NEW Drone footage by NTSB federal investigators shows extent of Baltimore Bridge disaster
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- Опубліковано 26 бер 2024
- The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) begins their search and recovery efforts for the six construction workers who are presumed dead. following Baltimore, Maryland's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed.
Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board released new footage showing the extent of the damage wrought by a cargo ship that slammed into the bridge, taking it down.
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only when you remind yourself, how big such a single container is, can you realise how massive this thing is. It looks like a toy at first.
thor semi trailers 53 ft. long and up to 14 ft. high and may weigh 30,000 lbs. +
Consider the beam of that one vessel, its 158’ with an overall length of 984’. Yeah, big girl there. Almost as long as our largest carrier, the Ford. But narrower by about 100’
I was thinking the same,
The size of ship makes the containers look like
Legos stacked up.
Your right and just look at how many are on there and what massive ship it takes to haul that cargo. It's in sane .
Emissions equals 40 billion cars.
Those few people that just crossed that bridge before this happened should be thankful for sure. So sad people lost their life and I send condolences to their fam and friends.
Not to mention the cars and trucks that got stopped in time before crossing the bridge. Those drivers were probably a bit annoyed until they saw or heard why they had been stopped.
2 American pilot were operating the ship. 2 american hit the bridge. Other indian sailors saved life by sending SOS when they saw those american pilot not able to handle ship
@@amitkamboj1287 why you trying to turn this into a nationality war?
Когда перед тобой умерает твой близкий.Скажи спасибо ДЕРЬМОКРАТИИ!!!(
@@areyou0k98 'cause it's unfortunate that's what most folks seem to do on the internet these days. It's as if we have lost empathy for each other. 😞😔
I have driven over that bridge at least a thousand times. It is nearly 200 feet high at its apex. It would have to be a miracle to survive a fall from that height. It took 5 years to build that bridge in the mid-1970s. It will take much longer today, especially now that they have to engineer against future failure due to a cargo ship running into supports. The Harbor Tunnel scares me just as much since it is nearing 70 years old and is corroding.
All of our infrastructure is deteriorating. It's almost like 40 years of Reaganomics underfunding these projects has prevented needed upgrades and maintenance (like accounting for ships being 10x the size they were when this bridge was built and upgrading the supports accordingly).
Get the Chinese to build the new bridge, a lot less time. Maybe a year or two.🤷
Key's bridge was poorly designed, domino effect.
1,000 times in one day?
@@justin8894 Where did he say "in one day"?
It will take that long to design and build, not to build. It will take two to three years to construct.
😢 may those who lost their lives rest in peace.
They will.
No other option.
F them they were here illegally taking American jobs
Paradise is forever
Two survived, one unhurt refused treatment and walked away. The other was/is in serious condition but discharged from hospital within hours. Don't know about you folks, but two things would go through my mind. 1. HOLY FREEAKING SHIT!!!!! 2. Cha-ching its payday baby!
Praying for those who are trapped lost or missing. And their families
You pray to a god that let this happen and expect people who won’t know about it to care.😂😂😂😂
@@unsignedmusic You make up a god of your own imagination, one that forces everyone to do everything right. One that does not allow people to make choices. That "god" exists only in your mind. The one actual God created you and everyone else with the ability to choose Him and to love Him; you cannot love if you are forced. So, yes, with this freedom people can choose to do wrong, and there are consequences. Your creation of a false god is idolatry. That, and your other sins (lying, stealing, sex outside marriage, not honoring the God who gave you life...) have made you an enemy of your Creator, and on your Judgment Day, you will receive justice ... an eternity separated from God and all that is good in Hell. Of course, God made it a way out for you, me and everyone: Accept His Son, Jesus Christ as your Savior. He alone lived a sinless life, and His death is the substitute for the punishment you deserve. You can ignore Him, you can deny Him, you can lie about Him. But when the time comes, and it will, you will face Him. Reconsider and pray. God will forgive you ... if you ask.
@@unsignedmusicWhy would you blame God? He doesnt steer the shipping container. He gives every person free will. He doesnt make anyone do what they do. The only thing He requires if you want to go to heaven when you die, is to believe that His Son Jesus, paid your sin debt to a holy God that has to judge wickedness b/c He is holy. He even offered the payment. You just have to receive it, People have such strange ideas about the Creator of the universe.
@@unsignedmusic If you don't believe in GOD that's your friggin' problem, not mine.
@@ElCid48 If you do believe in fairy tales, that’s YOUR FRIGGIN’ PROBLEM!
You can see in the video that the sad truth is that the power line poles have much better protection from Ship Collision than the bridge supports.
Yeah, I saw the same thing....WTF?
And the state had looked into adding bumpers around those pylons ….. they decided it was going to cost too much.
They should have more protection. I remember the sunshine bridge accident that was crazy too
It's unlikely those power lines would have survived had the ship hit them, or that the bridge would have survived had it had the same level of protection. There's just too much momentum to be absorbed by any practical protection system unless it's physically isolated from the structure being protected.
So what I'm I looking at in the water just out from the piers one being along side the ship. Are those something intended as mitigation in the event of a ship pier collision.
It is amazing to me how little protection there is in the water for the main support columns.
A bulletproof vest would not protect you against a Bazooka
Brilliant...@@UnfairEnforcer
@@UnfairEnforcer Except your analogy doesn't apply here.
There are safety measures that are used around other bridge supports that are absent here, that absolutely would've kept this drifting ship from striking the bridge supports.
@@UnfairEnforcer look at the protection that was added to the Tampa Bay bridge that was knocked down by a cargo ship in 1980. The columns are surrounded by a circle of earth as well as concrete bumpers. They would have stopped this ship.
@@ebayerrthere is not a bridge in the entire world that could take a shot from a 200,000 ton container ship. Just stop. Learn some physics.
