Maritime attorney breaks down what's next in Baltimore bridge collapse
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- čas přidán 26. 03. 2024
- The NTSB will likely board the cargo ship for the first time today and interview crew and really begin an intense investigation into the cause of the horrific collapse of the Key Bridge in Baltimore. Maritime attorney Liindsey Brock, who represented Florida when a ship hit the Mathews Bridge in 2013, explains what's next in the investigation.
I don't understand why it was not mandatory for ships to be accompanied by tugboats until after they have passed the bridge.
There are bridges for the next 160 miles until they get to the Atlantic ocean
Pete Buttigieg cut 40% of the funding to tug boats.
@@alantaylor3910 that may be true, but none as shabbily built as the Key bridge.
@@alantaylor3910 At least this accident could have been avoided by tugboats even if there are 2 more bridges for the next 160 miles until they get to the Atlantic ocean.
Is rhat true? How many more before hitting the wide open ocean? @alantaylor3910
As a Maryland resident, I can tell you that the Key Bridge was built with a series of Trusses, kind of like the old World Trade Center. As we say in construction, Never Trust a Truss.
Thank God for the May Day call !!!!! I have yet to hear how much time the workers had when that call came out!!!!!!
There vehicles never moved, RIP
No collision horns. So it's doubtful the bridge workers even knew they were about to be hit.
The engineers clearly never implemented bumpers around the pillars
Engineers are often overruled by those higher up, who often take advice from the pencil pushers they hire to tell them what they want to hear.
It was deemed too expensive by the Transportation Secretary yet they have them around the power poles. Go figure. Pure negligence
And that IS the design flaw.
@jasonwright808 if Baltimore host cargo ships comin in/out, the harbor should be prepared for the activity
@@willmays4954 precisely. That's why despite calm wind and a outgoing tide tells me either the pilot(s) were unqualified diversity hires or hit the bridge on purpose. There's no way a ship could vere that far off course without outside influences otherwise
No bridge in the world could have withstood a bump from a cargo ship of that size.
The Dali was a toy with about 5000 40 foot containers. The biggest ships can move up wards of 25,000 40 foot containers.
Yes it would. They put barriers around the footings.
Wrong@@kevinmacomber1336
The important thing is to fix the problem, fixing the blame can come later .let the engineers do their job , then the lawyers can sort out the responsibility to pay .
Seems steering gear failure when emergency power came on, resuming power supply to the steering , in the meantime dropped the port anchor to slow down the momentum that was at about 8 to 9 knots & gave a stern thrust on the engines for the reason of the smoke , causing the ship Canting/swing to St bd /right to the Bridge pillar , so tried to use the electrical driven forward bow thruster to correct it , It should be noted that whith the ship making a forward headway, using neither the stern movement nor bow thrust would have any effect , That seems to have been the mistake,
It should be noted that according to international maritime law the resposibility rests on the Captain & not the piliot who is only to assist the Captain , in fact as soon as the pilot boards the vessel he takes an indemnity, signed by the Captain,
Momentum equals mass times velocity.
FYI:
- There were a PAIR of Baltimore Harbour pilots at the helm.
- The vessel hit a 10 mph (8.5 knots), not even airbag speed.
The big question was why did the vessel lose power so suddenly and completely. Its generators should have been well below their maximum output at that time. The maintenance logs and previous history may well tell an interesting story.
In Vancouver, Canada tugboats are used to avoid catastrophes just like this.
The incident is very big from economic point of view.the time of mishap is 1.30am.if it had occurred in day,death could reach few hundred.
Shouldn't mics on both men be the same volume? Its hard for me to hear the man on the right compared to the man on the left.
Yeah, and ships shouldn’t hit bridges, and knock them down.
Not so sure about the Dames Point Bridge. Yes, the southern pillar seems to be in shallow enough water that a ship couldn't get to it - and the northern pillar has two big dolphins. However, those dolphins are positioned in such a way that it appears if a ship approached from the Southeast it could still make contact with the northern pillar.
It takes a miles to stop a big ship.
No, not even close to a mile.
Indian shipping company owner and Indian crews. You know whom to send bills.
The ship was registered in Singapore and was traveling to sri lanka.
Not sure where u get that information for.
I suspect the ship had problems before this that our 2 tier legal system overlooked.
Next time I get a speeding ticket I’m going to blame the road that I traveled on, next time I go flying off a bridge with my car I’m going to blame the bridge
Why didn't they reinforce or add concrete bumpers like on other bridges. Money
What's next? My guess would be that there will be several months of pissing and moaning about who's at fault and who gets blamed which are often not the same entity. Once that is determined we'll get into the who pays phase of the project. Once that's determined we can spend all the money on environmental studies and feasibility evaluations to determine if it's actually possible to have a bridge there at all. IF a new bridge is actually built I'd bet it's at least 5 years out and will be at least double the original cost estimate and will take at least twice as long to be completed as the original schedule. This will be a financial wind fall for some folks and a financial disaster for many more.
Blame blame blame, blame the river, blame the bridge, blame the government ?
It’s all human error, operator error, lack of knowledge, wrong timing by the operator, the owners lack of management and maintenance and repairs on the ship
It seems to me that we’re putting the blame upon the bridge and the river ???
Don't forget Bwk 1972 the Sidney Lanier bridge was hit in the same manner 10ppl died
I done everything I could do to not crash with my car into another car going down the highway,
Does that releave me of all and any fault and responsibility ????
Does that ship have bow thrusters????????????
most cargo ships don't have them. Much more common on cruise ships going in and out of small tourist ports daily.
