Baltimore Bridge collapse: 'A dire emergency'
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- Опубликовано: 25 мар 2024
- The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has collapsed after a cargo ship collided with it.
Baltimore City Fire Department has called it a "developing mass casualty event".
Sky's Sabah Choudhry brings us the latest information.
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I used to commute daily over this bridge. The video doesn’t really convey how massive this bridge is. During rush hour, there are thousands of people on this bridge at any moment, and it’s a miracle that this didn’t happen during peak rush hour.
I've never seen this bridge in real life but I saw a news helicopter vision and when I noticed another helicopter as a spec I realised this is one enormous bridge. Massive in fact !!
Why is miracle?
@@neznam1720this catastrophe happened at around 1:30am, so if it was during rush hour mang more people would have died or been missing.
@@jacksonsmith1823 yes
That’s so horrible! 😢 My deepest condolences to the workers families!
Those poor, poor people! Sending much love to everyone involved 🥺🙏❤️
The temperature of the sea water would be very close to freezing. No person would last very long in that water.
If they even survive after the collapse. It has a 185 ft. clearance.
Debris fallling on top of them in tons of Steel and cold water could be fatal ?
Psh. I'm way more powerful than some cold water.
If they're alive rescue coast guard and other boaters are there to help!
The water averages at 40 degrees in that area at the moment.
I grew up in Baltimore. This is not some random bridge: The Key bridge is one of the most-travelled bridges in a metropolitan area of over a million people. In addition to the danger to the people who were on it at the time, alternative routes are scarce.
Bummer to read this... 😮
If this closes the Port of Baltimore there will be major commerce, and economic issues also. This is really bad.
They should have invested in safe infrastructure¨
@@user-wg8bn2pc2d Silly comment. The bridge was perfectly safe and has been safe for 45 years. Very few bridges could withstand a direct hit by a loaded 900+ ft cargo ship.
@@user-wg8bn2pc2d Not many bridges can cope with a collision with a ship
A bridge collapses, probably many people dead and your first thought it is commerce?
@@user-wg8bn2pc2d It cost over $100 million dollars to complete it in 1977 which is over $500 million in today's money. How about not crashing into the bridge like everyone else for over 40 years?
We are minutes away, in Dundalk, Maryland, and are contacting coworkers to make sure they weren't on the bridge. Still calling
Prayers!
🙏
Call them!
I hope they’re okay
Thoughts are with all affected, so sad.
Poor people
Rich people
Poor bridge
I've been on that bridge dozens of times its a huge bridge and the main bridge of travel across the bay. The water is 48 degrees and it's very dark water in the Chesapeake bay.This is a very serious event I feel so bad for all the people on the bridge how terrifying
I remember the bridge well when working on site at Sparrows Point Steelworks in 1995. We had to cross the river twice each day.
Is there many options for people now without the bridge?
48 degrees? Really ?
It almost looks like the boat was aiming for the bridge, it hit it dead on.
It's not a "boat" it's a ship and it's not a mile long dear.
She's not the sharpest tool in the shed! 🤡
@@TheDiudang5127 insult to be class as a tool
a ship is a boat, but not all boats are ships.
The bridge is over a mile long
She probably just misspoke, meaning the bridge.
Nothing will convince me this was an accident.
Seek help
Awful, that bridge broke up instantly. Those workers didn't stand a chance. I hope there are survivors but that river is huge and fast running. Sending out ♥🇬🇧
I heard the police scanner from the boat rescue they have word it was a construction crew with 20 guys n either two or three trucks plus a large 18 wheeler that was on the bridge
No way!
Unladen, she weighs over 95,000 tons. Fully laden she's 117,000 tons.
Ain't no bridge gonna stop an impact with that much mass behind it . . .
How awful for the poor people caught up in this I hope they’ll all be ok
I live in Baltimore my house shake I thought it was earthquake . Watching it collapse feels like 911 all over again.
How far from the bridge
Oh no ...sounds crazy.
I’m in central Virginia and it woke me up.