I'm going to make a prediction. Shipping lane will be back open within three months. The bridge won't be replaced for five or more years.
1 month my prediction
Road traffic can be diverted, shipping can't. And also of course clearing the area will happen long before a new bridge is opened.
I was thinking the same thing.
It took 5 years to build the bridge, in the 1970s. The concrete stands are still there, if not damaged, they can be reused which will save a lot of time - still a huge and expensive undertaking, though… I reckon more than a year, but hopefully not 5. Unless the insurance companies and lawyers drag it out for a few years before work starts…
I think they'll clear the channel pretty quickly - The bridge is scrap so the above water portions will be cut up into small pieces and removed to salvage barges. There may be use of explosive charges to cut the underwater sections into manageable bits, but divers can do this and actually this is 'shallow' in terms of salvage - Hard hat divers can work long shifts at this depth
The sheer volume of containers that modern cargo ships carry is pretty astonishing! What a terrible disaster this was.
Have no clue on this, but is there to many cargo containers on the nose of the boat? Seems like it would be harder to steer and windows of captains room are barely visible.
And those are the containers you can see. There are more stored within the hull of the ship as well...
These are small container ships too. The US does not have big enough ports to fit the giant cargo ships.
@@ChristisKing117 Geez! I just researched a bit of the world's largest container ships. This one was less than half the gross tonnage of many larger ships!! That's kind of mind blowing! Dali GT is 95,128 while many others are over 235,000! Dali is 300m long while the larger ships are right at 400m. Good Grief!
That ship is a monster.
Just an average size ship. Modern container ships can carry over 24,000 TEU and measure 400 metres (1,300 ft) in length.
Power poles have better protection then that bridge does.
My heart is so broken for the construction workers.
My is broken too.
The transmission lines seem to have more protection than the bridge supports....
That's because they were built long after the bridge was.
I'm blown away; do to the fact that this Key Bridge did not have any Concrete Fenders to protect the structure from this scenario. And another factor, that Cargo Ships are now 2-3 times larger now. One more thing, common sense goes a long way; why wasn't there any Tug Boats mandated to escort these large Cargo Ships through the bridge. This should've never happened. My Prayers go out to the families that lost there love ones, hope they are found, so they can have closure.
The tug boats took the vessel as far as they were supposed to.
You have to have an accident first to implement those things. Took over 40 years.
@@jamesm568Not true, we did it here in the Delaware River because of larger ships. our bridges are protected. Besides, engineers have been stating this, should've never had happen in the first place.
I heard a news clip that said this current administration cut the funds by 40%. Hence tug boats allotment shortened
В опорах совсем не видно арматуры.
I guess we didn’t learn from the Sunshine Skyway accident in 1980. These steel bridges with no concrete bumpers surrounding the bridge supports are an accident waiting to happen. And here we are!
This was built before 1980. Learning is linear.
I made myself the fun to look at other major ports in the world on satellite images and except those that had a little island around the supports I have seen few that would have protected the bridges sufficiently against an accident like this here(one near Macao thats 20m wide, maybe that is enough for a 50m wide ship). Dont forget the ships width in the front, at the deck height, is a lot wider than it is at waterline, you can see it at 4:00 . So the deck would have hit the pillar first no matter if there would have been a concrete bumper at the waterline. Also underwater there will be large deformations in the vessel, it overran the steel pillar very far, same will happen with a concrete bumper, the ship will just move forward with that much kinetic energy
@@_Dibbler_Are you thinking it can't be done in a way that will work? You're fired.
Don’t need to re-build the bridge to add dolphins.
@@MikeJones-rk1un Fired from what? It can for sure be done, as mentioned the island thing. Problem is: People tend to forget the safety thing as soon as they have to pay more taxes to actually afford it. (continuously, those islands wont stay long in a flowing river) Aside from that, I simply looked up what bridges would be safe from this and didnt find a lot.
This didn’t just happen, this was just waiting to happen. Once we don’t upgrade our infrastructure to match the potential dangers that we created by allowing larger and larger ships to come in and out of this port, we are just waiting for something like this to happen.
Go back to smaller ships?
American infrastructure are out of date. The American government should open their eyes to learn from other countries!
Like paying more for less?
Do you feel pride in your country when you pay your taxes??