I did not think so.@@rickpaulos
Thanks for info@@jhb9746
You're calling this a collapse when clearly the ship ran right into it. Interesting
Uh, duh the bridge DID collapse as a result of the hit to a key pillar by a 110 ton vessel. What do YOU want to call it since you’re obviously the expert?
Ok ?
For whom does this attorney work? Longshoremans union?
We’re any TUG BOATS STILL ATTACHED & IF NOT……WHY…. ALL SHIPS SHOULD BE ATTACHED TO 2 TUG BOATS IF THERE IS A BRIDGE TO NAVIGATE THROUGH..HOW MANY BRIDGES HAVE SUCCUMBED TO SIMILAR EVENTS???
Can't say for sure if but it appears a black swan blocked the Captain's view or maybe just an incident, nothing to see here.
How was the Simpsons able to predict this is the question.
LOL. If you are going to have an 'expert' on your show, it might help if they knew the difference between an 'engine' and 'generator' Sounds like a fool.
Another bloke who doesn´t the slightest clew. It took me 10 seconds to reach this conclusion as he started talkomg about the bow thruster.... Full of BS!
I think the bridge needed a better design. it went down like a house of cards.
Now that they had time for cover up.
You can’t be serious! This was an ACCIDENT, a failure of equipment! People like you couldn’t see facts if they hit you in the face!!
The Americans still haven't gone aboard the Dali yet 🙄
How was this filmed? Coincidence? I think not
Clearly you don't understand. All ports across the nation have cameras on ports as cameras on roadways. They do this to monitor the ports.
Video feeds are everywhere in a bigger city, want a place without them you have to go way out in rural areas.
there are four backup generators normally....this type power outage is horseshit....maybe bad fuel ? common cause...but there should be water scrubbers on the fuel.....
Not sure on these modern ships, the few I got to visit with my grandfather in the late 70’s were filed from some nasty tar looking sludge. They did not pull up and run on regular diesel. The early ships my grandfather was on were coal powered, and I believe those are a thing of the past.
I don't even believe what these guys are saying. they are just saying what they are told to say. there is no way this should have happened. and the fact that hours after the crash, they start to say it's not deliberate.
Bingo!
A lot of these bridges are toll roads. You'd think they'd use a portion of the tolls to install bumpers. 🤦
Ace hardware drunk lush family heroine gets there kids
Nothing but speculation. Today’s news folk are nothing but jokes.
Baltimore? “The Wire” was missing? Where was Stringer Bell?” A missing connection? Too much coincidence!
Aaaaand here comes the BS artists
Not everything that could be done was done. Nonexistent bumpers around the bridge pylons, tugs should have stayed with the ship until AFTER the bridge. So, no, pure ineptitude and negligence on part of all involved.
Maybe you should have been there advising them what to do.
@@user-jc8rz2jj9r perhaps, but I'm currently in Florida on my own boat. That'll teach you to just assume someone doesn't know what they're talking about lol
Idiot
@@user-jc8rz2jj9r I'm only on the Chesapeake in the summers.
Talk about CYA all the WAY, what about the pilot conducting the six "P's." Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance. If he knew the vessel was acting strange, he should have requested assistance from another vessel, like a TugBoat.
Do your research-there were two tugboats out there which escorted them into the channel lane. They then left which is very common. The ship had no issues until after that.
Not believing any of these so called experts and their prepared scripts to gloss over what the person navigating this heavy barge did. Looks like the barge accelerated directly towards the support column.
They are certainly more of an expert than you. It wasn't a barge - it was a container ship. Also, ships that size don't accelerate that you would be able to distinguish - it takes a long time to either speed up or slow down because they are so heavy. It was being navigated by a local harbour pilot who gives navigational orders to the helmsman. The captain is on the bridge and can override the pilot if he thinks a navigational order is not correct. There are probably others on the bridge, too. Plus personnel in the engine room who would be involved in any orders relating to engine power.
Whenever I get nervous about success in life for me and my kids, I realize that folks like you make it really hard to fail for the rest of us.
They want us to believe this event happened for 40 seconds when really it was for 4 minutes. And if it's true they were experiencing electrical problems prior to departing the port, that is negligence in itself!
I think you should go there, I think you should have been there controlling and directing all of this as you seem to think YOU’RE the expert! Maybe you were there and know something! Call the FBI and the NTSB! Wow, you better give them your CRUCIAL and EXPERT OPINION on how to navigate a cargo freighter soon!
@@andydickeyTHANK YOU, see my sarcastic reply to this fool.
You can definitely tell how cheap Maryland is by how they build their bridges. They want to be cost-effective cost-effectiveness causes death.
You do know this was built in 1977 right? Long before you were alive I’m sure, just by your lack in intelligence.
This had nothing to do with the bridge. This was negligence on the part of the Dali.
My condolences to the families who have lost loved ones? My advice is that the new Bridge in Baltimore should be designed by Japanese engineers and made a two-story bridge, the first floor of the bridge New Tram line from Towson to Glein Bern, The second floor of the bridge with three lanes on each side!!! And there will be quality and reliability and most importantly convenience 10000%!!!!
yes, hire the same Japneese engineers who designed and built their airport that is now sinking into the ocean.
Ukrainian ia Capitan in the ship?????
Indian crew actually . . .
Don't worry! Joe already said the federal government would cover the entire bill for repair! With taxpayer money of course...and to the families of the deceased, don't be upset, because Joe knows exactly how you feel! He lost a son!