Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, MD, collapses after being struck by container ship
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- Опубликовано: 25 мар 2024
- Partial collapse of Francis Scott Key Bridge after ship collision, rescue efforts underway.
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“Partial collapse”. It’s the whole damn thing!
Media pilpul.
Right? That was frightening
U r wrong. The steel girders are down, the approaching paved roadways are not. Partial collapse. 😅
@@chuck7432Laughing at this? You are a piece of sh*t.
99.99% is still partial FYI
Checking on a friend who is a night truck driver in Baltimore area. I pray he is safe.
I drive at nights myself and often worried about stuff like that going over it. My prayers for your friend. 🙏🏿
Prayers for your friend
@@awesomusmaximus3766not true
@@awesomusmaximus3766 There were several cars on the bridge. 20 people missing.
Good News. He is safe and sound. His trucking company doesn't start until 3am. Thoughts and prayers to those involved.
So sorry to everyone involved in this
I served 4 years in the US Navy, certified Master Helmsman who took an Aircraft carrier up the Mississippi River and through the Suez canal this is a failure on just about every level. I can only speculate but I cannot see the Pilot and Helmsman making that big of a mistake and if tugs were involved it is even worse. I think they had some sort of propulsion failure.
I was wondering about tugs but I have no knowledge whether they should or shouldn't have had.
From what I’ve seen, none of the ships have tugs when they get to the bridge
total blackout... the port authority cameras picked it up... DGs kicked on but no maneuvering. They were dead in the water. Dropped the port hook when they lost maneuvering, but it didn't stop it. They were under way with no tugs.
I heard someone say there was a problem with propulsion....maybe a terrorist behind it because Democrats have let many of them in our southern border.
@brianlane9534 I thought I saw the anchor down. I wasn't sure cause how dark it was. Power loss makes a lot of sense, I only thought tugs cause they said in one of the reports the ship had just been turned, but no tugs makes sense even more now. I saw a lot of comments saying the pilot messed up but going in and out of port as much as I have Pilots are extremely familiar with the river just don't see them making that huge of an error. None of this makes it any less of a tragedy, but it explains so much as to why now. Thanks for the response and information.
What a tragedy 😢 thoughts for the people on the bridge
Horrible horrible terrible awful news! Feeling awful for so many lives that are and will be affected by this for some time.
I hate to say it, but once your car hits the water you’ve got about 5-10 minutes before the cabin completely floods. If you’re not able to break out by then, you’re in real trouble. For anyone reading this, I highly recommend keeping a window breaker somewhere around the driver’s seat.
I bought three of those damn things from Amazon for our cars and I can’t remember where I put them. This makes me feel like I need to find them today.
I’m a ex marine radio officer who have had ship collisions experience in the US waters. This is a similar problem, that is collision due to bad vision. When you are navigating a big ship in such dark hours, the view is like almost total darkness and you can only rely on the radars to navigate. On the radar you can only see a straight bridge but not the bridge supports, hence that’s how the ship hit the bridge support by accident. The ship captain could have waited for morning daylight to set sail instead of leaving the port in the middle of the night.
WTF happened? How could this ship hit the bridge in the first place? So scary to be driving on that bridge then all of a sudden you plunge into the water getting injured or killed, with your car wrecked as well. If this cargo ship had any foul play, I hope they get sued for the victims to get compensated. Absolutely horrible, God knows how long it'll take to rebuild this
Apparently it seems like the cargo ship had a power failure
Modern ship this size to have only 1 power source for propulsion is disaster bound to happent. Beside main diesel engine, it must have secondary power source for propulsion either using power from generator or baterry pack.
@@sirboomsalot4902 I want to find out how and why? Unacceptable and should have never happened
@@billyevans4929 We will, just wait until the investigation concludes
It is shocking to see the huge bridge collapsed in the river. Huge loss. Very sad
its the perfect symbol of america. collapsing under its own stupidity.
