Baltimore Bridge Disaster - What REALLY Happened
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- Baltimore bridge disaster, here is what really happened. When the M/V Dali struck the Francis Scott Key bridge, in a dramatic turn of events, it immediately collapsed, destroying not only a key bridge but maiming or killing at least eight people. We will look at what happened based on what we know now.
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You overlooked the obvious ! It was climate change that caused it !
SO SINCE ITS NOT DEI AND ITS TYPICAL EUROPEAN MALE HIRE WHERE IS THE.. ITS BECAUSE THERES NOT ENOUGH DIVERSITY.. O IT DON'T WORK THAT WAY..
The boat engine stopped THREE TIMES and had to be restarted??? When a car engine stops unexpectedly (and it's not out of gas), it's usually because rainwater found its way into the tank. What about this boat engine stopping?
@@user-wx8pz7fp2n 'Boat' engine? You're thinking of a Chris Craft. Big difference here.
Does that come with a paper pilot certificate?
This is a poor summary of this event. I was a USCG Marine Casualty Investigator & I am a graduate of the US Merchant Marine Academy where I earned a license as a 3rd mate and QMED for then Engine Room. There are numerous errors here, most minnor, but I will point out 3 key errors.
1. The emergency generator on the M/V Dali is very small and has the capacity to support minimal systems. There are a total of 4 generators on board the Dali. 2 Main Generators and 2 Auxillary Generators. There is 1 emergency generator. The event sequence was initiated with a loss of electrical power. This results in a loss of propulsion when fuel, lube oil & control air was lost to the main engine.
2. The anchor is not going to bring this vessel to a stop, at most it may slow it, but is more likely to create drag on the ship and perhaps shift the direction of travel and move the bow away from the south bridge support.
3. The large amount of black exhaust from the ships funnel is the result of main engines restarting after the first attempt to restore power. As a slow speed diesel engine starts, incomplete combustion is common and that is what you are seeing. It has nothing to do with astern propulsion. When there is astern propulsion applied on the prop, there is a paddle wheel effect that will pull the stern in the opposite direction that the prop is designed to turn. That inturn, will bring the bow to starboard where it did impact the bridge.
I find most of the other errors, humerous, such as Radar radiating? Good visuals, thin on accurate facts. This was a good attempt, but the lack of understanding of the facts and the inability to understand the fundamentals of seamanship points to the fact that you might be a little outside of your wheel house.
John B Hall
USMMA 1995, 3/m, QMED
Marine Casualty Investigator, LT, USCG
Thank you, Sir.
Thankyou for your detailed information and experience... you have given a Wikipedia explanation to what was a confusing and incoherent version that I just listened to
Thanks heaps for your detailed information
The overhead graphic they kept showing had the ship hitting the wrong pier.😆 Also, the pilot, not an airline pilot? Gee, I thought the Dali was a 747 there for a second.🙄 I hate videos like this.
@@kimmorton-diehl3179Thank you, it’s nice to hear truth instead of conspiracy theories.
Why isn't the shipping company responsible to pay for rebuilding the bridge? are they not responsible for the control of the ship?
How about the 1851 lawthat limmits damages last used in titanic
Don't worry about the bills to Rebuild the Bridge, Bidum got the funds to Handle the cost, He's got the money for everyone and Anything Except the American Citizens.....
Nice question but the American will go ahead and build the bridge but file a lawsuit against the company that owns the chip later.If America can wait until completion of the case then thew will have lost billions and billions of dollars
There is insurance for these incidents. This cost being taken from the Taxpayer is EVIDENCE of an INSIDE JOB sabotage. The pilot of the ship deliberately GUNNED the boat into the support, and puffs of smoke from DYNAMITE charges are visible across the top struts of the bridge. This is a SYMBOLIC for the collapse of America with the NAME of the author of the Star Spangled Banner on it.
Because it wasn’t an accident.
Love how certain Scenes get blurred so we don’t get the wrong idea
This ruins the vid
Of course it's so that we don't ask further questions.
Ultimately the Shipping Company Should Be Held Accountable for This Incredible Tragedy! Come On Man!
sure ,Im sure they have the cash on hand good luck with that
INSURANCE!!!!!!!!!
No the port Authority should be held accountable! they failed to upgrade the bridge protection as the ships got bigger. Yes it had protection for the size of ship in use at the time it was built, but they done sweet FA as the ships got bigger and bigger. but give them their due, they did dredge the channel to get these larger ships under the bridge. they could have saved money by saying NO these sized ships are not allowed under the bridge because it is too shallow. but Come on Man! just think what $15 million dollars a day could make us.
just think about the cut of that $15 million dollars the port was making from that in harbour fees, where did all that money go?
one thing we know now! it didn't go on upgrading protection on the bridge!
now look at how much that negligence is going to cost.
There isn't enough assets if they sold every ship the company owns, empty every bank account, sell any assets, and get the maximum out of the insurance coverage.
Maybe they'll bankrupt the company and it will disappear forever.
I don't see it covering 10% of the cleanup, let alone building a new bridge.
