I served 4 years in the US Navy, certified Master Helmsman who took an Aircraft carrier up the Mississippi River and through the Suez canal this is a failure on just about every level. I can only speculate but I cannot see the Pilot and Helmsman making that big of a mistake and if tugs were involved it is even worse. I think they had some sort of propulsion failure.
total blackout... the port authority cameras picked it up... DGs kicked on but no maneuvering. They were dead in the water. Dropped the port hook when they lost maneuvering, but it didn't stop it. They were under way with no tugs.
@brianlane9534 I thought I saw the anchor down. I wasn't sure cause how dark it was. Power loss makes a lot of sense, I only thought tugs cause they said in one of the reports the ship had just been turned, but no tugs makes sense even more now. I saw a lot of comments saying the pilot messed up but going in and out of port as much as I have Pilots are extremely familiar with the river just don't see them making that huge of an error. None of this makes it any less of a tragedy, but it explains so much as to why now. Thanks for the response and information.
I hate to say it, but once your car hits the water you’ve got about 5-10 minutes before the cabin completely floods. If you’re not able to break out by then, you’re in real trouble. For anyone reading this, I highly recommend keeping a window breaker somewhere around the driver’s seat.
It’s going to impact the entire DMV area greatly. Obviously the families of those involved first and foremost. But travelers this spring and summer from the Baltimore County area going to have to do some serious rerouting. That bridge is a huge deal here in MD.
2 things… this isn’t a matter of bad infrastructure. It’s a matter of 100k tons hitting a stationary object. Also the harbor pilot, captain, first officer, and everyone on the bridge of the ship should have stopped this (or at least done something to radio and warn them to stop traffic) Edit: this was posted literally as it happened so we didn’t know at the time they had for sure lost power
I’m a ex marine radio officer who have had ship collisions experience in the US waters. This is a similar problem, that is collision due to bad vision. When you are navigating a big ship in such dark hours, the view is like almost total darkness and you can only rely on the radars to navigate. On the radar you can only see a straight bridge but not the bridge supports, hence that’s how the ship hit the bridge support by accident. The ship captain could have waited for morning daylight to set sail instead of leaving the port in the middle of the night.
@@barev2056- The very first bit of video I saw - it [LOOKED] so obviously on fire that I thought it had crashed, stopped, caught fire and the FIRE had weakened the bridge and collapsed it As ive not seen it again, I might be wrong. But to my eyes it was very on fire. EDIT - it was not the good angle video thats everywhere now, it was a much worse video, I thin it was the BACK of the ship not the front
The ship lost all electrical power twice before hitting the bridge. It appears to fail a third time during the collision. This can be seen in the raw security camera video of the incident.
Technically it's partially of the widely used truss bridge construction, the truss sections usually being strong and structurally independent of each other . The long central section however was cantilevered, which from the video, looks to be why the bridge completely collapsed, rather than just the collapse of a single section.
As the boat approached the bridge at the first power outage, tug boats should've been called to help navigate that ship under the bridge to safety. Maybe this step should be applied going forward, regardless of power outage or not
Sadly, all of those who plunged into the water are probably dead. The water is 48 degrees. Even if you didn't get knocked out by the fall, you don't survive in water temps like this for long. I hope they find some but...probably not.
I've swum in 37-38 degree water, so cold water doesn't instantly kill people, but it was in July and I wasn't in shock from falling from a damn bridge.
Experience is racist. Better to hire an illiterate indian immigrant with no experience in bidens america, keeps wages lower than dirt and gives the big corporations a huge tax break.
@@pietrojenkins6901You don’t have to scrap a whole ship for electrical issues. If they kept up with the regular maintenance and replaced what needed to be replaced it would be fine. Unfortunately many shipping likes don’t do that and run their ships till stuff like this happens.
Baltimore is one of those American cities I want to go to. Because it IS a port! I grew up in a port city. In Canada. My father in his career worked on the waterfront. And he would have been dealing with Maersk all his working life. Things are in crisis mode in Copenhagen today, I'm sure. I hope the Pride of Baltimore is OK.
