Posted on 03/26/2024 7:52:03 PM PDT by hardspunned
Multiple intel sources: Baltimore bridge collapse was an “absolutely brilliant strategic attack” on US critical infrastructure - most likely cyber - & our intel agencies know it. In information warfare terms, they just divided the US along the Mason Dixon line exactly like the Civil War.
Second busiest strategic roadway in the nation for hazardous material now down for 4-5 years - which is how long they say it will take to recover. Bridge was built specifically to move hazardous material - fuel, diesel, propane gas, nitrogen, highly flammable materials, chemicals and oversized cargo that cannot fit in the tunnels - that supply chain now crippled.
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This bridge was specially built for heavy loads.
Looking at other reports, it seems that the ship may have lost electrical power....nothing to do with gauges or thermometers. That might have affected rudder control. Nothing to do with propulsion. Another (unconfirmed) report says they had reversed the props in an attempt to stop, so the propulsion systems must have been working.
If you researched this bridge, you would probably embarrass yourself.
Lara Logan posted this, not Loomer. Logan is a highly regarded professional journalist whom I’d give far more credence to than someone on FR.
This I believe.
The Oklahoma courthouse bombing saved the Clinton reelection because of his speeches promising aid and promising to catch the culprits.
Bush 2 did the same thing
....the legend lives on....
And obviously something wrong continued to exist as any deficiency with propulsion systems is bad.
And it suffered from some malfunction with power and propulsion, yes?
So no, not like a burned out license plate bulb as you insist in post 65.
What about the bridge would need researching? It didn’t fall down spontaneously. It wasn’t knocked down by weather, or a heavy load on the deck. It survived perfectly well for 43 years, until the southern pier was rammed by an extremely massive container ship. Is that the bridge’s fault?
Nah...there are way worse things which could be done with bridges and tunnels....if someone was planning max casualties it would have been easier to plant major explosives at the base of the bridges support and set it off during rush hour and while a cargo ship was passing under the bridge........see Good, Bad, Ugly movie for proper placement......
Apparently no, it did not suffer a propulsion failure. The track that has been reported show it veering to starboard as it approached the bridge, so a steering failure looks far more likely.
A loss of control of the propulsion is still a loss.
Ask Michael Hastings if his car racing off on him was a deficiency or not.
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I don’t think so. There are two steps to shipping. Getting the cargo onto the ship and then sailing away. The cargo is trucked to the port over that bridge.
How many ways can you say it wrong? They apparently lost control of the steering. Ships that size do not steer with their propellers. People who know these ships say that the cloud of black smoke seen exiting from the engine stacks before the crash was due to the engines being throttled up after reversing. So the propulsion systems must have been working.
I’m not the one whose premise is that because a priir deficiency was supposedly fixed that nothing else could possibly be wrong ever.
I went through a number of the main generators tripping off line back in the day. The shop that manned the emergency generators had about a dozen men working in it. They kept a 24/7 watch at sea. About 30 men {guesstimate} maintained the ships main generators which IIRC was 5 or so. They stood watch on each one underway.
I watched two different videos of the collision one was speeded up as the vehicles on the bridge were way too fast vs distance. The ship had two Captains and the Harbor Pilot {Pilot worked for Port Authority} on the Bridge. My guess would be the power outages also messed with the control of the engine from the Bridge. There is about 20 second or more before impact where dark smoke is coming from the stack before impact. My guess is a Full Speed Astern order was given to try to slow the ship and change it's course. An act in futility as close as they were at their speed which has been said to be 5-8 knots. A ship that size will travel several thousand ft before completely stopping even at that speed. I doubt during the blackouts they had rudder control. Navy ships have manual backups and again a watch 24/7 underway in the steering machinery rooms.
My point being of all that was going on during the mayhem likely only 5-6 men if that had the experience and qualifications to respond to the problems. Did I say this ship only had a crew of 22? Shipping companies have been gambling for years betting a catastrophic failure would not occur during transit in port in a busy channel or even at sea. A dangerous bet to make.
This seem ridiculous, yes, it’s more inconvenient to go around Baltimore on the west side, but that’s maybe an additional hour of driving, it hardly “split the country”.
Anybody who says that have never opened a map.
What a darned coincidence 🤔 that the ship loses power seconds before it veers into the critical support junction of that bridge which causes immediate collapse.
Lara Logan is listed as the writer.
The loss of power (not loss of propulsion) resulted in the loss of hydraulics, and thus loss of control of the ship. If they had maintained power after the first outage, they may have had time to recover...but they lost power again. As it is, they were able to slow the ship in Back Emergency, down to 1.5 knots at the time of the collision.
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