They gotta have insurance to cover any liabilities they may rack up. I mean look how much we have to pay for insurance just to drive a car down the road
Beyond Facts is a very apt name for this channel. As a mariner for nearly 50 years I can say the random montage of utterly unrelated video clips, along with the nearly complete lack of understanding of ships and maneuvering, is truly embarrassing. What made this channel think they had anything useful to offer on a subject they clearly don't understand is a mystery. The cause of the loss of generator power is where the question lies, and will be the focus of the investigation. The behavior of a ship without power and control is what followed, and from initial reports it would appear that most of the actions on the bridge were as good as they could have been. However, the decision to order full reverse is unfortunately the reason for the sharp turn to starboard, as every ship handler knows a single screw backs to port and the bow falls to starboard.
Right, identify the cause of the loss of generator power! On a ship unberthed tens of minutes ago.
Cap it is because the channel is monetized and this person gets $$ for every comment made, even the negative ones.
Absolutely.
But it has generated some really eye opening, extremely informative response comments from many knowledgeable people👍
my conspiracy mind...thinks it was hacked
Mysterious black smoke? LOL it's caused by the crew desperately trying to restart the engines. Talk about opportunistic reporting without any facts
Or trying to put it into reverse!
The smoke was from them gunning it straight into the bridge. Pretty much the same way a tractor, Semi, or diesel truck would do if you floor it.
Ignorance, ,these finger tinkers they don't kno what involved trying to start a big heavy fuel engine
@@Melvinmuttno. You have to modify a truck engine to inject more diesel. They don't do that with slow speed two strokes.
"A slow-speed two-stroke crosshead diesel engine directly driving a large slow-turning propeller is today the preferred propulsion arrangement for most merchant ships because of its simplicity, reliability, and lower fuel consumption."
Actually, that's a smoke when the back up power came back on after the Main power went out. It's the backup power that caused the engines to start up causing black smoke .
In the local Seattle newspaper I noticed there was a letter to the editor from a US Navy retiree who commanded ships just a bit smaller than Aircraft Carrier. He had a great recommendation, keep the tugs in control until after the bridge.
Ha, Ha. Not using tugs is a lot cheaper. No one seems to know commercial shipping is often a battle of the cheapest in every aspect.
..from what I understand, from some longshoremen I know (in Baltimore,)(I live near Annapolis, MD), they USED TO use tugs til "past the bridge".. and you are absolutely right.. using tugs was deemed "cost prohibitive", so the practice was allowed to be discontinued...
I do not believe the mainstream narrative about this incident anymore. Than I believe the covid shots were one hundred percent safe and effective. The mainstream media and our government lie lie and then lie some more. The MSM Pushes deep state propaganda twenty four hours a day.
Then FBI said that it was not terrorism, and then they said they had not investigated it yet.
@anthonymichaels536 The FBI(and other government ABC groups) ARE terrorists...
It didn't need investigation to claim it wasn't terrorism!
What does the letter "I" stand for then?
Certainly not investigation.
The I now stands for ' ignorance '
They meant " we didn t do it " ...
@@simon6071 Instigation. Fed Bur of Instigation. Lol.
The ship named after artist Salvador Dali - Salvador famous for his painting ‘broken bridge’ ……. Yeh yeh it’s a coincidence!!
Tell me is Paul dead and Elvis alive?
@@user-fu2mi1nd5l seeing as how you raised the Beatles …. You don’t always have to be the fool on the hill.
@@user-fu2mi1nd5l Actually, yeah
Evergreen and the Suez canal!
@@user-fu2mi1nd5l Yes actually
I still find it odd that there were no tug boats escorting the container ship out of the harbour.
True. Considering the narrow span and power lines nearby, should have been mandatory - safety first
why? the ship had a pilot on board
Why??? Oh, I don't know, maybe just in case the ship loses power and starts drifting towards a bridge or dock??
@@mikeibrahim5838 well it worked well enough for 50 years, tugs shouldn't have been needed and likely wouldn't have done much against 100000tons anyway, people with all the experience in the world decided I'm not going to second guess them
@@mikeibrahim5838 maybe the tug should go all the way with them just in case they lose power in the middle of the Atlantic, same logic
The one thing that bothers me most is why was it announced that it wasn't a cyber attack before there was time to investigate if their actually was. And why did the company sign legal papers adamantly denying fault .
Where do you see papers being signed denying fault? The investigation will find who is at fault, period.
There is good reason why they can announce that with confidence is that it is nearly impossible to ‘hack’ modern ships, even despite the fact she likely had a purely computer controlled engine room.
Mostly this is because the automation computers are not on the internet.
Even modern ones are still very simple and pretty much are only designed to take readings from the engine room, do math to them, and send signals to various control valves.
What is infinitely more likely here is that some combination of factors (loss of cooling water, faulty sensors, clogged lube oil filter, etc.) caused a failure of the main generators and one of the most inopportune time possible. This resulted in a loss of propulsion and steering, and they were unable to regain sufficient control early enough to prevent the accident.
That was the engine exhaust of the main diesel engine. The ship was put into reverse as the pilot tried to stop the ship. In reverse the rudder loses control and the propeller has a siseways force that turned the ship into the bridge pylon.
The main issue is that every ship needs to be guided by tugs until the bridge is passed by.
There were no tugs.
Exactly why was it not escorted out of the channel by tugs this ship had major problems for days before it sailed engineers had been working on the electrical system as it kept cutting the engine out someone needs to be charged with this
Is this channel called beyond the facts because you through the facts out the window and just make stuff up?
