How Did the Baltimore Bridge Collapse - Animated 

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Lol!! That I missed

6:16 It's Australia, they drive on the left side of roads there. I don't know why the video's creator felt a need to make it appear otherwise.

AI fear-porn

@@tobymichaels8171whoah whoah whoah

Support your industry is commendable. Why does this animation not show the last second right turn into the support? Accuracy of an engineer?

@@denveyebanks4787 In my personal opinion the loss of power on the ship was a consequence of a cyber attack. That's my opinion.

@@denveyebanks4787 Let us know when you've posted a video on your channel showing a better animation. Look forward to seeing it.

@@EETechStuff I don't post videos but I can tell you this one is NOT accurate.

@@anmihovil Not sure what it was but something is really fishy here. Smells like a rat, might be a rat.

When tugs are used they are connected and do all the steering and propulsion.

I heard the same from a tug operator

Agreed. And, in many cases, tug use is limited to increase TUG operator safety. Many tug operators die each year from accidents when tied to large vessels. So they don't stay attached any more than necessary.

So for the tugs to be effective, the ship would have to move much more slowly? That would also add to the cost by lengthening the journey out of the harbor.

@Robert08010: When the cargo ship was being pushed by the tug boats, it was moving at a slow speed managed by the tugs. Once the tugs separated from the ship, the ship powered up to speed to 8 knots. If the tugs had remained pushing the ship past the bridge before releasing the ship to run under its own power, the power outages would've had lesser consequences.

Do not forget, the ship is run by Indians,,, everything is okay boss,,, their style

Yep. But the mentality is "Time is money." The course to Sri Lanka was already extended by many days to avoid a path through the Middle East. It had to go around Africa.

I wonder who will be held responsible.

The engines throttle up as seen by the black smoke? No sign of the wash from full astern thrust. So ship is on full power forwards? No dolphins so no protection. But from the other side there are puffs of smoke just as the ship hits. Look like cutting charges going off on pier. All very odd. No power no turn so why did it turn? Too many questions.

They were warned about the lack of pier protection in 1980. It was a problem 44 years ago.

I agree with you,,,those "Pilings" set maybe 100 yrds in front of the inbuttments didnt help,,, Those 4 skinny legs just crumbled

Trusting that all ships passing under the bridge would always miss the bridge itself? That's more 'asking for trouble' than anything else. Remember kids, "Failure is mandatory. What happens after the failure is important." - after this ship lost power, this story could have ended "And the ship struck a concrete barrier, leaving it blocking the channel."

@@Relkond The law of maximum bad luck. If it can happen, it will happen. Guaranteed!

I totally agree, the existing dolphins are in the wrong position to deflect the wayward container ship.

@@Relkond Thats the whole idea,,,dont hit the bridge

With a known power problem, the captain should've had the tugs bring his vessel out to the ocean, to avoid any issue with it losing power inside the waterway.

So you expect us to go 1 knot at all times in Port? Do you not know ships are on a time limit to get to port to port? Smh do your research before you try to act like a merchant seaman

@@chazspeedy.8286dO yOuR rEsEaRcH 🤡

Sometimes newer learns and horses continue hovering around 😊

In my country we say "until the cooked chicken pecks you"

genau so sieht's aus 😏 Das Problem ist weltweit bekannt und akzeptiert. Wer solche Fehlentscheidungen trifft, sollte sich mit seinem Privatvermögen an den Kosten beteiligen.

If you want to cast blame, at least get your facts straight. The City of Baltimore has nothing to do with this. The bridge was planned, designed, built, operated and maintained by the state of Maryland, not the City of Baltimore.

@@MotoNomad350 City, State. Who cares? It was ineptly designed in the beginning, and it was identified as needing more protection for the primary piers, especially as ships just kept getting larger. And the needed improvements were not done because elected officials would not allocate the funds. It’s not like this is the first time a bridge has been hit by a ship. I am sick and tired of our infrastructure falling apart because we can no longer TAX the super rich and major corporations. Trickle down economics has turned the US into a second world nation. 40 years of tax cuts for the top 5%.

Baltimore was told in 1980, shortly after the Sunshine Skyway collapse, the the FSK bridge protection was inadequate. They chose not to do anything for 44 years.

Actually, when the bridge was build, the deep channel was much narrower, and deep draft freighters restricted to the channel could not hit the support pillars - they would be grounded first. Dolphins were designed for much shallower draft vessels, that could navigate in 20 feet of water. The problem arose when the channel was later widened practically to reach the pillars, but the protection was not enhanced, and now pillars were reachable by the largest ships.

@@dmitripogosian5084 All of that may be absolutely true. But it doesn't change the fact that they were warned about the piers needing better protection in 1980. That was 3 years after it opened, and the ships were much smaller than todays. And it's not like they didn't know what was coming. During construction of the FSK bridge, they were building larger ships than what were currently in use right there at Sparrow Point. Right or wrong at the time, who knows, but Baltimore elected to not build better protection. The estimate was @ $4 million to build it back then. Now it's costing them $15 million. Per day!

@@KSparks80 And then in those 44 years, thousands of ships passed safely, that brings complacency. It's not like the state couldn't afford changes to the bridge.

