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- The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, partially collapsed Tuesday after it was hit by a cargo ship overnight. Officials say a search and rescue operation is underway.
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#baltimore #bridgecollapse #brekingnews
Thank goodness it wasnt rush hour.
Thank God. So sad for those people
Yes. I'm like omg this could've been so much worse. I pray for any victims. 😢😮
I was thinking the same thing. Would of been a lot worse .
Would’ve been completely devastating
would not of happened rush hour the bridge was hit cause it was dark and hard to see and pilot was most likely not as focused as they should of been these two factors are to blame.
I very much doubt this happens in broad daylight when rush hour would be.
I’m so sorry this looks horrific, sending love from the UK to you all, stay strong cousins 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇸
Thank you 🇬🇧❤🇺🇸❤🇬🇧
We will keep calm and carry on. Stronger together 🇺🇸 + 🇬🇧!
@@Lili-Keno ❤️
@@businessraptor127 ❤️
The bridge was completed in 1977. That's at least 45 years of wear and tear in a river bed, where sand shifts all the time and wears concrete away. Cargo ships the size of today's ships didn't exist then. I am sorry for the people that got caught up in this. To survivors and all families involved. God speed. Keep safe.
Amen ❤
46, my age...
The 3 bridges in pittsburgh are holding up just fine and those bridges are older than that.
@@user-ui8it3bw5x And the 3 bridges in Pittsburgh got hit by a ship the size of Dali, carrying a full load of containers, right? Proof please that this happened. Otherwise your comparison is null and void.
@@reinemarais4392 look up how the silver Bridge was resurrected and the influence behind the new design. If more bridges were built like the rachel carson and Clemente bridges this kind of thing wouldn't happen
My main fear when driving over a bridge 😮
Same I live in Maryland have been over the bridge everytime when going to the beach it was amazing driving over it but I always feared this .
Very unreasonable fear as it's extremely rare for a bridge to collapse while you're driving over it, you're more likely to be struck by lightning or get mugged by Tyrone down the street.
@@Rocket9944 Not your place to say what's reasonable or not regarding someone ELSE'S fear.
It should be close by now ...
My main fear first is that my car goes over the edge second is that the bridge collapses and then third is that a ship hits it.
"How can one ship take out the whole bridge"
Do you know how heavy the average cargo ship, loaded with thousands of containers, is. Hundreds of thousands of tons of steel will take down most bridges.
The concept of momentum seems to be lost on most people viewing this instant. Even if they were trying to reverse.
The force behind it even going 3mph would be catastrophic
I think most people understand how heavy those ships are but if you're going to have hundreds of these ships travel below the bridge each day, there should be at least something to reduce risk of this sort of thing. It seems almost inevitable that this would happen at some point.
Only bridges that are NOT protected by massive deflectors, able to divert every ship.
The same happened before in many places, and state of the art are massive concrete deflectors, able to divert everyship
@@longforgotten4823trying to reverse might actually have made things more dire... single prop ships that go into reverse will careen off course, and it seems that happened here judging by the video we could watch.
It's a sad day in my beloved State of Maryland. 😢
I'm in jersey and this has me HUGELY upset.
I guess the crime rate does not make you sad. You must be part of the problem.
@rero6212 same same my mom just told me about this earlier I had no Idea what the key bridge was until now but thank God I found this video sucks to see this happen to my beloved state of Maryland as well 🙏
I lived in Silver Springs for half a lifetime, and this ship looks to me like it was AIMED for the pylon.
I use to drive the bridge all the time. The idea that one ship could do this is insane.
I always had a bad feeling about the bridge and would drive out of my way to avoid it. lots of sad stories on it prior to this.
Many questions.....?
A Cruise Ship is made out of weight, heavy weight, steel, metal, it weighs TONS.
Exactly. Just one of those containers go on the back of a large tractor trailer. There are hundreds of this containers on that vessel. It was tons and tons of massive weight.
