Posted on 03/27/2024 12:53:12 PM PDT by rxsid
Dali cargo ship suffered 'severe electrical problem' while docked in Baltimore days prior to bridge collapse crash that saw it suffer 'total power failure, loss of engine failure', port worker says
The Dali cargo ship which smashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge suffered a 'severe electrical problem' while docked in Baltimore days before, according to a port worker.
Julie Mitchell, co-administrator of Container Royalty, a company which tracks cargo, told CNN the ship was anchored at the port for at least 48 hours prior to the deadly crash.
'And those two days, they were having serious power outages… they had a severe electrical problem,' Mitchell told the broadcaster. 'It was total power failure, loss of engine power, everything.'
Mitchell explained that refrigerated boxes tripped breakers on board the ship on several occasions, and mechanics had been trying to fix the issue. She said she didn't know whether the problem had been fixed when the ship set off.
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Mitchell told CNN that major power problems on board large vessels like the Dali are 'not really that common at all', describing the freak incident as 'very rare'.
One officer on the Dali also said that before the crash, the engines 'coughed and then stopped.' There was not enough time before the ship hit the bridge to drop anchors prompting the vessel to drift.
'The vessel went dead, no steering power and no electronics... The smell of burned fuel was everywhere in the engine room and it was pitch black,' the officer said.
When a ship such as the Dali loses power, backup generators kick in but they do not fulfill all of the same functions as the main power, Pagoulatos said.
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Exactly
I read that they did at least drop the port anchor, but it had little to no effect on stopping the ship.
Yeah, a whole lot doesn’t add up with what the public is being told.
So true!
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.
The catastrophic damage to the bridge was foreseeable. Diligent maintenance of the bridge would have included bolstering the piers to account for the increase in ship size over the years.
Who is responsible for the bridge?
Owners skimping on maintenance.
Make sure the Captain of the ship wasn’t the cook two weeks ago.
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.
A small sacrifice if it redirects vital funds to DEI consultants, Pride Events, and sensitivity training sessions.
Well damn, here’s the port side of the ship with the anchor chain paid out.
Daily Fail spewing whatever ….
Supposedly, they did drop an anchor and sent out a Mayday, which gave them time on the FSK bridge to stop traffic and save lives.
My first thought was this was terrorism / assymetric warfare.
Accident, sabotage, hack of computers, recon by fire, shutting down an important east coast port to hurt our logistics abilities, on supplying Ukraine?
Who knows?
I do suspect that the Russia / China / Iran / NORK axis wants a war with the US while Pedo Joe is in office.
We have never been weaker and now would be the time to strike.
Was this the first move?
The simplest explanation, absent other evidence, yes. But pretty much everybody around here is a committed conspiracy-theory nutjob nowadays. It's why self-described "conservatives" can't never seem to have nice things. They live in fantasy world of their own.
there is nothing that could have been done to that bridge including bolstering the piers which would have prevented the collapse.
the only thing that could have been done to prevent that would have been using tugs move ships like that until after clearing the bridge.
who was the captain
Are you sure?
They keep the beer cold.
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