2 things… this isn’t a matter of bad infrastructure. It’s a matter of 100k tons hitting a stationary object.
Also the harbor pilot, captain, first officer, and everyone on the bridge of the ship should have stopped this (or at least done something to radio and warn them to stop traffic)
Edit: this was posted literally as it happened so we didn’t know at the time they had for sure lost power
They didn't have time to warn anyone. They lost their engines right before they hit the pillar essentially.
@@BatuSmoka808where is your source for that? Because unless you know something I don’t there’s no possible way to know yet
Thats why they hold inquiries. Because of people like you.Playing the guessing game.
How can people on the bridge stop a ship like this?
@@dannyf4447Full reverse, move the rudder, change the azipod angle… any of them, or all
Edit: i meant on the ship’s bridge
This is gonna have major ramifications on the city 4 years to come
It’s going to impact the entire DMV area greatly. Obviously the families of those involved first and foremost. But travelers this spring and summer from the Baltimore County area going to have to do some serious rerouting. That bridge is a huge deal here in MD.
Ops
It's gonna take years to rebuild this bridge. From where I live you could see the bridge depending on where you're standing on Annapolis Rd.
Praying for everyone
The ship lost all electrical power twice before hitting the bridge. It appears to fail a third time during the collision. This can be seen in the raw security camera video of the incident.
Technically it's partially of the widely used truss bridge construction, the truss sections usually being strong and structurally independent of each other . The long central section however was cantilevered, which from the video, looks to be why the bridge completely collapsed, rather than just the collapse of a single section.
I cross a large bridge nearly every day to go to work. Pretty scary stuff here. Prayers going out to everyone involved.
“Oh oh say can you see, that huge freakin’ boat heading right towards me”.
I wonder why bridges don't have rubber bumpers surrounding their support beams like on boat docks. There are plenty of used tires at salvage yards.
As the boat approached the bridge at the first power outage, tug boats should've been called to help navigate that ship under the bridge to safety. Maybe this step should be applied going forward, regardless of power outage or not
I take this bridge everyday to work smh it’s shocking to see it gone
YOU ARE OUT OF WORK.
That harbor pilot is about to lose his license.
THERE MUST HAVE BEEN A POWER FAILER
@@barev2056- Apparantly the bridge in the ship was on fire - they abandoned the bridge and then it hit the 'bridge" - wee need new words
Did he sanked
@@barev2056- The very first bit of video I saw - it [LOOKED] so obviously on fire that I thought it had crashed, stopped, caught fire and the FIRE had weakened the bridge and collapsed it
As ive not seen it again, I might be wrong. But to my eyes it was very on fire. EDIT - it was not the good angle video thats everywhere now, it was a much worse video, I thin it was the BACK of the ship not the front
@@1British-Columbian-cayes, there were two power outages in advance of collision
If you watch the actual video it appears the ship lost power right before the collision.
Remember 10000s of tons they probably cut the engine in an attempt to slow as a last resort...
@@ywe3 Could've been hacked. But I thought these ships were pulled and guided by a tug boat when they're in the harbor.
@@ywe3You wouldn’t cut all the power to cut the engine
@@SbxalldayYou can’t just hack a cargo ship
@sirboomsalot4902 That's false! Do a little research. They're saying on average 1 ship gets hacked per day.
Some reason >??? If you showed the whole video the ship loses power 2 times before the accident ...... typical media ................
Why did the ship lose power 2 time before the accident? Some reason.
Reefer containers? Bow and stern thrusters getting offline?
I'm still shocked by this. How can a ship take down a whole bridge? I heard there were only seven people on the bridge when it went down because of the time of night. So far, two people have been recovered with one person being flown to Shock Trauma by helicopter. The other person just had minor injuries. This bridge was so sturdy too. My dad used to take it to work everyday when he was still at Sparrows Point.