@@commercialzone4141make that thousands.... those ships are not fast, but that mass in motion takes a lot of energy to stop... and some dinky pylon wont stand up to that force.... in all seriousness, it is pretty hard to design a bridge pylon that is ram-proof, as the force involved are gigantic. the pylons would have to be surrounded by armored islands filled with sand or similar to absorb the shock, as even if the pylon could withstand the ship, the shock might be enough to compromise the structure....
This reminds me of when the 35W bridge fell in Minneapolis. Thank goodness this bridge wasn’t full of rush hour traffic. Although, any number of casualties is too many. 😢❤
Yeah, I remember that, I live in La Crosse...
Head of Transport says local pilots used on ships getting them in and out of port. Fire Brigade says two rescued so far. One unhurt. One in serious condition at a trauma centre. Prayers for more survivors.
Wow😢
Yeah unlike you I'm not going to pray for more survivors
I'm just going to hope that nobody else was involved
@@MsDawnKeyballs several vehicles in the water. I’ll let you do the math.
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
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Wow, so freaky..prayers from Australia 🇦🇺
The cargo ship is still moving!
THESE GENTILE DEVILS ARE UNDER JUDGEMENT NO DOUBT..!!! THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING BEST BELIEVE.!! #OBADIAH. #APTTMHY
Thanks mate!
Props to the Emergency Response Teams. That scene is cold and dangerous AF. Current, undertow and temperature are just the obvious. Props to the Young Mayor being an example of genuine compassion and caring. Be that good brother.
My prayer goes to everyone in the ship as well as the people who were on the bridge. May God protect them and keep them safe 🙏 ❤️
It was a cargo ship
@@vikyefre4975 So,what?
The entire crew of the ship has already been accounted for and reported safe. The ship is damaged but overall not in bad shape. Its crew members are fine. The real casualties are the construction workers working on the bridge at 1:25AM, trying to make the bridge better or safer. 6 or 7 of them fell into the water. Since they have not yet been found 5 hours after the collapse, and hypothermia would have set in within 30 minutes in those conditions, they must be presumed dead by this time. They were just guys trying to do their job and they became victims of this catastrophe. God rest their souls, and I hope their families receive the support they need and deserve.
I'm praying for the paramedics , fire department ,and victims.
Imagine not knowing that your loved one was driving across that bridge or that they were even out driving last night. 😢
I hope they find everyone who was on the bridge and on the cargo ship, and my prayers for those who survived the collapse and for the families of those who didn't. Wow, what a sad and terrible tragedy!
1980 skyway bridge is calling. You had 44 years to see the pylon wasn't protected. Amazing
@Melondays874 no he wasn't drunk. It was a massive downpour at a pivotal point. My dad was a ranger at Fort DeSoto working that morning. By the time we made that loop at the east side of the park it had cleared up and hundreds were there looking
Everywhere in the world have massive deflectors, able to redirect every ship
That's exactly what came to my mind, I wasn't born yet but I did a school study on the 1980 Sunshine Skyway Bridge disaster a couple years ago, and now for this to happen it makes you wonder if nobody fully learned from it
@@AdventuresWithRandR All of this is planned and done purposely.
If anybody… not , if nobody .
she needs to learn to listen and stop interfering with his reporting 🤦🏽♀️that was frustrating
There is a small satellite feed delay that interferes in conversation.
Agree. I can’t deal with her.
There's a delay and time limit
This is almost exactly what happened to the Sunshine Skyway (old) bridge back in 1980. A ship hit a pylon. The new Sunshine Skyway has great big circular bumpers that protect the new bridge. When I say new, we're still talking about the 80's.
I'm sorry, I should have mentioned that the Sunshine Skyway is down in Tampa, kind of the gateway into Tampa Bay itself.
Same thing Tasmania years ago. Terrible..
I just commented about that, too. It immediately came to mind. Very sad.
@noplainjanie
Yes it was. Think most of the wreckage still there. Surprisingly few people know about that happening.
Except that ship sank … the lake Illawarra .
Prayers for the bridge workers, drivers on the bridge at the time, the first responders, and all family & loved ones involved. 🙏
Prayers for everyone; family, responders and medical workers.
