Baltimore bridge collapse: Dispatch audio released of harrowing moment
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- Officers of the Maryland Transport Authority Police Dispatch and Response can be heard stopping traffic and inquiring about crew members working on the bridge before it collapsed, in an audio recording released.
A container ship struck the bridge that had "lost their steering" struck the Key Bridge, crumpling almost the entire structure in the water.
Governor of Maryland Wes Moore said on Tuesday it was the quick thinking of workers and police that saved lives when the ship steered towards the bridge.
The collapse had left six workers missing, who are now presumed dead.
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That one officer is lucky his back up didn't arrive sooner. Sounds like he was planning to drive out onto the bridge to get the workers once that happened and he'd have probably been lost as well.
Thank you to all public service workers for doing what you do every day
It's actually crazy how fast they were able to react to that potential threat.
Yes. Almost too quick, like they knew it was going to happen...but the world can't work like that right?
@@fattiger2000nothing is safe from conspiracy theorists
@@dappegames8706 how many boosters are you up to?
@@fattiger2000 Is American police, not useless KGB :)
bro not everything has to be a conspiracy. horrible things happen all the time with reason behind it. you ever stop to think that maybe the police and dispatchers are just good at there job and understood the severity of the situation?@@fattiger2000
RIP to those workers ,this is very sad.
Rip to those workers, lost some badasses to be able to work on a bridge for a living.
The loss of six lives is absolutely still tragic but considering the scale of this devastation, the number of additional lives saved is likely in the triple digits.
From now on they should have it policy that anyone working on a bridge needs a radio. When we are working in an industrial environment we need a radio on the plant operators channel so they have a way to contact us. There should be an emergency channel for people working on a bridge as well.
@@pin65371Don't know if the construction crew had radios or not, but radios can't magically talk to each other. They need to be programmed with the right frequencies to talk to one another. So if all workers were in the middle of the bridge working, a police radio is not going to be able to talk to their radios to warn them to get off the bridge. So a worker with a radio would have to be on each side of the bridge, which should be how it is anyways to direct traffic properly. Source I am a radio technician who programs radios. I haven't really looked at anything about this incident other than what's seen in news titles tho so take what I said with a grain of salt
@@alexha8061 no kidding you need to program the radios to talk to each other. I never said they didnt have to do that. You dont need to explain to me how a radio works. I have been around them for a very long time with the work that I do.
2 people survived that’s all i know
so now we at least know the ship lost steering. it wasn't ineptness.
That is amazing, talk about being on the ball. So sad to hear of the lost workers.
1:08 wow this view is haunting
Kudos to those quick thinking folks, this could have easily been so much worse.
Sad ! Those workers just trying to make a living.
What a helpless feeling trying to get people to safety..
How terrifying for road crew to go out like that with likely no notice..tragic spectacle that happened too quickly
Can’t even imagine if this Happens during the day 😮
In maritime shipping, all kinds of breakdowns happen, as in this case with the Singapore container ship. Where there is a large movement of sea giants - container ships, to pass difficult or dangerous sections (bridges, narrowing of the river and other difficult places), groups of wet tugs should be on duty for safer passage of difficult sections of the route.
I agree. I was thinking tugs should be mandatory in situations like this.
The world wasn't designed with these giant ships in mind. First the Evergiven got stuck, now this.
@@JJoa74 With the Evergreen container ship, the situation was completely different! In this canal, each huge ship is accompanied by two pilots. Pilots are assigned to this canal. Upon passing Evergreen, two pilots entered and one looks at one side and gives a command to the driver to increase engine speed, and the second looks at the other side of the ship and similarly gives a command to the other driver. And these pilots quarreled among themselves, the commands began to contradict them and the ship began to wobble until it was tilted and rested on the sandy edge of the canal. (from the story of the captain who was on this ship).
The Panama Canal is in danger of running out of enough water to ensure passage through the canals. The Suez Canal was definitely a wake up call. We might have to go back to going around the horn so to speak.@@JJoa74
@@Markus-bg4sg The houthis could have solved that dispute in no time...
I'd say as a minimum one lesson to take from this is that big ships should have mandatory tug escorts until clear of any vulnerable structures when transiting any port.
Emergency lighting, some kind of horn to indicate distress .
In Halifax Canada at least it is mandatory.
All of you thinking this was premeditated have watched too much Netflix.
