Cargo Ship Issued Mayday Call Before Hitting Maryland Bridge
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- čas přidán 25. 03. 2024
- The 95,000-ton container ship reportedly lost power and propulsion before accidentally veering into a pillar, triggering the collapse of Maryland’s Francis Scott Keys bridge. Dramatic video of the disaster shows the ship losing power for 30 seconds as it drifts toward the bridge. When power is restored it was too late to prevent the disaster. Maryland Governor Wes Moore says a mayday call from the container ship just before the impact alerted cops to halt traffic heading across the doomed bridge.
Those poor construction workers; working, making a living, filling potholes on a bridge at 1:30am…and BAM. 😞
My heart goes out to all involved in this accident.
If they knew with enough time (probably a small amount, but enough) to stop traffic onto the bridge, then why were the construction workers still there?
@user-qv6wp9dx7b I'm pretty sure they meant they were able to stop people from driving onto the bridge quickly after it fell, preventing potentially dangerous circumstances on the remaining bridge
Edit: I was wrong, they did know ahead of time but just barely. There was a video that had the recording of the cops radios. They were in the process of trying to figure out how to get the crew off the bridge when it collapsed 💔
@@user-qv6wp9dx7bthe cops stopped traffic. They likely didn’t get onto the bridge themselves. It’s a very long bridge. They probably did not have comms with the construction crew.
Crazy thing is…just this past year 6 state highway workers were killed when a car went up and over the Jersey wall into a construction zone…including a father and son…10 miles away…now this…citizens should give a nod and peace sign to workers in fluorescent vests…
If this occurred during morning rush hour major death toll would be much higher
That mack truck driver is one of the luckiest dudes alive.
now he has a story to tell for the rest of his life.
He needs to take a weekend at Atlantic City with that kind of luck!
He needs to go buy a lottery ticket.
Agreed. Could of been my fiancé hauling fuel. He drives over that bridge often. Called him immediately when I saw it. Luckily wasn't on route yet. That driver definitely needs a to try lottery tickets. Heart goes out to that construction crew. What I do. Can't prepare for everything sadly.
That’s my dad he has video of how close his truck waf when it colloquially
Stopping 100,000 tons when it’s going 8 knots takes time
@@windshearahead7012 According to the GPS tracking it was going 8 knots.
Like trying to stop a train
Thanks for the info captain obvious!
That is 9 mph, which is a decent speed on water compared to land.
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A reporter interviewed a reporter.. brilliant
Lmao right! 😂
"we're here on the scene with Becky who is also on the scene. what do you have to say, Becky"
"well Tom, for that I'll have to turn it over to Dale who is also on the scene"
Definitely 🤦🏾♂️
reportception
It's like a CZcamsr replying to another CZcamsr.... oh wait
Hope everyone from the bridge accident is found and recovered
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How would that be possible 15 hours later. We need to focus on the bridge and the damage not having it is about to cause
@@hvyarms4496 you never really know. Just stop.
There's always hope and and strange things have happened many times in stranger situations.
@@hvyarms4496Recovering dead bodies is far easier than building new bridge. A new bridge could take at least 3 years or more to rebuild.
Yeah and it's gonna cost a lot of money 🤦🏾♀️ T_T @@DG-nk7jo
Looking at another article on the timeline, it looks like the first call was to the Coast Guard roughly a minute after crews determined they couldn't get the ship's powered restored. They hit the bridge roughly a minute later. The first signs of trouble wasn't even apparent until 4 minutes before the collision. Looks like they lost power at the worst timing possible.
I have a dumb, weirdly worded question- it’s like the barge was already on course with the current and their speed to hit the support piling before they lost power?
@@kellyramsey5486Could have been poor navigation.
Which is why it doesn't make any sense that police were able to stop traffic. I feel like they're just making that up to sound better. No way they had enough time after that mayday call.
@@erickingery4883 Shortly before 01:30 (05:30 GMT) a mayday was issued[24] notifying the Maryland Department of Transportation that they had lost control of the vessel and an allision (collision with a stationary object) with the bridge was possible, citing a loss of propulsion.[1] Further traffic was stopped from crossing the bridge.[5][25][26] The ship's lights were seen to go out and come on again some moments later and then go off again, and smoke was also seen coming from Dali's funnel.[10][27] The ship dropped its anchors as per emergency procedure.[28] At 01:28,[29] the ship struck a support column of the bridge, beneath its metal truss and at the south-west end of its largest span, at 8 knots (15 km/h).