*threw
Tossed
Hurled
Yanked
Catapulted
Much misinformation here.
Definitely "beyond facts" and well into random, made-up nonsense.
This kind of content is just *PATHETIC.*
That’s because these are conspiracy lovers who post these videos hoping to create chaos
No the Engine were seen working still before crashed. I thinks someone sabotage it
@@hawky2k215 yep ...... Russians 😂
@@hans616 In case the world forgotten nearly every country had got an mixed culture living there. Which means US will have Russian's people living there anyway 😂
Very well explained. Thank you so much
Another ship in NY just lost all power before going under bridge . You wont hear about it though.
You got the date right then went truly beyond the facts
Definitely on purpose, the more the MSM and "THEIR" Experts, try to distract us the more deeply we look at the actions of the ship in the last few minutes that they explain away as a ship out of control! Why does this ship suddenly give her engine full speed ahead, (the ship's engine is diesel not electrical, and already warm from running during the passage from the dock to just before the turn, they say (their experts say) the engine requires a start-up procedure which is why all the smoke during the turn! Bulldust! The diesel engine was already running, check the black Box that will prove it) the strong smoke exhaust coincided perfectly with the hard turn to Starboard and the engine smoke continued almost until impact on the target. the ship miraculously straightened the rudder up to prevent the turn from continuing and possibly missing a direct hit on the pier, the more extensive the explanation by their Experts? the less believable it is! The ship turned into the pier under full power, and the ship's diesel engine did not need any electricity to run? (how do you stop a diesel engine when there is no electricity? you can manually stop the flow of fuel to the engine!) gosh, who knew! not the Experts, there is no evidence of dirty fuel either, if dirty fuel was a problem the engine exhaust smoke would give intermittently visible puffs of smoke during the progress towards the bridge? no none of that, the engine was running just fine the ship was at low speed on course until the full speed turn into the bridge pier. killing 6 people their Families need to get a full and honest report of why they died, what's the point of having a Black Box that can mysteriously stop recording just before the turn? This is an evil intentional act. in my humble opinion.
He did the video like that for one reason. To get views and comments.
r.i.p. the people that died
Yes rip 😢
Why the hard turn to Starboard? All wind and current issues were coming from the Port side, and the Autopilot or Harbour Pilot were adjusting for the wind and current variations that affected the ship's course. the mayday call had been sent and still, the ship continued on the course because the rudder was still working, they had dropped the Port anchor but didn't let out enough chain as shown after the crash the chain is hanging down meaning that it had not been dragging on the bottom. so the Anchor would not interfere with the course change into the Bridge Pier. My understanding of modern-day ships, a ship loses power to the propeller, the ship will continue on the course it was on before the loss of engine power, and the weight and momentum of such a heavy ship will never accidentally turn like the video shows. Remember the ship's electrical supply is from one of several Diesel Generators that the ship's electronic Autopilot controls to the Diesel motors controlling the Hydraulic rams to the Rudder and will keep working keeping the ship on the course set by the Harbour Pilot, remember that the ship was on course to pass under the bridge when the lights were turned off, without electric power to the Autopilot the rudder will remain on the set course while it was adjusting course for any wind or current variations, then when the lights (electric power) came on again the ship auto-pilot would automatically resume the original course settings before the power loss, But! The video showing the sharp turn onto the target had nothing to do with the lights, or Autopilot or wind or currants proving that The HUMAN FINGERPRINT is all over this deliberate turn into the Bridge. Heavy smoke from the engine funnel is caused by a sudden increase in fuel to the engine, providing strong water pushed onto the now hard-turned-to Starboard rudder, then again the ship rudder was adjusted to Port to stop the turn because the ship needed to make a direct hit not a glancing blow against the target. This was intentional closure of Americas 5th biggest port! No question about that! But was it the US Government extremists or their FBI, or CIA! Did Terrorists sneak on board and overpower the crew? Was it blackmail of the Harbour Pilots and captains and engineers, no matter why? It is “who are they” that must be discovered because 6 people are dead because of this deliberate act by some of the People on this ship!!!!!!!
@@geoffreytoomey682 dang that’s a whole essay
@@ChaseNBricePlay don't I know it, also I'm dyslexic so without spell check I wouldn't be able to say
anything, and to cut it short would leave out too many issues that make this intentional ^ people who were killed need a full explanation to their deaths, RIP
@@geoffreytoomey682
Your understanding of modern day ships...ok
I think that you think that you're well-informed about modern day ships...we call that the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
Why did I just say that?
I'm glad you asked.
Your claim that some people on the ship did this deliberately is quite a claim, of which you have zero evidence. You watch a video which was recorded at night, and ya think you have it all figured out....and that's your evidence. I'm impressed.
If you're as good as you think you are, why haven't I heard of you before?
Shouldn't you be in Baltimore working as an investigator on this specific case?
But you're not, are ya?
Of course you're not.
And you won't be anytime soon.
I must admit that I did have a good laugh while reading your expert analysis. And for that, I'm eternally grateful.
John,thanks for helping me understand how it works. My neighbor is a MM. He got his arn tore up while on deck checking the top structure. I forgot what hot him or he tried to stop. Ripped muscle lose.
2 questions 1.
Why won't the shipping company claiming on the insurance? Is it because they're doing an investigation?