Or you haven't watched enough...
....and all of you who are not even willing to consider that this was premeditated are naive
@@bogeybichon7000 There's a bunch of videos showing how the boat seemed to purposely steer its way straight into the support beam. Even the GPS shows how it came in and then last second steered right into it.
Anytime a plane crashes, there's an investigation. Why are you against an investigation in this case, exactly?
@@Derzull2468 No one said they were not for investigating he's saying its immature to just start throwing out conspiracy theories. Ofc there's going to be an investigation either way and until they release evidence that supports it being premeditated please keep your tinfoil hat off.
So sorry for the loss of lives . My condolences to the families 😢
This is causing others to start questioning whether bridges are safe from cargo ships that need to pass through. There will be plenty of fear for daily crossers. I read somewhere that at least 30,000 vehicles use this bridge daily.
It’s not unusual to have our local bridge traffic slow at night due to road workers fixing pot holes etc . Never even considered a scenario such as this happening . Terrifying! My condolences to the families & friends of those lost in this tragedy.
When said to stop all traffic why was it questioned as to when after the explanation.
What was the total elapsed time of this audio?
Its the semi that just passed that gets me.
This is sad
Such a tragedy
Thank god they were able to stop traffic tht would have been catastrophic!!!!
So damn sad.
Unreal..
Worst time to lose power. I wonder if it happened before.
aww that's a 10-4, the boat is steering its way straight at the support beam.
Looks like they weren't able to contact the crew in time. Apparently there was about five minutes between the time the ship alerted the authorities and it hitting the bridge. Had the crew been contacted I'm sure they'd have more than enough time to get to safety. Tragic.
I'm sure that at the time none were thinking of this kind of catastrophe..within 3 seconds it was underwater 🫧🫧
Sad as it is to have lost that crew, the actions of everyone involved kept this from becoming a real tragedy. So few lost to such a major disaster is something to be proud of, and I really hope if anyone that this falls on the company who owns the ship and not the crew, who by every source I've seen, did everything exactly as they should have in response to the situation. You just can't do anything to stop a loaded ship without steering, the inertia is insane.
Edit: And the writer for the lower bars needs a better editor, "Steered" is just the wrong word and it could lead people to misinterpreting what happened, it drifted into the bridge. As the saying goes, the beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name, and I'd add, and to choose ones words carefully describing anything.
My heart goes to the families of the workers who kissed their loved one to go to work, like any regular day, but never returned... 😢
Dispatcher: 'we better notify the crew on the bridge to get off, its an emergency.'
officer: "yeah, i'll casually drive over and pick them up whenever'
that's not how i imagined the road crew got left behind.
You'd think there'd be someone with ADHD who didn't pay attention to work and saw this as a possible scenario....it would still be a long ways to run, even if you did see it coming if in the middle.
did you guys not think that maybe they were busy holding traffic? they were first on scene with like 90 seconds of warning. cop is instructed to block traffic but notices a construction crew still on the bridge. he races over to warn them a ship is coming. there’s time right? but wait. who’s blocking the traffic behind him? another unit is still a few minutes away. now npcs don’t know the bridge is supposed to be closed. more lives could’ve been lost if one of them didnt wait for another unit to help ensure traffic was held.
Yeah he was taking so long to form a sentence it's a wonder he's not still talking about the possibility of letting the foreman know now.
he didnt say he was gonna "pickthem up whenever", he said he was waiting for a second cop car so he can notify all of the crew faster.
He couldn't leave his position (blocking traffic to prevent more fatalities) until another officer got there. It's really as simple as that. Shrieking on the radio doesn't make anything go faster.
What if going forward we had automatic emergency traffic stops at both ends of all bridges so that traffic can be stopped as soon as possible without anyone being there
Some bridges have that I believe
@@Roddy556yep, would be nice to make it a requirement to update all bridges spanning a certain length. I don’t imagine it will be too expensive and the number of lives it can potentially save massively outweighs the cost
The traffic was stopped in time. They needed a loudspeaker to warn anyone already on the bridge like the workers.
Even if there had been an automatic system, and the cops had risk, leaving their post and hoping that nobody drove past the barriers (which people often do) all they could've done is gone out on the bridge to say "it's about to come down" and probably died with the workers. A warning system, so that dispatch could broadcast directly to people on site would've been better.
