Ship Lost Power Before Hitting Key Bridge in Baltimore

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They look like BLM employees

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There seems to be a festering consensus that this bridge was not very well designed.

Engineers blame $3m structural ‘flaw’ for Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key bridge collapsing - and tens of thousands of bridges across US could also have fault

The core problem seems to be that the designers of this and many other bridges never considered how much larger container ships would eventually get.

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Jeff Ostroff:

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VDR sensor data missing during the power failure period (see video around 2:20 timestamp)

(2) DC_Draino on X: “And there it is… The Dali ship’s black box has 2 minutes of missing data right before it crashed into the Francis Scott Key bridge How convenient https://t.co/x75WUJecek” / X (twitter.com)

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If they weren’t maintaining their propulsion systems properly, it is not a stretch to think they weren’t maintaining their sensor UPS systems either. :man_shrugging:

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Lawsuit. Much oddities of maritime law:
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68396058/in-the-matter-of-the-petition-of-grace-ocean-private-limited-for/

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It is an ill wind that blows nobody any good. It is simply unfortunate that the beneficiaries of ill winds are so-often lawyers – earning big bucks filing suits and counter-suits, but doing nothing whatsoever to rebuild the bridge and re-open the port.

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Yup, you’re guaranteed to be on the winning side, every time!

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