2 Didn't the bridge just take out A big Insurance policy on that bridge. If I'm not mistaken the owner that bridge.
Was also an owner of another company or something that had a major disaster where collected insurance.
Whit?
What utter garbage! Whoever made this does not have a clue.
They're just saying what they're being PAID to say, I guess! 😠
The problem is that they know exactly what they're doing.
If our government wasn't so sus... We wouldn't blame them for actual honest mistakes, implying it's still their damn fault. 😭😂🤣
The MAGA mob is sus. Conspiracy theories are for nut jobs like MTG. The other bridge built at the same time this bridge is the Betsy Ross Bridge, and it has massive concrete dolphins protecting it from ships.
Good diagrams. Thank you.
Nothing about the 1:30 of missing audio from the black box . Hmmmmm. Thats what i thought !!!!!!
@ 7:40 - first error, dropping the anchor(s) while absolutely one of the correct moves to take, will very rarely quickly stop any vessel of that size moving at 8 knots! That only happens in movie scenes not in real life. Those anchors are designed to hold a ship in place once it is fully stopped. Trying to use it as an emergency brake might work in very rare situations, but for the most part it is simply going to drag the anchor for 1 to 3 nautical miles before the ship stops fully. It might have helped pull the bound report had enough anchor chain been let out but that does not appear to be the case from the video. Your second error is saying that with a loss of power they could not have dropped the anchor. That is absolutely and completely incorrect. Having worked in shipping for many years, the chain lock and the brake on the anchor windlass are manually controlled - before a ship leaves the wharf any electronic or hydraulic automated systems clutches are disengaged so that specifically in a situation like this, the anchors can be dropped with no power available very quickly.
Thank you!!
There's so many people spouting complete nonsense, regarding this incident.
It's refreshing to see folks that have actual experience & knowledge about the shipping industry, call this nonsense out. 🍻
I still say dropping anchor was a good call by the crew, as if the rudder was unresponsive and momentum kept the ship moving forward, there was little else to do than hope dropping anchor would at least slow the ship down enough to potentially avoid disaster. I mean yeah it didn't work but still better than doing nothing. When you have something that big moving at that speed, any attempt to halt the ship from colliding with something else is welcome.
@@themadoneplays7842 totally agree - every possible attempt to stop should be used. I merely called out his statement about dropping the anchor to "quickly" stop the vessel, but a ~150K Ton ship moving at 8 knots CANNOT just stop.
@@floyd5292 except so far there's no evidence of criminal wrongdoing by the crew.
@@floyd5292 No one's in custody and neither would I have been! I never said shouldn't drop the anchgor, I referred to the comment about it quickly stopping the ship., and said it might work in rare situations. It must be dropped, but as I commented below, with a ~150K ton ship moving at 8 knots, it isn't going to stop it and certainly not quickly.
One of the worst analysis videos of this event I’ve seen. Absolutely riddled with errors.
30 years as seafarer, 15 as a harbour pilot.
As a harbor pilot, what did the pilot do correct and what did he do that you would not have done? Just asking. How long were you a harbor pilot, and how long did it take you to be a harbor pilot, and where? Just asking for information, because I am interested. Not to lay blame. I was taught that if I didn't know, ask someone who does.
@@mt3311even as a pilot it’s very difficult to say given so many facts aren’t yet known. The best analogy I can give is imagine being in a canoe paddling down river and you lose the paddle….. you can no longer use any power or steer, you’ll go were the current takes you.
On the known facts, I’d applaud the pilot and ship crew for doing everything they could under the circumstances to stop this happening. The quick mayday call saved many lives. I await the NTSB report with great interest.
@@scottM-ws7yo I assumed as much. IO too await the NTSB with interest. I believe it was an accident. The highway workers were victims of circumstance. In the wrong place at the wrong time. I did that work for 10 years, and have worked on bridges. I have been hit at work, though not on a bridge. I feel for them.
Definitely on purpose, the more the MSM and "THEIR" Experts, try to distract us the more deeply we look at the actions of the ship in the last few minutes that they explain away as a ship out of control! Why does this ship suddenly give her engine full speed ahead, (the ship's engine is diesel not electrical, and already warm from running during the passage from the dock to just before the turn, they say (their experts say) the engine requires a start-up procedure which is why all the smoke during the turn! Bulldust! The diesel engine was already running, check the black Box that will prove it) the strong smoke exhaust coincided perfectly with the hard turn to Starboard and the engine smoke continued almost until impact on the target. the ship miraculously straightened the rudder up to prevent the turn from continuing and possibly missing a direct hit on the pier, the more extensive the explanation by their Experts? the less believable it is! The ship turned into the pier under full power, and the ship's diesel engine did not need any electricity to run? (how do you stop a diesel engine when there is no electricity? you can manually stop the flow of fuel to the engine!) gosh, who knew! not the Experts, there is no evidence of dirty fuel either, if dirty fuel was a problem the engine exhaust smoke would give intermittently visible puffs of smoke during the progress towards the bridge? no none of that, the engine was running just fine the ship was at low speed on course until the full speed turn into the bridge pier. killing 6 people their Families need to get a full and honest report of why they died, what's the point of having a Black Box that can mysteriously stop recording just before the turn? This is an evil intentional act. in my humble opinion.
Peggy Hall at Healthy American has the best videos related to this event.