If no to the above, you are the reason 😅
Yes exactly, This was definitely deliberate, not an accident it was murder, this is and must be a long read, sorry but, if you have some knowledge of how all motor vessels from a 40-foot boat to the biggest US Aircraft carrier behave when turning under propeller thrust at any speed be it 6 knots or 20 knots the action of the ship is the same, this is just for the mariners who know! So, I recommend that you not read any further, because I understand that most people without any knowledge of what happens on a ship when the engine stops? Well not that much really, the massive weight of the ship just continues the ship on its course that may stray as the ship slows almost to a stop in a mile or so past the bridge, BUT! this is when the experts will distract the sheeple, they will boor them with all the events previous to this evil event and the history of the ship, what the governor said and what farmer John said about this[event BUT! Always distracting you away from the evidence of this deliberate attack on America by the many people as yet unknown as you know, all big ships just like this one always behave in the same way, firstly a loss of propulsion is not such a bad thing because the ship was on course to travel under the bridge, it will still do so even if the engine does stop, there will be some extra drag from the stationary propeller. But the ship will stay on course because of the sheer momentum of the dead weight of the ship! Their experts tell the People, gosh the ship was just helpless and at the mercy of the wind and currents as if it has stopped? When in fact it was still traveling ahead just like the Video shows, their video also shows the ship turning? (Impossible at the speed it was traveling when the engine stopped apparently (unless someone has turned rudder) again their experts are saying that the wind and currant are causing the ship to turn towards the bridge! BULLSHIT! look at the water calm, no wind issues, the ship newer lost way, the engine apparently stopped but so what! The ship will still continue on course, as the speed very slowly bleed away, over the next one or two miles, the proof of a deliberate attack on the American people! thanks to their amazing video, it shows two telling things, forget about the lights going on and off and on, just a bit of theatre for the people, the video proves that the ship was under power when it turned to aim at the pylon, even without the full ahead smoke from the funnel that the EXPERST tell you gosh this is exactly how we experts start a ships engine that has just lost power! BULLSHIT! Just clearing the engine before starting it, BULLSHIT, this is a mayday emergency situation apparently start the bloody engine, WHO CHANGED THE SHIPS COURSE????? The proof that this turn intentional aimed the ship towards the main structural pylon was deliberate, ask all captains of large vessels even large private owned vessels! when a ship is heavily under power onto the rudder making a course change, what happens to the ship? Well in my experience it will lean away from the turn because of the weight of the ship is leaning away from the force turning the ship, yes their video was never meant to show this, the experts gloss over the deliberate turn telling you that when the ship lost its lean and corrected its aim look they were tarrying to turn away from the pylon, utter bullshit, it was a deliberate attack on the Global economy not just against the American People, 2024 is very important for the Globalist Monsters, there will not be an election in November in the USA, WHO PLANNED-DEMIC TREATY will be agreed to by most of the UN Member Country Government Politician TRAITORS, giving them the sovereignty to force you to be injected again because the WHO has identified their next Planned-demic! Yes it sounds impossible, or nonsense and much more than most people will ever believe is intentional! But Vaccine Passports are going to be your new reality this year or next at the latest! This evil will happen because the Globalists WEF+EU+WHO+UN agenda 2030 is getting close now, their “great reset “is fully supported by 190 UN Member Country Government Politician puppet TRAITORS. And most importantly for the Humans and Countries of this planet, TRUMP MUST NEVER AGAIN GET CONTROL OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AGAIN.
@@geoffreytoomey682 🤡🤡🤡
you dont realize how big is the container ship until you see how small the other boats are.
Also count on the recession
How is it that there were no fire walls of safety? No protection for the pier? No tug boats by law? Lives lost. 🤲🏻
Tug boats in the harbor are optional to be used. It was discussed in a video, believe it falls on the Harbor Pilot to use or not use to navigate out of the harbor. I am sure that will come up in the NTSB investigation, but will we ever hear the truth about this incident.
When you think about it, it's pretty stupid to NOT build something to protect the main bridge supports from collision with a huge ship at a busy shipping port.
there are 4 collision concrete dolphins but they are to small and to far away from the pillars. Don't know who plan this concrete dolphins years ago. But he forget that vessels getting bigger, the wind and the water flow.
The old sunshine skyway bridge in Tampa/FL it was the same. No protection for the pillars and the bridge collapsed after a vessel hits a pillar. The new sunshine skyway bridge have a lot of concrete dolphins and also the main pillars are on little islands. This happened 44 years ago on. Enough time to improve bridges like this with sensitive small pillars. But let's build cheap we don't have maybe 10-20 Mio. for better dolphins. Now it will cost billions when the ware chain collapsed maybe for 4 weeks. The costs for the salvage and the new bridge will be the smallest cost factor.
YOU want to PAY for that on your property and income taxes? I thought not, neither did any of the residents struggling to pay their property taxes, mortgages, bills, buy food and all the rest.
Because Tug boats use to bring the in and out from under that bridge at some point THE democrats who run this state felt there was no longer a need for them to do so. NOW HEAR WE ARE! 47 years ships millions of ships have have been escorted under that bridge no issues because they have tug boats doing the work.
@@HobbyOrganist well now they have a new bridge to pay for, and hopefully the compensation when the relatives of the deceased sue the living shit out of them. Suddenly its looking like it would've been a cheap deal.
Look at those sturdy ship bumpers at the base of those powerline towers. Don't you wish your bridge had those around the towers?
It's absolutely unacceptable that the bridge towers did not have proper barriers to deflect the type of shipping traffic coming and going through this passage way. Come on, it's 2024 !!
A fully loaded ship that size weighs around 200,000 TONS...no matter what speed anything it hits it destroys.....
Fact
👍👍👍👍👍
I read somewhere the containers were empty(?)