Omg! 😳 God, please help the folks in Baltimore. They really need you right now. Amen. 🙏🏼
Sadly, all of those who plunged into the water are probably dead. The water is 48 degrees. Even if you didn't get knocked out by the fall, you don't survive in water temps like this for long. I hope they find some but...probably not.
Assuming they got out of said vehicles. Only takes 30s for water to fill a vehicle.
2 people that fell in were rescued as of now.
@@MeYou-vp7jbwhere was it reported?
@@brizuhk5043 on the local news they reported it like two something in the morning
I've swum in 37-38 degree water, so cold water doesn't instantly kill people, but it was in July and I wasn't in shock from falling from a damn bridge.
The bridge pilings should have had groundwork’s to protect the bridgeworks. It fell like toothpicks.
Wouldn't have helped.
@@Chuck-se5hh It could have. You see many bridges with tear dropped land works. That’s what they are for. They keep a ship 30 or more feet away from the structure.
@@jamesdellaneve9005 This is what they did to protect the new Sunshine Skyway Bridge, after the previous one collapsed after the same kind of ship incident. I’m not shocked this bridge didn’t have groundwork as it seems like every state has to learn from tragedies for themselves.
@@TitaniumTurbine Yes. Of course, it costs money. Maryland is especially corrupt and inept at this point. If that’s the jurisdiction it’s in. All Baltimore city schools have zero percent of their African American kids performing at grade level at math. No emergency. They’ll get to it as soon as they protects the bridgeworks.
@@TitaniumTurbine As we say in Engineering, “Rev B”.
It’s final destination 5 in real life
I gotta wander how much experience the harbor pilot had.
Experience is racist. Better to hire an illiterate indian immigrant with no experience in bidens america, keeps wages lower than dirt and gives the big corporations a huge tax break.
A ton, those guys are good, most likely a mechanical failure, we will find out.
@@MikeRthe1Think you’re right. Looked like power went out three times on the tape
@@MikeRthe1 then if that is the case the ship should have been scrapped. That's not a sea worthy ship.
@@pietrojenkins6901You don’t have to scrap a whole ship for electrical issues. If they kept up with the regular maintenance and replaced what needed to be replaced it would be fine. Unfortunately many shipping likes don’t do that and run their ships till stuff like this happens.
Tragic. Now to investigate the situation, recover surviviors and hold those responsible accountable.
Going down going down down ......
Been across that thing in the 1980s and it gave me the creeps. High and steep pitch.
As time fly by, it becomes worst and worst, year after years...
C-c-collapse.
How do you figure this same sort of thing has always been a factor
It's all perspective. In many, many ways it gets better and better. You're telling me the 40-year life expectancy of virtually every other century is better?
However yes, some things are getting worse. There's a lot of fuckin humans in the world now, and people having irresponsible numbers of children every day, so in those ways it'll continue to worsen. But it'll get better in others. It's bad and it's good, better and it's worse, lol.
On average, it actually doesn't.
Yup that's the crazy part
Ship lost power multiple times. Seems like a severe electrical or mechanical failure.
Baltimore is one of those American cities I want to go to. Because it IS a port! I grew up in a port city.
In Canada. My father in his career worked on the waterfront. And he would have been dealing with Maersk
all his working life. Things are in crisis mode in Copenhagen today, I'm sure. I hope the Pride of Baltimore is OK.
“ ship happens” folks. Mechanical, electrical failure and human error are paramount.
Rescue those people!
My worst nightmare as someone that can’t swim
Who you telling
Swimming won't help if you're trapped in a vehicle, sadly
Take swimming lessons.
Lord protect everyone involved
Prayers for all involved.
Like, HOW...?!?
This is some people's greatest nightmare. Ever been on the Chesapeake Bay Tunnel Bridge going into VA Beach? There are people who park in a park & ride and get a ride across because they simply can't go over, and under, that much water when they are behind the wheel.
Como fue esa colisión, no habían indicadores nocturnos ?