Bridge was built back in the 1970s. Back then ships were smaller, the threat to Us infrastructure was minimal.
So yes, the bridge would have remained standing if a ship from 1960s had crashed into it.
That container shop seems to be loaded thus a heavy massive mass hit a pylon built in the 1970s.
Really? & Ur Suggesting that they can build the same type of Bridge today that can Take a Direct Hit From a 900’. Fully loaded Container Ship ??.....
@@michaelwells7348 not suggesting. It has been done. They build structures protecting the pylons as well from large vessels.
Just keep in mind the year when the bridge was built.
Container ships continue to grow every couple of years.
Utter nonsense. Ships have been collapsing cantilever bridges for the past 100 years. These are cheaper to put in place but if a single support is damaged the entire structure collapses.
The failure of the authorities in Maryland was in their not bothering to build protective structures around the main supports of this bridge knowing full well that it was vulnerable.
A bridge should be designed to withstand ship strikes and not to hope that it will not happen. With hundreds of ships coming and going under bridges each day any design defects will occur when ship crew make a mistake and people will die.
@@brucesummers7448 bridges have always been designed to withstand certain impacts based on current ship sizes that would be passing under the bridge plus obviously a safety factor.
However, a 40year old design never took into account the mass of the ships today and what an impact would do…
Talk to Buttigieg , he is the infrastructure guy. @@brucesummers7448
Reminds me the bridge in Italy that collapsed and a van or a truck was hanging on the edge and the person managed to get out. But other lives were taken RIP 🥀 But this is awful my thoughts from England 🌹
Please Pray 🙏🏻 for everyone impacted by this tragedy
Crazy. I use to take that Bridge to work on DCA1 Sparrow Points Amazon. Prayers to anyone impacted by this horrific and scary incident
Prayers go out from California. We can only hope no casualties are involved 🙏
"how could something with tens of thousands of tons of energy behind it, do so much damage to the post of a bridge anchored in sand?" these people CANT be this dim.
They are. They are, and these people are who other people listen to.
They might as well ask if the water was wet
Imagine agreeing to pose* as a reporter 😢
And jumping to conspiracy theories. I don’t understand some people’s desire to think something worse, more serious, underhanded was planned for this or other things. There are accidents. Things happen. Are conspiracy theorists just looking for some excitement in their lives? How many ships have gone under that bridge without a problem the past 50 years and elsewhere? There was one big screwup, we’ll see what they say about the problem the ship was having.
Nothing is a conspiracy anymore
This probably over 200 ton ship fully loaded, that's over 440 Million pounds with forward momentum of likely 10mph for a low end, that's over 200 Million lbs of force. Aint no bridge in the world that is stopping that kind of power.
exactly but people are stupid.....
More dolphins would have.
Good comment 👍
A fully loaded cargo ship can weigh up to 200,000 tons - imagine 200,000 SUV's hitting the bridge at one precise point - that will take out anything.
Exactly the people in comments saying bad infrastructure is so annoying, that ship is huge.
Wow! That bridge folded like a bunch of twigs!
Made in 🇺🇲 Cereal dreg.
That's what happens when you fund wars instead of infrastructure.
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼for any people on that bridge
I'm praying for the family and hopefully there are rescues.
Your Spell didn't work, 6 died.
Maybe now you'll realize your Cult is BS.
Paramedics, firefighters, police, and all emergency response teams are more dependable than your BS god. Grow TF up.
Religion makes stupid people lazy, makes them think science and medicine are magic.
These ships have trippled in size in the last decade.
This isn’t a search and rescue, you’ll be searching for bodies, prays go out to anyone that was on that bridge when that happened.
They may not find some people
They already found 2 people both alive
Really...they thought people on the ship may not be accounted for ? The ship felt nothing. A Lil bump
Either intentionally done or gross incompetence. This bridge was almost 50 years old. Never been struck like that. Dozens of ships come and go every day out of Baltimore’s harbor. It’s not lack of maintenance as they’re always working on that bridge as well. This is unbelievable.