Yes exactly, This was definitely deliberate, not an accident it was murder, this is and must be a long read, sorry, if you have some knowledge of how all motor vessels from a 40-foot boat to the biggest US Aircraft carrier behave when turning under propeller thrust at any speed be it 6 knots or 20 knots the action of the ship is the same, this is just for the mariners who know! So, I recommend that you not read any further, because I understand that most people without any knowledge of what happens on a ship when the engine stops? Well not that much really, the massive weight of the ship just continues the ship on its course that may stray as the ship slows almost to a stop in a mile or so past the bridge, BUT! this is when the experts will distract the sheeple, they will boor them with all the events previous to this evil event and the history of the ship, what the governor said and what farmer John said about this[event BUT! Always distracting you away from the evidence of this deliberate attack on America by the many people as yet unknown as you know, all big ships just like this one always behave in the same way, firstly a loss of propulsion is not such a bad thing because the ship was on course to travel under the bridge, it will still do so even if the engine does stop, there will be some extra drag from the stationary propeller. But the ship will stay on course because of the sheer momentum of the dead weight of the ship! Their experts tell the People, gosh the ship was just helpless and at the mercy of the wind and currents as if it had stopped? When in fact it was still traveling ahead just like the Video shows, their video also shows the ship turning? (Impossible at the speed it was travelling when the engine stopped apparently (unless someone has turned the rudder) again their experts are saying that the wind and current are causing the ship to turn towards the bridge! BULLSHIT! look at the water calm, no wind issues, the ship newer lost way, and the engine apparently stopped but so what! The ship will still continue on course, as the speed very slowly bleeds away, over the next one or two miles, the proof of a deliberate attack on the American people! thanks to their amazing video, it shows two telling things, forget about the lights going on and off and on, just a bit of theatre for the people, the video proves that the ship was under power when it turned to aim at the pylon, even without the full ahead smoke from the funnel that the EXPERTS tell you gosh this is exactly how we experts start the engine of a ship that has just lost power! BULLSHIT! Just clearing the engine before starting it, BULLSHIT, this is a mayday emergency situation apparently start the bloody engine, WHO CHANGED THE SHIPS COURSE????? The proof that this turn intentionally aimed the ship towards the main structural pylon was deliberate, ask all captains of large vessels even large privately owned vessels! when a ship is heavily under power onto the rudder making a course change, what happens to the ship? Well in my experience it will lean away from the turn because of the weight of the ship is leaning away from the force turning the ship, yes their video was never meant to show this, the experts gloss over the deliberate turn telling you that when the ship lost its lean and corrected its aim look they were trying to turn away from the pylon, utter bullshit, they were straightening up after the turn towards the Bridge main structure to bring it down! This was just another deliberate attack on the Global economy, not just against the American People, 2024 is very important for the Globalist Monsters, there will not be an election in November in the USA, The evil "WHO PLANNED-DEMIC TREATY" will be agreed to by most of the UN Member Country Government Politician TRAITORS, giving them the sovereignty to force you to be injected again because the WHO has identified their next Planned-demic! Yes, it sounds impossible, or nonsense and much more than most people will ever believe is intentional! But Vaccine Passports are going to be your new reality this year or next at the latest! This evil will happen because the Globalists WEF+EU+WHO+UN agenda 2030 is getting close now, their “great reset “is fully supported by 190 UN Member Country Government Politician puppet TRAITORS. And most importantly for the Humans and Countries of this planet, TRUMP MUST NEVER GET CONTROL OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLES FUTURE AGAIN.
@@geoffreytoomey682 🤡🤡🤡
The fallout from this will be devastating. Job loss, Port closed, the removal of the bridge from the water. It'll take over a year to get this back again.
People are all ready claiming, it will take 7 to 10 years before Baltimore gets back to what they once knew as normal. I wouldn't be surprised if they closed the Port for good!
Yeah, but they'll also be a job gain from rebuilding. Don't get me wrong, this is not a good thing.
@@Gerry-K You know, all I see in my mind is those huge car carriers and parking lots. The problem is.. once they go they're probably not coming back. They have to get the port re-opened ASAP. If you think about it - why go all the way up the bay when you can use Norfolk/Hampton Roads.
Florida rebuilt several bridges destroyed by last hurricane within a few months! And predictions to rebuild this bridge are 5-10 years??? Wake up people! Blue run cities and states ARE disasters!
@@Gerry-K They’re claiming that timeframe based on the Skyway bridge rebuild back in the 80s. Things move generally faster these days with updated technology and equipment.
And this reconfirms my phobia of crossing bridges totally...Especially one like that.
Thoughts and prayers for all families involved in this tragedy, also for safety of rescue crews 🙏
America is so done with thoughts and prayers!
@@unsignedmusic Yeah REALLY!! that krap is as useless as it is delusional! just ask any of the DEAD people who were on the Titanic how "well" prayers worked out as they slipped into the icy water.
Or ask the 900 school children on their way to of all irony!!!: a CHURCH sponsored picnic outing when their paddle wheel ship caught fire, exploded and they drowned in NY's East River. The drowned and the burned bodies washed up on Brother Island's shores.
The cargo ship Dali may have insurance, but it's a safe bet to say the policy limits are nowhere near what will be needed to compensate the gargantuan effort of cleanup, new construction, and injury and death lawsuits, along with countless other associated lawsuits. This is an epic disaster.
An very busy port accommodating the largest ships in the world but no bridge pylon protection or barriers. Someone said it was too expensive to install pylon barriers. How much it it going to cost now? Lives lost is the worst part of the lack of barriers. And my opinion the bridge was wimpy as well.
The state deemed it too expensive. And you wouldn’t believe the people who think me and you are full of it and those bumpers wouldn’t have done anything. But those internet engineers….
@@kharnthebetrayer1575 And you know, actual engineers. No plausible protection system would have survived that without whipping enough to destroy the bridge.
@@willythemailboy2 odd .. which ones ? Since these guys say differently than your “engineers “ .
ua-cam.com/video/dFl412SuWZE/v-deo.htmlsi=QWjvTFmnnhe7QO_5.
But hey you know engineers who spoke about this , you are going “
Just trust me “.
@@willythemailboy2 and they talk about how other bridges have protection from ship strikes, including Golden Gate and has a football field of concrete and sand around the bridge supports.
@@kharnthebetrayer1575 And how often have they been tested?
the time and effort to remove that mess will be staggering.that bridge was built piece by piece over a long time.dealing with tides and a structure that is unstable will be a very dangerous occupation for those involved.
The power lines are better protected than the bridge
They should plan to add sacrificial piers and footing for new bridge to avoid this type of incidents.
I crossed this bridge every day for an entire year in 2021. I grew so familiar with the Francis Scott Key Bridge that I could recognized every single point along the bridge in this sureal video. The outline of a crushed arch is so unbelievable! This just does not look real! It's like something out of " I am Legend," "Deep Impact," or "Independence Day." The FSK bridge was enormous! I have also sailed under it and the thought of all those tons of steal coming down where I once sailed under and had once driven over is just incomprehensible. I have close up photos of those huge concrete pilings exactly where the ship hit and I had even wondered why there were no concrete bumpers protecting them? Anyway, I pray for the lost six innocent souls in this unbelievable maritime disaster in my city. R.I.P.
