Cargo ship that hit Baltimore bridge was involved in Antwerp collision in 2016
The Dali was reportedly detained in Belgium after scraping side of quay and significantly damaging part of hull in good weather
The same vessel that hit the Baltimore Key Bridge on Tuesday, destroying it and sending people and vehicles tumbling into the water, was also involved in a collision while leaving the port of Antwerp, Belgium, in 2016.
According to Vessel Finder and the maritime incident archive Shipwrecklog, the Dali – a 948ft (290-meter) cargo ship with a capacity of 10,000 containers – was leaving the container terminal of Antwerp heading to Bremerhaven.
As it did so, its bow reportedly swung around, causing the stern to scrape the side of the quay, significantly damaging several meters of the hull.
The ship was reportedly detained by authorities afterward and docked in Deurganckdok, Belgium. There were reportedly no injuries or adverse pollution.
I'm not sure what this implies. Defective ship? Was it the same captain, 8 years later? What's going on here?
Defective management seems more like it. Poor maintenance, overworked crews, etc.
The increase of “accidents of chance” infers that maybe they aren’t so “of chance”, basically
Per USA Today
I would bet management/owners have refused to pay for basic maintenance over crew objections and that's going to be a direct cause of this accident
e; better source, "Cargo ship lost power and issued mayday before hitting Baltimore bridge, governor says"
I really, really doubt a ship they expect to cross oceans to make money, was skimping on maintenance. I could be wrong, i mean, look at fucking boeing, but it's cheaper to maintain your shit than deal with the consequences, even when the consequences are simply a break down, not this. and it's MAERSK.they have money.
I got thru the 'friends network' that the ship had lost power, and put out a 'mayday' call. This explains why so few cars were on the bridge at the moment of the collision.
The BBC have a video of the full thing.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-68667813
There's maybe a minute between power going out and the collision. Still cars going over at that point. Google Street View doesn't seem to show any lights or barriers that could have been used, and I don't know anyone that can scramble a road black that fast. That's a half mile long bridge. They had no chance.
The reason there's so few deaths is just because it was the middle of the night.
Wikipedia says 1.6 miles. So it was already heading towards the support when power went out? Ah, I see power went out twice. I had also noted the black smoke in the first video I saw.
the black smoke is likely full throttle upon regaining power to attempt avoiding the structure.
The bit that actually collapsed was half a mile long. The rest seems to still be standing, so anybody on that bit would have been alright.
Hard to tell the path of the ship from that compressed angle tbh, or how far away it was. Dunno what anyone is supposed to do about it with a few minutes notice like that.
It was also 1:30 am, and work crews were pouring concrete fixing the bridge at the time. That probably meant at least some kind of reduced traffic during the night work I would think.
There would have been a police detail on the bridge with the construction crew. Which is incredibly fortunate. Sounds like they were in the best place they could be for such a tragedy.
It’s a shame they couldn’t help more of the workers escape.
At most, it would reflect poorly on the operator. It's almost certainly not the same captain, since they move around pretty frequently. May or may not be the same engine crew responsible for maintenance. Someone else said they had two pilots on board in this incident, so it's extremely unlikely to be an issue with the regular deck officer staff. My money is pure coincidence. You spend enough time operating, you're bound to have incidents. They're just reporting on it because it's extra ad views for people whose curiosity is piqued.
Ships obviously haunted by a vengeful spirit intent on causing as much damage as it can.
You can see that the vengeful spirit tore a hole in the side of the ship, and has escaped. So everything's fine now. Just need a new bridge.
How do we know the spirit didn't enter another ship? All we can do is hope that it finished what it needed to and has moved on.
Is this really all we can do?
You could call someone...
Who're you gonna call?
If your hot-dog tastes
Like a piece of wood
Who're you gonna call?
GHOST MUSTARD!
I did ask Albert to ask his friend Maersk. And I'm twiddling my thumbs. Like a lot. ;-)
I think I heard on the news that, for today's incident, a harbor pilot was in control of the ship at the time of the accident.
Details are starting to suggest the ship lost power, and thus control, before hitting the bridge.