Yeah !
DAS war aber eine große Tauruss ! Hallo Napoleon ! Huhuuu !
Schon besser ! Di. 26.03.2024 01:30 Ortszeit: Francis Scott Key Bridge, Baltimore.
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Damit haben die Amis, diese Killer, immer noch gut abgeschnitten: Nur sechs Vermisste.
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Die Amis haben immerhin an die 300 Russen in der Krokus-Hall umgelegt. Ganz in ihrer
gewohnten Revolver-Helden- und Indianermörder-Tradition.
225 Kriege in 260 Jahren Bestehen angezettelt! Gut 7 Mio. Tote durch rein militärische
Angriffshandlungen und wer weiß wie viele Millionen noch aufgrund der Kriegsfolgen.
Bridges have about 100 years of use so, I'm curious to see what they find out as well. Looks like the ship lost power and caused it to collide.
Maybe the ship had a problem with the engine
You can literally see the ship stall and start back up, Baltimore isn't important enough for this to be done intentionally
The longer video also shows at least two electrical failures before the accident, so material failure as a contributing factor is also a possibility.
My full condolences to the victim family and friends involved.🙏.
This is absolutely heartbreaking,
Just tragic, I'm sending prayers to everyone in Baltimore that suffered a loss, may God be with you and your families through these trying and difficult times. God Bless
The smoke was probably from the pilot reversing and gunning the engines, those things have a LOT of momentum, and the final position of the container ship is telling - I am no expert though, just watched a lot of maritime activity at the Port of Cleveland and on the Cuyahoga River.
Videos show there was an onboard fire on deck in containers
If you watch, it lost power for a good 2or3 minutes. When it got it's power back is when you start seeing the smoke and like you said was reversing hard.
Video clearly shows a fire on board ship prior to hitting pylon
I've watched the video 10 times and haven't seen any fire.
@@suzannefitzgerald-rowe8309No.
Jesus! 😭 this was hard to hear this morning, and even harder to watch. I’m praying for the love ones lost and those grieving
Jesus didn’t do anything wrong.
That’s so scary, that bridge has always been shaky during rush hour when it’s bumper to bumper. I use to use this bridge every day for over a decade. It’s the reason I have a fear of heights.
Ur right about the shakiness..
@@missssophisicated6742 just don’t look over the sides and pray you don’t have to stop at the top
I would not cross a bridge of there was rush hour. I can't imagine swimming in those waters
@@Bodangers I don’t think you had a good chance of swimming thats 180ft up into freezing water. 😥
They taking about they don’t know if the ship sunk when it right there in our face. 🤦♂️
It does not have to be submerged to be sunk. If it is, it will take ages to shift it. The bits of bridge can be craned out of the way for other ships.
In English?
Talking heads creating drama.
I pray that no one went into the cold water...😢 everyone is going to be safe
oh they did
Where else would they go…
@@vikyefre4975😅
Baltimore drivers be ready gridlock traffic
For a long, long time. That bridge is not getting replaced anytime soon.
Im absolutely inlove with architecture and bridges and i am a huge fan of bridge disaster stories. I cant wait for unbiased reporting on the investigation.
Francis Scott Key wrote The Star Spangled Banner- I know you know but a lot of these young kids don't know.
Going further back in the video: You can see the ship has a momentary loss of power about a minute before hitting the pylon. The ship drops anchor and tries to back down, but there's not enough time to come to a stop. When backing down on a ship like that, you lose the ability steer, which looks like it cuases the ship to drift into the pylon.
I doubt he lost power was just thrusting in the wrong direction
You're right. They lose power twice before impact. Briefly regained it in between the two losses.
"How was this bridge so vulnerable to being taken out by a single cargo ship" -- Well, sonny -- it's physics. We have the worst media in history.
...and economics. Thus the critical designs for minimizing resources.
Chez nous aussi en France nous avons les pires médias depuis notre dernier président... Pour tout vous dire, nous avons les mêmes médias que chez vous... Ils ont dû apprendre dans les mêmes écoles... 😔
Prières pour les victimes 🙏
Hope that everyone will be rescued.