@@ellenbryn in this specific situation yes, but I was thinking what if there was no police nearby to stop the traffic in time?
Im not sure what the exact time frame was like from when the ship signalled that it has lost control to it colliding with the bridge, but had the officers not been nearby and acted extremely quickly, this could’ve been a way worse disaster than it even is currently
in otherwords railroad blockers?
Smh
Horrible. Its always the workers!!
Praying for those that passed away...
So now they turn the engines off
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I dont get it.." i will go scoop up the bridge workers.."...3 secs later bridge down..they could not see boat coming??...were the workers running for their lives..and just couldnt make it..everyone seemed very relaxed imo..🤷♂️
There were two survivors from the crew. Perhaps those details will come out. Just so very tragic.
if they were on the south side of the bridge they wouldn't have seen it once it drew closer
the Baltimore accent is great
Accidentally or not, *criminal charges* should be filed for those responsible for the casualties.
- The ship was 🇸🇬 Singaporean-flagged and Singaporean-owned. Thousands of other civil lawsuits are expected to flood into the country.
"It's my intention, that the federal government will pay for the entire cost of reconstructing that bridge,"
Joe Biden March 26, 2024
Eventually they will get worse than just criminal charges .
@@rickvervoort9536That statement doesn't make it a law.
@@AhmetTekin101 Since when did Joe Biden care about the law?
Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden WILFULLY RETAINED
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@@rickvervoort9536 Yes. And?
Its the Sunshine Skyway all over again
😣🙏🙏
My shipment was on there... When am i getting my cargo shorts?
Lives lost and you're making jokes? So funny 🙄
The Dali ship was transporting lithium batteries and hazardous chemicals like acid.
My god!!😢😢😢😢
incoming netfilx doc
What’s with the background music ?
Did al quada or taliban do this?
Neither; just an incompetent captain and crew.
Syukur...matilah USA
This is why just Texas alone have more gdp than your whole country 🥰🥰And Mississipi has more gdp per capita than you🥰🥰
Fun fact look into the former ceo of the company that owns that boat
😅
So I’m just curious, if it was known that the ship was too large to pass under that bridge why was the ship even in that channel of water to begin with ? I mean if it can’t pass under what’s the point in even being in the area at all ? Where was it going originally ?
The ship wasn't too large to pass under, it lost power and it's course changed.
The ship was in the port going out to sea.
It hit the support beam, on purpose.
It's a special Baltimore-only ship that could only carry cargo from one side of the port to the other. It was too big to pass under the bridge and get to the open ocean so it was destined to spend its entire life working just inside Baltimore harbor. But I guess it got tired of that and tried to make a break for the open ocean. I thought everyone knew about this ship.
@@arkwill14 Would you look at the time! Time to take your meds again!
Modi " Berry berry Sorry on behaaf of Indians ".
Billions and billions of dollars lost right there
Billions is a bit much
Its not billions lol
Competency crisis full steam ahead!
The sound of panic in those voices. Almost like someone got sent for a coffee run...
They probably didnt think the bridge would actually fall down
Even a call from the telemarketers has more urgency than these voices.
In situations like this professionals need to keep a level head, panic can make a situation worse. Audio recordings of airplane pilots in the middle of disaster are impressive because they can keep control and focused without panic (or at least suppressing the panic)
Bridge sturdiness is amazing. How could anyone build a bridge without considering the possibility of this type of event?
I want to know why they got the cops off, but not the construction workers.
The cops weren't on the bridge to begin with; how do you think they managed to get the traffic stopped so quickly at either end?
@@jasonwhite1069 I saw a video of tgem driving off the bridge, seconds before it fell.
They literally had less than a minute to act and civilians come first. They probably told the men to make a run for it but it was too late.
that video is sped up
why do they sound robotic????
they are cylons. of this has happened before and all of it will happen again. if the earth was round, why does the water pour flat? ergo de facto thanks obama.
The logistics of material supply chain is what it’s going on throughout the whole country. If he gets blocked off certain things affect certain things police stations are not open. Hospitals are closed now and there’s no food going to the grocery store or materialistic things going to what you need rich people need to buy.
I'd Like To Know Why....WHY... There Was No Posts In The Ground Around The Base Of Those Bridge Supports?...... If They Had "Bumpers" In The Ground..... This Never Would've Or Could've Happened.... The Families Involved Should Sue Everyone & Treat This So Called "Accident" As A Crime Scene!