@@Chuck-se5hh It could have. You see many bridges with tear dropped land works. That’s what they are for. They keep a ship 30 or more feet away from the structure.
@@jamesdellaneve9005 This is what they did to protect the new Sunshine Skyway Bridge, after the previous one collapsed after the same kind of ship incident. I’m not shocked this bridge didn’t have groundwork as it seems like every state has to learn from tragedies for themselves.
@@TitaniumTurbine Yes. Of course, it costs money. Maryland is especially corrupt and inept at this point. If that’s the jurisdiction it’s in. All Baltimore city schools have zero percent of their African American kids performing at grade level at math. No emergency. They’ll get to it as soon as they protects the bridgeworks.
Sheese. It is OBVIOUS the ship had a blackout just prior to it hitting the bridge. Now the news is dead set on having a body count. Keep up the good work.
It's all perspective. In many, many ways it gets better and better. You're telling me the 40-year life expectancy of virtually every other century is better? However yes, some things are getting worse. There's a lot of fuckin humans in the world now, and people having irresponsible numbers of children every day, so in those ways it'll continue to worsen. But it'll get better in others. It's bad and it's good, better and it's worse, lol.
There should be a pilot onboard that specializes in navigating those ships in and out of the harbour. Of course the ultimate responsibility is on the ships captain. Can't rule out a blackout on the ship either. That usually results in total loss of control.
LMFAO. Turn the news off, Putin isnt under your bed or in your closet. Russia hasnt done anything to you ever. Your own government on the other hand...
And there were two pilots on board who were responsible to guide it, escort it through local channels and tidal changes. What were they doing at that time?
if the ship was using a harbor pilot unless it was electrical or some ship defect then the pilot is 100% responsible for control of the ship and he messed up big time
Complete negligence , no excuses as to how it happened, these are professionals steering the ship. An absolute tragedy, god bless everyone involved in this tragedy .
@@tothemaxx1991 first of all there was no explanation as to what happened because it was very early when the tragedy was being reported , secondly these ships must be maintained and it is solely on the captains watch and thirdly where am I condemning these poor people involved in this tragedy ? Do some research on how to comprehend the English language before your accusations.
@@tothemaxx1991 that’s ok, you can tell that to the families of the poor people that perished on that bridge just going to work or home that no one’s responsible.
This is some people's greatest nightmare. Ever been on the Chesapeake Bay Tunnel Bridge going into VA Beach? There are people who park in a park & ride and get a ride across because they simply can't go over, and under, that much water when they are behind the wheel.
Lot of ill informed comments out there re the crew. On the original harbour cam footage the vessel clearly has a total electrical blackout. This should not really happen. When the blackout happened the vessel appeared not to be able to maintain its course and speed. A possible reason for this would be water in the bunker fuel. Watching in real time I have to say the crew got some power on quite quickly but not enough to avert the collision.
As search operations are on, X users have noted the uncanny resemblance the incident has to a 2023 Netflix film called Leave the World Behind, where a cyberattack causes a massive container ship to lose power & crash. A user wrote on X, “With the horrific collapse of the #KeyBridge in #Baltimore earlier, I couldn't help but be reminded of this scene from the film "Leave The World Behind", produced by the Obamas. A massive oil tanker runs ashore after a cyber attack shuts down navigation systems. Anyone else?”
The number of crew members are not based on Wessel length or no. of containers. On the video, there is a lot of smoke from the exhaust pipes from the engines. It is normally because the mail engine is given "full speed" (in this case it most obviously "full astern"). fore unknown reason they have been heading at the Bridge Cullum, and the have tried to avoid the collision. The black smoke could also come from a malfunction on a auxiliary engine! this could cause a "black out" if the other auxiliary engines is not able to take over the electrical load, fast enough. The electrical power load could have been very high, if the wessel has too low speed to steer, but the duty officer has used the bow thruster at full power in order to force the bow away from the bridge. A pilot is never steering a wessel! The pilot is guiding the captain and the duty officer with information on "navigating" in the local area. These information could be like, were to sail in strong tide in/out going. passage restrictions, du to work on bridges or waterways. The helm is hold by an experienced seaman. He/she receives course orders from the captain based on input from the pilot(s). It is seen in other places that there is build a great stone reef as a defence around bridge collums like these, as they are very weak, when they are hit.
