Maryland: Ship hits Francis Scott Key Bridge causing it to collapse

[gwalchmai]

https://www.foxnews.com/us/maryland-ship-hits-francis-scott-key-bridge-causing-collapse

The Francis Scott Key Bridge along I-695 in Maryland collapsed into the Baltimore harbor following a "ship strike" early Tuesday morning.

A livestream of the bridge appeared to show a cargo ship colliding with a support beam, causing the bridge to break apart and fall into the Patapsco River. Multiple vehicles were on the bridge at the time, but no update on casualties has been offered.

Paul Wiedefeld, secretary of the Maryland Department of Transportation, told reporters early Tuesday that the FBI was on scene investigating what caused the ship to ram into the bridge and determined it was not linked to terrorism. 

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Prayers for the survivors.

[pipedreams]

24 minutes ago, gwalchmai said:

https://www.foxnews.com/us/maryland-ship-hits-francis-scott-key-bridge-causing-collapse

The Francis Scott Key Bridge along I-695 in Maryland collapsed into the Baltimore harbor following a "ship strike" early Tuesday morning.

A livestream of the bridge appeared to show a cargo ship colliding with a support beam, causing the bridge to break apart and fall into the Patapsco River. Multiple vehicles were on the bridge at the time, but no update on casualties has been offered.

Paul Wiedefeld, secretary of the Maryland Department of Transportation, told reporters early Tuesday that the FBI was on scene investigating what caused the ship to ram into the bridge and determined it was not linked to terrorism. 

 

Though it interesting how the FBI can make a statement this early, investigations usually take months.

[Silentpoet]

So it probably is terrorism. The fbi is so biased and incompetent to save time I assume the opposite of whatever they say.

[FullClip]

Looks like the ship lost power, nd as soon as that happens you lose steerage.  I was on a tanker coming into Hooker's Point in Tampa and we almost took out the Licata Bridge.  We were pulling in and the order for a back bell came in.  On that ship with a big 2 stroke diesel engine that meant shutting down the main engine, then re-starting it in the opposite direction.....usually no problem, but this time it took 3 tries and guess we were about ten yards from whacking the bridge.  Spent a lot of time tied u at a dock right there and was a regular at "Stoney's"....that was a great place.

[Mrs.Cicero]

Ugh.  I’ve driven over that bridge.  I did not need another reason to hate driving over bridges.  

[Batesmotel]

My mom used to make my sister and I lift our feet when we drove over a bridge. She said it was to make the car lighter so the bridge wouldn’t collapse. As a kid I thought she was just being funny. As a teenager I found out she was serious. 

[Huaco Kid]

"Well.... We're approaching. Put it up."

"What?"

"The bridge. Pull it up."

"It doesn't go 'up'."

"::Inaudible::"

[tous]

10 hours ago, FullClip said:

Looks like the ship lost power, nd as soon as that happens you lose steerage.  I was on a tanker coming into Hooker's Point in Tampa and we almost took out the Licata Bridge.  We were pulling in and the order for a back bell came in.  On that ship with a big 2 stroke diesel engine that meant shutting down the main engine, then re-starting it in the opposite direction.....usually no problem, but this time it took 3 tries and guess we were about ten yards from whacking the bridge.  Spent a lot of time tied u at a dock right there and was a regular at "Stoney's"....that was a great place.

A ship that loses way is like an automobile on black ice.

You are no longer master of the sea, you're just along for the ride.

 

[Silentpoet]

[railfancwb]

10 hours ago, FullClip said:

Looks like the ship lost power, nd as soon as that happens you lose steerage.  I was on a tanker coming into Hooker's Point in Tampa and we almost took out the Licata Bridge.  We were pulling in and the order for a back bell came in.  On that ship with a big 2 stroke diesel engine that meant shutting down the main engine, then re-starting it in the opposite direction.....usually no problem, but this time it took 3 tries and guess we were about ten yards from whacking the bridge.  Spent a lot of time tied u at a dock right there and was a regular at "Stoney's"....that was a great place.

 

[railfancwb]

12 hours ago, Mrs.Cicero said:

Ugh.  I’ve driven over that bridge.  I did not need another reason to hate driving over bridges.  

Sound like my daughter about hating driving over bridges. 

[railfancwb]

Wonder how much time and money will be required to replace the bridge. Doubt the ship owner will make much if any contribution 

[Fog]

Looking like a total accident. That was my guess at first because they are pretty much under the control of harbor pilots.

