Baltimore Bridge

[Neil79]

The text on the Tweet: "...where it turned right into the pillar", as though it was on purpose. Although, on second reading, it could mean "right" as the direction and so I came across far too aggressively

All good!

At the moment all of it is speculation, including the discussion about power going out and the black smoke.

 

[Will Gill]

"going straight right"

Best england

Plus we are on the water, port and starboard please twitter/X

 

[Blackvault]

"going straight right"

Best england

Plus we are on the water, port and starboard please twitter/X

I can never remember which way is port or starboard. Is there a handy way of remembering it?

 

[squerble]

I can never remember which way is port or starboard. Is there a handy way of remembering it?

Starboard is right, port is left. There, easy to remember

 

[Will Gill]

For navigational marks the bouys have set colours for port and starboard,

Red is port
Green is starboard

I used this to remember, as left, red and port are words with less letters.... whereas right, green and starboard are longer words

Much easier

 

[Terminal_Boy]

“The boat going straight” would be the boat following the correct course under the central span of the bridge just like all the other ships do until it lost the ability to navigate and struck the bridge.

The ship is registered in Singapore and was built in 2015, so it’s not the usual knackered old tub running under a flag of convenience with a crew who got their licenses from a “pay to play” maritime college that gets involved in such incidents.

 

[Hagar]

I know it's irrelevant but port out starboard home POSH is where the best people are.

 

[Junglist]

Busy day for Frank Sobotka

My first thought. The Greek is absolutely behind this.

Jokes aside, what a horrible sight.

 

[SilverTongue]

I can never remember which way is port or starboard. Is there a handy way of remembering it?

I have a little RED PORT LEFT in my glass

Red for the port marker being on the left

 

[Chuk_Chuk]

I can never remember which way is port or starboard. Is there a handy way of remembering it?

I remember that port and left have the same number of letters.

 

[Tom_ed1987]

It's one of those things you don't really think about - I admit I sort of assume that of course bridge pillars are massive concrete things able to easily brush off/sink a ship. RIP to those on the bridge, must have been terrifying.

 

[Caracus2k]

The port being knocked out of action is going to have some faulty big repercussions for the US economy.

 

[mrk]

You can't get any meaningful change of direction on a ship of this size in the timeframe of the video. They're monsters.

I've been in control of a passenger car ferry before (the steering) and can attest t to how much of a delay there is from the moment you input a turn direction before the ship starts to actually turn or change speed. A container ship has orders of magnitude more mass so will be even slower to react, and due to that mass, even a slow collision cannot defy the laws of physics, no bridge would stand a chance.

 

[StriderX]

The port being knocked out of action is going to have some faulty big repercussions for the US economy.

I'm sure it can be absorbed somewhat and would be surprised if they weren't already in the process of moving machinery in to get rid of the debris though I'm guessing it'll still be out of action for weeks.

Bigger problem is that Baltimore is already suffering from decades of decline and this is going to last for months at least (perhaps years) which could honestly be fatal for the city.

 

[adidan]

I can never remember which way is port or starboard. Is there a handy way of remembering it?

Port and left have the same number of letters.

 

[Deleted User 234324]

That bridge cost like $70 million to build in the 70's, today that would be $500 million+ but with all the red tape and bureaucracy, probably closer to a $1 billion and take years to finish.

Old man worked for the coroner service in Baltimore before retiring a few years ago, suffice to say it could have been far worse, but it's also going to be a very busy day.

 

[adam cool dude]

I wonder how much that effects the local traffic of the area?

If something similar happened to say the QE2 bridge London would be gridlocked for years.

 

[aVdub]

It would be piled dolphins and fenders upstream and downstream of the bridge and seperate from it. They would progressively collapse slowing the ship.

To me it looks like loss of power, loss of steerage way and then hitting the bridge due to the current in the river. The ship would have had a local pilot on board navigating in the river.

I was also thinking a Pilot was onboard and would image if it happened that quick, that even an anchor or two wouldn't have made a difference on a vessel that size and weight.

 

[arknor]

I don't see any information about barriers/deflectors online being installed between it's construction in 72-77 and today so I'm of the mind that if they existed then it could have been avoided, no?

dood no barriers/deflectors are stopping a cargo container vessel ..... they can weigh anywhere from 50,000 - 200,000+ tons
what can absorb that force apart from earth? and lots of it.

a metel strip or whatever in the water is just folding like paper

Those ships usually have the big massive ram looking thing on the front as well to separate the waves,, its basically a giant battle ram carrying containers

 

[Ayahuasca]

They need them nanofibers from three body problem.