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  • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
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    9 months ago

    Lights on boat began to flicker before incident, suggesting some sort of power failure. Steering a full size car without power steering is possible, but spoiler, steering a huge container ship ain’t.

    Someone commented that exhaust increased noticably as well, possibly because pilot put ship in reverse after losing power (with prop walk veering the ship into the support).

    All just people talking on the Internet at present, but “asleep at the wheel” isn’t necessarily what happened.

    • CraigeryTheKid@lemm.eeEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Given how “easily” the bridge fell… Why aren’t ships that size required to 100% be escorted by tugs???

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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        9 months ago

        At the risk of sounding too Clarke and Dawe, it is very rare that a ship loses power and control, and somewhere it could hit something important, and hits that thing, and the thing is apparently so fragile that it just falls to pieces. It’s been there for 46 years, and the Port of Baltimore currently sees an average of 53 ships in and out per month, so about 3.5 big ships under the bridge per day. That’s a lot of passages over the years without incident.

        • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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          9 months ago

          and the thing is apparently so fragile that it just falls to pieces.

          I mean, it just got hit with a hundred thousand ton hammer. That’ll do a pretty good number on most structures, I imagine.

          • Liz@midwest.socialEnglish
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            9 months ago

            For a structure that normally has these ships pass under it every day, it sure as hell should have had bollards to protect the piers against such an impact.

  • Hubi@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    I feel like the whole thing shouldn’t have come down as easy as it did…

    Edit: Nevermind, I didn’t realize how large this ship actually is.

    • Breezy@lemmy.worldOP
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      9 months ago

      I read it was a ship from Singapore, idk what they have against us though. Probably russian assets taking revenge for the concert shooting.

      • ErilElidor@feddit.de
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        9 months ago

        I would argue this wasn’t planned. If you want to cause damage, why do it in the middle of the night? Not sure how full this bridge is during rush hour, but I would imagine quite a lot more than it was when it collapsed now.