Posted on 03/31/2024 3:06:57 PM PDT by linMcHlp
Salvage efforts to remove the MV Dali from Baltimore’s Key Bridge were delayed indefinitely yesterday after a high-pressure subsea natural gas pipeline was discovered under the wreckage.
Yesterday, the Maryland Port Authority held a meeting at the unified incident command center located at the Maryland Cruise Terminal in Baltimore. The Army Corps of Engineers and the US Coast Guard outlined their priorities: firstly, to open the shipping channel; secondly, to secure and remove the MV Dali; and thirdly, to initiate salvage operations “from the inside out”.
(Excerpt) Read more at gcaptain.com ...
“... a high-pressure subsea natural gas pipeline was discovered...”
Huh?
Why do we have to “discover” a high pressure natural pipeline?
These reports are absurd. Pipelines and other buried water crossings are marked by signs at each end admonishing mariners not to drag their anchors across such areas. The salvors can’t read a sign? I also promise that any pipelines are well known.
Click-bait headline
“Why do we have to “discover” a high pressure natural pipeline?”
Because that gets more clicks!
If only it were in the North Sea and running from Russia to Germany - then it would be no problem to blow it in place.
Why do they put a gas pipeline where it would be damaged by an anchor drag of a ship in an emergency ?
“These reports are absurd.”
The author admits he doesn’t know when the pipeline was “discovered” and depressurized!
Zackly. The sort of thing all sorts of people should already know about.
A pipeline safety expert from PHMSA confirmed concerns about a particular pipeline. They informed us, off the record, that the operator was notified and the pipeline has been isolated and depressurized.
PHMSA records indicate that the pipeline, which carries natural gas under high pressure, is owned by Baltimore Gas And Electric (BGE). It remains unclear when BGE was alerted and when the pipeline was shut down.
Yeah but we live in Idiocracy now.
I can understand losing track of a 150 year old sewer line. Losing an active pipeline is typical Baltimore incompetence.
There are valves to shut down sections...and they did that already.
We had a dredging rig snag a gas pipeline in the Corpus Christi ship channel. No one knew it was there and it was next to the refineries. Caught fire and killed several of the dredge crew.
4 dead six seriously injured.
I’ve worked a lot of turnarounds in the refineries as an Industrial Hygienist. I’ve seen close calls that would have been huge disasters but for a little bit of luck. Could have been another Texas City.
There should be a gas pipeline awareness day in that list!
Good grief!
Indefinitely delayed? My Aunt Fannie's bloomers.
Officialdom is using the occasion to double-check papers and records, to see if there is anything else lingering in the depths.
“... a high-pressure subsea natural gas pipeline was discovered... “
It’s not nearly so exciting when you read the rest of the sentence.
” after a high-pressure subsea natural gas pipeline was discovered under the wreckage.”
The Baltimore port authority knew from day one that there is pipeline near the bridge. What they didn’t know is if it was directly impacted by the wreck. That’s the part that they “discovered”.
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