Key Baltimore bridge collapses after collision

You won't in that amount of time. To correct to port, first you have to stop turning starboard. You can see from the track that they did that part at least. There wasn't enough time to shed speed either. Fully loaded cargo ships take literally miles to come to a stop.

 

A DC to NYC drive doesn’t usually involve that bridge. You normally go through the tunnel.

 

Some vehicles can’t use the tunnel, that’s what I was referring to.

 

Sucks for them. Beltway traffic sucks even without the extra vehicles

 

Visibility was fine. Nice weather all day

 

This occurred outside the harbor. Tugs already released

 

This will likely backup the tunnel.
We have two bridges that cross the Cape Fear River into downtown Wilmington. One is closed inbound for 2 months for an exhaustive overhaul. It has literally impacted my commute and I live 7 miles from downtown and on the opposite side. Any bridge that carries that traffic load will crush the remaining arteries to a standstill.

 

sadly, it appears that the overhead power lines are better protected than the bridge is. the operator had warned of dangers of doing the same things as before but with much bigger ships.

I know some ports require tugs until clear of all bridges, some bridges have extensive buffers. Doesn't seem to be any uniform process to protect the bridges. Mayor pete needs to get on this and show what leadership looks like

Dali Ship Operator Warned About Port Infrastructure Before Bridge Collision (msn.com)

The founder of the Dali's operating company had warned that port infrastructure posed critical problems to the industry nearly three years before the ship caused a major bridge collision in Baltimore.

The Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed after being struck by the Dali, a 948-foot-long cargo vessel, early Tuesday, sending vehicles into the harbor and causing Maryland to declare a state of emergency. The Dali was being operated by Synergy Marine Group, a Singapore-based charter vessel company, at the time of the collision.
Synergy Marine Group's founder and CEO Rajesh Unni had warned about the dangers that the existing infrastructure posed back in April 2021 when he told Bloomberg, "Traffic on the seas is different from what it was 10 years ago."

"How do we adapt as an industry?" he asked. "It's convenient to blame the captain, but we need to look at how the port infrastructure needs to change, how ships transit."

 

That is exactly what happened to me. I was going under a railroad bridge. I throttled back because my boat just barely clears the bridge. When I throttled back the engine quit I was hugging the right side of the channel because there was another boat coming through from the other direction. When I throttled back the engine stalled. The current took me right into the bridge.

Somewhere I have some video of another incident with the same railroad bridge. Normally my boat clears the bridge by inches, I know the point on the depth marker where I have to have them raise the bridge. This day I thought I was clear but what I didn't realize was I had my GoPro mounted on a camera mount on the windshield rail. As I went under the bridge you can hear on the video a loud clunk then my GoPro & mound fall on the deck. The next 30 seconds you can hear me cussing up a storm.

 

You could see vehicle traffic stop immediately before impact. The only people left on the bridge was a road maintenance crew.

 

"Customers from the East Coast to the Midwest could see costly impact from Baltimore bridge collapse"

You can always bet your last stick of beef jerky that a profit margin will be built into the costly impact.

 

Capitalism don't stop for nobody

 

yep, they stopped traffic once they got the mayday call.

 

I'm thinking they have have punched full reverse, causing the bow to pivot right.

 

sounds like they did a really good job.

 

good news for CSX?

 

I guy I know who’s a XO (or what ever you call it below captain) on an oil drilling ship. He said the best thing to have done in shoot the gap on center span and then either run aground or try and regain steerage. The moment they went in to reverse (no chance of slowing the vessel) they were toast the stern would swing wildly right or left depending on direction of screw.