To @JBHRN Thank you for your detailed explanation, it was exactly as I thought. My father was a Naval Captain so I am familiar with ship workings and such, and even 'making smoke' which can be done deliberately. But I don't know if anyone noticed but the visual of the ship in the channel course was actually going the wrong way. The ship was veering to Starboard out of the channel and missed those woeful excuses of dolphins designed to protect the bridge.
Why is some of the video blurred out?
So much is wrong in this video. The bridge was almost never tide restricted: the bridge had a max air draft of 185 feet, Dali could easily go under at any time, and tides there are only a foot and a half anyway.
It takes a few minutes to restart a marine diesel and even longer to stop the screw before it can go into reverse.
Anchors don’t stop ships under way at 8.5 knots, they can only slow them down slightly and maybe pull it off its course.
I don't thinks Anchors were dropped
@@hawky2k215 Actually the port (left) side anchor was dropped, this was likely an attempt by the crew to try to slow down the ship as without rudder control there is little else one can do.
@@themadoneplays7842 That is true and to considers of the weight of that ships! 🤷♂😅
So much on this video is complete nonsense. I've lived here all my life and I've never heard of a "tide restriction". Thats made up.
Port anchor was dropped prior to impact@@hawky2k215
A lot of bad information in this video….
John Hall has described what I commented on the day after the collision: "prop-walking", which he refers to as a "paddle wheel effect". I was in the Coast Guard & have seen it cause problems in one instance & have seen it used to good effect in maneuvering a single-screw Cutter in a tight space on another occasion. & yes, dropping an anchor in mud wouldn't stop that ship in less than some hundreds of yards at any speed that allows steering...
The blurry parts of this video is very nice
So much misinformation on this video I would ignore most of it. For example they know the speed of the vessel thanks to AIS and you don’t need power to drop the anchor, unless it has been snubbed in which case you need to haul slightly on the chain to be able to release the snubber, but normally in the harbour environs the snubbers have been removed in case you have to drop the anchor in an emergency and all it takes is for someone to undo the brake
Hey, just because anchors are a trillion lbs and gravity drops them doesn’t mean they not fulla sht, but yeah they been fulla sht since forever
That is smoke coming from the stacks when they were trying to do an emergency restart of the engines.
Wrong. This is the start of the main engine. While excessive fuel, bad combustion due to not enough oxygen due to low speed of Turbocharger😊
Main engine start fist by means of compressed air and it blows inside the engine room and that smoke billowing at the smokestack comes from the auxilliary engine that goes on and off
@@SB-jy4gmisn't that what OP said, trying to restart the engine?
WHY do they Not Have TUG BOATS????
Was there EMP around? The whole software program seem to affected too ?
No disrespect to the actual experts who have commented, but it never ceases to amaze me, when incidents like this occur, how many 'experts' burst into print.
Or how many cover-up by a lawless government
The picture is clear.... the bridge was blown up
As a person from Baltimore and was 15 Minutes away when this happened, I will confirm that only about 40% of this seems correct.
It was done on purpose to look like accident.
TROLL
Well once you see who was on it when it hit the "iceberg" it starts to make more sense.
They have to find who is behind this.😢
@@user-ng5uu4od5f behind what??
Definitely on purpose, the more the MSM and "THEIR" Experts, try to distract us the more deeply we look at the actions of the ship in the last few minutes that they explain away as a ship out of control! Why does this ship suddenly give her engine full speed ahead, (the ship's engine is diesel not electrical, and already warm from running during the passage from the dock to just before the turn, they say (their experts say) the engine requires a start-up procedure which is why all the smoke during the turn! Bulldust! The diesel engine was already running, check the black Box that will prove it) the strong smoke exhaust coincided perfectly with the hard turn to Starboard and the engine smoke continued almost until impact on the target. the ship miraculously straightened the rudder up to prevent the turn from continuing and possibly missing a direct hit on the pier, the more extensive the explanation by their Experts? the less believable it is! The ship turned into the pier under full power, and the ship's diesel engine did not need any electricity to run? (how do you stop a diesel engine when there is no electricity? you can manually stop the flow of fuel to the engine!) gosh, who knew! not the Experts, there is no evidence of dirty fuel either, if dirty fuel was a problem the engine exhaust smoke would give intermittently visible puffs of smoke during the progress towards the bridge? no none of that, the engine was running just fine the ship was at low speed on course until the full speed turn into the bridge pier. killing 6 people their Families need to get a full and honest report of why they died, what's the point of having a Black Box that can mysteriously stop recording just before the turn? This is an evil intentional act. in my humble opinion.
Alot more ppl died when the Skyway Bridge was hit in a very similar type of accident. 35 ppl including a "Trailways" bus went off the bridge after the span collapsed and just like the Dali, part of the roadway landed on the bow and saw the only survivor whose truck came down with the roadway and the driver fell out of the truck as it landed, but the truck actually bounced off the ship and into the bay.
it is like the ship hit the big red button that makes the entire bridge fall apart like well used lego parts.
We may never know the truth, to what really happened.
Ship crashed, bridge fell. You're welcome.
We will know 10 years from now and the conspiracy theorists will be proven right again !
Blame it on Trump, or the Russians. Standard Operating Procedure.
