Is The Brooklyn Bride A Toll Bridge?

I take that bridge twice a day. I feel so lucky to be alive. This has been devastating to our community. My heart goes to those poor guys who were doing construction on the bridge. None of this seems real. Thanks to everyone sending thoughts and prayers our way. Baltimore most definitely needs your support right now.

Some people aren’t getting the perspective on this. That ship is not moving parallel to the bridge at any point in this article, not even close. You might think that’s the side silhouette of the ship in the dark, but that ship is way longer than it is tall. We’re seeing it way closer to the front than from the side. From side on, if it were travelling parallel to the bridge, you’d see a silhouette that wouldn’t even fit between the pillars at the side of the screen, a silhouette almost as long as between the two central pillars. The ships initial heading here was 141 degrees, i.e. it’s heading for the middle of the gap between the two center pillars, to pass under the middle of the bridge. The yaw to starboard when it went of course was just 12 degrees. Also, this version of the article is playing at about 6x the speed this happened in real life.

Those ships, even when moving slow, have an insane amount of inertia and momentum. The Dali weighs about 115,000 tons fully loaded. Let’s assume it was going 5 knots, which is about 5.75 mph, or around 2.5 m/s. To get its momentum, we can use the equation for this: mass times velocity. This gives us an answer of 287,500 tons of momentum. That pillar had to withstand that much pressure. It may have been able to do this if the pressure was in a vertical axis as it was designed for weight to transmit down through it, but it had no chance to withstand from the side, as it was never meant to have that much pressure on that side and in those directions. There is a reason they need huge engines to move them-the Dali’s diesel made about 58,000 HP.

After learning more during the past 24 hours: 1. The Dali lost steering (rudder) but the single screw engine was running. The ship was experiencing power outages while underway. 2. Dali was moving forward at 7-8 knots when the exhaust cloud was seen on the article. This was caused by reversing the engine to slow or stop the vessel. 3. Like any single screw vessel it pulled hard to starboard (right hand direction) when thrown into reverse but kept moving forward. Even in reverse a nearly 1,000 ft. container ship will not stop on a dime. The rudder was not available to counteract this pull to starboard. This is what caused the hard right turn toward the pylon. 4. The Dali ran directly into the bridge pylon.

from what we see in the article we can gather some facts.\r \r fact 1. there were no cars or trucks on the bridge, they all crossed safely.\r fact 2. the construction crew was still up there. they had not left yet when the bridge dropped harder than the world trade center\r fact 3: they are likely all dead

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That is some true bad luck there, if the ship had of been further over to the left or right, it would cleared the column and passed under the bridge like normal, the fact that of all the places to be, the ship found its self in the worst one, right in front of one of the bridges columns. My heart goes out to those poor workers and their families and friends.

I don’t like to think of myself as paranoid, but I am observing such an increasing amount of laxness in both the handling and oversight of various critical things lives are dependent upon, that it is utterly terrifying! More and more things that should be the absolutest of priorities are either being placed on the back burner or ignored completely!!!

Can you not see this was intentional. They drifted off course to hit it once they cut the power to make it look like a mechanical problem so they had to turn it back on to get the ship lined up and then cut it again before they hit. This was no accident and if you cant see that there is no help for you

When the ship went dark all electrical power was dropped and the smoke bellowing out afew seconds later ment that the engines were trying to be put in reverse….even the port side anchor was dropped to try and slow the ship to a stop but the speed and electrical failure there was literally nothing the crew could do

Ok I looked at this footage a few times and from what I can see is there is black smoke coming from the boat and don’t if that’s normal or not but I find it strange that there was smoke before the boat hits the bridge like an explosion, something just doesn’t make sense about this whole thing. My prayers go out to all the families 🙏🙏

I realise that ship is Not the worlds largest supertanker needing 2 miles or more to instigate a turn but I can also see its Not a go-cart or a 6 foot inflatable dingy capable of turning in half its own length. That ship clearly needs many boat lengths to start a turn and it was therefore heading directly for the bridge long before the first lights out so regardless of all or any of the engines working or failed, this was just a colision waiting to occur.

At t 0:02, the ship appears to lose electrical power (lights out). at T0:12 the lights come back on and smoke surges from the smoke stack at T0:15. Is it speeding up or slowing down at that point? It also starts turning toward the bridge pillar and at t0:23, the lights go out for another 5 seconds during which time the ship appears to turn more sharply toward the bridge pillar. At t0:28 the lights come back on and the ship proceeds into the pillar under full bloom from smoke stack. Again, was it speeding up or slowing down? Just questions a critical press should be asking.

Ship loses power and steerage. Regains powers and steers to starboard to avoid pier to the right of camera. Loses power with rudder hard right and moves towards pier in camera. Regains power again, but far too close to pier to avoid, steers hard to port but there is no time and rams pier. Bridge has no pier buffers and cannot withstand the mass of impact and collapses. How the authorities in Maryland didn’t know this was an accident waiting to happen, I cannot understand. All bridges on navigable waterways need pier buffers.

Amazing, how fast it was going. I thought a ship that size would be crawling along in port…………….its going straight and will miss the bridge, then it makes a really sharp turn for something that size and runs straight into the bridge support…………………kinda like it was aiming at it. Really wondering at the thought process of the pilot hired to guide the ship out of port. Lights or not why the sharp turn?

Another perfectly executed terror attack? Notice smoke from the stack. The boat is under power. Notice how it turns directly into the bridge support. Was that from the current? Why were the anchors not deployed? The ship lost power just before leaving the dock, and they left anyway? You can see the lights on, then off, then on, then off. Why TF would you leave the dock? This is very suspicious.