Francis Scott Key is a very famous bridge and it is like collapsing of Twin Towers.
That is *not* the comparison to be making here. I get what you mean, but also no.
Omg! Praying for anybody on that bridge.
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Extremely hard to believe only two people went in the water.... ???
If you watch the video it looks like the bridge was clear (or mostly clear) of cars at the time the bridge fell.
Sheese. It is OBVIOUS the ship had a blackout just prior to it hitting the bridge. Now the news is dead set on having a body count. Keep up the good work.
Complete negligence , no excuses as to how it happened, these are professionals steering the ship. An absolute tragedy, god bless everyone involved in this tragedy .
The ship lost electrical and engine power at least twice before hitting the bridge. Do some research before condemning those poor souls.
@@tothemaxx1991 first of all there was no explanation as to what happened because it was very early when the tragedy was being reported , secondly these ships must be maintained and it is solely on the captains watch and thirdly where am I condemning these poor people involved in this tragedy ? Do some research on how to comprehend the English language before your accusations.
@@mel7195 Wow, you're so smart. Good job. Because "no excuses as to how it happened" isn't a condemnation, obviously.
@@tothemaxx1991 that’s ok, you can tell that to the families of the poor people that perished on that bridge just going to work or home that no one’s responsible.
I wonder what they will do with the rest of the bridge
What a shame !
Is it a popular bridge like golden gate
Exactly. How can that bridge come down just from that hit on the base that doesn’t make sense. That bridge was not well built
Shame, I hope nobody lost their life from the cars on the bridge.
And there were two pilots on board who were responsible to guide it, escort it through local channels and tidal changes. What were they doing at that time?
Praying for survivors
The support pillar were really poorly lit. You can't even see them hardly in the original non enhanced video.
😮😮😮 Who was the Captain? I just saw the footage. It does not look accidental to me.
Looks like the ship lost power moments before. This would definitely effect steering.
Why don't you explain us to us how this wasn't an accident cuz I'm guessing you're a complete expert in this subject! LOL
And your an expert are you.
@@barbarahalkyard1901 smart enough to know that ships like this are normally out of control
Capt wouldn’t have been at the helm. A harbor pilot would have.
HAD TO HAVE BEEN A POWER FAILER
So sad.😢
Shocking tragedy. 😢
This is very very sad. How deep is the water,etc God bless.
Not super deep but the temperature is really cold this time of year
WTF ..OMG ...😰
Grave construction error. Our bridge here has concrete "islands"that ships can crash into without damaging the pillars of the bridge.
Isn't the water toxic/contaminated???
How horrifying, the whole thing collapsed like a house of cards. Was it on purpose? I pray everyone survives.
I hope not
Something wrong with you, seek professional help.
Why couldn't the captain of the ship see the bridge? He's got blood on his hands.
There should be a pilot onboard that specializes in navigating those ships in and out of the harbour. Of course the ultimate responsibility is on the ships captain. Can't rule out a blackout on the ship either. That usually results in total loss of control.
Not the Captain, harbour pilot who hands over to the Captain or whoever once its clear of the harbour.
Looks like the ship had lost power. Not much you can do when that happens except hold on.
Irrational, vengeful American who doesn’t need evidence. Guessing you vote Democratic
Oh my hope the people are ok?🙏
Bruh... 7 people still under water? Jesus.. hope they are ok... 😐
Unfortunately if they went underwater with their vehicles they are most likely dead.
define "ok"
Thinks 7 is just the estimated road crew. There are undoubtable many more than that.
That awful.
that lufwa
At this point just Pray for all those involved.
Where's pilot and tug boats ?? Large ships have tug boats when leaving to help steer it..????...lets answer this question
Also it lost power 3 times before hitting definitely ship issues . I dont think this was intentional
Careful your a lone, rational, logical voice in this thread of paranoid, angry, half wits
This is so ghetto! When this happens in Bay Area the bridges don’t collapse, and even in third world countries bridges don’t fall down like toys. 😅😅😅
Scary world out here.. 🙏
I care for workers on that bridge who help keep it going. i hope they are ok
I hope they are not Sabotaging teams.