Clearly this kid can't understand simple facts and evidence right in front of him. 😂
Get offline dumb dumb
just like EVERYTHING else our gubermint DOESN'T investigate. nothing to see, everything is fine. LIARS.
Pray everyday for souls passing into the other world. Have mercy on the people who died in this tragedy. Amen
Pray what??? Sadly Becky, once your last breath has been taken, no amount of praying will change your eternal destiny. Eternal life with God through the shed blood of Jesus Christ for those who received him as their savior. Eternal damnation for those lost without God. Not really sure what "religion" teaches you to pray for "souls passing into the other world", but the Bible clearly states, "All have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God" And, " There is no other name whereby men can be saved, but by the name of Jesus Christ".
@@toejammin77 🤔🤔
Why does it get blurred out In some parts? Great Vid!! But fix it please it seems like someone is blocking it?
Where is there insurance for such a accident.
In court for the next 10 years, presumably.
Here's the question that needs to be answered. How long was it known the boat was without power? As a port city Baltimore had to have tugboats docked nearby. Why weren't they used to divert it from hitting the bridge? Had that been done this wouldn't even be a news story. Who dropped the ball?
Why did they lose power. Was it poor equipment?Did someone accidently interrupt a breaker or was there a short in the system? We know it lost power, but why.
All it takes,,,, is just one click.
Maybe the cook started the oven 😊???
Could be sabotaged by someone. If Engine managed to restarted then there less likely to be faulty
How else are you going to intentionally knock a bridge down and make it seem like an accident?
that is what the inquiry is for!
Why was the video blurred for almost a minute at 6:50?
What is the blurred out video segments.
What is so mysterious about the smoke the ship is a diesel that is diesel smoke from the exhaust stack.
especially when flooded with too much fuel or too little oxygen .
Wasn't that from the restarts?
@@funnyguy8728 The ship lost electricity power that doesn't stop the Diesel engine though? maybe the ship was put into reverse? if it was revved up and astern, this is what happens, the ship is travelling forward at about 8 knots, still on course to clear under the bridge before the smoke from the engine exhaust attempts to stop the troubled ship using full speed astern, the ship would begin to slow but remain on course, the video is clear enough that the turbulence created in a full astern effort should be visible too, no the Black Box will tell if the ship was going forward or in reverse, that is exactly why ships and aircraft have Black boxes, anyway diesel engines don't require any electricity to run, and if your electricity fails you just manually turn of the supply of fuel to the engine, no matter, the Black box will have all these actions recorder
RIP to the workers who perished. I grew up in Baltimore and last crossed the Key bridge about a month ago. The Key bridge was old but majestic. Informative video. Sad for the workers 😥.
That bridge always gave me anxiety the way it moved…
Workers? You mean the team of BUDS graduates that set the charges?
@@ChrisFord-wh1gl I think he means the construction workers doing maintenance at the time on the bridge.
Put the crack pipe down before writing on youtube
Majestic? Possibly. But old-fashioned design, not up to today's standards? Certainly. Like a great deal of US infrastructure, it needed replacing decades ago. But the money is being spent on crappy woke gender fluidity programs, affirmative action putting incompetents in jobs they can't handle, unscientific Net Zero policies etc etc.
I also grew up in Baltimore. And something is just so wrong about this.😢
Why is the video blacked out?
That smoke you see Is from backup generators coming on and being full throttle
This company is responsible for this accident and cost not the American people ...such carelessness on the captain and crew....
You think? I think you should take a look closer to home, say like the port owners and the port Authority. they are responsible for the safe navigation of the port. they failed in there duty. Ships have got bigger over the years, the protection of the bridge might have met regulations when it first was built.
But the owners and port Authority failed to keep up with the times and to upgrade the protection for the bridge, thus using your words it was there carelessness that help with this accident. did no one ask the question, what would happen if one of these super heavies were to hit this important bridge?
Not it was just greed for the green back, once they knew that they would have to dredge the channel and that these super heavies could only sail at certain times, they knew the bridge could be hit, but that didn't stop then saying No the ships can not go pass the bridge. they knew building a new dock downstream would cost billions, compared to building new protection for the bridge which would have cost less, but doing that would be dead money, but not no more, now it is going to cost an arm and a leg to rebuild the bridge, but that is American short sightedness for you, make as much money over the shortest period of time. Well that's worked out until now, but not only have you lost the bridge but also the $15 million a day the port was bringing in, not including the loss of traffic on the bridge. so tell me who were the careless ones again?
No carelessness. It was simply mechanical failure at a really bad time.
@@michaelgoble8200 yes your right but i threw the question back at@cynthiamacnameee4480 🙂
@michaelgoble8200 they are still responsible they should of service to make sure ready for travel...tax payers not responsible period they should have insurance for such accidents...
@mrt7936 they are the ship owners due too the ship headed straight for that bridges post so who was stirring the ship? You know as in driving a car ?
The black smoke is the engine restarting
More like the engines being reved upfull astern
This is correct according to Sal at Whats going on with shipping.
.....Okay, thanks.
@@gingertom56 Yeah that is possibility
The boat restarted more than once, only saw the smoke puffs at the end. Why did it not happen the first time? Secondly, I heard that smoke rises like that on a diesel vehicle when one pushes the peddle for fast speed or to speed up quickly. True or False? It also looks like the vessel SPED UP at that time. See it?