Baltimore is a port to load reefer containers as I can remember. Too many of them may overload the genies. Some Chief Engieneers even unplug them to have some some juicie for bow and stern thrusters...Once you make the turn and suppose to be relax, wants to plus them and switch off the thruster that are ineffective at that speed. In a power failure the emergency generator automatically start and in case the other get back online after a short period, the surges and peak voltages mess the steering system. Rudder goes hard to the side of the screw, no system, hand or NFU respond and by the time someones gets to the steering gear is too late...Maybe... maybe not something like this happen
I'm surprised that the bridge still had its name, look up,the national anthem, like you never heard before, will tell you who Francis Scott key is, but the government will not allow the media to tell you
“Partial collapse”. It’s the whole damn thing!
Media pilpul.
Right? That was frightening
@@chuck7432Laughing at this? You are a piece of sh*t.
99.99% is still partial FYI
😢😮, Leave it up to the STORYTELLER, HI STORY ..IT'S ALL FALL DOWN 😢😢😢
Checking on a friend who is a night truck driver in Baltimore area. I pray he is safe.
I drive at nights myself and often worried about stuff like that going over it. My prayers for your friend. 🙏🏿
Prayers for your friend
@@awesomusmaximus3766not true
@@awesomusmaximus3766 There were several cars on the bridge. 20 people missing.
Good News. He is safe and sound. His trucking company doesn't start until 3am. Thoughts and prayers to those involved.
I served 4 years in the US Navy, certified Master Helmsman who took an Aircraft carrier up the Mississippi River and through the Suez canal this is a failure on just about every level. I can only speculate but I cannot see the Pilot and Helmsman making that big of a mistake and if tugs were involved it is even worse. I think they had some sort of propulsion failure.
I was wondering about tugs but I have no knowledge whether they should or shouldn't have had.
From what I’ve seen, none of the ships have tugs when they get to the bridge
total blackout... the port authority cameras picked it up... DGs kicked on but no maneuvering. They were dead in the water. Dropped the port hook when they lost maneuvering, but it didn't stop it. They were under way with no tugs.
I heard someone say there was a problem with propulsion....maybe a terrorist behind it because Democrats have let many of them in our southern border.
@brianlane9534 I thought I saw the anchor down. I wasn't sure cause how dark it was. Power loss makes a lot of sense, I only thought tugs cause they said in one of the reports the ship had just been turned, but no tugs makes sense even more now. I saw a lot of comments saying the pilot messed up but going in and out of port as much as I have Pilots are extremely familiar with the river just don't see them making that huge of an error. None of this makes it any less of a tragedy, but it explains so much as to why now. Thanks for the response and information.
So sorry to everyone involved in this
Horrible horrible terrible awful news! Feeling awful for so many lives that are and will be affected by this for some time.
I hate to say it, but once your car hits the water you’ve got about 5-10 minutes before the cabin completely floods. If you’re not able to break out by then, you’re in real trouble. For anyone reading this, I highly recommend keeping a window breaker somewhere around the driver’s seat.
I bought three of those damn things from Amazon for our cars and I can’t remember where I put them. This makes me feel like I need to find them today.
This is gonna have major ramifications on the city 4 years to come
It’s going to impact the entire DMV area greatly. Obviously the families of those involved first and foremost. But travelers this spring and summer from the Baltimore County area going to have to do some serious rerouting. That bridge is a huge deal here in MD.
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2 things… this isn’t a matter of bad infrastructure. It’s a matter of 100k tons hitting a stationary object.