As a Harbour Pilot myself, and having had Piloted this same ship in the past, if there was no propulsion creating sufficient water flow over the rudder, the Pilot would have had very limited ability to steer this vessel. As a river port/harbour, any water flow/current that was flowing out with the ship, would've reduced the flow over the rudder and further reduce the ability to steer. Given the size and draft of this ship, in a confined channel like this, there is also shallow water and bank effect which would've had added more difficulty to an impossible situation. If the vessel had lost rudder control as well as propulsion, even with only light winds blowing onto the port side of the ship and causing it to drift towards the bridge support, there was nothing that could be done by the Pilot. All he could do was to try and reduce the impact, which given the circumstances was an impossible task. The only way to have prevented this happening would've been to have had Captain Hindsight onboard, and a tug or tugs escorting it until clear of the bridge.
My thoughts go out to the Pilot, as he/she would've done their best to save it, then waiting for the inevitable, knowing how heavy and sad the consequences would be. Especially knowing there were people on the bridge. Sad day for all.
Bridge engineer here! I can see that this bridge had some structural flaws. According to bridge standards, in navigable waterways where vessel collision is possible, structures shall be designed to resist the design vessel collision forces and evaluated to meet a minimum level of safety.
At first glance, it appears that this bridge is not robust enough to resist these collision forces and lack some degrees of hyperstaticity. A hyperstatic structure, in view of its redundant degree of constraint, will undergo deformations also of a mechanical nature and thus internal stresses different from zero that provide some robustness to the structure. Therefore, structures with hyperstaticity can offer advantages such as better resistance to lateral loads and improved structural efficiency.
do you actually know how much the size of cargo vessels has changed in the last 25 years? this principle doesnt really hold true when you get to impacts of this caliber
@@wozo9210 well! Bridge standards are updated almost every few years to take into account these changes. The bridge should have been subjected to recent reinforcement strategies so it can comply with the most recent standards.
If this method is deemed expensive, the protection of piers was also a way to avoid this collision and it’s required in the new bridge standards. This protection should have been provided to reduce or eliminate the exposure of bridge piers to vessel collision. Physical protection systems may include fenders, pile clusters, pile-supported structures, dolphins, islands and combinations thereof…
@@wozo9210so safety standards haven't changed either?? that bridge went down like a house of cards in 5s flat.
Wow what a word salad ! Is that you Kamala ?
@@binkwillans5138 the boat lost power and didnt reverse, theres only so much you can design around
Just speculating, but the smoke is probably evidence of a full astern command to the engine room resulting in heavy diesel exhaust.
My prayer for everyone in the bridge 🌉 and the cargo ship.
God bless America 🇺🇸
this is so heart breaking God bless the people that were involved in this
The same thing happen to the skyway bridge may 9 1980
Really, I'm about to google off course.
I saw a tractor trailer on that bridge going down
Lot of heavy objects came falling down in this collapse, had to be frightening for them.
Love and prayers from Canada ❤
Prayers from Canada 🇨🇦
I can see right now people are not understanding it is a huge cargo ship that is overloaded every time😮
The ship was most likely being piloted by the harbor pilot. It went dark because it lost power, and the power restored just before impact, and the black smoke bellowing was due to engine malfunction. The pilot probably was trying to recorrect course when power went out, which caused the ship to veer off it's initial course, and slam into the pylon.
No way he should have been that close
FUN FACT: Francis Scott Key was the author of the American National Anthem. He witnessed the "Bombs Bursting in Air" at Fort McHenry in 1814 during the War of 1812.
Fun Fact!? People died man, nothing about this situation is fun. Smh
Massive lawsuit incoming
No, laws of the sea prevent that.
Geez is our infrastructure trash?! That tore down the whole bridge easily! Yikes! This is just crazy!!
