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The company, which has a full name of A.P. Moller - Maersk, said no company crew and personnel were onboard the vessel. It said the ship, DALI, is operated by charter vessel company Synergy Group."We are horrified by what has happened in Baltimore, and our thoughts are with all of those affected," The company said in its statement.
Thank you….. This is good information to understand as this all unfolds.Preliminary Information:
1. Ships should be under the control (conn) of a State Licensed Pilot (2 Pilots reported to be onboard this ship).
2. Pilots are not in command. Captain of the ship is in command.
3. Likely ship lost propulsion or steering when approaching the bridge.
4. One question is if the anchors were ready to let go (may or may not be effective in stopping the ship depending upon ships speed).
5. Bridge support structures, like many in the U.S. are not protected from ship strikes.
6. U.S. Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board will likely be investigating.
7. This unfortunate event will bring forward many questions about ship navigation practices, including: active tug escorts, duties of each pilot when 2 are aboard, speed of ships approaching bridges, emergency response, ISM Code audit of ship, testing of ships gear before getting underway, readiness & capability of anchors, enough manning on bow (ready to drop anchor), design of bridge pilings for ship strikes, and more.
8. Unfortunately, from a safety engineering perspective, this incident was predictable. You have large moving objects (subject to many failure modes) with no bridge structure protection. It is not a "fail safe system". Thus the risk was and is present (low probability & high consequence).
RIP to those that perished in this case.
Thank you.Preliminary Information:
1. Ships should be under the control (conn) of a State Licensed Pilot (2 Pilots reported to be onboard this ship).
2. Pilots are not in command. Captain of the ship is in command.
3. Likely ship lost propulsion or steering when approaching the bridge.
4. One question is if the anchors were ready to let go (may or may not be effective in stopping the ship depending upon ships speed).
5. Bridge support structures, like many in the U.S. are not protected from ship strikes.
6. U.S. Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board will likely be investigating.
7. This unfortunate event will bring forward many questions about ship navigation practices, including: active tug escorts, duties of each pilot when 2 are aboard, speed of ships approaching bridges, emergency response, ISM Code audit of ship, testing of ships gear before getting underway, readiness & capability of anchors, enough manning on bow (ready to drop anchor), design of bridge pilings for ship strikes, and more.
8. Unfortunately, from a safety engineering perspective, this incident was predictable. You have large moving objects (subject to many failure modes) with no bridge structure protection. It is not a "fail safe system". Thus the risk was and is present (low probability & high consequence).
RIP to those that perished in this case.
Certainly not trying to make sport of this tragedy, but that is a very cool app.Awful news to wake up to this morning. Checking out vessel finder you can see many cargo ships on either side of the collapsed bridge now backing up.
This is a interesting suggestion, but I don't think it is as simple as just a sign at the end of the bridge. Lets be honest, alot of drivers would ignore a sign, so you need a barrier. The barrier would need sirens to be going before it drops(think RR crossings) on a interstate with cars going 60mph likely at the slowest. Then you have who is in control of putting down the barrier. Who decides when it goes down? Ship, pilot, DOT, state, city, police? Do you have someone watching the bridge 24/7 near a button? Alot of moving parts.Apparantly the container ship notified MD it had lost control
Ship lost propulsion, warned of collision, CISA report says
A container ship struck Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge early Tuesday.abcnews.go.com
Couldn’t there be an alert type siren on bridges? Similar to tornado warnings? To at least alert to danger being on the bridge? And maybe some sort of visual to ‘do not enter’ for a quick alert to not proceed onto the bridge for traffic? Seems like that would at least help potential issues. I suffer to think how different this would have been during peak traffic. Seems like there could be some sort of warning system. I know it’s not much, but seems like an easy add that would be helpful. Especially if this small bit of advance warning from this ship occurred.
And honestly, thinking more about it, it’s probably not practical from the legal side. Opening up more pieces to liability, etc.This is a interesting suggestion, but I don't think it is as simple as just a sign at the end of the bridge. Lets be honest, alot of drivers would ignore a sign, so you need a barrier. The barrier would need sirens to be going before it drops(think RR crossings) on a interstate with cars going 60mph likely at the slowest. Then you have who is in control of putting down the barrier. Who decides when it goes down? Ship, pilot, DOT, state, city, police? Do you have someone watching the bridge 24/7 near a button? Alot of moving parts.
Much easier to place a ship blockade in front of these bridge supports. May not stop support from getting hit, but might stop the bridge collapse.
Apparantly the container ship notified MD it had lost control
Ship lost propulsion, warned of collision, CISA report says
A container ship struck Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge early Tuesday.abcnews.go.com
Couldn’t there be an alert type siren on bridges? Similar to tornado warnings? To at least alert to danger being on the bridge? And maybe some sort of visual to ‘do not enter’ for a quick alert to not proceed onto the bridge for traffic? Seems like that would at least help potential issues. I suffer to think how different this would have been during peak traffic. Seems like there could be some sort of warning system. I know it’s not much, but seems like an easy add that would be helpful. Especially if this small bit of advance warning from this ship occurred.
"A mayday call was issued before a container ship struck a pillar of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore — a decision Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said "saved lives" ahead of the bridge's collapse early on the morning of March 26.Somewhere I read that they were shutting down the bridge as it happened, explaining what appears to be a fortunate lull in traffic the few seconds before the collapse. No clue how that occurs or where they were in that process.
Yes, rewatching I did notice that the headlights stopped.Somewhere I read that they were shutting down the bridge as it happened, explaining what appears to be a fortunate lull in traffic the few seconds before the collapse. No clue how that occurs or where they were in that process.