Mockingbird media looking to spin another lie into something remotely plausible?
Please continue with the conspiracy theories. I’m home from surgery and I’m bored.
I’m certainly no expert in ship navigation but I suspect “minutes” is hardly enough time for a tug to gain control of a 1000 foot fully loaded cargo ship.
The police did a really good job. They only had minutes of warning and mostly managed to close the bridge.
Why would you wait until Friday to interview the ship”s pilots? We’re talking loss of lives and hundreds of millions in damages!
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Mockingbird media looking to spin another lie into something remotely plausible?
Was there a Harbor Pilot on board, navigating and directing the ship’s exit from port? That is the billion dollar question. Everything else is what is “leaked’ or ‘discovered’ and speculative.
The Pilot must keep silent so until there is a mast hearing and Coast Guard inquiry there is a void.
bow or stern anchor?
makes a difference which way the boat would shift.
Nice to hear that calls were made to close the bridge before impact. My question was the entire bridge fell like matchsticks and the question was answered by the officials at the press conference, there are many bridges with this design to fail completely on impact, makes no sense to me
From the article:
12:39am - Departed from Seagirt Marine Terminal
1:07am - Entered the Fort McHenry Channel
1:24am - Numerous audible alarms were recorded on the audio from the ship’s bridge
1:26am - The ship’s pilot made a high frequency radio call for tugboats to assist the Dali in what Ms Homendy said was the first sign of needing help
1:27am - Pilot dropped the port anchor and made another radio call reporting the ship had lost all power and was approaching the bridge
1:29am - Allision with the bridge’s support pylon
The ship crashed into the bridge just 5 minutes after the first audio alarms went off.
The Harbor Pilot called for a tug and also dropped the stern anchor before the collision.
The Harbor Pilot also contacted Police, who appear to have shut down all vehicle traffic in both directions before the crash.
From the ship videos, I see just two cars speed by very fast just seconds before the crash. I think they are both cop cars because they appeared very brightly lit, but video quality is not very good.
So, the Harbor Pilot seems to have done everything that would be helpful in those five minutes.
Next question - how come the ship lost power just 5 minutes away from the bridge?
COVER UP begins.
Nothing to see here, move along.
I’ll ask you all again...
What direction does a ship go if it loses steering capability?
The direction it was ALREADY GOING!
This ship made a 90 degree turn RIGHT INTO THE BRIDGE SUPPORT!
Watch the 8x speed video. Accident? Only a FOOL could believe this was an accident.
Since the pilot seems to have performed properly, the obvious questions involve the loss of power. The following is just thoughts on what an investigation might entail. I’m not expecting answers.
Mechanical problems.
History of prior power failures?
When did the crew first have signs power failure was approaching that morning? Who built the ship? Who did the major maintenance?
Were any maintenance/repairs called for that had been skipped?
Were there problems with controls? Did some idiot or malefactor shut off the engines accidentally or on purpose?
Contaminated fuel.
When/where was fuel taken on? Who provided it? Do the tanks and lines it came from have contaminated product in them now? History of problems with contaminated fuel in the same area? Who would have profited by diluting the fuel? Kickbacks for looking the other way? How did they expect to get away with it?
Was there a recent switchover from certain onboard reservoirs to others? Does the ship have fuel-filtering, testing, monitoring systems and protocols? How full were/are the reservoirs? At the critical moment, was fuel coming off the “bottom of the barrel”/picking up trash?
My guess is some systematic corruption with contaminated fuel is at the root of this — whether it was taken on in Baltimore or well prior to the incident. Baltimore seems like a corrupt place, but there are lots of others.
The coast guard would have jursadiction over the accident, the NTSB just revcovered the Voyage Data Recorder to get a timeline of events.
It’s ironic that a ship named Dali turned that bridge into something that looks like a Salvador Dali painting.
I understand these ship Black boxes are very basic. Probably little to be learned. I’m more interested in reports that it had electrical issues that were supposedly repaired in port.