I'm guessing you're not old enough to remember the Sunshine Skyway bridge collapse, or the I40 Bridge Collapse, or the Queen Isabella Causeway collapse... you're comparing this to Hollywood movies, rather than previous real life incidents of ships hitting bridges.
@@jimbobeire No film footage of those past bridge disasters were filmed like this because camera drones with 4K did not exist yet. Try to expand your imagination and analytical skills.
how do you even begin to repair/ rebuild this?
Just like rebuilding Gaza
Don't worry the Democrats have the borders wide open it'll will be fixed for real cheap in no time 🙄
@@farido4151 Peace by peace.
By clearing the wreckage. The Corps of Engineers is studying the bridge to see how they can most efficiently clear the debris and reopen the port.
Yup. The work to be done will most likely be on barges or platforms using excavators and such to pull all the wreckage out and clear the underwater way for ships first. Then start rebuilding the piers and footings of the bridge, which i would recommend making 4 times bigger and beefier, then the reconstruction of the bridge can begin. But that will most likely be by 2026
That span was1200 feet long.
And yet that ship made a bee line to the one most vulnerable spot.
It's like a page out of Atlas Shrugged.
FFS no, it didn't make a beeline. It is not a page out of Ayn Rand's forgettable novel. It lost power at the wrong place and the wrong time and due to momentum struck with Armageddon force. These cargo carriers have gotten bigger and bigger over time because companies and consumers want the cheapest way to deliver/purchase goods. It is as much to do with economics as it is to do with physics, not with libertarian preening.
I shrug at you!
If you read Atlas Shrugged you have brain damage worse than if you smoked crack even one time. Everyone I know who has read that book has glassy googoo eyes and cannot have a normal conversation any more. Have you met anyone like that ?
Oh you mean like Hawaii fire. Who is John Galt.
@@keithharmon7124 google is your friend
This was an Accident waiting to Happen. Baltimore can count its Lucky Stars that this didn't happen during Rush Hour.
This was totally preventable, most bridges have barriers in the water to keep ships from striking the bridge. This is what happens when you cut corners. Those barriers would have been a lot cheaper than rebuilding this entire Bridge.
You incorrectly assume that the usual barriers would have stopped this from knocking the bridge down. It would not have.
@@willythemailboy2I agree everyone is a harbor pilot and bridge expert now lmao
When you build it back better be sure to add bigger bumpers.
LoL
What a total catastrophic failure of this bridge!! 🙏💜🙏💜🙏to the families waiting to know about their relatives!!
You pray to a god that let this happen and expect people who won’t know about it to care.😂😂😂😂
Seems like the crew of workers that went down with the bridge were all migrants from Central America. So sad that these amazing people come to our great country to only lose their lives like this. I hope their families are taken care for a long time from this.
@@unsignedmusic You probably spend all day scrolling for anyone who offers condolences because you're just mad at the world...WAAAGH poor you!
I hope we'll get explanations on what was with that black smoke coming out of the engine exhaust just before it turned straight into the bridge's support.
Yes exactly, This was definitely deliberate, not an accident it was murder, this is and must be a long read, sorry, if you have some knowledge of how all motor vessels from a 40-foot boat to the biggest US Aircraft carrier behave when turning under propeller thrust at any speed be it 6 knots or 20 knots the action of the ship is the same, this is just for the mariners who know! So, I recommend that you not read any further, because I understand that most people without any knowledge of what happens on a ship when the engine stops? Well not that much really, the massive weight of the ship just continues the ship on its course that may stray as the ship slows almost to a stop in a mile or so past the bridge, BUT! this is when the experts will distract the sheeple, they will boor them with all the events previous to this evil event and the history of the ship, what the governor said and what farmer John said about this[event BUT! Always distracting you away from the evidence of this deliberate attack on America by the many people as yet unknown as you know, all big ships just like this one always behave in the same way, firstly a loss of propulsion is not such a bad thing because the ship was on course to travel under the bridge, it will still do so even if the engine does stop, there will be some extra drag from the stationary propeller. But the ship will stay on course because of the sheer momentum of the dead weight of the ship! Their experts tell the People, gosh the ship was just helpless and at the mercy of the wind and currents as if it had stopped? When in fact it was still traveling ahead just like the Video shows, their video also shows the ship turning? (Impossible at the speed it was travelling when the engine stopped apparently (unless someone has turned the rudder) again their experts are saying that the wind and current are causing the ship to turn towards the bridge! BULLSHIT! look at the water calm, no wind issues, the ship newer lost way, and the engine apparently stopped but so what! The ship will still continue on course, as the speed very slowly bleeds away, over the next one or two miles, the proof of a deliberate attack on the American people! thanks to their amazing video, it shows two telling things, forget about the lights going on and off and on, just a bit of theatre for the people, the video proves that the ship was under power when it turned to aim at the pylon, even without the full ahead smoke from the funnel that the EXPERTS tell you gosh this is exactly how we experts start the engine of a ship that has just lost power! BULLSHIT! Just clearing the engine before starting it, BULLSHIT, this is a mayday emergency situation apparently start the bloody engine, WHO CHANGED THE SHIPS COURSE????? The proof that this turn intentionally aimed the ship towards the main structural pylon was deliberate, ask all captains of large vessels even large privately owned vessels! when a ship is heavily under power onto the rudder making a course change, what happens to the ship? Well in my experience it will lean away from the turn because of the weight of the ship is leaning away from the force turning the ship, yes their video was never meant to show this, the experts gloss over the deliberate turn telling you that when the ship lost its lean and corrected its aim look they were trying to turn away from the pylon, utter bullshit, they were straightening up after the turn towards the Bridge main structure to bring it down! This was just another deliberate attack on the Global economy, not just against the American People, 2024 is very important for the Globalist Monsters, there will not be an election in November in the USA, The evil "WHO PLANNED-DEMIC TREATY" will be agreed to by most of the UN Member Country Government Politician TRAITORS, giving them the sovereignty to force you to be injected again because the WHO has identified their next Planned-demic! Yes, it sounds impossible, or nonsense and much more than most people will ever believe is intentional! But Vaccine Passports are going to be your new reality this year or next at the latest! This evil will happen because the Globalists WEF+EU+WHO+UN agenda 2030 is getting close now, their “great reset “is fully supported by 190 UN Member Country Government Politician puppet TRAITORS. And most importantly for the Humans and Countries of this planet, TRUMP MUST NEVER GET CONTROL OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLES FUTURE AGAIN.
