for reviewing this item. Your coverage is much more adept that the pencil pushers that present the news.
There was scheduled work being done on the bridge at the time of accident. Traffic had been limited to one lane each direction. Traffic was very light. You can see the bridge workers in the video at the center of the bridge and to the right of that point.
I have heard there were two pilots on the Dali .Also someone got out a mayday call and called the bridge authority. The authority managed to close the bridge to vehicle traffic in both directions and get most of the vehicles off before the impact.
Two things to separate here:
(1) The fault of the ship impact (allision).
(2) The fault of the consequences of the collapse (loss of life, vehicular traffic interrupted, port closed).
The former is with the MV Dali, and it's the subject of this video.
The later may or may not involve also the owner of the bridge. This last one is because there is not an insignificant risk of bridge collapse under heavy maritime traffic. This means mitigation efforts need to take place to reduce the risk, as probably the original mitigation efforts of 50 years ago might not contemplate the gigantic vessels so popular today. If those measures were not taken, or were done incorrectly, then there's something to investigate.
Like if someone enter to rob your house while not at home, they are at fault of the crime. However, if you didn't lock your doors, your insurance claim may be denied as you didn't take reasonable steps to make your home safe.
3:55 - Those aren't navigation lights. They are electrical transmission line poles for a power line crossing the harbor.
The plant shut down in the channel, so they were coasting. They managed to restart it, but only for a few seconds, too late to do more than try to slow them down (their anchor was deployed too).
As a previous native of Maryland, this is a horrible accident. The connection to the Eastern Shore and Annapolis is huge, as over 80,000 cars a day travel this bridge for work and going to Ocean City, Maryland. My heart goes out to the workers and their families!❤
your thinking the Bay Bridge. This 695 Key Bridge part of the beltway
Reported: 2 pilots aboard, ship suffered power failure, ship adrift at the time of collision. This was not a navigational error.
The people on the bridge other than unlucky motorists were an 8 man road crew. Maryland usually puts road crews out in the wee small hours to patch pot holes and do other road works maintenance. This eight man road crew was filling potholes when the bridge failed. 2 of the six road crew members survived and the others are missing presumed dead at this point. I live in Maryland. I can see the bridge from my house or at least I used to see it. It's gone now!🥵
On another web site there was a comment by a dock worker who claimed this ship had totally lost power twice while they were loading the containers.
Earlier footage shows all lights going out on the ship just prior to veering, a significant power loss and belching of black smoke subsequently.
Maryland police reported two pilots on board and port authorities video shows the lights going off on the ship prior to the collision. Speculation is a loss of power. The bridge had a maintenance/repair crew on it at the time.
All lights went off on the ship for several seconds, and the ship veered off course immediately.
When the lights came back on, the ship seemed to correct a little, black smoke pouring from the funnels, but too late.
thanks great information, you are better then watching the stupid news
thank you for the info. heartbreaking
The bridge looks like it was built with playing cards. Wow
Was hoping to see you cover this!
Such a tragic accident and we pray for those who may have been in harm's Way. I really feel like it would be of good service for you to offer your expertise to the national and international news media so that your knowledge and professional opinions could and would make a big difference.
Thank you for the briefing
Vulnerable bridges such as this should halt all traffic for the few minutes that the ship passes underneath. I understand this bridge did not have 'dolphins' to protect the structure of the bridge. That alone should have required vessels over a certain size to be guided by powerful tugs, as the risk of going off course would result in significant damage.
I believe there were TWO Pilots on the ship at the time of the crash. And, given the density of water, you can succumb to Hypothermia 25 times faster in water than in the same temperature of air.
There were private contractors working on the bridge at the time. Also, our local news had very good video and there were vehicles on the bridge when it fell but not many around 7