Really? O my! 😱😭
2 miles from The Bridge
@@Eddie-ud4bb
A mile is 1609.344 meters, the longest ship is only 458.46 metres.
That's 1760 yards
I think she meant the bridge is a little over a mile long.
@@djstuc a mile.............ffs
The Dali is 300 m long
At some point the news reader also says “falling hundreds of feet”… nah, that looks like maybe a little over a hundred feet, not hundreds.
The longest cargo ship in the world is 0.24 mile long , at 2 mins roughly she clearly says the mile long ship !!! What is going here ?
Good to see people commenting, I was questioning myself. A mile long ship has to be an universe record.
She's a moron. That's what's going on. Just because she's a newsreader doesn't mean she's smart. Quite often the opposite! 🤣😂
Probably meant the bridge .
It was just a slip of the tongue when she said ship - eg instead of bridge.
She could have meant the bridge, or she could have made a small mistake and meant the boat because of metric. She mentions that it's 5 hours behind her so this the UK version of Sky News I believe and the boat is around 900ft, so a small slip up could have her thinking 1000 = Next measurement like metres to kilometres.
In the netherlands Rotterdam ,almost every year a ship hit the bridge (willemsbrug)
More than 20 times,and it Never collapse.
In the netherlands we build strong
I think most people can work out that bridges need to deal with accidents.
Yeah go Holland. Land of water engineering
Insufferable Europeans can't even stop gloating during a tragedy.
Such a Dutch thing to say bruh it’s literally been 4 hours
@@buffalosolider206whether its 4 hours, 4 days, 4 weeks etc etc, facts are facts
I have driven over that bridge a thousand times. As a commercial diver in that area I know first hand the water is about 40F. At 0100 in the morning it will be difficult to impossible to save anyone. Add diesel fuel and twisted metal and the height of the drop it doesn't look good for any recovery. I'm not shocked by much but that was shocking. LOTS of people drive over that bridge each day so DC traffic will be horrendous
Doesn’t it feel like the whole goddamn country is falling apart?
Ship.
It's a SHIP.
And it's not a mile long. 🙄
Sky News at its finest 😂
Look at the elephant in the room, the flashing red warning beacon is missing from the pier the ship collided with, look carefully all the rest have beacons, looks to me the captain in pitch black darkness went for the biggest gap between beacons not thinking a central pier was there.
Or - hear me out - the ship crashing into it could have made the beacon go off.
plausible, but it looks like there was no beacon before contact.@@MoogieSRO
2:14 the ship is 300 meters long, not "about a mile long".
She said we know. Sack her.
The bridge not the ship
She may have confused the bridge span with the ship's length.
If I had a pound ... or even a dollar for every one who couldn't wait to get busy with the digits ......
As for the American National Anthem, Americans should be ashamed. The third verse contains these words,
"No refuge could save the hireling and slave,
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave."
These lines refer to slaves freed by the British who were returned to slavery or murdered often following horrendous torture, castration and worse, following the defeat of the British forces in the Battle of Baltimore. Bearing in mind the persecution of native people and those with black skins by the vile rabble of European renegades, the words "Land of the Free" have a very hollow ring.
What have these reporters been smoking? The ship wasn't over a mile long, jeez.
That's Sky News for ya
Maybe confused the span of the bridge with the length of the ship.
The MarineTraffic24 image appears to show the Dali is at first on a straight, safe trajectory, but then suddenly deviates directly towards the pillar. Strange....just saying.
My instant thought was 9-11 all over again...
Horrific news! Prayers for all to be rescued!
that water is cold pray for thoes in the water
It's not that cold
Pray for what exactly?
@@410cultivar fool
@@410cultivar It was reported as 40°F/4°C at the time. A few degees above freezing.
So the captain of the ship were sleeping???
Sending my prayers to the affected people 🙏🏾
I have to wonder was this done on purpose?
Beware the Ides of March. So many 'crazy' things happen around this time of year every year.
