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”.
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Probably because it was the cheapest place to put it.
Let the chips fall where they may later on...like now.
“... a high-pressure subsea natural gas pipeline was discovered...
Which leads to a question,
How exactly does a high pressure subsea natural gas pipeline come into existence? If it’s “natural”, is it earth’s crust movement, volcanism, earthquakes? What? Asking for a friend.
I'm reminded of the Great Chicago Flood of 92. 1992, not 1892 and not as exciting as the fire of 1871. A crew drilling, pylons I thind for a bridge over the Chicago river drilled into the 100 plus miles of tunnels under downtown Chicago. Formerly used for merchandise/coal transport to downtown, at the time used for utility access, but "discovered" by the drilling crew. Nothing like Baltimore, a few days of closed business' including, if I remember correctly, options and commodity exchanges. A few billion in costs. Good thing the drilling crew discovered the tunnels. Not secret, but who knows what it costs today.
June 23, Stonewall Day. Awesome, I never knew the General had a day dedicated to him.
“delayed indefinitely yesterday after a high-pressure subsea natural gas pipeline was discovered under the wreckage.”
DISCOVERED?????
We have a high-pressure “subsea” natural gas pipeline IN A RIVER and we didn’t know about it?
Funny that it was just discovered !
It seems that whoever steered the cargo ship into the bridge knew what all was there.
When you have an administration that’s full of idiots, well you know what happens.
About 10-15 years before I retired all of our maintenance records went from paper to computer.
I looked forward to this as I thought it would be more efficient and take up less room.
Interns transcribed over 30 years worth of work orders and other info on wiring, plumbing that had been filling a room full of binders.
As they did it the old info was shredded.
Then one day, the new system automatically deleted everything over 3 years old.
We found it was programmed to do that, and every year at the same time delete anything over 3 years old.
Over 30 years of useful info was gone.
I can easily understand how the existence or location of a pipeline, or any hidden infrastructure could become unknown.
Hmmm...
Just imagine the furor & delay when the near-extinct pink, with green poker dots, crabs are noticed under the wreck...
It will take 5 years of commissions & studies, followed by several years of federal and state reviews, to expend the initial 60-billion dollars of funding...
Masks and booster shots will be coming back...
And the complications pile up. Remember as long as Democrats have been in charge every project has cost more and more to complete not due to their complete incompetence but because the more you spend the more you can siphon off !
Remember the Big Guy gets 10%
And what if the signs, if any, were so close to the ship they couldn't be seen from the bridge or were under the ship?
In a fast happening emergency like that, who is reading "traffic signs" anyway?
the pilot was in control of the ship, the pilot knows that egress because thats his job and hes a professional.
Dig Safe?
Cable and gas pipeline - both - are under the rear half of MV Dali.
Zoom in on nautical chart 12281:
https://www.oceangrafix.com/chart/zoom?chart=12281
There is a strip of area at the bottom of the bay, between the shores of the FSK Bridge. The strip is about 1,200 ft wide.
The southeast edge of the strip is about 200 ft southeast of and parallel to the bridge.
The northwest edge of the strip is about 900 ft northwest of and parallel to the bridge.
“How exactly does a high pressure subsea natural gas pipeline come into existence? If it’s “natural”, is it earth’s crust movement, volcanism, earthquakes? “
It comes into existence like the thousands of other pipelines that move fuels all over the country. Some company lays the pipe down and operates it.
What they are saying is that the pipeline carries “natural gas”, the same fuel used in home appliances.
Thanks for finding the map...
WMAR news - images and videos - Francis Scott Key Bridge
I see the problem. There’s nothing scheduled in January or August.
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