Prayers to the 6 contract workers that perished. It's scary to think what they went through

So heartbreaking...for Baltimore...and especially for those 6 workers who perished and their families whose lives are forever changed.

1: Ship loses power. 2: Ship can't stop. 3: Ship hits supports. 4: Bridge collapses. THAT'S how it happened.... BTW, I AM NOT being SERIOUS.....

Solution is extremely simple: 2 tug boats should escort cargo ships until they clear the whole areas & bridges. Greedy ports & shipping conglomerates don’t want to pay extra for the mom & pop owners of many of the tugging boats! 😡

I’m sorry, it is indeed appropriate to discuss previous incidents occurring from this shipping company..it makes us better understand the culture of incompetence and negligence they have

The engines were in full reverse at the time, which is why the ship didn’t go straight through the pillars and kept on moving. It is like trying to stop a car going down hill on ice. Also, on ships like these, when you lose power, the rudder doesn’t work anymore. The reason why they were turning is because the channel is a left turn out. Which is why the rudder was pointed left to begin with. The rudder is motor powered so when they lose power they can’t change the angle of the rudder which is why they kept turning. And for everyone saying they need tugs, they did. They had 2 which let it feel when they hit the standard speed. They also have pilot that boards the ship only for the trip out then he gets off again. They are the most skilled drivers of the port so the actual captain wasn’t piloting the ship when it crashed. It also doesn’t help that the ship was in an accident 4 years prior and sustained damages to the rudder which were never fixed. This is just a weird coincidence and accident. We’ve seen it before. Know your facts.

Man takes for granted what's free. Environment, health family. We only value what cost money

We demand a full investigation. Nothing redacted, all names named, all information made public

Worst thing that can happen to a ship (other than a fire) is to lose power. You have to look at why it lost power

A similar thing happened in Tasmania 3 years before this bridge was built, traffic is now stopped when large ships approach on the new bridge

The way that fell down like a house of cards is utterly horrifying

It breaks my heart they still haven’t found the workers

Where is the ship's captain's interview?

RECAP: loss of power and no bridge protection.

This bridge has been very special to me. I live right next to it. I remember before my dad died. We went on the bridge and we saw the nice view. They didn’t have to do this to my last memory of my dad.

Ok so then why are the taxpayers paying for this?

I live in the DMV area and have driven across that bridge on a few occasions, once drove across while a cruise ship was passing underneath, and was a little afraid of what would happen if the ship hit the column, I made it across before the ship passed, that shipping port is huge and very busy with cargo ships and cruise liners, prayers to the families of those workers.

I love how everyone on the comment section are bridge and ship experts Edit: I myself am a deep-sea submersible expert when it come to carbon fibers ---

SO SORRY FOR ALL THIS

Rip all victims souls.🙏. And my full condolences to all family members and friends involved, Really sad and heartbreaking,

Can anyone show me how a ship with that momentum turned so much please lol

Guess those years of collecting tolls to pay for ‘taking care of the bridge’ didn’t include installing protective concrete dolphins.

Prayers for everyone ❤

The bridge pillar had to be protected by a sandbank, so that no deep-draught ship could bump into it. The bridge itself should not be a single piece prone to avalanche collapse.

Not an expert, but I believe that bridge with that high of ship traffic should have had better protection knowing it was an old design that could not hold an accident with today’s ship.

The ship went throught maintance check.up. Just before the ship ran into the main section of the Bridge. That took it down.. . Couldn't drop emergency anchor. ..Sounds little fishie to me.

Absolutely devastating. So sorry for their losses

The bridge supports were left unprotested in a huge busy Cargo port...No-one ever thought of pouring concrete collision guards that would deflect the ship back into the channel?

So no tug boats are used at night?

The united states shouldnt foot the bill for a new bridge the ships owner should pay it all if it has to sell all its ships and assets so be it if we was to hit something in our cars our insurance would have to pay

Why was the ship heading in the wrong direction in the first place, even before the apparent power failure? It shouldn't have been anywhere near the bridge. It should have been heading out to sea.

Man, they really wrapped this one up quick, huh? Hardly mentioned the casualties. Guess they can build their new bridge now.

Does the section of the anchor is also dependent on the main engine of the ship as weel as the steering wheel of the ship.

Tug boats are used in our Port All the time and we don't have a bridge 🤔

It hurts deep down as I was on that ship year2022😢

I pray for all those who lost loved ones. I also pray for those who have no idea who Francis Scott Key was. Do better, America!