Prayers to everyone involved 🙏🏼
what a nightmare
Is this woman capable of saying even ONE sentence? Eh eh eh eh eh eh…. Ffs
No I'm afraid 😊
No! 🥴
Sending prayers from Hobart, Australia, this happened to a bridge in 1976, sadly many lives lost, ship sunk after hitting bridge 😢
What. Is. With. The. Stilted. Delivery. Of. These. Presenters?
Professionalism and calm? To a Yank that might be a surprise.
UK idiots
🤣🤷🏽♀
Sounds like she's putting on a voice but isn't good enough to keep it going. The teleprompter is probably why though.
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Apparently the first mate, one Albert Trotter a resident of Peckham London a WW2 veteran and grandad is missing, his grandson Derek (Del Boy) when asked for a quote said “what’s the dozy old twonk done now !
That should not have been possible.
The general weight of an average-sized cargo ship is somewhere around 165,000 tons, while smaller vessels weigh about 50,000 tons and larger vessels approximately 220,000 tons.
Sunshine Skyway showed it is. 40+ years later and it happens again. 'Lessons will be learned.....' blah blah.... nah!
@@Randy2747 The Dali likely sat at around 117,000
It's Baltimore, a democrat ran city. 😂
It unfortunately is, ships have an insane amount of mass and when they're moving that's a lot of kinetic energy.
Vessels striking bridges has always been an issue since the first large ships and railways, and has been one of the main causes of collapses along with poor maintenance or overloading.
Just Google the Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapse for a very similar disaster with a similar design of bridge, they protected the new bridge from similar collissions with structural dolphins which surround the piers to prevent impact if a ship goes off course.
My goodness where was the Crew of the ship. Who was on watch and where was personal manning the helm
I'm 99 % sure the local harbor pilot was in charge of the ship.
Sounds like terrorism
Those ships can be also operated remotely i believe 😢😢
It just departed, usually everyone is on duty, in a harbor just leaving port.
Some reports I've seen suggest the ship may have been having engineering issues and may have lost steerage.
If there was one blessing, its that it wasn't rush hour, yet. In another hour or so, there would have been at least a hundred or more people on the bridge. 😢😞🥺🙏🏻🙏🏻
It's a SHIP, dammit. Not a boat!
ship, boat...same thing
@@cplcabsdifferent
@@arifasatria7704not different.
@@arifasatria7704 cant argue with the brit they can define how they want
Was it about cross the 'pond'? 😂
Singapore cargo ship...not sus at all!
Oh God, I'm hoping and praying that everyone is okay. All possible with God. 🙏
😂 😂
What was this god doing at the time? On its holidays perhaps.
@@user-gp9vk8he5g Ask Him Tru prayer. We, as humans cannot predict what will happen. That's why we should always pray and ask for guidance and protection.
My prayers go out to all those affected by this tragedy
I'll be shocked if they survive the cold of the water.
It's like 40° they will be right if they survive the steel and impact of water
How old it be 40? That’s pretty warm
@@EkkaZASMRthats in Farenhait not Celcius.
@@EkkaZASMR40°F = about 4°C. A few degrees above freezing.
@@imtiazbi1112 ahh I see. I’m in Australia and read it as Celsius 🤦♀️
the world is going to hell in a hand basket
After the Sunshine Skyway bridge disaster in the early 1980s- from exactly the same cause- a ship collision- the new bridge was constructed with several bumpers on bothe sides at the shipping channel to prevent this kind of thing from ever happening again.
Definitely not a terrorist attack.
I mean, what terrorist would slam a boat into a bridge? That would be like someone flying a plane into a skyscraper… definitely not
In the middle of the night as well. Where there are less people on the bridge. My guess is either the ship helmsman dozed off due to exhaustion or a steering malfunction.
Prayer for the victims and their families 😢
Ok so they not require a ships pilot, and tug assist? With newer ships having computer controls was there an electric or mechanical failure.
Somebody's insurance is going to take a beating
Wtf it collapsed as if it was made from match sticks
Because a pillar got buckled.
In layman terms: the ship broken one of its legs.
the sections can't free stand, they rely on the entire structure being sound.