I thought the spark and smoke on the top rail of the bridge was the electric line snapped that supplied lights on the bridge, it sparked and flashed when the bridge fell.
It's smoke blowing out of the ships exhaust when he guns the ship for ramming speed
Umm, this is BS as far as the explanation of the collision goes. It is not unkown what speed she was going at and 8 to 10 knots is way too fast. There was not a 2 knot current in the direction you claimed. This is all BS.
We know they were going 8 knots, and yes it was too fast.
@@Flying_fisher It was not too fast, that standard speed for ships going through that area.
Clearly you don't know their procedures besides what you Googled for. 😂😂
You are funny, thd speed was normal. All ship around the same speed going though thaf same location. You have no clue what you
Talking about.
@@Defects420 Yes, I do; I have been on a few ships as an engineer through that part. I know the procedure very well. It seems like you don't have a clue about the procedure.
It's black smoke from the emergency generator that fired up automatically when they dropped the main plant.
Why are you misleading people with your thumbnail??
The real blame is the state DOT or bridge authority for not installing pier protection devices that you see on most other bridges. It is not uncommon for ships to hit bridges but there should be protection bollards, dolphins, fenders etc basically large mass of concrete designed to take on the ships impact ahead of the bridge piers
first actual intelligent question Ive seen here, no doubt that will be covered in detail
Too much junk information. Removed from recs.
1. At what point were the tugs discharged from the operation? 2. Is it standard practice to exit the harbor (that is: pass under the bridge) without tugs?
too much blurred out. just take it down if you can't show us.
Simple. The smoke is from the smoke stack from the ship. When power came back on the Captain attempted to restart the engine. When u start a diesel engine on a ship the initial start creates a billow of smoke from the smoke stack. Unfortunately the ship lost power again causing the engine to fail again. The captain then dropped the port side bow anchor but too little too late. The ship was victim to the wind from the port side and the river current as the rudder and engine were dead.
Now was it a cyber attack that shut.down the power? Possible. But don't think it was the captain or port pilot.
SALVADOR DALI painting 🖼 Broken Bridge. The ship name is DALI.
Another clue for the people with working brain cells.
If the ship was not going so fast, how was it able to turn so quickly into the bridge?
Heart breaking. Oh Lord.🔥💛🔥
Emergency generators cannot [by regulation and design] face a reverse power problem: no system is permitted to be installed allowing loadsharing with other generators. What happens is changeover, managed by a dead bus relay. The generator breaker will have an interlock to prevent paralelling.
Actually a professional captain of ships of this caliber disagrees with you. Yes, they do have the capacity to allow rutters to work for steering.
@@renmuffett The ship has an emergency hydraulic system; one big issue is they need to wait for the backup generator to start to switch to the emergency hydraulic system for the rudder. And with no engine power, the rudder will be of little use. Yes, if you had enough time and distance, it would slowly turn the ship some, but not enough to avoid the collision. The vessel is too heavy for the rudder to make much difference without main propulsion.
I don’t see how anyone could survive from a fall from a bridge with all that heavy steel. I pray for the families of the ones lost in this accident. I was surprised to hear that there were construction workers that worked at night on a bridge which may be normal in some states.
So… as far as the “explosions” at the top of the bridge is likely the electrical lines being destroyed for the lights ( you can clearly see on top ) as the bridge was falling
Singapore should build us in Maryland another bridge that is definitely needed ASAP! It's so messed up here with traffic having to go all the way around the city to the other side. Very strange how that ship just happens to run into the bridge and the whole bridge comes tumbling down plus many hazard waste was stacked were the ship hit it and the big buff of black smoke was seen.
My 2 cents on black smoke: They restarted engine..they put engine Full Astern, engine overspeed and shut everything down. The big question is-why aren't tugs escorting very large vessels for bridges and sand bars transits.
Because they have pilots board the ship that know the topographical layout of the waterways like the back of their hand.
@@lazervision2602 Mubbe you never heard of Pilot Error..Besides never trust machinery
If thats true then the pilot was dead wrong, the actual video shows him speeding right at the support pillar, he must be held accountable.
@@Louise180All these video clip armchair experts want a fall guy to pin the blame onto.
Even the pilots are just doing their job.
Follow the money.
See who benefits from this tragedy.
Tru.
Why do we need the NTSB when you have already solved the case? 😅🤣😂
Team Biden announced no foul play after just an hour or so - so there we have it, the old senile man knows it all - nothing to see here -move on!!! Says it all really!!! Don't believe government CIA propaganda - it's all BS - safe and effective!!!!
That mysterious black smoke coming from the top of the ship was the engine firing back up at full power! Lol!
Shhhhh
Why are the videos blurred
There's so many things wrong with this comment section. I'm just so damn happy to be part of it.
Ha ha stop ✋!
Thank goodness for some humour through the dark.
Coast Guard from the 1980s...an anchor regardless of size dropped on the port side in a sentiment rich area like Baltimore harbor will not stop a ship the size of the Dali and no Pilot would think that. At best, the manuveur would counter any starboard movement of the vessel and hopefully shift it slightly port again as it drug along the floor. It is not stopping it at all. One of many things I can't quite understand given these facts.
Well that's the thing, I don't think they were trying to stop the ship with the anchor, but at the very least attempt to try to slow it down.
