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Major Bridge in Baltimore Collapses After Being Struck by Cargo Ship

Landslide said:
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Look up Retard.
 
I suppose I could arrange to ship some baley bridge segments to Baltimore
 
Roc Doc said:
I think the high end MB and Lexus and such use dual or multi-pane glass for SPL reductions. Haven't broke into one lately, so not sure if it's a problem.
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Laminated glass, it's basically just two pieces of regular glass with a bonded film in the middle of them.
 
SomeGuyFromOlympia said:
We had a bridge on I-5 over here collapse after someone with a oversized load hit it

it reallllllly messed things up

For those that live anywhere near there, this will suck for a while
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I remember that, it was up north by Mt Vernon area. It got hit like 2 hours after I came across headed home with the last load of seed potatoes.
 
That port authority pilot just lost a really sweet job. Climb on a boat you don't know to direct them out to sea as you've done hundreds of times before. And as your getting to the tight spot, the vessel goes full black out.

The problem with those big container ships is 1) They actually have small crews. 2) There's probably only a handful of the crew that really knows what their doing. 3) 97% of that crew would have gone full retard panic mode when the ship went dark.

100% chance that boat was years overdue for a major mandatory shipyard. You be surprised how many boats operate that way,
 
gt1guy said:
That port authority pilot just lost a really sweet job. Climb on a boat you don't know to direct them out to sea as you've done hundreds of times before. And as your getting to the tight spot, the vessel goes full black out.

The problem with those big container ships is 1) They actually have small crews. 2) There's probably only a handful of the crew that really knows what their doing. 3) 97% of that crew would have gone full retard panic mode when the ship went dark.

100% chance that boat was years overdue for a major mandatory shipyard. You be surprised how many boats operate that way,
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My bet is the company that owns the ship and their insurance company are shitting in their pants over this as well. Some serious lawsuits coming their way soon.
 
gt1guy said:
100% chance that boat was years overdue for a major mandatory shipyard. You be surprised how many boats operate that way,
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When I was working at NWS Earle the CO/admin actually kicked a foreign flag container ship off the pier and had them drop anchor in the harbor instead, because of how "unsafe" and how far behind in it's maintenance it was. They were allowed to tie up only as long as that days weapon ops, and as soon as that bravo flag was secured they had to pull their lines and head back to the middle of the bay to anchor again. When they finished up and got underway they were told to not bring that vessel back again without catching up on their maintenance.
 
So supply-chain-issues incoming?

Raytheon, Lockheed, Northrop, Boeing, Leidos, DoD...

Kinda smells weird to me...
 
gt1guy said:
That port authority pilot just lost a really sweet job. Climb on a boat you don't know to direct them out to sea as you've done hundreds of times before. And as your getting to the tight spot, the vessel goes full black out.

The problem with those big container ships is 1) They actually have small crews. 2) There's probably only a handful of the crew that really knows what their doing. 3) 97% of that crew would have gone full retard panic mode when the ship went dark.

100% chance that boat was years overdue for a major mandatory shipyard. You be surprised how many boats operate that way,
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It was completed in March of 2015 per: MV Dali - Wikipedia
How much work would it need at 9 years old (not knowing when a major mandatory shipyard would be or what it would entail)?

Edit, per: Baltimore bridge collapse: Singapore-flagged ship passed foreign port inspections, says MPA it was not due for an inspection until June
"In the June 2023 inspection, a faulty monitor gauge for fuel pressure was rectified before the vessel departed the port," MPA stated in a media release on Wednesday.

It did not say where the inspections were conducted, but data on the Equasis website, which provides information on ships, showed that the June inspection was carried out in San Antonio, Chile.

The September inspection was conducted by the US Coast Guard in New York on Sep 13. According to the Equasis data, the “standard examination” didn’t identify any deficiencies.

The vessel, named Dali, was flagged with Singapore in October 2016.

"Based on records, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore confirms that the vessel’s required classification society and statutory certificates covering the structural integrity of the vessel and functionality of the vessel’s equipment were valid at the time of the incident," the agency said.
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Classification societies are organisations which develop and apply technical standards for the design and construction of ships.

They are engaged by flag administrations to carry out inspections on board ships and monitor compliance with technical standards and regulations.

Dali's next classification and statutory surveys are due in June 2024, said MPA
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Not sure if it's been said but it looks like the prop walk caused by full reverse aimed them at bridge support. If they did nothing they likely would have drifted through where they were supposed to. My early morning take that could change after coffee.
 
I had something similar happen to me except the bridge was smaller, my boat was smaller, I didn't hit or knock the bridge down, no cars went in the water but things got pretty exciting for a few minutes.
I was in my sailboat(51' 60k lbs) approaching a bridge that crosses the intracoastal waterway. We were running with the current coming in and my mast had about 2' clearance in the middle(looked like 2" when you went under it) anyway about 200 yards out my engine dies and I told someone to drop the anchor, whoever it was responded slowly with questions so I had to get a little loud. The anchor grabbed and spun us around about 100 yards from the bridge.
My fuel filter had air in it. I bled it and continued on to the marina. I know, cool story brah.
 
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