[Fido969]

Baltimore is pro-diversity, so I wonder who the apprentice pilot was. Doesn’t matter, because this looks like a purely mechanical issue, there could have been some seamanship decisions, but an out-of-control ship there’s not a lot you can do, although sone of the decisions they made could have caused it to turn at the end.

[HighSierra5]

What about dropping the anchor?

[zeestephen]

Re: "out-of-control ship"

There are four pilings (piers might be the exact word) that hold up 1,200 feet of the center truss.

The center span of the truss was about 600 feet in width.

The width of the ship is more than 100 feet, so, not a lot of room for error.

However, from the photos I have seen, it looks like the ship hit the piling, head first, straight on, which would be about one chance in six for random error.

The gender and skin color of the ship captain and the harbor master have not been released yet, so I will speculate that one or both were NOT heterosexual white males.

Finally, no word if the ship was continuously blasting its horn.

That might have saved the lives of the six missing construction workers, if they had a couple minutes of warning, although if I was one them, I never would have believed that all 1,200 feet of the truss would collapse into the ice cold river.