Emergency teams began receiving 911 calls at 01:30.[3] The Baltimore Police Department was alerted to the collapse at 01:35. Large-scale rescue and recovery efforts were initiated.[30] The United States Coast Guard deployed boats and a helicopter as part of rescue efforts.
So i think someone blocked traffic off fairly quickly, but it may not have been the Baltimore Police Department 1st on the scene.
@@ethanweeter2732I believe they had a pilot during this so bad navigation seems unlikely.
I cannot imagine the sheer teror the people on the bridge felt when they knew it was going down.
The insurance company be like, you hit what? 🤬
😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😭😭😭
Declined
Dropped
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Unspeakable tragedy. My heart breaks for the victims' families. Rescue workers have to be so very careful in such a very risky environment.
2 notes
1. The ship lost power Twice, the first time for a full minute before the Disaster
2. The Ship was involved in 2 separate incidents prior to this.
it’s power was flickering just as it hit. Watch other sources of media that show the video
There was like 8 construction workers and they only found 2 humans alive
Dang it
It's 4 now
I think 2 missing
@@cfly11wastaken414 alive or 2 alive and 2 dead and 4 missing?
The ones they cannot find were most likely crushed unfortunately.
I just hope everyone is found 🙏🏾
Unfortunately they’re probably gone forever in that water 😢
There most likely dead😢
Only 2 have been found, but not the rest. They probably died already from the cold water.
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Praying for everyone
how about you go there and search for survivors instead of praying
@Kodakicy what does football have anything to do about it you have no soul there is nothing funny about it
@@windshearahead7012There's always one of you. Volunteered at a children's hospital for a decade. NEVER heard one family that wasn't grateful when people offered prayers and well-wishes for their family. And nobody was classless enough to mock those kind people. It's amazing how anonymity emboldens cowards on the internet.
@@clevelandcbi exactly ,, some sickos on here
@@windshearahead7012 no point in praying or searching for survivors!! They're pushing up daisies.
This is very scary
I agree, its so sad.
That last lady just repeated everything we just heard like..seconds after we just heard it
That's what the MSM does. They just repeat what each other is saying.
Yep. News flash: I'm just going to repeat what my colleague told you.....😂
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What would you have done?
@@coldestbeer provide additional details.
Nothing is going to stop a 95,000 ton cargo ship's momentum in that situation. Nothing.
Looks like a bridge will
what about steering it, though?
@@lauranolastnamegiven3385They couldn’t do that cuz they lost power.. Did you not just watch the clip?
@@AttilatheThrilla the ship only has power(ed) steering? that's a stupid design, perhaps after this disaster, a backup, more manual system will be (re)discovered, & retrofitted to these modern ships...even still, what was their heading when they lost power? how far out from the bridge, should they have made sure they were aiming *away* from the pillars?
@@lauranolastnamegiven3385 Okay… You try to manually steer a ship like that 🤣🤣 Physically impossible
I pray to God they find the crew, and I’m praying for the families of the lost 🙏🏾😞💔👼🏽
I was shocked when I learned this happened. It’s disturbing watching that video and seeing how close the truck was from the accident, but how the construction workers weren’t as lucky. Praying for everyone 🙏
Doesn't seem like a good design to make the entire bridge collapse if one pillar is hit.
My exact thought-damn bridge folded like an airplane food tray.
It was a continuous through truss bridge, the third longest such in the world. The entire thing is held up by pulling force between its parts, tension, like tug of war. When a massive part of it collapsed on impact it either pulled the rest down with it, or left it without a counter-force to promptly pull itself down the other way.
They cost an order of magnitude or two less because they're very material efficient, and can cover longer distances than an arch or beam bridge. It was built 50 years ago, I doubt we had the engineering experience or industry to build any other kind of bridge to such a size, and even if we did it would be ruinously expensive even today.
@@amorphousavocet1210 50 years is actually very impressive ngl.
I get your point, but if you look at it, it's only the middle of the bridge that collapsed, which is where it got hit by the ship. There can't be too many pillars there because otherwise, ships wouldn't be able to pass under it.
8 construction workers!! You better build that bridge with 8 pillars to remember these hard workers caught up in a bad accident… why do the hard workers have to go…
That's not how architecture works 💀
You can’t just put 8 pillars. Think of physics.
