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Large ship hits support column causing bridge collapse
Reports of people and cars falling into river
“It is believed that a Singapore-flagged cargo ship struck the heavily-traveled bridge. The large vessel then caught fire before it sank.“
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-68663071
https://www.foxnews.com/us/maryland-...using-collapse
Last edited by Lacos; 03-26-24 at 03:49.
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Saw that the bridge collapsed. Didn't know that the ship also sank. That is terrible.
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Originally Posted by Krazykarl
Ship didn't sink, still there with a span of bridge resting on it. Lots of pictures online.
Glad it's an outbound ship and not inbound with my order from AliExpress.
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Watching the video, a bunch of lights on the ship go on and off, especially in front. So my best guess is maybe they had a power or some other issue and lost control of the ship.
My darker side wonders if it was a computer hack of the ships control/navigation systems.
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Current reporting is mentioning a loss of power on the ship, along with 6 people still unaccounted for.
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I've heard that discussed elsewhere as well. It should be pointed out as well that a "severe" solar storm/CME was supposed to hit yesterday, and GPS/Radio disruptions were supposed to be possible impacts.
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Pretty terrible. Fender benders with mutli thousand ton vehicles are rare, but ugly. Apparently this ship has bumped into things before.
I know there is a maritime pilot on the forum. Would love to hear some educated insight about this.
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I can't even wrap my head around how something this fukking retarded could happen.
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Simple. A little history is needed though. In order to cut costs, the US merchant Marine fleet was basically eliminated. Well, over 90% of these large container and cruise ships are foreign flagged. Many years ago, most of these ships coming into US ports, had US flags in US crews operating them. Now they're all operated by what's referred to as "flag of convenience" carriers. They flag the ship in countries that have very relaxed safety and qualification rules. At least compared to US standards. They are trying to do the same with the airlines. What could possibly go wrong...
Anyone want to play bets on what they're going to name the bridge once it's rebuilt?
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