It looked like it was made of match sticks !

The Government should put in place a stricter law which states all vessels that gos under a bridge must be accompanied with a tugboat to present and the companys must pay for the service for the safety of both sides safety is the issue

Bless those families❤

Navy needs to take charge and direct efforts

USA govt and Baltimore Govt official statement says that Fortunately just because of the Indian Crew onboard has made SOS message to Authorities about power failure of the cargo ship within time, it enabled them to avoid a lot of potential life threatening scenarios.

How could these huge ships not have escort tug boats encircling them when nearing bridges?

So the Pilot made all the right calls, Really?? If he had done the right thing from the Get Go, it wouldn't of been a News.

I’m shocked it took this long before it did!

Best report on the issue out there..complete with a quick simulation and all. Thumbs up

This could have been avoided if concrete dolphins were installed to protect the supports for the bridge. See the 1980 Sunshine Skyway bridge collapse in Florida and the solution to that problem

"This is all a simulation... but we have a REAL captain" lol. Had me fooled.

What a wild coincidence the way the boat seems to make hard turn right into the worst spot 🙏 for all victims

Why were they sailing so close to the bridge support anyway?

I was reading that the River there is 50 feet deep.. That's another reason why it's been hard to Recover the Missing Road Construction Crew.

But why was the ship headed that far right in the first place? Are you saying that it WAS centered between the pillars and, when they lost power, the ship just swerved all the way to the right?!

Ships have gotten too big for bridges built years ago

ensure seaworthiness before leaving the docks. the bridge was constructed to withstand the weight and load of vehicles and not the impact of a collision with a more or less 100,000 ton ship at harbor speed with no breaks.

Why was it pointed towards the pillar right before it was going to hit it?

There should be something in place around all bridge supports that keep vessels this size away from pilons, make them pay the tugs into the channel or keep them away from the supports!!!

I've been on some big jobs and I can't believe they let ships that big go through there without tugboats they're not allowed to go under the bridge without a tugboat not even get close to it without a tugboat should I say tugboat again

Why wasn’t the ship going in the direction of going under the bridge instead it looks like it was hit intentionally and where are the workers of the ship? What do they have to say?? 🤔🤔🤔🤔

This is so emotional saying a prayer for the families 😇💜RIP

Devastating because Baltimore has had so many major problems in the past decade or more. I just gave up going there after the Inner Harbor became dangerous and no longer a tourist draw. Just a major crime hub for the state--sadly--Maybe this will bring the city back . And just think of the jobs lost in addition to the workers who lost their LIVES just going to work---Families, their children, wives, grandparents ---just heartbreaking.

The real challenge is getting the insurance to pay after your president has already said he is paying 100% for the new bridge.

They aren't going to rethink the size of the ships... That would disrupt the flow of commerce It would be cheaper to rethink the bridge designs. Cargo vessels are no different than commercial trucks and the car that you drive. You can do all the maintenance in the world but sometimes s*** happens. Piloting a large vessel is similar to driving a car with bald tires on ice. They don't have brakes, no action you take with regards to propulsion or navigating is seen immediately. It takes time for any large motor vessel to react to your input strictly because of the gross tonnage, the lack of friction that all vessels have due to physics and an object in motion wants to stay in motion... The more mass and object has in motion the longer it takes to change direction or momentum. This was just worst case scenario from top to bottom. Sometimes s*** just happens. They can find out what the cause was... They can check the fuel tanks make sure that there was no water. Check the fuel pumps. Check the human factor. You can see in the video, the times, when the EGT kicked off and when they restarted the mains. They were all within SOLAS and US regulations. There's a few things that I don't get, like they only dropped one anchor... If you have a major casualty you drop both. If you only drop one you created a pivot point that you can swing and that's the last thing you want to do when you're that close to something you can hit. Nobody has said who made that call but the recorder will let us know. Was it the pilot, was it the master? Just understand they were very limited given when the casualty occurred when it comes to options available to rectify or correct. Those of us with experience can all play armchair quarterback. Like I said I would have dropped both anchors and I would have done it sooner. Yes it would have delayed departure. Yes there would be an investigation and we'd have to turn back around and more up but it's far better than this. The main thing is that we learn how it happened, why it happened make new legislation to prevent it from happening in the future and I'm sure that international regulations will change depending on the outcome of the investigation

it did not crash, it took a hard right and drove straight into it at exactly the right spot to take it down,,,move along

Are the engine controller and generator controllers hackable from outside the ship???

lose power lose control what else do you need to know

no mention of the bumpers placed to protect base of bridge

I love how the video now starts after the ship bust that right smh

Negligence for sure... Mr. George

We've had that bridge for YEARS & anybody that live here or in the area knows not to take that big a** ship under that bridge.

the problem is easily explained. This ship loses power. it doesn"t have any control whatsoever.

