Cargo Ship Issued Mayday Call Before Hitting Maryland Bridge 

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

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

​@@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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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

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"

That's like 2 spy's watching each other

Definitely 🤦🏾‍♂️

reportception

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Declined

Dropped

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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.

it’s power was flickering just as it hit. Watch other sources of media that show the video

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.

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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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 agree, its so sad.

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.

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

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.

I bet you'll look at every day a bit different now.

@@seraeirian2 omg yes

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 💀

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Not really.

Maybe because the reporter is on-site?

Where were the tugboats moving the ship out of harbor?

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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

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…

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.

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

To a god that let this happen.

So youre doing nothing?

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@@unsignedmusicwhat do u want him to do….. grab the ship?? 😭

@@Lua0x07toxic lol

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.

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.

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.

Shakedown..

Or starboard 🤣

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

More inflation

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)

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.

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.

The bridge had electrical wires running through it. That's what powered the lights that were blinking on it and other electrical systems. The collapse severed the connection. There may have even been a transformer there. You see one on the opposite side as well. *Edit: you see it on the opposite side in the longer, unedited video.

@rprince418 thanks for the explanation. 👍

@@claudsonmoraes727 yep!

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

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.

Yeah, definitely won't catch the insurance company paying for anything

I think the bills only go up to 100.

Your tax payer😂

I think Saddam

Is the cargo company not liable for anything?

​@@yo-yo-wallkski9227 that's an idiotic response

The mexicans.

Better than what we had

Seek help.

You verified that through the hospitals bro?

@@ryant115why u telling him to seek help?

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

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” 😂