It took out a bridge pillar, I doubt bumpers would have been able to do much
@@samuelo5052 .... Do The Math & Get Back To Me?
He could not see the bridge columns the boat was overloaded with containers
I sincerely hope you are like some young kid. If that's the case, your observation is almost cute with its child-like naivete. But if not...well, that's just sad.
the bridge of the ship is above the shipping containers. You can see it at 1:08 the little white, windowed top of the ship.
I saw the footage of the movement and direction. A teenager with a beginner license wouldnt take such a sharp turn when a large opening was available. Even if they let the ship coast with no power it would have done less damage as it apoears a sandy shore could have stopped it adjacent.
Nightmare for the insurance company.
I heard this was political?
I heard shipping container 345 was a Trump supporter :(
Basically Final Destination moment there.
Dont sound like quick thinking to me
Ok i swear the xylophone background needs to stop. It makes the whole video look childish and basic youtube shorts podcasty. This is a serious and sad situation.
I cant help but think that the ship was attacked in a cyber attack. A successful attack might not even be detectable for some time (thinking like the stuxnet attack). I imagine an attack that causes transient jolts of electricity to flow where and when it shouldn’t could damage the ability to steer. I dont maybe the ship doesn’t have that type of computer amenable to attack but i imagine it could.
Doesn't always gotta be some attack, weirdo.
Why in the world would someone target this ship to destroy a bridge in the least busiest time of day? Use your brain.
@@cephalotus1013 hypothetically, the point of the "attack" would be to disable the Baltimore Port, one of the busiest ports in the US, thus causing all kinds of shortages, trade disruptions and economic hardship.
The point would not be to kill people like a 9/11 attack
Exactly. It would only take a few ships to close select ports and cripple the world’s supply chain.@@bogeybichon7000
@@bogeybichon7000 It is the 14th largest port in the US. Why tip your hat with a 'cyber attack' when the same outcome could have been achieved at a much larger port? Doesn't pass the sniff test that this is malicious.
Funny how they said it lost steering then quote he steered into the bridge
Dispatch 3 is fkin sleepin 🤦♂️
well yes it was 1am
Somethings fishy idk what but this doesn't just happen
Diddy did this.
why was there no tugs ??? they wasted tooo much time !!! thse ships move slow as hell.. dont give me that crap !!!! they didnt move fast !!!
First Russia, which they blame UK / USA and now this....when has anything like this ever happened? A cargo ship "losing steering" right as they approach a massive bridge lol...this is cap.
Freak accidents happen. Remember when that one cargo vessel got stuck in the Suez canal?
yes they stopped cars.. but didnt give a crap about the workers... !!!!!
Civilian safety is a bigger priority.
I wonder if there was weapons that were being sent to Ukraine on that ship.
dont worry everyone, none of the workers that lost their lives were women.
or black.
or black women.
blame russia for the crash
All drunk
Jeez can they talk any slower? This was an emergency
What’s worse, taking slow but everything is well understood or panicky talking fast and miscommunicating something critical
@samuelo5052 I totally agree but it seemed dragged out, u r right and I am not a dispatch worker. It just seemed like the dispatch didn't make it as serious as it was
Капитан управлявший судном украинец, как вы думаете это случайность? За всеми терактами в России стоят британцы а в Америке?
Bro earn your money elsewhere lmao. Is so dumb
me fighting demons not to say "womp womp": 💀
Great. More money out of the taxpayers nearly empty pockets.
The same reason the third tower exploded and fell is the same reason this bridge exploded on both sides far from where the ship made contact. No accident.
So the ships crew must be in on the conspiracy then? You must be very intelligent! I'm sure you've accomplished much in your life with that intelligence😂
there was no explosion..But the captain was Ukrainian.
Nothing exploded. And this is a continuous truss structure, which means that if one span comes down they will all come down, because all spans are connected and depend on each other.
@@brianb-p6586 take a closer look at both places where it breaks, I can definitely see an explosion
@@boatburnerice7925 watch it again and take a close look on both sides where it breaks. I definitely see it
Black Swan
Just his luck the ship turned straight into a pillar at the last second - ok.