The pier was struck, which unsurprisingly caused the structure that was supported by that pier to collapse.
a bridge is built on a minimum of legs and here one of them was hit right out under it, that lead to the obvious collapse of the left and center part.
the right part lacks a counterweight then and with the whole system distributing tensile loads across the structure gone it simply gives way and drops.
My thoughts entirely.
Very poor design in modern times (opened in the 70s).
Hitting one section of a bridge of this sort should not collapse multiple sections, it ought to be built in so that individual sections which are hit do not affect the sections either side of the stricken section!
Its not rocket science.
horrible!
I would be surprised if this was an accident but i sure hope it was. Prayers to all the people involved
Mile long boat wtf !!! I smell something!!
The fallout and lawsuits from this are gonna be huge
Why is this the only video being shown anywhere? Where's the live coverage? On scene?
There are many videos, even live ones, just google it
Because they've learned that live reporting from right in the middle of a disaster just hampers rescue attempts.
@@G1NZOUwhat with helicopters
@@ange1098 it's night time
they probably don't want to risk it, also there are probably enough other helicopters in the air already, trying to spot people in the water with infra red and coordinating rescue efforts
@@underarmbowlingincidentof1981 this is the answer. Using thermal imaging cameras to locate people in the water will be a vital resource for rescuers, helping them assess and prioritise effectively. Having the local traffic chopper up isn't going to help with that.
This same thing happened 44 years ago to a bridge in Florida.
It says 7 people at bottom of screen, reporter saying 20??
It’s called developing situation. The ticker tape can’t keep up because it isn’t yet AI and can listen and type on its own……
Incoming reports, figures can change in the moment 😢
There will never be exact figures this early in the incident.
@@faithintheunseen1294 appreciate that, take ticker tape out.
@@suecharnock9369 take ticker tape out.
This will affect everything up north.
Oh dear never mind
horrifying that it collapses so fast! why would a bridge have such a catastrophic failure????
Bridge of this type is essentially, an engineered steel arch. Massive collision from a boat, sufficient to compromise even one main support element, can potentially comprise the entire structure.
Holy crap, i hope everyone is ok.. what the hell was that boat doing!
Floating in the river like all boats 😂
Lord please fix this praying so hard for these people
Fix this?
🙏🏽
Hes gonna take a day off from giving people cancer and aids to fix a bridge lol
Who was driving the boats??? Was the operator intoxicated?
Wonder why he hit the bridge dont they use gps
God Bless and prayers from the UK 🇬🇧 ✝️🙏🏻❤️🤓
something wrong seriously .. prayers for those who are in the water.
i would have expected the bridge to have a sacrificial barrier to prevent direct impact with the bridge, so this is a strange incident.
the new bridge will have it
Very true, after the Sunshine Skyway collapse they added structural dolphins to prevent the piers being struck, I can't imagine why they didn't look at other bridges with the same potential for being struck by ships and add dolphins around those bridges as well.
Money.
I pray very few cars on the bridge at that time, this is catastrophic and heartbreaking for anyone there 😢
terrible incident --- terrible verbal diarrhoea of a report from these two .
This is a horrific tragedy. The Captain of that ship is going to jail for a long long time. Truly shocking. Those poor soles and there poor families! Not sure about the stuttering news reader !
Why exactly would the pillar on the right catch fire? What part of the bridge is flammable?
Looks like just sparks to me, can't see any orange once it's down.
the ship caugh fire doh
That's crazy
Wow, it collapsed like so much cardboard.
Like a pack of cards 😢
That shows the optimization of the original engineering. Every girder was doing its part, within its factor of safety, until the cascading, dynamic, and unplanned loads imposed upon them.
It remains just as… impressive (for lack of my recalling a better word for it, which I am sure exists), despite the analytical eye cast upon it.
This is going to have massive reverberations for the whole area, state, and even nation.
How awful... this was totally an unexpected tragedy!
Who tf wrote the script these balloons are reading from ?
"from nowhere", "falling hundreds of feet" - Kay Burley looking for a drama tree in the forest.