If the engines and the rudders were not responding, and they were having difficulty with the back-up generators, then yes, I still argue dropping anchor was a good call.
its not just the big anchor on the end of the chain that holds the ship in place its the weight of anchor chain on the seabed, all the anchor will do in these circumstances is be dragged through the silt on the seabed, the ship weighs 100000TONS so it wasn't going to stop until it hit something really solid, like 9000tons of bridge
@@themadoneplays7842 With a ship of that size and weight going 9 knots, it will take a long time to slow the vessel down to any degree with the anchor. All the ship will do is drag the anchor along as it very slowly slows the ship. They had very little they could have done. They just were at the wrong location at the wrong time.
@@stephenludlum9746 Well yes there wasn't much dropping anchor was going to do, but I still think it was the right call considering how fast this all happened. Like, even if they had emergency steering and the like and even attempted it, the ship's momentum was too big to do much of anything. Every little bit helps in a situation like this. Currently, my theory is that I think they dropped anchor as an extra way to steer the ship away from a direct head on collision with the bridge, and it seemed to have (mostly) worked, but still the ship was just too far to the right for it to have more effect. Also even some slowdown of a ship like this is a good idea especially if it's carrying hazardous materials, any higher speeds could have made this far worse as if the collision hit the wrong way it could have ignited the cargo. I mean, imagine if those hazardous materials ignited and exploded? Yeah, the bridge would be the least of your worries.
This was NO ACCIDENT!
Giving the stern movement in panic caused the disaster. Which not only managed to stop the forward movement rather turned the ships head to starboard ie right side. SAD.
Common sense: the Dali is just too damn big!
no
Very yes and crap can't arrive fast enough! A young female whale died here last yr in the port of Montreal while swimming back to sea, hit by a boat, they couldn't stall the lakers a day?
And was too damn loaded
Did they tell u about the missing 2 minutes of data not recorded of the black box they say. Is it missing or they just say it is
troll/conspiracy theorist no brain
Not missing. As the power went out some data went blank that’s all. The bridge voice recordings didn’t stop at all which shows the black box was still working
Your an idiot as to the entire power loss the data was not recorded during that time but the small back up power to the box was able to still record the voices but nothing else as the small backup power supply can't power everything in a situation of complete power loss.
Jesus you kids need to go get some real schooling rather than learning from tiktok or youtube. 🤣🤣
It’s the smoke from the backup generator starting up
Stay strong and stay safe God bless everyone in Baltimore amen 🙏
Beyond Facts
and into
Wishful Thinking
So Said 😢😢😢😢
You've only just noticed?
How far is are the tug boats required to escort the ship. In such a tight area you would think they would be required to at least follow until ships are in open water.
What's with the blurry shots? Kinda distracting.
The only reason the "govt" said they would pay for it. Was to avoid the insurance company doing a proper investigation. Also because our "govt" had something to do with it. Just like 9/11. What are they distracting us from
There's more to this story... I'll just leave it at that. RIP to the workers that were lost.
There is no more to this story, except it is just an accident. If the bridge had Dolphins around the principal supports, the bride still would be standing.
Oooooooh, mystery. Get lost.
@@stephenludlum9746 What bride? 🤔
Having worked in a few shipyards on the West Coast, I have witnessed the deplorable state of maintenance and general upkeep of merchant vessels! Owners don't like spending money. USCG inspection items are often ignored and the convoluted maritime laws make it even more difficult to enforce accountability.
I wanted to give this video a thumbs up, but there were to many blurred portions of the video when it explained things.
Just look at the video and there was an explosion at the end part of the bridge? No need to be an expert, we all have eyes to see the discrepancy!
As a lay person, it seems to me that the major question to be answered is why the sequence of power losses? Someone suggested that the type of fuel was being changed from the low sulfur type required to enter the port to the less expensive, high sulfur type that would be used at sea. Did the change of fuel cause interruptions in the delivery of fuel by the fuel pumps to the engine? Was this the first time such a change was attemped while underway?
Actually such exchanges are very common on ships, it's a practice that's been going on for decades. Still the chances of something going wrong with the interchange is still a possibility, something as simple as a clogged nozzle can lead to catastrophe. I mean that happens with airplanes so why not boats?
Yes the chances are very low, but that's why they are always so surprising.
inquiry
Shipment person responsible for this accident as well as pay for peoples who were on bride to pay them good compensation and help to build to bridge a lot more stronger. 1- also under the bride only 2 or 3 places make a more wider so ship can pass easily. That area has to paint glowing yellow lights around it so ship 🚢 knows only that one they can use. Enter right exit left so no accidents. Exit only one side wider just like road with signs on the bridge.
Maybe should have added a circle of large cement pilings around the bridge supports. When it was built, there were probably not ships this size passing through there.
Why is that portion of the video completely blurred??
Man I kept thinking how weird that went , well the damage been done , this matter what went wrong taking too much time getting this cleared up . I knew something wasn't right , whatever this was it still got to be FIX back up soon as possible
You have not given full information. You have no knowledge of ship's engineering systems.
And, they pressed there break and it still skided in that bridge maybe the Tires was too smooth.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂,should have had snow tyres
Maybe that ship is a Mustang, it aimed for the crowd.
@@johnt.848 🤣🤣
Might have hit some black ice.
@@maplebones 🤣🤣🤣🤣