Is anyone know where this ship was heading for please ??? Thanks...

One news agency stated that the pilot had requested tugs for the departure. The request was denied.They should ask the person who denied the request why they made that decision. I believe this might have been prevented if the tugs had been used.

if the ship blacked out, they should have drop the anchor

I have so many sarcastic comments to make right now , but not gonna go there because there are lives lost . My Heart goes out to these people

Use Tugs to control ships going near bridges or build correct pillar buffers and banking

Thanks!

The piers were too small for the kind of traffic that used this waterway. Intentional or caused by malfunctions makes no difference, the bridge had little protection from "normal" traffic. Our race to the bottom and save money at any cost caused this. The bridge was operated this way for decades and just allowed to continue until it couldn't. We don't have a continuous improvement mentality any more.

“Careened helplessly out of control” remember when we had journalists who spoke unbiased facts without sensational assumptions?!

Why, after the bridge strike in Tampa Bay in 1980, did they not recommend and fund dolphins at critical bridges? 44 years later and how many bridges are still unprotected?

This is soooo sad.. 😢 RIP

The "Black box" was never in danger of being lost and it was not physically removed. The data was downloaded onto a flash drive. The NTSB has a flash drive with the last 30 days of data

Incompetents

All that's needed is to solve this problem is to have Tugboats escort massive container ship when in a harbour. It's not rocket science to avoid another disaster

Keep in mind that another ship with hazardous material on board just exploded in the Port of Colombo it had only 25 tons of nitric acid, we were told. This decrepit ship with 800 tons of hazardous material hit the bridge. And it was to called at Colombo, it seems. The authorities would do well to see if all those material are still on board. In SriLanka marine creatures died for a long time. The claiming of compensation has become a controversial matter still being discussed.

It was an accident. Just like if your car broke down on the highway. Asking ‘how can we prevent this from happening’ is completely ridiculous. You can’t prevent any and all accidents from happening. Much like news reports like this.

Incompetence

The ship drifted into the bridge under forward momentum after power went out ?

And yes I do know a little something about this because I’m a towboat captain and have 43 years experience

I don’t understand why the ship was even over there in the first place, like shouldn’t you wanna be close to middle

Prayers for the crew who lost their lives and prayers for the trafficked humans in the containers who will probably die before being recovered 🙏

Why were they off course, and so close to that bridge support? There were local pilots onboard as required yet they still are seen way too close, why?

The ship is stacked so high it didn't even look like it could pass under the bridge.

What is truly concerning is, the bay Bridge also doesn't have any protection against something like this.

I was on the USNS Navajo (T-ATF 169) towing the ex-USS Coronado when we lost power at sea. We started slowing down, but the much more massive ship behind us didn't. If we didn't have rudder control we would have been run over. Even if they had rudder control, they would have had a hell of a time trying to get that insanely massive ship turned/stopped.

this no accident . Heads will roll over this act . Speed limits should also be enforced on all these large loaded down ships . This loaded ship was doing in excess of 8 knots .

Shows the vulnerability of US infrastructures. Looked what happened to the railroad last year and now the bridge.

At 4000 feet distance to the bridge, any attempt to stop by reversing thrust or lowering an anchor was foolishness. If the captain had done NOTHING, then the ship would have remained on course and proceeded under the bridge without incident. It is possible that a crew member intentionally sent the propeller to reverse. This reversing CAUSES a swerve to starboard with any rudder movement necessary. BTW, losing power causes the rudder to remain in the same position (close to centerline)

That Miguel guy should just go home, what a dork.

Have these people watched the entire video where the ship makes a huge swerve towards the bridge? Has anyone here ever been on a boat, or steered a boat? I can tell you this right now, looking at this, it looks like a cyber attack, that they tried to circumvent. The power outage is not why the ship steered towards the bridge.

I believe it was no accident. I think the shipping company should pay for rebuilding this bridge and sued

imagine your commute getting 1 hour longer due to this.