Francis Scott Key Bridge collapses in Baltimore after ship strike

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How To Get Key Bridge Road off MV Dali: Baltimore Bridge Collapse​

More 4k video and photos from the Unified Command and Minorcan Mullet showing the removal of the Francis Scott Key bridge ollapse roadway that is draped over the bow of the MV Dali ship. in Baltimore Maryland successfully related the motor vessel MV Dali ship from the bridge collapse debris. Jeff Ostroff shows some analysis mixed with videos and photos to explain the process.
 

Key Bridge Road Is Off Dali Ship, NOW WHAT?​

The 4-lane Francis Scott Key bridge collapse roadway was draped over the bow of the MV Dali ship and has been removed from the ship. But what will happen next? How will the salvors get the crushed containers off the Dali, and where will they take Dali for repairs? in Baltimore Maryland successfully refloated the motor vessel MV Dali ship from the bridge collapse debris. Jeff Ostroff shows some analysis mixed with videos and photos to explain the process.
 

Bow Thruster : Why The Dali Didn't Use It | Chief MAKOi​

A lot of viewers in the comments section pointed out the possibility of using the bow thruster during the Dali incident in Baltimore. Could it have altered the ship and prevented it from hitting the Francis Scott Key Bridge?
 

LAST Key Bridge Collapsed Truss Removed​

 
And now for the tally of what it cost to "gitter done"...

Any guesses??

$50 million??
 
Gonna be more than $1mil a day looking at the kit they utilised and theres a lot of onshore costs on top

And this is just the clean up crew.

The cost to repair the bridge will be $200 mil by the time theyve ticked all the boxes
And then theres the lost earnings and additional costs for local trade for the next several years
 
Can hardly wait for the coming economic down turn to be blamed on the Dali...
 
Scapegoating.

If that was a deliberate act by the crew - and I think that's IMPOSSIBLE - it surely backfired, inflicting a cost they'd never have imagined. Stuck on the ship for two months, essentially under arrest. Their personal property gone through. Their phones, their only contact with the outside world, seized. Their ship seriously damaged - maybe to be written off as a constructive total loss, and scrapped.

Their prospects for future employment, should the ship be condemned, will be slim. Who in their right mind would agree to such consequence, for a meager sum under the table?

All this is, is to find someone to blame, maybe to put the ship's insurer on the hook. Maybe for political or industrial reasons - blacklist the ship's operators or the complex system of registration, operation and book-ownership.

I don't think truth or fact is in any of this.
 
Goldhedge said:
And now for the tally of what it cost to "gitter done"...

Any guesses??

$50 million??
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rblong2us said:
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The cost to repair the bridge will be $200 mil by the time theyve ticked all the boxes
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Tsk tsk...

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) said the cost to repair the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which collapsed earlier this year, could range between $1.7 and $1.9 billion ...
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Casey Jones said:
If that was a deliberate act by the crew - and I think that's IMPOSSIBLE -
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Doesn't only have to mean that the crew is suspected of sabotage.

Just speculating, as I have no more proof of anything in this matter than you do, but it could be that they are material witnesses to things like negligence.
....and if they let them leave, they could then be subject to influence, or worse.

Also, these guys are mostly Indian. Let 'em go and by the time they may be needed as a witness, they'll be hard to find. There's a billion people in India. It'd be easy for 'em to pay these guys a shit pile of rupees to disappear and shut up.
 

Hack and scapegoat it on the brown guys. Sounds about right.
 

A little more on the crew and the plight of mariners caught up in situations like this.

Seamen's Church: Dali Disaster Highlights Crew Welfare Lessons-Learned

The tragic allision of the Dali container ship with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore highlights the often-overlooked humanitarian impact of...
maritime-executive.com
 
^^^^^
Heading home.

Dali crew allowed to fly back home - Splash247

Having been stuck on a ship at the centre of a media storm for months on end the stressed crew of the Dali containership have finally been allowed to head home to Asia. Investigators in the US had barred the workers on the boxship from disembarking since March 26 when it was involved in this …
splash247.com
 
Glad they got a good lawyer.