The more pillars you put, the more likely it is that a ship will hit them again 🤦
Pretty sure that's not how physics work 💀
Anyone else find it weird that one reporter was interviewing another ! This country is something else !
🌐👁️
Not really.
Maybe because the reporter is on-site?
Where were the tugboats moving the ship out of harbor?
i was on that bridge roughly 20ish minutes before it collapsed. when i heard it crash behind us (yes, it was that loud) i practically jumped out of my seat.
I bet you'll look at every day a bit different now.
@@seraeirian2 omg yes
So many memories I made with my family near or on this bridge 😢😢😢
😂
How would you feel is one of the core memories of your life was destroyed?@@myunitt911
This is such an unfortunate accident and sad. My thoughts and prayers to families and victims involved. It's heartbreaking
I'm glad you told me that they went in reverse. I never would have thought they would have done something so crazy
I will add that the wind and weather play a part. I have had several times with full power loss on large vessels. It is scary. I have had this in the North Sea twice, off the US east coast twice, and once in a fjord. You have no control. I have been monitoring the weather in this area due to our current operations in the area and the wind has been 20-30 knots from the north, right on the ship's beam. This will accelerate the dilemma into a full-blown emergency with no time to get the generators fired up. Terrible timing and location. Sad for all involved.
Why cant you anchor the ship to stop it? Isnt the anchor manual and doesnt need electric power? Why doesnt the ship have emergency stop fins where you can manually crank them out with crew power to slow its movement in the current?? I dont understand how this issue hasnt been made safer
@@doughboygee6865it was deployed but and anchor is meant to anchor a ship hence the name, not to stop it a knots, it’s not an emergency brake
@@linehandibew6205 they need emergency brake system if i was an engineer i wouldve been invented that
@@doughboygee6865 ships can't have emergency brakes because they have a ton of kinetic energy and little friction between the vessel and the water. It's the same reason why trains take a mile to stop even with the emergency brakes applied.
@@doughboygee6865 the bridge was the emergency brake, nothing can stop something that big with that much momentum m, except for a bridge
that should've been a horrifying moment for those poor workers when the bridge collapsed, it's my nightmare being on a bridge (even an small one like a footbridge) while it collapsing.
“Is it shocking to you that this happend from one strike?” No! Fully loaded cargo ships weigh 165,000 tons. Nothing will stop that.
Prayers for all
I would like to hear the discussion between the ship and the coast guard.
Thank goodness, this proves it wasnt planned. Much needed info 👍
Absolutely terrifying ,RIP to all those who perished🙏🏾.
final destination 5 vibes
Was just thinking that.
It also happened on the Jersey Central's Newark draw bridge in the mid 1960s although it didn't collapse
Bingo😳
Grim reaper takes out the Baltimore Bridge to take out 6 people, i would hate that movie
Weird! I said this earlier…
Just tragic! I am praying for all involved 🙏🏼
Gotta love how the power lines had more protection than the bridge
I hope everyone down with the bridge is okay and still alive in the water. I am praying that the rescue crew finds survivors in the water.
Its freezing
If they survived the fall, hypothermia would've got em by now
6 of them were found dead
That's not how cold water works.
They're dead, bud.
and impact , that's cement and metal , the height of that fall and water, no way
So tragic. Prayers for all those impacted.
This is devastating 😢
This is very scary and haunting, especially since the collapse took place when it was dark outside and those on the bridge can hardly see when they fell. My heart goes out to all involved. I hope they can find survivors somehow. Reminds me of the old skyway bridge collapse in the 1980’s.
Prayers❤❤
Terrible. RIP to the victims.
So what about the construction crew? Do we have casualties? Omg 💔
They will be a majority of the deaths. Wasnt too many vehicles on it but the construction workers werent warned
1 casulty
6 presumed dead and 2 rescued. So sad...:-(
Omg how truly devastating. RIP to all who perished ❤️🙏 Thanks for sharing this info.
My prayers go out to the family's and friends effected by this devastating disaster.
Very sad. Im sending prayers
Praying for you guys that’s sad 😢❤❤❤❤
To a god that let this happen.
So youre doing nothing?
@@unsignedmusic🙄🙄
@@unsignedmusicwhat do u want him to do….. grab the ship?? 😭
@@Lua0x07toxic lol
To me it looks like that ship would never have made it UNDER the bridge so what the heck was it even doing there in the FIRST PLACE??!! Is thst a regular shipping LANE?
