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I've been meaning to say this, just couldn't find the right words.

@LCCMV Little tards enjoy obeying and repeating lies. They'll be happy to repeat the lies even as they change. This is litte tard utopia. The best it will ever be for a little tard.

@polarisera @LCCMV Oh fgs, do Americans REALLY not know that their infrastructure is REALLY in bad condition and needs public works? Seriously????? Here's a ONE SECOND search

@Sherri_Ingrey @LCCMV @polarisera Some do. The rest are gaslit into a false sense of security by our politicians and the talking heads on TV.

@AlphaKiloPapa @LCCMV @polarisera it sure hit the news today. The tanker had prior collissions and it's captain ran out of Ukraine.... the same tanker hit a wharf not long ago.... someone saving money?
Sir Dave of the Clay Pitts

@Sherri_Ingrey @AlphaKiloPapa @LCCMV @polarisera

FWIW: The Dali is a container ship built in 2015. The bridge was opened in 1977.

I read that somewhere else, but wasn't it like nearly a decade ago? It's probably not the same crew.

The big question is why the power cuts happened. The ship would have been under the control of a harbor master who literally drives ships in and out of that specific harbor all day every day, so they really know what they're doing. The power cuts would have meant they couldn't have turned the rudder ... that's the real question.
@djsumdog @AlphaKiloPapa @LCCMV @softbear @polarisera they are required to have two sources, so the back up came on then went off AS WELL,

@Sherri_Ingrey @djsumdog @AlphaKiloPapa @softbear @polarisera

I read somewhere that the bow thruster usually isn't connected to the backup power source.

@LCCMV @djsumdog @AlphaKiloPapa @softbear @polarisera and to me, this whole thing is like a car accident in Kiev, it doesn't matter globally, though it might affect Amazon deliveries for people not boycotting them.....

@Sherri_Ingrey @djsumdog @AlphaKiloPapa @softbear @polarisera

It is going to have a major impact in the area as well as to the country because the bridge was a very important path for transportation of hazardous materials.

That doesn't seem like it would be true. The rudder in those things has to have power. They've got to be massive, and require massive pumps, right? I'm calling bullshit on this FB image with random text.

I was watching this video yesterday and it seems to be by someone in the industry.

https://invidious.poast.org/watch?v=TlIhoxIxM30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlIhoxIxM30

His whole channel is really interesting. Lot's of crazy stuff about boats; but he doesn't seem surprised you'd have steering loss due to power.
@Sherri_Ingrey @djsumdog @AlphaKiloPapa @LCCMV @softbear @polarisera depending on how much true redundancy there is in the ship's electrical, the same fault that took out primary power could just do the same thing to backup power. there's always going to be some place where primary and backup power meet, and if it's some switchgear right next to the two generators, that leaves a whole ship worth of single points of failure.
in port or out at sea where the ship spends most of its time, not a big deal, send maintenance go to find and repair the fault, reset some breakers or change some fuses, and carry on. i'm gonna guess that they didn't spend a lot of extra money on making electrical systems perfectly redundant all the way to the rudder hydraulics or the bow thruster or whatever the hell else a giant ship needs to not boop a bridge.
and honestly, from what I've read so far, there was an incredible amount of safety procedure that was followed.

While a ship isn't in a channel, apparently you have to have sailors physically at the two front anchors. So far everything I've read said at least one anchor was manually dropped. It just wasn't enough to stop something that weight 1000s of tons.

The harbor master/harbor pilot did call in a mayday. The cops did stop traffic. They didn't get to the construction people in time, which is tragic.

There were tugs, but standard operating procedure at that port had them leave before going past the bridge.

Sometimes you do a lot of things right, you fall on a huge chunk of the safety buffers, and tragedy still happens.

There may have been negligence here too. There may be room for improvement. But immediately blaming DEI/Trump/Biden/Pete-ButGig/Ukraine/TheVaxx/SpaceReptiles is just low IQ bullshit.

People fucking died while doing road maintenance. Sailors watched their ship kill people for fuck sake. It's a tragedy.
>people died
they were all mexicans
@djsumdog @skylar @AlphaKiloPapa @LCCMV @softbear @Sherri_Ingrey @polarisera ok but if the crew were indian then it was human error on the boat, i'm sorry bro but it's just how it works. they're not a competent race.
@CatLord @djsumdog @AlphaKiloPapa @LCCMV @softbear @Sherri_Ingrey @polarisera i'm not sure there's a whole lot you could do differently in this kind of mechanical failure. have a problem with primary power and the procedure is gonna tell you to start secondary generators, causing the braps of black smoke. it's probably not an emergency yet, but when secondary power fails right after, there's not much else you can do but make a mayday call over the radio and drop anchor to try and regain control. maybe you already dropped anchor at the first power failure but it just squimshed through the mud.
I wonder if fenders were left off the Baltimore bridge due to cost, or if it may have been difficult/impossible due to the length of the bridge and depth of the channel.
@djsumdog @Sherri_Ingrey @AlphaKiloPapa @LCCMV @softbear @polarisera The power would have had to be off for a long time for it to have mattered, you're looking at the least maneuverable thing in the world, usually you need a tug on standby to help steer under bridges.
@softbear @Sherri_Ingrey @AlphaKiloPapa @LCCMV @polarisera
There is a 200 year old bridge not that far from me and it's holding up fine. I'm not saying it'd hold up to some Ukie going ''hold my vodka" and slamming in to it with an ocean worthy vessel, but a 50 year old bridge isn't that old.