The argument given a few days ago - that they were material witnesses being held to prevent disappearance - was sound, on the face of it. But they'd be prisoners, not accused of a crime. While that's becoming the norm here in our perverted FedGov, it's also inverse to ALL the Anglo-Saxon legal structure and principles stands for...always stood for.

And these are foreign nationals. AND, these jag-off investigations often take years or more, and are guided only by the political-expediencies of the hour.
 
Accidents do happen...

Nobody wants to take responsibility for the accident...

Like who made the decision to NOT guide big ships out with tugs?

Who designed the 'bumpers' for the bridge that keep ships from hitting it?

Who's in charge of infrastructure? Is it SOP to never revisit design changes??
 

M/V Dali Departs Baltimore

The M/V Dali departed from Baltimore on Monday for the first time since the containership lost power and struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26, leading to the...
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LIVE: SkyTeam11 is live above the ship DALI as it leaves the Port of Baltimore 90 days after hitt…​

SkyTeam11 is live above the cargo ship DALI as it leaves the Port of Baltimore 90 days after hitting the Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing its collapse. Follow live updates on 11 News, the WBAL-TV app and WBALTV.com
 

Dali Departs Baltimore | Ship Slated to Offload in Norfolk and Conduct Repairs | NTSB Update​

Jun 26, 2024 #supplychain #dali #baltimorebridge

In this episode, Sal Mercogliano - a maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner - MV Dali finally sets sail from Baltimore for Norfolk to offload and repairs and the NTSB issues an update.

10:48

- Dali leaves Baltimore for repairshttps://splash247.com/dali-leaves-bal...
- Contact of Containership Dali with Francis Scott Key Bridge and Subsequent Bridge Collapsehttps://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/P...
 
Joe King said:
Notice that they used tugs this time. lol
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"Security Theatre."

Not unlike checking the shoes of everyone who boards Podunk Airlines...AFTER the one Moslem re-tard tried to light off a shoe bomb.

Forever checking after a one-off.

In reality there's little use for a tug once the ship's in the channel and aimed out. And the lack of work for the tugs to do, on that part of the route, is gonna lead to moar complacency.

What SHOULD be done is jail about six people, up and down, for allowing/ordering the ship to leave with DEMONSTRATED electrical issues. The captain, for one - he's the one officer I'd like to see in an American jail. Then the company official that told him to leave, never mind the recurring power issues.

Then on to the repair crew. AND to whoever it was that made it an issue in which the master's job depended.

Moar interesting to me, is that the whole container load, less the crushed forward area, remains on. Those bananas and pears in those reefer boxes are gonna be NASS-TEE...
 

Did This Electrical Part FAIL Cause MV Dali Key Bridge Collapse​

 
That white sheet over the damage is hilarious
They shoulda used a blue one or better still blue duct tape.
If they had used duct tape, the ship could have sailed on to complete her journey.

There, we fixed it
 
rblong2us said:
That white sheet over the damage is hilarious
They shoulda used a blue one or better still blue duct tape.
If they had used duct tape, the ship could have sailed on to complete her journey.

There, we fixed it
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I thought so as well.

It's been exposed to the elements for 2 months and now they need to cover it?? LOL
 

Chief MAKOi | NTSB Update on Dali: Undervoltage Release?​

The NTSB has given an update on it's ongoing investigation into the Dali incident in Baltimore which caused the Francis Scott Key Bridge to collapse.

4:42
 

Raw: Never-before-seen footage, Key Bridge Recovery! Pt. 1​

Jul 7, 2024
Up-close, never-before-seen footage captures elite demolition crews dismantling The Francis Scott Key Bridge from heights exceeding 100 feet, strategically dropping sections weighing over 100,000 pounds into the water, later removed by clam bucket from the channel.

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well, that was disturbing... NOT!

I wonder if they'll post a tally of the amount of workers, labor, pay, fuel used, etc. to accomplish this feat in 2 months?

Not to mention no deaths getting it done.
 
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