God help everyone
This is something that has never happened before. There is something wrong with this country.
Agreed!
Lol bridges collapse from ZERO collisions. Ships run into docks, reefs, other ships, bridge pylons, etc ALL THE TIME rage world over.
my heart breaks for you all thinking of you from melbourne australia 🇦🇺
The number of crew members are not based on Wessel length or no. of containers.
On the video, there is a lot of smoke from the exhaust pipes from the engines. It is normally because the mail engine is given "full speed" (in this case it most obviously "full astern"). fore unknown reason they have been heading at the Bridge Cullum, and the have tried to avoid the collision.
The black smoke could also come from a malfunction on a auxiliary engine! this could cause a "black out" if the other auxiliary engines is not able to take over the electrical load, fast enough.
The electrical power load could have been very high, if the wessel has too low speed to steer, but the duty officer has used the bow thruster at full power in order to force the bow away from the bridge.
A pilot is never steering a wessel!
The pilot is guiding the captain and the duty officer with information on "navigating" in the local area. These information could be like, were to sail in strong tide in/out going. passage restrictions, du to work on bridges or waterways.
The helm is hold by an experienced seaman. He/she receives course orders from the captain based on input from the pilot(s).
It is seen in other places that there is build a great stone reef as a defence around bridge collums like these, as they are very weak, when they are hit.
Baltimore is a port to load reefer containers as I can remember. Too many of them may overload the genies. Some Chief Engieneers even unplug them to have some some juicie for bow and stern thrusters...Once you make the turn and suppose to be relax, wants to plus them and switch off the thruster that are ineffective at that speed. In a power failure the emergency generator automatically start and in case the other get back online after a short period, the surges and peak voltages mess the steering system. Rudder goes hard to the side of the screw, no system, hand or NFU respond and by the time someones gets to the steering gear is too late...Maybe... maybe not something like this happen
I hope everyone's safe...
Show the video. Not pictures
🙏🙏🙏
Imagine the Fine for collapsing a bridge
I was a helmsman in the Navy. We never hit any bridges. My condolences to the injured and families of the deceased.😢
I live near a port. They have a Harbor Master and team of a couple of pilots who drive every ship into the port. They demanded that they have the right to park the Trident Submarines that use the port. That lasted until one of the Harbor Pilots stuck a sub on a sandbar. Now the Navy parks their own subs.
The ship carrying 2 billion worth of goods and now void. This is a very expensive accident.
This is very sad and a major lawsuit
Which part isn’t collapsed
Ramps?
Something smells fishy
And it ain't my girlfriends underwear...
Tampa Bay SKYWAY Bridge has defensive dolphin concrete blockers,,,, the two on this Baltimore bridge are constructed in the WRONG positions for blocking the support legs
Best believe they will try to sweep this under the rug. DONT LET THEM
No collecting of a pension now...
Now wouldn't they know this would happen the ship was too big,seems careless
#infrastructure needs to be a bigger focus.
This will be rebuilt before the I195 George Washington bridge in Providence that’s been shut down since December.
amazing the pillars are totally unprotected, it's clear no one wanted to pay for a safe structure. Truly sad.
My nike flex hat is in a container ?
Judgment
I missed out on a Special Report because I was still sleeping but it was a shocking surprise
Joe Biden is that you 😂😂😂
@@Sbxallday no
the guy he drove his boat straight into that bridge and then that bridge it fell down and it had people on it and stuff thats wild !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yeh, it DID appear the ship steered directly into that pylon.
Jesus you people. Electrical failure 3 times as seen in video. Get off the drugs
if the ship was using a harbor pilot unless it was electrical or some ship defect then the pilot is 100% responsible for control of the ship and he messed up big time