Saw reports that the bridge was closed due to mayday call from the ship. This fits as in video of the incident vehicle headlights disappear shortly before the hit.

[geeorge]

Its just weed man

[tous]

Just me, but after having seen the video a number of times, and it is likely because of the perspective, but that vessel was in the wrong place to pass under the highest part of that bridge.

If they did indeed lose way due to propulsion failure, the vessel was in calm seas and looked to have around five knots on.

It certainly had enough momentum to pass under the span if it were navigating correctly.

It looked to slew to starboard as it approached the bridge; why?  If it lost way, keep rudder amidships and preserve momentum and velocity and keep going straight ahead -- under the span it should have been lined up on many meters before.

The vessel should have been lined up correctly to pass under the span by then; no turns should have been needed or ordered.

The vessel struck a bridge pylon bow on, doing the most damage.  Why didn't the pilot or captain try to swing the bow and take a glancing blow instead?

I know what you're thinking -- what about the current?

It's in a bay and even a swift current directly abeam should not move a vessel of that size tonnage that quickly like I saw in the video.

 

As I said, it might just be the perspective in the video and I may well be full of it, but it doesn't look right to be a simple accident.

I have great respect for the NTSB and their engineers, but I think we're going to be lied to -- again.

 

I'll watch the news conference and see which dogs and which ponies they choose to show.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.

 

[gwalchmai]

Yep. Details will trickle in for weeks until we discover agree to decide on the truth. That's why I like to consider the conspiracy theories early on - like K reading the tabloids.

[El Spicoli]

Accident or terror attack.  I dunno and doubt authorities will be honest either way.  Dali was in Shanghai, N Korea, and then Baltimore.  That alone gives me pause.  As well as being owned by a company in Singapore.  The story I read blamed the power failure on bad fuel.

Joe was quick to say the feds would pay for it and Trans Sec. Pete talked about supply chain issues. The folks in Palestine were like WTF?!   

Yesterday they had a photo/video op of lots of US CEOs meeting with Xi and sponsored by US Chamber of Commerce.  Look it up.  Are things as they seem?  Never.

[pipedreams]

Will be interesting what the public finally decides the truth is, since the truth will never become official.

 

The incident at the Francis Scott Key Bridge is no longer viewed solely as a tragic accident but rather as a potential harbinger of more complex threats facing the United States today.

You had McCabe on this morning at sunrise on CNN saying, ‘It’s not terrorism. It’s not terrorism. It’s not… It might not be terrorism. But why do you come to the mic Right away, we need facts, we need empirical evidence, we need an investigation. What is your investigation telling you?” Bannon asked.

Lara Logan responded with her own pressing question, “Why are you coming to the mic telling the country that it’s not terrorism when your own intelligence agencies are telling you it is?”

She continued to explain that her sources, a mix of active duty and retired personnel from various agencies, believe the bridge collapse was a cyber attack targeting a major supply chain corridor.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/lara-logan-provides-comprehensive-baltimore-update-experts-behavioral/

Lara Logan wrote on X:

BALTIMORE UPDATE: Analysis from specialists in predictive behavioral analytics, counter-terrorism, hazardous materials, maritime attacks, cyber, national security & intel – this is their view:

Based on their training & experience, they believe this was two types of operation:

1) “Penetration testing” where they are probing/testing to identify vulnerabilities in our responses and defences,

AND

2) a shaping operation to set the conditions and prepare the battlefield for a potential future event.

The concern is that other critical infrastructure disruptions/hits recently that appeared to be independent, isolated events, MAY not be. For example, the Ohio chemical disaster, train derailments, fires at food processing plants etc when taken in isolation do not appear to be that significant but when taken together, could indicate shaping or stacking operations that are paving the way for a bigger event where they do any number of these types of operations together. That could potentially paralyze the U.S..

So the critical question our government should be answering right now is this:

“When will they trigger a multiple episode that causes the paralysis effect?”

Some of the indicators are how many incidents have occurred within “a relatively short timeline” & what they see as the departure from what is “normal”.

They believe those in charge will make sure the investigation into the bridge crash “goes nowhere quick”.

And one of the goals here is to give the public mental anesthesia while they test this, using train derailments or exposure to chemicals in Ohio where they told everyone to shelter indoors – to ask questions like: Did they comply? Is this going to successfully deceive & cause behavioural change?

They use the media to create the assumptive narrative – do not want the facts analyzed because they do not want people processing the truth. Truth naturally leads to questions they do not want asked.

