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Dali cargo ship suffered 'severe electrical problem' while docked in Baltimore days prior to bridge collapse crash that saw it suffer 'total power failure, loss of engine failure', port worker says
dailymail.co.uk ^ | 03.27.2024 | LAURA PARNABY

Posted on 03/27/2024 12:53:12 PM PDT by rxsid

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To: rxsid
... Chilean authorities found deficiencies in propulsion and the auxiliary machinery.

Meaning WHAT?

141 posted on 03/28/2024 6:48:08 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: griffin

Those are the powerline structures.


142 posted on 03/28/2024 6:48:58 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: rxsid
and mechanics had been trying to fix the issue. She said she didn't know whether the problem had been fixed when the ship set off. ...

Apparently, the problem was not fixed. I wonder who supposedly "fixed" it....

143 posted on 03/28/2024 6:50:19 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: OldHarbor
Well, the ship DID hit an anchor - just not the one one the bow. Seems like the bridge itself did a REALLY good job at stopping the thing.

I'm surprised there are still a LOT of containers stacked on it!

144 posted on 03/28/2024 6:52:06 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: OldHarbor

Left and Port both have 4 letters.

That’s how I remember it.

POSH = port out starboard home (in the days before air conditioning.)


145 posted on 03/28/2024 6:57:20 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: oldbrowser

everyone


146 posted on 03/28/2024 6:58:39 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: House Atreides

Both of them are in charging of driving the boat - NOT making sure all the systems are operable.


147 posted on 03/28/2024 7:00:20 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: T.B. Yoits

BOO!


148 posted on 03/28/2024 7:01:24 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: House Atreides
Salmon says from now until the end of June the crew can’t drive piles due to sturgeon reproduction season.

Can't f^&* up the fish f^&*ing.

149 posted on 03/28/2024 7:03:45 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: All

National Transportation Safety Board officials boarded the ship to recover information from its electronics and paperwork and to interview the captain and other crew members, NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said during a separate news conference. Twenty-three people, including two pilots, were on the ship when it crashed, she said.

The vessel was also carrying 56 containers of hazardous materials including corrosives, flammables and lithium ion batteries, Homendy said. She added that some containers were breached, and that a sheen on the water from those materials would be handled by authorities.

Marcel Muise, NTSB investigator in charge, laid out a preliminary timeline assembled from the voyage data recorder comprising audio from the bridge and VHF radio ahead of the crash, which federal and state officials have said appeared to be an accident.

The vessel, the Dali, left port at 12:39 a.m. Tuesday and, after it entered the channel, signs of trouble came at about 1:25 a.m. when numerous alarms sounded, according to the NTSB. About a minute later, steering commands and rudder orders were issued, and at 1:26 a.m. and 39 seconds, a pilot made a general radio call for nearby tug boats.

Maryland Transportation Authority data from about the same time shows the pilot association dispatcher called the transportation authority’s officer on duty about the blackout, the NTSB said.

Just after 1:27 a.m., the pilot commanded the ship to drop an anchor on the left side of the ship and issued added steering commands. About 20 seconds later, the pilot issued a radio call reporting that the Dali had lost all power approaching the bridge.

At about that time, the state transportation officer on duty radioed two of its units already stationed at each end of the bridge saying to close the bridge to vehicle traffic. They were already there because of the construction.

Around 1:29 a.m., when the ship was traveling at about 8 mph (13 kph), recordings for about 30 seconds picked up sounds consistent with it colliding with the bridge, the NTSB said. A Transportation Authority dash camera also shows lights on the bridge going out.

At 1:29 a.m. and 39 seconds, the pilot reported to the Coast Guard that the bridge was down.

Muise said experts will review the entire voyage data recording and develop a detailed transcript.

At least eight people initially went into the water when the ship struck the bridge column, and two of them were rescued Tuesday, officials said.

Cargo ship had engine maintenance in port before it collided with Baltimore bridge, officials say

https://apnews.com/article/baltimore-key-bridge-collapse-03-27-2024-6a95340e5daeff6551fc999d23feb278


150 posted on 03/28/2024 7:04:25 AM PDT by Texan4Life
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To: Elsie
Port running lights are red. "Port wine is red".

Red bouys to the right when returning from the sea. "Red, right, returning".

151 posted on 03/28/2024 7:07:19 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Elsie

Port wine is red


152 posted on 03/28/2024 7:31:24 AM PDT by Bull Snipe
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To: rxsid

It was a horrible accident. Murphy’s Law states that if anything is possible to go wrong, it will go wrong, and at the worst possible time. The bridge was built (1977) before the advent of modern mega-containerships and even before the Tampa Bay Skyway Bridge allision (May 9, 1980). In light of how vulnerable this bridge was to ship allisions, there should have probably been an escort tug or two with the ship until she cleared the FSK Bridge. In the absence of any local regulation requiring escort tugs, Murphy’s Law prevailed.


153 posted on 03/28/2024 8:41:22 AM PDT by FDNYRHEROES
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To: Gary from Dayton

Would reversing the propeller at full power cause the same smoke?

It seems if they could get in reverse at full power they would also be able to steer and avoids the bridge. The whole situation is so suspicious.


154 posted on 03/28/2024 9:29:33 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well those that did not make it back.)
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To: yldstrk

"No, it did drop an anchor. Why do you say these things?"

You are correct at 1:27:04 the port anchor was dropped.

Like most, I listen to early sources, that made this same invalid point.

It never hurts to be corrected when your wrong.

155 posted on 03/28/2024 10:52:32 AM PDT by Souled_Out (Our hope is in the power of God working through the hearts of people.)
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To: Texan4Life

bttt


156 posted on 03/28/2024 12:22:20 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: Souled_Out
It never hurts to be corrected when your wrong.

True: you're

157 posted on 03/28/2024 1:48:25 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

No, no. Check out pictures of the sunshine skyway bridge and the area around its critical piers.

Im saying it is possible to protect bridge piers from large shipping.

If we can build big ships that take down bridges, we are more than capable of building more robust structures than ships to protect said bridges. That was the context of the sub-conversation I was replying toward.


158 posted on 03/28/2024 5:37:31 PM PDT by griffin (When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

This Bridge is Named in Honor of

FRANCIS SCOTT KEY

Author of The Star Spangled Banner

September 14, 1814

"Then Conquer We Must for Our Cause It Is Just
and This Be Our Motto: 'In God Is Our Trust.'"

Erected by The National Society
United States Daughters of 1812 * April 21, 1924


159 posted on 03/28/2024 7:29:56 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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