Also the harbor pilot, captain, first officer, and everyone on the bridge of the ship should have stopped this (or at least done something to radio and warn them to stop traffic)
Edit: this was posted literally as it happened so we didn’t know at the time they had for sure lost power
They didn't have time to warn anyone. They lost their engines right before they hit the pillar essentially.
@@BatuSmoka808where is your source for that? Because unless you know something I don’t there’s no possible way to know yet
Thats why they hold inquiries. Because of people like you.Playing the guessing game.
How can people on the bridge stop a ship like this?
@@dannyf4447Full reverse, move the rudder, change the azipod angle… any of them, or all
Edit: i meant on the ship’s bridge
What a tragedy 😢 thoughts for the people on the bridge
I’m a ex marine radio officer who have had ship collisions experience in the US waters. This is a similar problem, that is collision due to bad vision. When you are navigating a big ship in such dark hours, the view is like almost total darkness and you can only rely on the radars to navigate. On the radar you can only see a straight bridge but not the bridge supports, hence that’s how the ship hit the bridge support by accident. The ship captain could have waited for morning daylight to set sail instead of leaving the port in the middle of the night.
Is it a popular bridge like golden gate
That harbor pilot is about to lose his license.
THERE MUST HAVE BEEN A POWER FAILER
@@barev2056- Apparantly the bridge in the ship was on fire - they abandoned the bridge and then it hit the 'bridge" - wee need new words
Did he sanked
@@barev2056- The very first bit of video I saw - it [LOOKED] so obviously on fire that I thought it had crashed, stopped, caught fire and the FIRE had weakened the bridge and collapsed it
As ive not seen it again, I might be wrong. But to my eyes it was very on fire. EDIT - it was not the good angle video thats everywhere now, it was a much worse video, I thin it was the BACK of the ship not the front
@@mike2525-jgyes, there were two power outages in advance of collision
Praying for everyone
I wonder why bridges don't have rubber bumpers surrounding their support beams like on boat docks. There are plenty of used tires at salvage yards.
It’s final destination 5 in real life
The ship lost all electrical power twice before hitting the bridge. It appears to fail a third time during the collision. This can be seen in the raw security camera video of the incident.
“Oh oh say can you see, that huge freakin’ boat heading right towards me”.
If you watch the actual video it appears the ship lost power right before the collision.
Remember 10000s of tons they probably cut the engine in an attempt to slow as a last resort...
@@ywe3 Could've been hacked. But I thought these ships were pulled and guided by a tug boat when they're in the harbor.
@@ywe3You wouldn’t cut all the power to cut the engine
@@SbxalldayYou can’t just hack a cargo ship
@sirboomsalot4902 That's false! Do a little research. They're saying on average 1 ship gets hacked per day.
I take this bridge everyday to work smh it’s shocking to see it gone
YOU ARE OUT OF WORK.
Technically it's partially of the widely used truss bridge construction, the truss sections usually being strong and structurally independent of each other . The long central section however was cantilevered, which from the video, looks to be why the bridge completely collapsed, rather than just the collapse of a single section.
As the boat approached the bridge at the first power outage, tug boats should've been called to help navigate that ship under the bridge to safety. Maybe this step should be applied going forward, regardless of power outage or not
Some reason >??? If you showed the whole video the ship loses power 2 times before the accident ...... typical media ................
Why did the ship lose power 2 time before the accident? Some reason.
Reefer containers? Bow and stern thrusters getting offline?
I cross a large bridge nearly every day to go to work. Pretty scary stuff here. Prayers going out to everyone involved.
It is shocking to see the huge bridge collapsed in the river. Huge loss. Very sad
its the perfect symbol of america. collapsing under its own stupidity.
Sadly, all of those who plunged into the water are probably dead. The water is 48 degrees. Even if you didn't get knocked out by the fall, you don't survive in water temps like this for long. I hope they find some but...probably not.
Assuming they got out of said vehicles. Only takes 30s for water to fill a vehicle.