The bridge has a 185 foot clearance, way more than enough room to get under. That's why they build these so high.
@@Trahzy… Gotcha…. So it is a regular shipping lane then.
So very sad. Can only imagine what those construction workers must have been thinking, and going through. Rest in peace.
crazy ive been over this bridge like 500+ times it was kinda a wake up call that things like this can just happen
Still seems suspect, ship was aiming right for it. They say it takes a great distance to turn these ships, no evasive maneuver appears to be taken.
thank God it wasnt the rush hour or alot of traffic on the bridge, i used that bridge 10 times last month going back and forth to new york
Oh my goodness could you imagine if it had a lot of cars if it was a busy day but the construction guys that is absolutely heartbreaking😮
Prayers for families and victims, 😢🙏🏼
9/11 in ship version
R.I.P. 🙏TO ALL LOST THIER LIFE ON BRIDGE 😢
Damn it
Not again
Is it common for these ships to suddenly lose power? Or is this a lack of oversight and safety like Boeing?
I think it's partly lack of oversight. This very same ship had a power outage and collision in 2016 in Europe. This ship should have never been allowed to function.
Overworked, underpaid, and cutting corners
@@Zarugoza5969 100%. Also the same reasons why the 8 poor construction workers were abandoned on the bridge to die -- they were overworked, underpaid, and exploited, which allowed their supervisors to escape and GTFO, abandoning the hard workers to their death.
Yikes. What a horror.
I toured UMD today and I saw the wreckage on the way to College Park. Something hits different when you see it in person versus just watching the video.
So this is clearly going to be the reason for some new regulations…
More inflation
They asking 600 million to fix it. Outrageous
You’d rather drive on a bridge built on a low budget by the worst construction company or what?
It’ll also take money to remove the all wreckage.
@@smoke617 Because everyone knows that when they ask for 600$ million to fix it half of that or more is going into someone's pocket and not actually toward the bridge.
@@smoke617You'd rather not simply ask for an audit on the funds prior to approval of construction? Wild.
I love Maryland and this bridge! 😢
Lots of things need to go wrong for something like this to happen. Already heard reports that they had power outages on the ship for days before this happened
Didn’t know CaseOh took a single step on that bridge.
he's catching stray 💀
Not to be that type of guy
But this is not a situation to joke about,
People could be dead.
Your comment is abt to be in one of his streams! 😂
yoooo chill
@@purplemax5140 ok
Why the heck didn’t they evacuate the construction crew when they closed it to traffic?
The police had no means of communication with the road crew, and was too afraid to drive onto the bridge to warn them.
@@michaellee2910The construction workers were warned but they didn’t have enough time to leave. Around a minute passed after the mayday call before the ship hit the bridge, barely enough time to block off traffic, definitely not enough time to cross half the bridge, load everyone up, and evacuate.
This happend 2 hours from me. I feel so bad for everone involved. 💔 I'm glad it wasn't rush hour.
In Brownsville texas, one strike took down a section of the queen isabella bridge. Such a tragedy for all. 0:00
“This was an accident and have no information to assume otherwise”
Thanks genius. I think people were more concerned for the details of the possible survivors
Not according to the comments here and several other places.
@@MrNaesme conspirators will always exist and don’t need to pay much mind unless there’s evidence
R.I.P Maryland Bridge.
You will be missed
How long before the collision was the mayday call made?
I can only imagine the cost of repair and upgrades. Hopefully when rebuilt if will have better safy features.
Port shut down.
Shakedown..
Or starboard 🤣
Someone's gonna get fired for this
probably the ship inspectors. or at least get better training, when it comes to taking notice of “small” issues. Then again maybe there were no signs of the soon to come ship power outage.
Wow! Oh my God 😮😢
Just imagine the horror of driving home from work and u just fall
1:17 my boy was gonna blame terrorists 🤣
He caught himself, lmao
Not time to be laughing
Not funny at all
But “right now, there is no evidence that it was anything other than an accident” 😂
The only way to prevent this is to not allow these vessels to be in a harbor without tugs and local pilots
It had a local pilot.
Thought that was already so??
It did. I believe they notified they had lost control. @@louisa6539
Did you even watch the video? It was on a course before it lost power. It wasn’t on the loose because it wasn’t secured or anything.