The ship loses power for two minutes and that’s just a excuse as they were pointed in that direction. The don’t turn on a dime so that really means the mistake was made 5 min or more ! More shortages!
Wow, unbelievable❗️😱
After viewing this can't believe how well this was engineered. Gusset plates held this bridge together. They were sized right. Some of steel structure failed shear break top rails. Design held up all these years. All overhead to both approaches failed into the water. Broke perfectly on both end little damage to approaches to appears. Great video best yet. You get a better understanding. Those Gusset held this bridge together. There was some bolt shear I'd like to see that. They must of sounded like cannons goin off.
How badly engineered don’t you mean. Supports pretty feeble by all accounts.
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For that time in 77 it's right the one that didn't get hit held up. Let's face it that ship hits anything he wins. To much energy. That deck strip away right away that's scary. Them rods weren't shit.
The entire concrete support pier was destroyed in one go.
Shocking footage.
Shows how the kinetic energy calculations work. 100,000 tons multiplied by 8.5 knots. That is a LOT of energy to dissipate.
I wonder if the bolts sheared or were pulled through the steel. They are a much harder steel than the structure.
@@fredfred2363
Can you imagine how many bolt were shot off. The ones pulled are still on the iron pull thru the gusset plate. Just the noise Fred. Mind blowing and deck separated right away them rods barely steady that deck. Immediately it separated.
@@reynardbizzar5461 Any bridge support will crumble when met with a force this big from the side. They are designed to withstand vertical forces, not horizontal.
Someone isn’t getting their contraband on time.
The tunnel is scary
BEAUTIFUL DRONE FOOTAGE !
We just need to remember that this massive vessels help make the world go round and failures happens to them just like a vehicle or anything else. It sucks but its true.
I hope all other bridges are protected against this from happening in the future this happened before it will happen again rest in peace to those that fell to there death I couldn’t imagine what was going through there mind as this was happening
Thanks for the aerial view...
WOULDNT seem that hitting one leg would or should take a whole bridge DOWN,maybe POOR CONSTRUCTION!!???
They'll claim massive supply chain interruptions/shortages and logistical difficulties similar to Suez Canal blockage so prices on just about everything can be artificially inflated. Don't believe me? Just watch.
Bingo. Then people will blame their opposed political party for not reducing inflation when it's all corporate greed and the deflection will be complete.
Welcome to the capitalism that we treat like religion
I believe and know you are right
Timing is everything
Truth spoken.
This ship is big but it’s nowhere near as big as other cargo container ships that can carry double the containers this ship has on board. Maybe this harbor isn’t capable of handling ships that big but there is obviously a huge concern for safety sake. This is definitely a tragedy but, because of the bravery of a few men who acted quickly after the Mayday was given, lives were definitely saved because traffic was stopped. RIP to those who lost their lives and condolences to the families and friends.
In all this tragedy I've not heard any mention of Sky Way Bridge heading to Sarasota, that was in 1977 knock down to spans and a bus. Prayers from Illinois.
This is one of the busiest ports in the US and there were no "dolphins" cement barriers in front of the supports to keep ships from hitting the bridge. This happened because TPTSB wanted it to happen.
Recemos por todos los fallecidos y desaparecidos y sus familiares. ❤🙏
it looks like a godzilla set filled with models
Synergy who owns the ship, recently declared that Diversity (DEI) was top of their agenda... not safety. See their website.
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This isnt the kind of ship where you can go topside for a leisurely stroll on deck.
Yes you can.
why not?..
well, that bridge, bless it's heart, was really kind of an Erector Set.
Imagine the frustration of the person(s) reaching the bridge just before it fell to have been blocked by the barricade , but then incredible relief when they realized that had the gotten onto the bridge things would be quite different!
Then Why weren’t the Workers Warned 😮Too many Whys Too Not Accidental???🤔😳👿
At least the ship isn't sinking too.
.... sofar.
It was the plan , but failed like most things , the Government does.
Looks like fowl fuel could've caused this. When you haul a million gallons of fuel it's bound to be cut with other additives. To cut costs perhaps. Cheap fuel can also gel in cold temperatures.
@@derrickconnolly9164
Fowl fuel? You mean like duck soup?
Ohhh, you mean FOUL.
@@seeharvester I stand corrected. Thank you
MAYBE WE NEED TO RETHINK HOW SAFE OUR BRIDGES REALLY ARE!!!???
YOU THINK???!!!
Murica letting those giants near straw bridges without barriers or tugs.
Something like this should be impossible to happen. Not just remotely possible, IMPOSSIBLE.
But they will say that it happens so few times that spending a dime to prevent it it's basically wasted money.
Sending my thoughts a prayers to the victims.
I can’t believe all these Arm Chair Generals who act like they know what they are talking about. Opening the Port will be a priority for Baltimore and everyone else.
Many times your so called arm chair generals have more common sense than the actual ones. But I digress.
BREAKING NEWS....DAN BONGINO
I heard Obama is doing a sequel to his movie LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND. His chef was helping Obama with the script before he was found floating in the shallow water.