They are waiting for the DEI design team.

Hyper competition*

@@Nmdixon-cu7vm Slave labor?

The cargo ship took on 2 men to handle the harbor pilot duties. It costs more time, money, and effort to have the tugs bring the ship all the way out. Ship operator wants to save money. Harbor coordinator and tug operators want the next vessel to be serviced ASAP. The assumption is that the cargo ship can speed up to 8 knots and make it out on its own. Of course, the captain of the cargo ship is negligent in not considering the issue of his ship's ongoing power problems.

They lost steering.

The odds of it happening were extremely low. Dolphins are extremely expensive and you will need convince tax payers/ commuters that they want pay for extra protection

Because it was built in the 1970s before the need for that kind of thing was really understood. Now if you want to know why those weren't retrofitted following incidents like the Skyway collapse in the 80s, then yeah, you can probably chalk that up to greed and/or negligence.

You don’t understand how aid to Ukraine works… Long story short, it’s not stuffing a briefcase and shipping it to Ukraine. The U.S. is just paying US companies to make more war equipment and shells, then sending shells and old war equipment to Ukraine. And “Ukraine” aid packages are a misnomer. Some directly help the US, others are sent to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. Ultimately this just means we’re spending more on making sure American production can keep us as the “arsenal of democracy”

Don’t worry my friend, Xi Jinping will pay for replacement if Biden won his 2nd presidential election. Only negative was: Americans have to pay tolls to ccp for 99 years 😂

I don't think this animation attempted to address that at all. Although one does wonder what was the point of the animation if not to address that. This anim also shows the bridge collapsing immediately after the first leg was hit but that's not correct. It wasn't until the second leg was hit that the bridge collapsed.

@@Robert08010 That's my point. Why not? Is it a deliberate deflection from the truth to influence what people think? Perhaps it is. If someone is going to go thru the trouble of creating this, one would think they would try to make it ACCURATE. Not precise but ACCURATE.

@@denveyebanks4787 Could be (like most of the commenters here) he didn't research enough before making his video or comments. My take is that this was a low research video created to gather views, not to mislead an investigation. Believe me, no investigator is looking at the youtube comments to crack the case.

Thanks!

Because it’s a bridge in baltimore

Or was one ig 😅

See Rio-Niteroi Bridge, 14 km, with its huge dolphins, in the port of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

I don't think this bridge was as big of an artery as you are imagining.

It pivoted as if the ruder was hard over.

Floating!

This is just like the rocket ship equation. To go further, you need to lift more fuel, but then you need a bigger rocket for that. So then you need more fuel to lift a bigger rocket to lift more fuel. Likewise, a stronger bridge is also a heavier bridge which then has to be stronger to hold up its own weight. In the end, making it as light as possible creates the best balance - so long as you have some fault tolerances.

Money.

To have the piers at the shore it would need to have a 8600 ft span. It's main span was 1200 ft. I'm sure they will increase the span but making the span 6x longer is extremely expensive.

If by "hard right" you mean "about 10-15 degrees to the right," then yes.

@@zackakai5173 It was far enough to make the existing dolphins irrelevant.

@amorris WHO CARES ????🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️

This bridge is in the city of Baltimore.

No it is not. Its in Anne Arundel County on one side and Baltimore County on the other side. No where did the bridge go into Baltimore City

It closes in the Baltimore Harbor and was a part of the Baltimore beltway. Whether it is in the city limits of Baltimore is irrelevant. It is definitely a part of the Baltimore city region.

This bridge is in the City of Baltimore. How many times do I have to say it?!🙄

And what do you base this definitive statement on? Were you onboard prior to departure?

@@scott6002there were log reports from the port that the ship was blowing electric breakers supplying the reefer containers onboard. There are no reports this failure was resolved prior to departure. The loss of power underway affected propulsion and navigation control, and was the root cause of the accident. This very factor is being actively investigated by the FBI.

@@scott6002 within the first 12 hours of this incident multiple dock workers ON SITE verified the Dali was having unresolved electrical problems seemingly due to the refrigerated demands tripping the breakers. Within 24 hours these reports were scrubbed. The Dali DID summon two escort tugboats while in channel for assistance but somehow someone made the decision to disembark the tugs from her sides before reaching open sea. Hopefully we'll a conclusinary answers to many reasonable questions shortly from the NTSB, FBI and perhaps Coast Guard. I can't imagine who would surpass federally mandated safety regulations to greenlight the Dali as seaworthy for a 27 day voyage to SriLanka halfway around the globe without it's electrical problems resolved. We'll see.

I think if the Dali, knowing it had ongoing issues, had asked for a tug-escort all this could have been avoided. I hope it had been found negligent.

@@Robert08010 the Dali summoned 2 escort tugboats while in channel for assistance yet the tugs disembarked from the ship before reaching open sea. (???) Coincidentally moments after the tugs disembarked the Dali lost all main power, then backup power and finally emergency power failed as well. Who greenlighted the Dali before the ship's electrical problems were resolved while at dock? Enroute for a 27 day voyage to SriLanka halfway around the globe yet couldn't make it out of Baltimore without destroying it's Bridge?