Around bridge pillars currents can be very… sucky for lack of better word. The pillars create obstructions in the water that water has to flow around. This creates faster flowing water that in turn has a lower pressure. Things like to go towards low pressure so if the ship lost steering it isn’t inconceivable that it was sucked towards a pillar. Even if that wasn’t the case ships have tons of momentum
No urgency in any voice. There is virtually only a couple seconds between each dispatch. Sounds spliced. Nothing from the ship port driver.
This is what police should do, no panic.
Imagine your police officier/soldiers got panic while trying to protect you. Will you put your trust in them?
The Titanic disaster also has very calm crew speaking. You have to remain calm in disaster.
@@Robbie-mw5uu Indifference and complacency. That's what I heard. Almost like it was expected. The same ship screwed the Suez Cabal last year.
Americans live saved again by Indians and on Twitter they are blaming Indian.
Sri Lankans are not Indian
@@Robbie-mw5uu how Sri Lanka was in the ship
Singapore has a sizable Chinese population. Corruption won't be ruled out in the certification of the vessel Dali.
- This same vessel had failed its propeller and involved in a similar accident before.
So what are you eluding to? This was a attack to stop the 9th biggest port in America that deals with the least amount of volume lmaooo everything is a conspiracy these days.
@@BruceWayne-lm1ycThere must be something wrong in saying the vessel was in its perfect condition, right?
@@AhmetTekin101 Not really... have you watched the video?
@@youtubedeletedmyaccountlma2263 I did! Total blackout on the ship. This means there were double faults.
We don’t need to hear this. America tells everything. Damn, we don’t need to hear this. Nothing we can do and we don’t work in that sector. Keep some things to yourself
All thanks to Indian crew who send sos to reduce the casualties.
Please stop hate against Indian the crew were indian but the pilot were local American.
Strange how the ship came from afar India, and had collided against the bridge In America, and right on the post holing the bridge.???? And why the shut the lights, and so on.... just before they directed the ship and that direction? To many answers not being answered, well harris doesn't wanted to investigate her roots...
It sure was strange that a ship sailed here from that far...that is if you don't know anything about how global trade works.
Kinda sus this happens right after the terror attack in Russia that the us seemlily had knowledge about. That bridge has been there since the 40s or somthing and as soon as that attack in Russia happend this happend,… kinda sus…
It's a coincidence. Freak accidents happen all the time. You may not know this, but Russia actually tried to warn the US that Al Qaeda was going to commit a terrorist attack in 2001 and Bush ignored it; look what happened to the towers that were built in the 30's.
Now we warned them and they ignored it and look at what happened.
This isn't terrorism it's a horrible accident it's kind of obvious
It was all planned.
Dont think this was an accident
as evidenced by?
@@zenon3021 That ship would have had navigation devices to let them know way ahead of time that there was a bridge there. What is a ship THAT SIZE doing in waters in a community where there is no way that ship would fit under that bridge. BTW.....I'm entitled to my opinion and I am not the only person to think this. Time to stop being naive about all the disasters happening worldwide at this time.
@@user-zn8ow7zd5v obviously they knew there was a bridge there, that's why they mayday'd for help and officers were able to close off the bridge to minimize loss of life. What's the saying? Arkham's razor? The simplist explanation is usually the correct one: Ship lost power, radio'd for help, couldn't steer, hit bridge.
RE: "what was the boat doing there?" - delivering billions of dollars of goods, obviously.
A better question would be to ask yourself do you WANT there to be a deeper conspiracy? Do you like conspiracy theories in general?
They all just seem too calm cool and collected. This video looks fake, AI generated. Very suspicious
got your tin foil hat on buddy?
@@soulja0 lol 😆 whatev.
These people are likely trained to remain calm under stress. Panicking could lead to bad decisions whereas trying to remain calm and deliberate could avert disaster. In this case disaster happened anyways but you see distaste averted all the time in airplanes because the pilots remain calm and logical
This is all too odd … something not quite right about the whole incident
Don't forget Mitch McConnel's wife's sister who recently died was the CEO of the shipping company.
Does this sound as artificial as this gtaphic visual aid looks?
This bridge is (poorly) designed. And those men, were in NO RUSH, to SAVE anyone, *judging* by this SILLY conversation....
They literally had a minute to act.
@@TimberlakeTigerGirl And they were STILL dragging themselves. Like they were sitting at desks or cars EATING (donuts)...