2 people that fell in were rescued as of now.
@@MeYou-vp7jbwhere was it reported?
@@brizuhk5043 on the local news they reported it like two something in the morning
I've swum in 37-38 degree water, so cold water doesn't instantly kill people, but it was in July and I wasn't in shock from falling from a damn bridge.
I gotta wander how much experience the harbor pilot had.
Experience is racist. Better to hire an illiterate indian immigrant with no experience in bidens america, keeps wages lower than dirt and gives the big corporations a huge tax break.
A ton, those guys are good, most likely a mechanical failure, we will find out.
@@MikeRthe1Think you’re right. Looked like power went out three times on the tape
@@MikeRthe1 then if that is the case the ship should have been scrapped. That's not a sea worthy ship.
@@pietrojenkins6901You don’t have to scrap a whole ship for electrical issues. If they kept up with the regular maintenance and replaced what needed to be replaced it would be fine. Unfortunately many shipping likes don’t do that and run their ships till stuff like this happens.
God help everyone
“ ship happens” folks. Mechanical, electrical failure and human error are paramount.
Going down going down down ......
Baltimore is one of those American cities I want to go to. Because it IS a port! I grew up in a port city.
In Canada. My father in his career worked on the waterfront. And he would have been dealing with Maersk
all his working life. Things are in crisis mode in Copenhagen today, I'm sure. I hope the Pride of Baltimore is OK.
The bridge pilings should have had groundwork’s to protect the bridgeworks. It fell like toothpicks.
Wouldn't have helped.
@@Chuck-se5hh It could have. You see many bridges with tear dropped land works. That’s what they are for. They keep a ship 30 or more feet away from the structure.
@@jamesdellaneve9005 This is what they did to protect the new Sunshine Skyway Bridge, after the previous one collapsed after the same kind of ship incident. I’m not shocked this bridge didn’t have groundwork as it seems like every state has to learn from tragedies for themselves.
@@TitaniumTurbine Yes. Of course, it costs money. Maryland is especially corrupt and inept at this point. If that’s the jurisdiction it’s in. All Baltimore city schools have zero percent of their African American kids performing at grade level at math. No emergency. They’ll get to it as soon as they protects the bridgeworks.
@@TitaniumTurbine As we say in Engineering, “Rev B”.
Ship lost power multiple times. Seems like a severe electrical or mechanical failure.
This is something that has never happened before. There is something wrong with this country.
Agreed!
Lol bridges collapse from ZERO collisions. Ships run into docks, reefs, other ships, bridge pylons, etc ALL THE TIME rage world over.
Lord protect everyone involved
Rescue those people!
Shame, I hope nobody lost their life from the cars on the bridge.
Extremely hard to believe only two people went in the water.... ???
If you watch the video it looks like the bridge was clear (or mostly clear) of cars at the time the bridge fell.
Sheese. It is OBVIOUS the ship had a blackout just prior to it hitting the bridge. Now the news is dead set on having a body count. Keep up the good work.
Also it lost power 3 times before hitting definitely ship issues . I dont think this was intentional
Careful your a lone, rational, logical voice in this thread of paranoid, angry, half wits
Francis Scott Key is a very famous bridge and it is like collapsing of Twin Towers.
That is *not* the comparison to be making here. I get what you mean, but also no.
Like we care about the barge, he had plenty of room, what the hell was he doing, looks intentionally done
for what purpose?
lmao
Been across that thing in the 1980s and it gave me the creeps. High and steep pitch.
My worst nightmare as someone that can’t swim
Who you telling
Swimming won't help if you're trapped in a vehicle, sadly
Take swimming lessons.
money goes to Israel
Don’t forget Ukraine and Iran…
As time fly by, it becomes worst and worst, year after years...
C-c-collapse.
How do you figure this same sort of thing has always been a factor
It's all perspective. In many, many ways it gets better and better. You're telling me the 40-year life expectancy of virtually every other century is better?
