HomerJS
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I thought harbor masters steer ships until they get to open water?
hal2kilo
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- Feb 24, 2009
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Or require tugs until past the bridge.After a similar incident happened in Florida decades ago, you would think that for busier shipping channels, they would put in some pillar protecting piers.
MV Summit Venture - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
That's a really big ship. I imagine it'd feel something like running into a fence with a pickup.
Indus
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They should be forced to make a suspension bridge where none of the towers are in the water going forward to avoid exactly this from happening again.
I think the Japanese and Turkish engineers have suspension bridges that are over 2km (a mile and a quarter long).
sdifox
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9 year old ship should have full auto sat nav package meaning they pick the route and the ship navigates itself out. Pilots still in command and lookouts watch for small vessels.
But yes, pilots are responsible for navigating ship out of the harbour. But if they mess up it is still in the captain's head. Weird.
Watched this channel a lot before.
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MrSquished
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Righties on social media and places like newsmax are blaming everything from DEI to Biden's infrastructure bill. what's next? The ship was transgender?
akugami
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Horrific accident. Not sure what to say to those affected.
Anyone else concerned that, if this is indeed the Dali, that they have a picture from 1999 of what looks like a bridge or crane section on top of it. Is this a regular occurrence with this ship?
Anyone else concerned that, if this is indeed the Dali, that they have a picture from 1999 of what looks like a bridge or crane section on top of it. Is this a regular occurrence with this ship?
skyking
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Lost_in_the_HTTP
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It's like nobody ever heard of the Big Mac with a 3,800' span.
en.wikipedia.org
Mackinac Bridge - Wikipedia
sdifox
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Ship went into service in 2015. Unless it is the USS Philadelphia, it couldn't have been in a picture in 1999.
sdifox
No Lifer
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Dali can topple that as well.It's like nobody ever heard of the Big Mac with a 3,800' span.
Mackinac Bridge - Wikipedia
pcgeek11
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I heard somewhere that it was on an outgoing tide. A loss of power and steerage on that with that much mass will go bad really really fast.
I don't understand why they didn't drop the anchors (they have two I think). It may or may not have helped, but it may have.
I don't understand why they didn't drop the anchors (they have two I think). It may or may not have helped, but it may have.
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akugami
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Oh...ok. I was looking at the photo timestamps, as per the site.
I've occasionally driven to Baltimore or driven past it. Just a horrible situation.
pcgeek11
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Outgoing tide does strange things underwater. Who knows where the rudder was positioned when the power went out. I would have thought they have mechanical overrides for the rudder. All the ships I was ever on had manual overrides for control surfaces.
Indus
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Lost_in_the_HTTP
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skyking
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Each time the lights went out in that video, they lost the ability to change rudder position. If it happened to be in the position for a correction when it started, It would just keep making that turn with the inertia driving it.
Imagine being in your car and you made a little correction at speed, and then the wheel was no longer connected.
It would not take long to get in the ditch that way.
EDIT: Much better detail of the power going out, back on, out.
gorobei
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russian bots are running hard with the conspiracy amplification.
some indian defense analyst spouted off before seeing the full footage with the power outage. the bots jumped on with fake indian accounts to piggyback off of his legit twitter followers to spread the misinfo.
kage69
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One of my first thoughts about this news. As someone who used to live just outside the beltway I know this could have been so, so much worse.
I feel bad for the crew doing pot hole repairs when it happened, poor guys. I'll be surprised if the missing six are found alive too. All that stuff crashing down, the drop, and the water temp, ugh.
Another vote here for Balmer getting their own Big Mac, or better.
sdifox
No Lifer
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Yeah but they were already lined up, so unless there is some serious undercurrent it should not require big adjustments.
HomerJS
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I called it almost exactly. Republicans are just a bunch of evil fuckers.
Right-Wingers Are Already Pushing Conspiracy Theories About Baltimore Bridge Collapse
The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has led right-wingers to blame Biden and push conspiracy theories.
www.rollingstone.com
Other Republicans are blaming the usual suspects, people of color. Because they cause all the problems in America
BoomerD
No Lifer
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He's making it easy for them...I called it almost exactly. Republicans are just a bunch of evil fuckers.
Right-Wingers Are Already Pushing Conspiracy Theories About Baltimore Bridge Collapse
The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has led right-wingers to blame Biden and push conspiracy theories.
Other Republicans are blaming the usual suspects, people of color. Because they cause all the problems in America
Biden pledges federal dollars for 'entire cost' to rebuild collapsed Baltimore bridge - Maryland Matters
President calls on Congress to authorize full federal funding for bridge reconstruction — a politically cumbersome process.
www.marylandmatters.org
I disagree with Biden on this. Federal matching money, sure, but the ENTIRE cost? No fckn way. Make Maryland foot at least 1/2 of the cost of rebuilding the bridge.
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