Your "knowing anything about this event" score = 🤦♂out of 10
Massive destruction that is.😔
Wow just before,, you think they would have called it a problem before that
Why weren’t there any Tugs or a pilot in attendance ?
Noticed
There were two Baltimore harbor pilots onboard.
There were two tugboats, they disconnected once the ship entered the main channel (check out casual navigation's video from today)
Wow
That is so sad 😢😢😢
ON the ship issue, why is no one talking about Primary and Auxiliary Power? Yeah the lights flickered, doesn't mean you lose propulsion and rudder. When power fails, Auxiliary kicks in for the engine and rudder. You do not lose control of a vessel this size. WTF going on here.
but why did it drift so far? if you watch the video carefully it made a pretty wide right turn. Even if it lost power and steering thats quite the switch in direction and the current isnt that strong to move 100,000 tons
If build back better was a bridge.
Better than what we had
I live near Coronado bridge in SanDiego. This is by biggest fear every time I cross.
I’ve never liked or trusted these types of bridges. Too scary. Love Wes Moore. Wes Moore for president.
So who pays for that the company whos boat hit the bridge? Who am I kidding taxpayers gonna pay that half a billion dollar bill
Yeah, definitely won't catch the insurance company paying for anything
I think the bills only go up to 100.
The national anthem instead of London Bridge is falling down.
She said, “It was able to hit the bridge” 🤦♀️
The ship didnt do that.If you can see closely,the entire bridge is covered in smoke,meaning they put bombs on the bridge
September 11th attack Except it's a bridge not a building.
Fortunately the ship lost power and hit the bridge ON ACCIDENT and not purposely.
They keep saying that the power went off in the boat but when the power went off they were still too goddamn close to the bridge anyway. Somebody was not paying attention drivin that MF .. the crew captian/ driver is totally at fault
Exactly!!!
...and you know they were "too close to the bridge" how exactly?
And It just happens to hit the piler dead center? IDK about this one.
@@aronbennett1914 ...I have a question for you. Why is your first instinct to believe something is the result of a conspiracy and not a result of series of ill fated events? Personally...the idea of living in fear of people conspiring to commit atrocities around every turn sounds exhausting.
@@aronbennett1914 exactly. There was a little time to turn away. They knew how close they were.
Unbelievable
Sad man
This was a KEY suicide bridge, according to many hospitals. Many people jumped off that bridge to their death on purpose. Maybe it can be rebuilt safely.
Seek help.
You verified that through the hospitals bro?
@@ryant115why u telling him to seek help?
Great, now those pot holes will never get filled!
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This makes me sad I lived in Maryland for the first half of my life and I was driven across that bridge many times and it took no effort and the bridge was sunk traveling the bridge will never be the same if they even rebuild it
Damn this crazy hope they get them out
That ship curiously hit right at the pillar.. Doesn't make sense.
@Ms_chae6 still curiosity
@Ms_chae6So a ship moving on its own would hit the pillar?
@Ms_chae6 Yes, but common sense dictates that when traveling between two obstacles, you stay as close to the middle as you can. The power was off for approximately 30 seconds, so that’s a 30 seconds to change the trajectory of a massive cargo ship. Even before losing power, they were still drifting way too close to the pillar. So either the ship was malfunctioning long before that, this was intentional, or someone wasn’t paying attention.
@@ye333 Well, yes, a ship like that can’t stop on a dime.
@@LunaTsukiko8547 I heard something like 2 minutes without power from a different source, and the first minute was spent trying to fix the issue before a mayday call was issued.
It’d also explain why they were on course to hit the pillar if the original route gave them 2 or so minutes to turn toward the middle.
The whole thing seems very suspicious to me.
I'm with you Kay. Something doesn't seem right. We have fires raging, open borders, trail derailments and protect other country's borders while Americans can't afford food and dying with tainted drugs Sent in by the car**tels.
America is no longer safe where criminals roam free and political opposition gets thrown in jail...
Dark times but we gotta keep praying.
Key created the Star Spangled Banner .... removing statues
...because you've been conditioned to believe everything is a conspiracy theory on instinct before any facts come out.
@@ryant115 Ofc because there's so much fake news out there. Everyone's got ulterior motives.
@@ryant115 Me when a 100,000 ton ship without power makes a very sharp turn directly towards a pillar while already being way too close to the pillar before losing power