She's a dire reporter, no skills whatsoever..
Never watch the ghoul she's insufferable.
As they say on fleet street, if it bleeds ....it leads.
Hope the rescue operation goes well.
Omg keep safe everyone😢
Very very sad! Prayers for those in the water. How does such a thing happen in 2024?
Less than 50 years old and unable to cope with what should be an expected, possible, accident ? So many real questions to ask of the design, the navigation restrictions and general security for such a major structure.
News reporters are lost as to how to report without an autocue. They sound disfunctional.
I agree.
The ship possibly had either a mechanical or electrical malfunction that caused it to steer off course..While still in port, all hands would have been in the bridge, so human error would seem unlikely..imho
Not sure but it looked as if the accommodation lighting went out then there was a lot of black smoke, possibly due to the engines being emergency full astern ...... trouble is it takes a heck of a long time for a big ship to stop even at full power
It could be a wrong air draft calculation. It could be a change in current. It could possibly be many things. But I somehow find the bridge to be a bit week to allow vehicles to go over 😂😂.
sabotage?
@@owlhoo6996 typical american
I wouldn't be surprised if it happened due to budget cuts...
so many companies try to maximize profits by turning a bridge crew of five into a crew of three, and then just one.
like with cargo trains where one person has to do the job of three for the same pay, leading to accidents.
Was this an intentional ramming of the bridge? We've seen smaller scale attempts to take down bridges with trucks, intentionally.
nah
probably human error
lots of companies in the US are doing budget cuts to maximize profit, so a bridge crew of five turns into a crew of three, etc.
that's a few overworked tired workers having to do the job of many many more.
like in the freight train industry where it leads to accidents...
@@underarmbowlingincidentof1981 Did somebody mention Boeing?
@@mikeomolt4485 haha exactly
and then they blame it on the government forcing "diversity" instead of the fact they are just employing the cheapest people possible
prayers for the victims from Russia 🙏
Time to look closely at Baltimore's hierarchy and just how little money has been spent on the city's basic infrastructure.
This may very well be true, but it does not necessarily follow as a consequence, nor as a cause, of the accident. It would seem an independent event.
From videos I've seen that boat didn't go under the middle more to the left boats usually go under the middle
Boat ship same thing
@@Km-cj6ej Boat's And Ship's Aren't the same thing. 🤦♂️.
So usually watercraft don't crash into the pillars?
America must to rebuilt its infrastructure. US need modern bridges, tunnels, roads and others to secure public life. My condolences!
No can do I'm afraid. America only has money for apartheid Israel and Ukraine. 😢 that's where American tax payers money goes. So the Zionists in Israel can enjoy free health care and free university education at America's expense.
If only Biden could pass a bill to fix and modernize the infrastructure. He could call it the "Infrastructure bill"...
That Captain 'may be' facing very serious criminal charges.
Edited for clarity 👍
ship was starting to burn causing electrical problems it's unlikely
Why? Maybe ship malfunctioned
Surely any criminal charges depend on the cause of the accident?
There were 5 cars on the bridge, i dont think anyone survived other than 2 construction workers. Sad loss of life :(
Someone’s going to jail
Must be the Russians 🤡
Must be the Russians or Chinese 😂
Yea, Right!
For what , losing power twice....
So the captain will be receiving his annual bonus as usual then?...🤔
This bridge represent entire US economy.
US economy is growing pretty well.
It is distribution that is the problem.
The captain was drunk or blind?
Just wondering... could this be a terroristic activity?? Russia just had a major attack!
Путин виноват😂 , а как в России что упадёт, Байден виноват))
@@pusho_kwhat happens in uk is China's fault 😂😂
Where did this happen
Captain: "See the hole, aim for it!"
Who wriites tis garbage? Cargo on the bridge! Over a mile long ship! And this is the the terrible state of all US infrastructure
Morons! 😵💫😵💫
Sky news makes things up as they go along .they might have well have chat gpt write it for them there's so many inaccuracies.
Who is the ships captain, how much experience he/she has?
Wow I hope people have survived that what a disaster