He will donate the proceeds to his bridge Infrastructure program. It will feature an all Indian Muslim cast.
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. (CBSNewYork/AP) -- President Barack Obama visited the Tappan Zee Bridge on Wednesday and announced a series of measures aimed at improving the nation's crumbling infrastructure.
Only this time the barge does not land on the beach. The entire barge crew will be Indian. The star female will not be Julia Roberts. She was not Indian. It will be Lt. Governor of Maryland, Ms. Arunna to keep the script Indian centered. However the author will still be the same, Rumaan Alam from India/Bangladesh. Same for the Muslim director from Middle East heritage Sam Esmail. Being a Muslim like Obama, they will have much to share while filming. Coming to a Bridge, sorry, I meant a Theater Near You.
Isn't the ship's 'proper category' really a container ship, and not a cargo ship?
Anyone?
Thanks.
It is a "container ship" or "port-container", both correct.
That last shot of the ship is crazy how it sliced through that structure like that.
Why build these massive loading/unloading ports right in the farthest up part of the harbor in the core of Baltimore, how about putting them east of all these massive bridges so the ships don't even have to go under any bridges? Sure it's a longer commute for employees if they live in Baltimore, but what else is a problem with that idea?
Port has been in that location for a long, long time, since back when the city and the ships visiting it were much smaller.
Gonna be a lot of work cleaning up this mess😢
It will take the NTSB 3 year to tell us a ship hit a bridge
That's of course not all they do. They'll take the bridge apart bolt by bolt and study every joint in the structure to see which performed to tolerances, which didn't, and how designs should change to address those issues. That the cause of the incident is obvious is actually irrelevant to their investigation.
@@willythemailboy2 Exactly! There's always someone who wants to be doom & gloom about EVERYTHING. The NTSB doesn't like to leave any stone unturned.
but how could it have been prevented? was it on purpose? where are the tugboats. what stopped the ship from going farther?
@@rw7051 Those are legitimate questions which will certainly be addressed. From the expert analysis I've seen thus far the ship lost power several minutes before the collision, which prevented them from steering or slowing down. That may indicate negligence or human error on the crew's end, which is part of the NTSB investigation. The river conditions that caused the ship to veer when it lost power will be investigated, and possibly changes in the approved shipping route will be made.
The tugboat issue is not as simple as it may appear, as a ship having a tugboat still attached at that speed is suicidally dangerous for the tug's crew, but one could have been ready to push the ship back into the shipping lane. The point is something like this is never as simple as "a ship hit a bridge".
Because the ship's crew issued an emergency and the police closed the bridge seconds before the impact, undoubtedly many other people were saved from driving over during and after the impact. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if there was a way to contact and save the maintenence crew.
Really then why were they working without a Safety Plan???😮 Very Suspicious in Total.
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Suspicious how?
@@jamanne2504 Sorry, I don't follow you. What safety plan? The ship's crew? The police?
@@jamanne2504 Geez, what a ridiculous comment!
That ship hit that bridge directly....it was clockwork.... there is no way getting around it.... Prayers for the Victims 🙏...may they rest in peace....and for the families 🙏...
thank you that was the best report.
Can you imagine if it had been rush hour day traffic when this would have happened ?
Why are we sitting on our hands ! How long before shipping leans are reopened? Equipment to remove bridge should be there already!
Settle down Mate. A few days is not going to make any difference.
You have to develop an engineered plan first. That will take at least a month.
The demo crews have to have a plan that does not kill any more people!
This is not the sort of gear that the planet has just laying around.
This will take underwater welders to cut the girders to size, multiple water born cranes to lift the pieces out of the water.
Vehicles that fell in will need removed.
Containers that fell in need cleared.
Concrete support knoecked over needs cleared.
Divers and sonar will have to verify channel is clear.
Possible redredge of the channel.
Dali will head to a slip nearby for inspection, investigation, and repairs.
Appears to be afloat and not sinking.
TEUs on it will be transloaded to other vessels as everyone wants their cargo.
Major operation requiring multiple skill sets at top level the planet has.
And tonnes of money.
@@sammencia7945 Sam, I am an Engineer who works for Manson Construction Company out of Seattle, WA. We have all the equipment "laying around" to handle this medium size job. Google us.
We salvaged the collapsed bridge on Interstate 35W in Minneapolis. And participated in building its replacement in record time.
We will probably mobilize just one. maybe two, of our 300ton floating derrick cranes for this job. With their tugboats, and fleet of barges to take the demo ashore for disposal.
Our diving subcontractor will easily handle all the underwater tasks you describe.
And we have our own dredge fleet with sonar surveying capabilities.
And I think there are a couple of marine contractors on the East Coast with the same capability.
Handling the ship and its containers is also not a big job. There are US companies who specialize in this.
Whether the job is bid as a hard money job, or time and equipment, is yet to be decided. This takes time.
The biggest challenge in these crazy times is getting an Enviromental Permit to do the work! hahaha
This will be the job that is the most difficult and you can guarantee with all the Federal Agencies wanting a piece of the action this will take many months!
And of course we would love to bid on building the replacement bridge. Its design I'm guessing will take at least a year.
dont give up rescue some could be alive in a air bubble in the car, truck or van
The water is too cold. A 50 degree water temp only gives them 5-6 hours to find someone alive.
So stupid 😂
I will never understand how people can be this fucking stupid.
Crab cakes
I think the crew of eight road workers were probably on their feet. Maybe the two who survived were in the two trucks. Traffic crossing had been stopped before the collapse.
I can only imagine how long this tangled wreckage will be sitting there.