However yes, some things are getting worse. There's a lot of fuckin humans in the world now, and people having irresponsible numbers of children every day, so in those ways it'll continue to worsen. But it'll get better in others. It's bad and it's good, better and it's worse, lol.
On average, it actually doesn't.
Yup that's the crazy part
Tragic. Now to investigate the situation, recover surviviors and hold those responsible accountable.
Why couldn't the captain of the ship see the bridge? He's got blood on his hands.
There should be a pilot onboard that specializes in navigating those ships in and out of the harbour. Of course the ultimate responsibility is on the ships captain. Can't rule out a blackout on the ship either. That usually results in total loss of control.
Not the Captain, harbour pilot who hands over to the Captain or whoever once its clear of the harbour.
Looks like the ship had lost power. Not much you can do when that happens except hold on.
Irrational, vengeful American who doesn’t need evidence. Guessing you vote Democratic
I care for workers on that bridge who help keep it going. i hope they are ok
I hope they are not Sabotaging teams.
I missed out on a Special Report because I was still sleeping but it was a shocking surprise
Joe Biden is that you 😂😂😂
@@Sbxallday no
I wonder what they will do with the rest of the bridge
Grave construction error. Our bridge here has concrete "islands"that ships can crash into without damaging the pillars of the bridge.
Prayers for all involved.
Something smells fishy
Were Russian have anything to do with this event??
Every action have reaction
LMFAO. Turn the news off, Putin isnt under your bed or in your closet. Russia hasnt done anything to you ever. Your own government on the other hand...
Keep your mouth off of Russia damn fool
Yes , it was a Russian cruise ship that was on track to kyiv
And there were two pilots on board who were responsible to guide it, escort it through local channels and tidal changes. What were they doing at that time?
The ship carrying 2 billion worth of goods and now void. This is a very expensive accident.
if the ship was using a harbor pilot unless it was electrical or some ship defect then the pilot is 100% responsible for control of the ship and he messed up big time
Complete negligence , no excuses as to how it happened, these are professionals steering the ship. An absolute tragedy, god bless everyone involved in this tragedy .
The ship lost electrical and engine power at least twice before hitting the bridge. Do some research before condemning those poor souls.
@@tothemaxx1991 first of all there was no explanation as to what happened because it was very early when the tragedy was being reported , secondly these ships must be maintained and it is solely on the captains watch and thirdly where am I condemning these poor people involved in this tragedy ? Do some research on how to comprehend the English language before your accusations.
@@mel7195 Wow, you're so smart. Good job. Because "no excuses as to how it happened" isn't a condemnation, obviously.
@@tothemaxx1991 that’s ok, you can tell that to the families of the poor people that perished on that bridge just going to work or home that no one’s responsible.
At this point just Pray for all those involved.
Isn't the water toxic/contaminated???
This is some people's greatest nightmare. Ever been on the Chesapeake Bay Tunnel Bridge going into VA Beach? There are people who park in a park & ride and get a ride across because they simply can't go over, and under, that much water when they are behind the wheel.
Which part isn’t collapsed
Ramps?
My nike flex hat is in a container ?
The whole bridge is gone . Not partial . People are in the water people have died 😢. Anyone making jokes is just sick
Omg! Praying for anybody on that bridge.
ua-cam.com/video/M876_FfJ3MQ/v-deo.html
HAD TO HAVE BEEN A POWER FAILER
Exactly. How can that bridge come down just from that hit on the base that doesn’t make sense. That bridge was not well built
Omg I was fortunate to be off of it in time.
🙏🏿 Prayers from Black America 🇺🇸
Praying for survivors
Lot of ill informed comments out there re the crew. On the original harbour cam footage the vessel clearly has a total electrical blackout. This should not really happen. When the blackout happened the vessel appeared not to be able to maintain its course and speed. A possible reason for this would be water in the bunker fuel. Watching in real time I have to say the crew got some power on quite quickly but not enough to avert the collision.
