Posted on 03/27/2024 12:53:12 PM PDT by rxsid
“Loss of Engine Failure”
Double negatives equal a positive.
It is a Singapore flagged ship. I guarantee if that is the case whoever is responsible for that ship is going to be hearing from the government.
After her gets done from HIS maternity leave then he gets paternity leave right after.
It could be called racist ti call it an undocumented mechanic verification job sccording to our new overlords of woke world. Documentation is just something that people who believe in law/order follow. In our new Woke Amerixa its anything goes. And if some mechanic verification doesn’t get their job done then yeah we’ll have bridges collapse and Hispanic family men killed. But the champions of undocumented things will keep on getting more wokr and turning America more chaotic.
They did drop the anchor. That helped swing the ship towards the pier.
“ EVERY PORT has a “MASTER PILOT” who brings ships in & takes them back out...NOT the “CAPTAIN”.
The MASTER PILOT KNOWS every Rock/sand bar/tide shift/wind pattern.”
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There were two pilots aboard the ship…the Port Pilot and the Bay Pilot. Geographically, I don’t know where the Port Pilot’s jurisdiction ends and the Bay Pilot’s jurisdiction begins. On maps, the FSK bridge is shown as crossing over the Patapsco River. I’m not sure precisely where the river is considered to have ended and the bay begins.
So do you (or anyone else) have any idea of which pilot would have been in charge at the time of the accident?
Emergency legislation being drafted to pay Baltimore port workers
Isn't this what unemployment is for...?
Wonder if anyone who gets this will have to sign away the ability to be party to a class action suit...
If so, the union members are being bribed with taxpayer money.
“The laws of physics say you’re wrong. A good structural engineer also knowledgeable in civil engineering would also tell you that you are wrong”
The laws of money say I am right.
A good structural engineer also knowledgeable in civil engineering and bidding contracts would agree with me.
It actually CAN be done and IS being done:
“ If you look at the video to the crash it is obvious that the engines were full power form the excessive black smoke coming out of the stacks before
the crash.”
Would reversing the propeller at full power cause the same smoke?
S.N.A.F.U. Situation Normal, All Fouled Up.
sure you can make a “protection system”
but the specs are what matter.
in you example
this “protection system” would offer about as much protection as toilet paper rolls for a container ship of this size. For smaller vessels sure this kind of “protection” might save the bridge assuming they are not going upstream and trying to take out the bridge.
do you remember stuff like F=ma from math or physics class?
if so it should have been a very simple matter for you to figure this out, but that is actual science, and the buzzwords of the day like protection and cathedrals are more popular.
Do some math. don’t be like a clueless Biden who said “People vaccinated for COVID-19 “do not spread the disease to anyone else.”
You’re quibbling about things you clearly do not understand. I don’t know why you’re doing that but you are doing that. Engineers who actually do know what they’re doing designed the project and engineers who do know what they are doing are building it.
Too many negative people stick their heads in the sand and cry “it can’t be done” while the doers actually do it. I stand with the doers of this world.
Wind, too, from what I understand, when containers are stacked that high on a big ship of that nature. It acts sort of like a sail. If the wind was unfavorable early that morning, pushing the ship towards the bridge support, that would have compounded the problem.
Note how the wind is blowing the ship's exhaust smoke in the incident video...The wind is definitely pushing the ship towards starboard...
The main engines providing propulsion are separate from the generators for electric power. From my understanding, modern ships, like that, the Rutter and throttles are fly by wire. Therefore, when they lost electric power, the main engines kept going, but they had no way to control the rudder, or stop them until they restored electric power. If the current we’re going in the right direction, that could explain why the ship headed towards the pier.
What gave it away, the ship losing power twice in the span of a minute or so, only getting restored, but it was too late when it was headed directly to the bridge.
NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy briefs the media on the NTSB investigation of a cargo ship striking and subsequent collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FczgLhdqw0M
Maritime expert Sal Mercogliano, host of the What’s Going on With Shipping YouTube channel, joins Ward Carroll to provide in-depth analysis about what caused the MV Dali to hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge at the mouth of the Baltimore Harbor early in the morning of March 26, 2024.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grjK6sqQyDA
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