A ship that size will take out any bridge in a impact situation plus the ship lost power which caused it to set adrift where they regained power and control just literal seconds before impact
YOU CAN BET YOUR BOTTOM DOLLAR THAT HOMELAND WILL GO THROUGH EVERY SINGLE CONTAINER ON THAT SHIP, MUST HAVE BEEN A TERRIFYING EXPERIENCE FOR THOSE ON THE BRIDGE
Prayers to everyone on that tragedy. I hope they're all rescued and safe. 🙏😟
The captain is ALWAYS responsible for the ship, the Pilot advices the captain.
Omg!! Praying for all!!
"It's time to work for America"
" It's time to work for American people "!!!!!!!
At least the current President passed a bill to address all bridges, ports, roadway and rebuild our nation. The former guy did nothing to address our country.
An infrastructure bill with checking all bridges in the country is needed..this is a shocking total collapse.
Can't Republicans will vote against the bill because it's "woke"
That sucks
THAT is what I'm thinking is HOW isn't there better protection of bridges around these kind of ports? There is a youtube channel "What's going on with shipping' that does an analysis of the video where the ship looses power; and all the attempts that ship would be making to prevent the bridge strike. This harbor is FULL of cameras 24/7 and this will definitely help with the investigation. BUT HOW are these bridges not better protected from these huge ships?
Its was the slowest bridge crash ever… literally a huge cargo ship aimed and slowly approached it and never changed direction. Odd.
A ship is not a car, it can't just swerve or stop on a dime
@@758fiyuhbyrd9 yeah but aiming at a beam for the amount of time leads you to think it was done intentionally… you do realize all of the naval bases are now stuck because the bridge block them in now.
If you watch the longer video, you can actually see them trying to reverse course and even nudge the boat in the opposite direction. But the reverse kept moving the stern of the vessel to the right.
Have you ever been in a boat? They don’t just stop on a dime. Now imagine a giant cargo ship.
@@user-sj5ju4jb7t you do know that allot of naval bases are stuck right? You seen that the trajectory was always on the beam. Whether it was the crew intentions or remote control. All of the naval bases are out of commission for months.
Bridge 47 years old and The Waters checked in at 47 Degrees
A Singapore ship? Interesting!
U r the first one that actually makes any sense of this! People aren’t paying attention!
This is looking very suspicious 😮
Hope it wasn't a terrorist attack.
Praying for the survivors to pull through this tragic incident. God bless America 🇺🇸
Bridge named after person who wrote the star spangled banner😮😢
It this were a terrorist attack they would use something that would 100% take the bridge down and do it at peak hour. Hitting a pillar would not guarantee the bridge going down. Stop spinning theories out of thin air.
God bless all the first responders 🙏🏼and the deceased 😢
I'm surprised they don't have some kind of traffic camera on each end of the bridge that they can go back through the footage to determine how many cars were on the bridge at that time and work backward from there.
They do. They know. They are dragging it out intentionally.
The durability of this bridge is very much in question!
How could the entire bridge go down with only one pylon hit?
They needed to have protection barriers in front of the support structures. We have them in our area for our interstate bridges since we have barges going up and down the rivers. A barge took out I-40 bridge in Webbers Fall in 2002. Since this is major port why were there not any barriers in place.
My prayers for those who were on the bridge and the families. This is shocking and heartbreaking to watch.
The harbour pilot will have a lot of questions to answer !
#Breaking News #Absence of leadership essential for port entry and departure day and night!
In the absence of management supervision, the access situation room is negligent! Situations where cartels and corruption are suspected
God bless the family’s investigation ❤️
Sunshine Skyway Bridge May 9 1980. 37,000 ton empty ship destroyed that bridge. Today, fully loaded 100,000 ton ship destroys FSK bridge. That kind of weight against something that collapsed like an erector's set. An unprotected bridge is supposed to fall.