Judgment
Bruh... 7 people still under water? Jesus.. hope they are ok... 😐
Unfortunately if they went underwater with their vehicles they are most likely dead.
define "ok"
Thinks 7 is just the estimated road crew. There are undoubtable many more than that.
the guy he drove his boat straight into that bridge and then that bridge it fell down and it had people on it and stuff thats wild !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yeh, it DID appear the ship steered directly into that pylon.
Jesus you people. Electrical failure 3 times as seen in video. Get off the drugs
Somebody definitely got fired 😂
Como fue esa colisión, no habían indicadores nocturnos ?
Now wouldn't they know this would happen the ship was too big,seems careless
How horrifying, the whole thing collapsed like a house of cards. Was it on purpose? I pray everyone survives.
I hope not
Something wrong with you, seek professional help.
The support pillar were really poorly lit. You can't even see them hardly in the original non enhanced video.
Imagine the Fine for collapsing a bridge
Where's pilot and tug boats ?? Large ships have tug boats when leaving to help steer it..????...lets answer this question
Baltimore drugs are the best.
Best believe they will try to sweep this under the rug. DONT LET THEM
As search operations are on, X users have noted the uncanny resemblance the incident has to a 2023 Netflix film called Leave the World Behind, where a cyberattack causes a massive container ship to lose power & crash. A user wrote on X, “With the horrific collapse of the #KeyBridge in #Baltimore earlier, I couldn't help but be reminded of this scene from the film "Leave The World Behind", produced by the Obamas. A massive oil tanker runs ashore after a cyber attack shuts down navigation systems. Anyone else?”
What a shame !
What was the name of the cargo ship? They traffic children on cargo ships. Do some research on this.
Like, HOW...?!?
The number of crew members are not based on Wessel length or no. of containers.
On the video, there is a lot of smoke from the exhaust pipes from the engines. It is normally because the mail engine is given "full speed" (in this case it most obviously "full astern"). fore unknown reason they have been heading at the Bridge Cullum, and the have tried to avoid the collision.
The black smoke could also come from a malfunction on a auxiliary engine! this could cause a "black out" if the other auxiliary engines is not able to take over the electrical load, fast enough.
The electrical power load could have been very high, if the wessel has too low speed to steer, but the duty officer has used the bow thruster at full power in order to force the bow away from the bridge.
A pilot is never steering a wessel!
The pilot is guiding the captain and the duty officer with information on "navigating" in the local area. These information could be like, were to sail in strong tide in/out going. passage restrictions, du to work on bridges or waterways.
The helm is hold by an experienced seaman. He/she receives course orders from the captain based on input from the pilot(s).
It is seen in other places that there is build a great stone reef as a defence around bridge collums like these, as they are very weak, when they are hit.
Baltimore is a port to load reefer containers as I can remember. Too many of them may overload the genies. Some Chief Engieneers even unplug them to have some some juicie for bow and stern thrusters...Once you make the turn and suppose to be relax, wants to plus them and switch off the thruster that are ineffective at that speed. In a power failure the emergency generator automatically start and in case the other get back online after a short period, the surges and peak voltages mess the steering system. Rudder goes hard to the side of the screw, no system, hand or NFU respond and by the time someones gets to the steering gear is too late...Maybe... maybe not something like this happen
I'm surprised that the bridge still had its name, look up,the national anthem, like you never heard before, will tell you who Francis Scott key is, but the government will not allow the media to tell you
WTF ..OMG ...😰
That awful.
that lufwa
the captain should have dropped anchors when power was lost ?
Oh my hope the people are ok?🙏
is it a terrorist attack?
Show the video. Not pictures
You guys are so far behind, you think you're first.
Omg! 😳 God, please help the folks in Baltimore. They really need you right now. Amen. 🙏🏼
This will be rebuilt before the I195 George Washington bridge in Providence that’s been shut down since December.
"one of the vehicles in the water is as big as a tractor trailer." Hmmm, you think maybe it is a tractor trailer? 🤔
Likely people died. I pray not.