One day i was driving that bridge and when traffic stopped i could clearly feel that bridge was shaking when cars or trucks drove on opposite side .. pretty scary
Ill ssay it again, my condolences to anyone who lost anyone. This has gridlocked Baltimore, and the loss of life is terrible. This is at least three years worth of Baltimorians doing without and cost of everything going up
They should have built a concrete island before the pillars to prevent a ship from directly colliding with the pillars. This could have prevented the bridge from collapsing.
that ship weights 100.000 tons... you really think a concrete fender would stop it? 😂
There were protections.
@@413. Did ya notice it stopped when it hit the footing. Build it right and it will stop the next ship.
@@christopherhughes6519 It will stop the ship, but it won't stop the ship from knocking the bridge off the foundation. There's just too much momentum to absorb.
@nelsonmachado7680- I will award you the BINGO! prize for the day! Many commenters have said there should have been barriers or "something to deflect ships" but you used the magic word: Islands! The proper protection, which I sincerely expect will be part of the new design, will be artificial islands for the new major support piers, that are big enough to GROUND LARGE CONTAINER SHIPS.
In grounding large ships, the lifting of the bow onto the island absorbs and dissipates huge amounts of kinetic energy that would then be unavailable to disturb the bridge supports. Just make the islands big enough....
It appears the ships engines and props are still operating, look at the beginning of this video at the rear of the ship?
Amazing footage 😮
How they going to move it ,,backwards forwards ,,be a job and a half 😮
Remove the bridge structure on the bow. Haul anchor up and tugs will tow it back to an overhaul pier. Not familiar with Port of Baltimore so not sure what facilities they have to get that ship up and running properly.
@@olerocker3470Initial reports said there was an odor of diesel in the water..could that mean the hull is damaged?
Were there people on the cargo ship that were killed or injured? Can't imagine there wouldn't be.
amazingly ...no! The crew ,who were still able to let go the anchor must have made the sprint of their lives once they realized they were gonna collide none the less...no 'Micheal bay' special effects team could have made it more spectacular...
Still can't figure out why tug escorts weren't required past such critical infrastructure... especially considering how vulnerable it was. Port authorities REALLY are to blame for this... I bet if you dig deep enough you'll find money at the end of it....
Always Power Money and Greed!! The hue and cry of today’s Evil Money Grabbers!!! Noo Morals 👿
Wish you could have gotten closer and zipped around a bit for different angles.
If this had happened 4 hours later there would be hundreds of cars in the water. Perhaps the only bright spot in an unbelievable tragedy 🥲🙏
What's the traffic around there like today
I'm sure it's absolutely nightmarish at best.
That area is a Major Port, Semi's (carrying every kind of freight, lots of heavy equipment ship from there) are thru there steadily plus that bridge is a major thru-way. This is going to be a major blow for the East Coast.
Amazing
What a massive job ahead.
WHERE were the TUG BOATS ? !
Thye are required to only move the vessel from the dockage to a certain point in the river.
Guessing that will change and tugs will accompany ships into open waters. It’s a pretty simple fix for all the ports that have potential dangers that would require lengthy and expensive additional barriers.
Ukraine authorities said they would destroy a bridge, considering the captain was Ukrainian i think they just missed which bridge they wanted to destroy LMAO
That'll teach us for holding up funds...
You realize captains don’t command ships in ports right. Harbor pilots come aboard and take over.
Amazing that the ship is still floating with all that steel and concrete on top of it.
The bow of the ship is touching the bottom of the channel. It can't go any further down.
From the Exxon Valdez,Costa Concoraia, to this,big ships big problems!
If a person can hack northern states water supplies last week..how hard could it be to hack into a ship? Shut the power off...and let the ship do the rest.
The things you can see by drone...rescue efforts are strengthened, investigations go easier. Funny how they crap on drones until they need them. I fly every chance I get for that reason.
You're not exactly safe on a plane either...Try walking!
There are easier and more predictable ways of wreaking havoc than trying to hack a moving ship and cutting power at precisely the right time, in moving currents, so it would hit a bridge. And this presumes that the ship controls are even remotely accessible. The problem with believing that everything is a conspiracy is it opens you to believing anything.
So did they throw down the anchors knowing it would slow down the impact? Did they blow the warning horns? Did tug boats pull the ship? This kind of stuff shouldn’t happen.
I heard the sent mayday calls to stop traffic on the bridge. They tried!
Bingo and great questions
Did anyone see the whole thing on slow motion? It looks like quite a U turn to get to that part of the bridge
They dropped at least the port anchor, long enough for it to start dragging.
Unsure about horns, but they did get emergency responders to block off the bridge.
There were 2 (two) tug boats which maneuvered it into the channel, then left. There was a port appointed pilot controlling the ship (this is normal).
It looks like the ship lost power/propulsion, which would render it difficult to impossible to control. There will be an investigation report with the full details on that, but those take a long time to produce.
Bridge allisions happen from time to time. A famous example is the old Sunshine Skyway bridge in Florida, which was replaced with a different style of bridge that included protective dolphins around its main piers (a dolphin was hit the day before the opening ceremony). People have been yelling about US infrastructure being underfunded for years, we should probably have a backup port, along with more/better bridges.
@@MHus-bv3kx yes there did
I would think there would be concrete barriers set out amongst it also, is it the harbor pilot or master that helps guide the ship through an area until they reach open water
This is going to cause a shipping nightmare!
It's a shame. Set up. Rip mates
so an aluminum plane can take a steel tower down to dust----hmm
Truly great video, thanks.
At about 6:45 it appears that a tractor-trailer type rig is 'ensconced' within the mangled framework of the port-side bridge section.
Could also just be an operational materials / tools trailer or other construct. Hadn't seen that before .
Think that is what they thought was TT on initial calls. It is more likely a cargo container that fell off the ship. If watching video, you can see every TT that went over the bridge. The last one definitely made it off before the hit.