I figured DEI (didn’t earn it) was the reason
diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) , the Free Ride Group
Oh wait, they did. But nothing got built or fixed. Hmm, I wonder where all that money ended up.
Knee-jerk response.
Pretty stupid to blame DEI this early. Right now it is believed the pilot for the boat would have been a designated by the port authority that does nothing but take ships in and out of that particular harbor.
Maybe, just maybe the ship lost power twice, called a Mayday, dropped the anchor and the ship swung in to the bridge.
The bridge was not designed and built to withstand such an impact. Bollards could have been built to protect the support pilings, but for whatever reason - $ I’m sure - that was not done. Even if the Port Director is a DEI appointee and knows nothing about ports and shipping (and knowing Baltimore and Maryland politics, I’m sure that is the case), she wasn’t of the crew or piloting the ship.
If I'm a company that gets my ships flagged by countries with few if any hiring regulations and my crew is made up of a random assortment of guys from impoverished Third World countries, then you bet I'm going to tout my crew's diversity!
Anyone see any tug boats in use? Or were they already released. Harbor pilot?
Stupid & gross to say this when bodies are still in the water.
The ship was from a foreign country so of course, US political correctness had everything to do with it losing power and running into a column of the bridge. The same ship has been involved in other incidents hitting structures in other countries so apparently we were to blame there also. If we ever want to be taken seriously, knock off the idiotic theories..
“drifted into a bridge support.”
DRIFTED INTO?
Have you not seen the 8x speed video?
The ship made an almost impossible turn right into the bridge support.
NO ACCIDENT!
Just turn all the lights off and on a few times and claim a power failure.
When a ship loses its ability to steer, what direction does it go? The exact same direction it WAS going! It doesn’t make a hard (almost impossible) 90 degree turn.
The 9/11 planes. Did they hit their targets just any old where? Strategic, yes.
Which bridge support and where exactly? Oh, just where the ENTIRE BRIDGE would collapse.
C’mon man, wake up.
“the last inspection of the bridge took place in May 2022.”
I’d love to know the names of the inspectors, and see pictures of them. AA/DEI?
The most likely cause is the owners of the shop skimping on maintenance.
I don’t know what the Port Authority could or should have done to correct the operation of the ship that lost propulsion while entering the harbor nor do I know the makeup of the Port Authority Board, but my first reaction was to remember the Levee Board in New Orleans pre-Katrina. As I recall, the Board in NOLA had notoriously failed to maintain the levees, choosing to spend much of the monies intended for that purpose on lavish Board meetings in exotic, Caribbean locations.
I wonder if the responsibility for protecting the structure of the bridge falls into this category?
Time will tell.
Or not.
Just because you can say something doesn’t mean you should.
NOT DEI, but hatred for America. TERROR.
Attacking our infrastructure to bring down our economy.
All part of the plan. Border invasion, climate change, societal breakdown.
That bridge went up in the 70s.
Three was no DEI then, was there.
No DEI in the 80s, 90s, Oughties, which kept MD from maintaining/retrofitting it.
DEI is an excuse.
Deep State is the cause.
I imagine there are lots of bridges in America that would fail the 100 thousand ton ship-slamming-into-them test.
The shipping company had some DIE functionaries in its offices, but it’s a bit of a stretch to link this crash to it.
The public will likely never know the true story. There are layers of lawyers, politicians and insurance companies who will feed the narrative.
I'm no fan of D.I.E., but I don't know if it can be blamed for this.