But it would be “foolish and naive at the expense of national security not to question the Government narrative on the Baltimore bridge crash given the level of corruption in spheres of power and influence in this country today”.

With many years of experience in “spoofing” – the tactic used in cyber warfare to hack into someones’s system and deceive in order to achieve a certain outcome – they recognized multiple indicators watching the video that tell them the GPS signal was likely hacked. It would have led them to believe they were not as close to the bridge as they were and may be why in the video you see the crazy lean to port and then to hard starboard as they realized they were not on course in spite of the GPS indicating they were.

In information warfare terms, here are some of the tactics they see being used now that many of you will recognize:

1) Engineered complexity – where they throw in nonsensical variables (information) to distract. This is designed to keep you from serially processing multiple channels & give you processing overload that prevents you from toggling different channels of information.

IE: they create processing decoys to distract you from truth.

2) They are trying to reframe the issue by focusing on details that do not matter. They do this by throwing in a variable that is not relevant to the main equation.

3) Common sense, skepticism and intelligence are huge “overlays” that get in the way of manipulating human behavior so they analyze you to learn how to create channel overload as you toggle/handle different channels of information such as the speed of the boat, temperature of the water etc.

3) They need to load you up with enough variance to create channel overload so you create an error that they can use to discredit you. One way is to create doubt in yourself. Most effective because you make yourself less efficient when your brain is processing self-doubt. And it will propogate into the future.

“Population so much easier to dupe today than 20 years ago.”

[Fog]

I always kinda figured that using conspiracy to explain the failure of a complex system was arrogant.

"The only way this could have happened is if it was done deliberately." that really is giving humans an awful lot of credit. The only reason this doesn't happen more often is because people work so hard to avoid it. It only takes a small slip up to set in motion the events that end this way. 

I dunno, I think it's going to happen more often, but not by design, rather by default of decisions made decades ago. So, yes, there is a conspiracy behind it loosely, one that goes back decades and has been targeting our country from within.

Today it's morphed into DEI, trans agenda, whatever you want to call it. But a foreign owned ship is the norm in our ports, not the exception. Old unprotected bridges are the norm, not the exception. Silly laws and rules that will make rebuilding take longer and cost more are the norm, not the exception. 

 

[MO Fugga]

https://www.wbal.com/uber-driver-stopped-by-police-moments-before-bridge-collapse/

[gwalchmai]

I too was only moments and decisions away from being on that bridge. <sigh>

[pipedreams]

5 hours ago, Fog said:

I always kinda figured that using conspiracy to explain the failure of a complex system was arrogant.

"The only way this could have happened is if it was done deliberately." that really is giving humans an awful lot of credit. The only reason this doesn't happen more often is because people work so hard to avoid it. It only takes a small slip up to set in motion the events that end this way. 

I dunno, I think it's going to happen more often, but not by design, rather by default of decisions made decades ago. So, yes, there is a conspiracy behind it loosely, one that goes back decades and has been targeting our country from within.

Today it's morphed into DEI, trans agenda, whatever you want to call it. But a foreign owned ship is the norm in our ports, not the exception. Old unprotected bridges are the norm, not the exception. Silly laws and rules that will make rebuilding take longer and cost more are the norm, not the exception. 

 

Your right this has been going on for a long time only then it wasn't called DEI.  Back maybe thirty years ago I was sitting in a meeting and one of the engineers sitting next to me ask the director a question about  promotions.  Without hesitation the response was, we don't have to hire the best qualified on a qualified person.

[tous]

I wonder if the racist bridge has racist roads leading to and from it? 

Let's ask Pete.

[gwalchmai]

14 minutes ago, tous said:

I wonder if the racist bridge has racist roads leading to and from it? 

Let's ask Pete.

Pretty sure Pete would be taking the dirt road...

[pipedreams]

This accident opened another can of worms besides the  actual crash.

Investigators are now telling us it could take 24 months to find answers surrounding one of the worst maritime crashes in American History. This is as we learn an elite Coast Guard team is inspecting 13 Centers for Disease Control containers that were on board labeled with the warning “Hazardous Materials.” This raises all kinds of questions. Why is the CDC sending Hazmat containers to Sir Lanka? That is where the Dali was headed when it left the Port of Baltimore before crashing into the Scott Key Francis Bridge.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/cdc-hazmat-containers-board-dali-could-baltimore-bridge/

 

Bet this is swept under the rug and no more will be heard about it.