That boat and everything on it it were insured, correct? Why is President Senile getting involved and saying the government is paying for this?
Unstated: Sharpe was hired by the rag last year. He works for it.
As far as finding blame for this catastrophe, we’ll have to cross that bridge when we get there.
Finally a coherent expert weighs in, and the ultracrepidarians are already at work.
My late father — a graduate of Kings Point and a former merchant marine and naval officer — would vigorously disagree. Until there has been a full investigation, we cannot be sure what went wrong and the degree to which human mistakes played a role.
After almost two days, I haven’t heard any word on the role of any HARBOR PIOLT being on board while this ship was leaving the harbor.
The bridge was asking for it
Plenty went wrong that had nothing to do with accident.
First, I doubt the bridge was built, inspected, or maintained correctly. Baltimore is one of the most corrupt cities in the nation. Of course, so are most democrat hell holes.
They did not installed large concrete islands, called dolphins, around each of the bridge’s piers to absorb unwanted impact and redirect errant ships back into the channel. This could not happen to the new Sunshine Skyway bridge now.
Every bridge that deals with these large cargo ships should now have this protection after what happened in 1980s and now.
That said, follow the money and you will find out way such a poorly designed, unmaintained, and unprotected bridge existed.
From the article:
“Many have asked why tugs weren’t used. This is an important point and points to broader questions that will be asked of Baltimore port control about their overall safety management system,...”
Maybe the dei hires running the Port of Baltimore had something to do with that.
My bass boat is tricky to handle in high winds and things can go horribly wrong because the wife has a hard time holding the dock line, a beer can tip over, worm can tip, bait wells can over spill so I can see where a 1000’ ship that loses power and steering could have some issues.
I mean the similarities with the problems with my bass boat and a 1000’ ship are just uncanny.
Just the opinion of another ship’s captain.
Good article. This answered my question about tugs. An earlier article says the captain did ask for tugs when the trouble started,but this author said the tugs were too slow to catch up. I didn’t know they were that slow.
It was a well written and well reasoned article written by someone who has walked the walk. It was refreshing to read about something technical and demanding that was not “edited” by a low IQ journalist who struggled to understand third grade science.
Why investigators are looking into ‘dirty fuel’ in Baltimore bridge collapse
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ar-BB1kEfs8
Yep things happen, just interesting that like those two aircraft hitting the trade towers were accidentally flown into them….. just saying that it’s amazing that the most damage the ship could have done, it did…… accidentally, of course.
Basically, the train left the tracks because: the train.
Happened at a place where the train was starting to cross a railroad bridge over a large river.
The knowledgeable author shows the primary root cause to be a failed electrical system. If a national election can be digitally altered, can the ship’s electrical system be digitally shut down, either directly or by causing a point of failure such as an overload somewhere?
When accidents like this happen it is rarely caused by a single issue.
I’ve observed that most accidents require two or more things going wrong at the same time. For example, I was hit by a car at a pedestrian intersection. (1) The driver making a left didn’t see me. (2) I was wearing black clothes on a cloudy dreary day, making me hard to see. (3) I responded to and trusted the pedestrian signal, but didn’t look continuously at all moving vehicles and proceed cautiously like I do now. (4) The intersection lacked ways to alert drivers of the infrequent pedestrians.