I’m not stunned at how a single cargo ship could take this bridge out. Our bridges are failing and are not being properly maintained. Engineers design bridges with redundancy, but that only works if all the parts are maintained realistically you can’t expect a bridge to hold with an entire major support structure gone. Look at the bridge in Memphis it only takes one beam to critically weekend of bridge, even with redundancy, if it’s the right beam. I have to drive over a bridge to work every day and it makes me nervous because it’s one of the ones that wound up on that list that was circulating with the bridges that are not being properly maintained. we need more people and more money maintaining our critical transportation infrastructure.
do you understand how massive and how heavy a cargo ship is? it'd be stunning if this didnt happen on collision.
Hack attack? Cut the power to the ship at the right trajectory, turn it into a missle? Seems like an odd place to loose power.
Yep, very convenient point to lose power. Easy to create a loss of power. I am an old navy engineer, easy pull off something like this. I say intentional terroristic act disguised as an accident.
Worst case, directional EMP disabled the ship temporarily.
Wo why did no one think of that before. There are so many bright minds right now . Think of the next big collapse and call your government officials and see what they can do about it. My answer NOTHING. No one cares till it happens.
Pylon is 75 feet wide roughly
Distance between each pylon is 1100 feet roughly
Ship managed to escape the wide open space and hit the 75 ft structure wow.
116850 tons, 7 knots, no rudder power.
This is really sad and while it may have not been intended shows how important prioritizing the proper maintenance of these structures
I'm having Tampa Sunshine Skyway bridge flashbacks. I wonder why they didn't retrofit the bridge supports with rocks or something to prevent this. Our infrastructure is falling apart but hey, let's send another $100 billion to Ukraine.
Seems like there would be dozens of rescue boats i dont see many at all in video.s.
Yeah, they reported only 3.
It's 3 am in the video
There's not a whole lot you can do in darkness
Also I don't know how incredibly dumb you are
But I see nine boats just on the left side of the bridge alone
And another 6-8 boats on the other side
Oh I guess you're not also taking into account the fact that there's still part of the bridge that has yet to sink and it would be foolishly stupid to go balls out on a rescue when the structure is still about to sink into the water
Where's the Carpathia???
They literally say at the time it’s unsafe to send rescuers in the water/on the ship
Maryland is the best state for rescue operations in the US. They have the best integrated EMS system in the US. Prayers for all the victims. Thank you to all the trauma docs and nurses at Shock Trauma if anyone is transported over there.
the bridge was renamed in 1977. it opened well before that and there was only one tunnel when it opened.
We're not spending money on infrastructure and sending trillions to other countries.😢
right-o. But we don't mind committing what has amounted to 9 TRILLION dollars of taxpayers money given by trump and the Republican Congress to wealthy donors and corporations, right?
I agree
good luck building a bridge that can with stand a hit from a laden container ship. It weighs 100,000 tons.
Didn't Biden want a large infrastructure bill which was drastically reduced by another group?
So the infrastructure bill just doesn't exist now, huh?
I am no engineer....but if you build a bridge made to have ships...big heavy ships....navigate underneath, make sure the supports columns or pylons can withstand a "bump" from these kind of boats. Hope with my heart no one died...
Most bridges have dolphins - plugs around the columns that prevent vessel impacts. This bridge had only 4 dolphins (two on either side) and the ship missed them.
Bump? Over a million pounds just don’t bump anything. We are lucky you aren’t an engineer.
I heard that the crew members of the ship had issued a mayday, and the bridge was closed off to traffic for safety reasons. But my question is that, why weren't the construction workers on the bridge weren't evacuated if a mayday issue was ordered?
God help all those affected by this tragedy. Very hard to imagine this happening. 😢
this is horrible... I dreamed of a university setting yesterday and on the screen there was a nutria... it was the subject of the class. I was wondering what it could mean, I did not understand what this dream wanted to tell me, I had never been on a university etc... then I looked it up and it brought me to some press releases from John Hopkins University, Baltimore... I hope nobody from that University is involved in the tragedy. I am praying for you. 😢😥 from Germany
The ship doesn't burn diesel fuel it burns bunker different
Those huge ships have a catastrophic amounts of weight that could wreck most things.
Prayers for all involved, including first responders...
How does one plane bring down a building?
I know right. Ppl asking not the brightest questions.
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