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There were no tugboats because there are no regulations for them at that time of night. This is another example about the +/- of regulations.
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Old bridge replacements and the tragic with more life lost I35 bridge collapse set off a lot of debate on costs and speed to get projects done. At least for Mississippi the currents also create a maintenance issue where there are islands and riprap. It seems like a lot of people don't realize how much traffic we have on water and how we depend on it so my inner cheapskate is mostly fine when things are fixed better, and I dislike when problems or fixes for risk get kicked down the road. I remember the accident you linked and I35 collapse so hope the whole world doesn't have too short a memory for this, and learning is acted on. I think the Big Bayou accident is in part why you see all the stuff constructed when you travel along the Mississippi. IIRC that was early 1990s. The I35 was part a design and part a maintenance matter. A tangent for a different Mississippi bridge currently being replaced is the nation still has too many bridges with more use and load than was intended.
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don't go off course
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These are not six losses scattered across a couple of million people in an SMA. It is six deaths in a very small portion of the overall community, and it hits harder because of that.
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6 people apparently dead, so terrible. Would have been worse but the ship sent out a mayday call and Baltimore police rushed over and blocked off the bridge. Great teamwork there. Gonna be several weeks of work freeing the ship and removing the wreckage before the harbor can be reopened. Several years before the bridge will be rebuilt.
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Very sad indeed. Could see some cars crossing over just before impact, but with that long mile+ span it is likely there wasn’t enough time for the workers to evacuate. Heard the road crew lived in the community directly at one end of the bridge and my heart goes out to those grieving loved ones.
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Maersk got fined last year for silencing a whistleblower and previously the Dali had propulsion problems:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/cargo-gia...l?guccounter=1 A report on the Dali having severe electrical issues at port right before it crashed: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rker-says.html Last edited by Gromitspapa; 03-27-2024 at 09:12 PM. |
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Not the first time a container ship has crashed into that bridge. August 1980 a ship lost power and rammed into a protective concrete piling. Bridge held, not much damage suffered.
But . . . the ship involved back then was a standard size container vessel of the time. The ship that crashed into the bridge the other day was today's standard size - three times bigger than the ship in the 1980 incident. The bridge wasn't designed to withstand that kind of impact. https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/27/us/ke...nvs/index.html
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But seems odd to me that with a ship that size and weight 95 thousand tons, that the tugs would not stay attached until the ship well past any bridges and in open water ??
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That bridge has stood there for almost 50 years with ships sailing under it. There was one hit from a smaller cargo ship, which might have been a hint of the danger, but that danger exists in many port regions.
If there's a systemic/economic issue this illustrates, it's a failure of international regulations to control the imperatives of globalism. Ships are getting bigger and better, largely to shave payroll expenses by eliminating (low-paid) personnel. We the public are expected to continually pay to armor and replace our bridges and ports to accommodate this? There has to be an end to that progression, and I hope this is it.
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...r/73123627007/ Excerpt : On Tuesday, a pair of tugboats operated by McAllister Towing and Transportation did just that, helping the Dali unmoor itself from the main terminal at the Port of Baltimore and orient the ship toward the open waters. But they broke away before the massive ship navigated under the bridge, as is common practice. Minutes later, the Dali appeared to lose power and propulsion, sending the craft adrift and directly into one of the bridge’s support columns. The steel-truss bridge immediately collapsed into the frigid Patapsco River.
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I wonder if they'll replace everything, or just the damaged stuff and carry on?
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