Largest crane on Eastern Seaboard arrives at Key Bridge collapse site 

100% Bidens fault

the ship is very large thats why it stuck

@@richardjohnson8009 jI’m po

Negligence‼️

It’s quite obvious that Singapore launched this attack because we are banning tik tok. They need to be questioned at the UN and shown some freedom

​@Whatnok 😂🙄🤡 The ship lost power. You literally don't have a clue.

China behind this to slow import/exports

I would imagine in a channel that's only 50ft deep, they can't bring in massive marine cranes normally used for oil rigs, etc.

One word-Mammoet

Floating people in that have never done this kind of project before is going to get people hurt.

The water is 2 shallow for those massive cranes that can lift things like sunk wrecks.

Thats why I stated they need expert Navy divers to do underwater splodey things -- BUT YT pearl clutched and deleted common terms to describe these activities, b/c they're punks.

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The ones still missing are stuck in cars under the steel of the bridge Overtop it

Well, they're getting stuck-in so downtime for any port-related workers should be minimal. 👌

Granted the event seems suspicious We do live during interesting times

Zackly.

There's a 700 foot wide channel and it's stood for more than fifty years. Most bridges don't have concrete islands in front of the piers. New ones probably all will, but that's thousands of bridges that would have to be upgraded.

Because 150000 ton cargo ships did not exist when the bridge was built 50 years ago

​@@GWNorth-db8vn The bridges where I live are older than this bridge. In the 70s, they got reports about this type of thing happening. The city built extra concrete support around the pillars. Because that wasn't enough, they built rock islands around the concrete. The city went a step further and made it so no boat of substantial size, is allowed to go through our harbour without tugboat assistance. Especially, while it is mandatory for the local pilot to have control of the vessel. I live in a city that has 400,000 inhabitants compared to Baltimores 500, 000. I live in a country that has lower tax brackets than America, with 1/8 of the amount of people paying taxes. Yet we can afford to make our bridges stronger, and implement safe use of tugboats while the local pilot is in control. Plus, we have universal healthcare. So, it's not because the un-United States can't afford it. It is just the fact government doesn't care if its people die, due to their lax infrastructure. Look at the powerlines in this video. They have more protection than the bridge had. That is pathetic. Those powerlines are worth more to the government than a bridge, with people on it. Seems a little backwards to me.

@@enadegheeghaghe6369 Because in the last 10 to 15 years they could have absolutely put rocks or concrete dolphins in the water around the base

Because they are cheap. In Amerika safety comes last. Did Boeing build that bridge?

Especially Lloyd, Beau and Jeff.

@@geniferteal4178 Nice 😊

It didn't have

I don't think the Port of Baltimore has had any real attention in decades. Did you ever see the show "The Wire"? There was a whole season of that show about the Port of Baltimore and the whole premise was that the port was so underfunded that the Stevedores union there had to resort to corrupt dealings with an international drug cartel in order to be able to lobby politicians(who were also very corrupt, it being Baltimore and all...) to get the harbor dredged so they could get more ships into the port so they could have better job security and hire more people. In the end they got busted and the harbor never got dredged. I don't know if any of that happened in REAL life but I bet the harbor still hasn't been dredged.

Elon, Bill,Soros and all billionaires are coming to the rescue...lol just kidding they are getting greedier

Biden's massive infrastructure spending bill was going to fix all that. What happened to our tax money?

Yeah Joe sent your money for your infrastructure to Ukrook I mean Ukrane!

@@benjaminfishbeyn1996Which county? Hazard county?

I am not sure that crane would fit. This site is only 50 feet deep. This isn't a deep ocean salvage operation

@@enadegheeghaghe6369 I don't think he was suggesting that it could be use, he was jyst comparing size.

​@@orwellboy1958They definitely were suggesting that American cranes are inadequate for the job, and they should have larger ones doing this. No need for you to make up reasons or excuses for their statement.

In an emergency you take what's available...

I am sure they have larger but they are in use.

1,200 pounds is puny.

Do you mean 12,000 tons? Even so, that would not be the largest crane. I believe the largest is capable of 22,000 tons.

The largest Marine Crane is the "Sleipnir" which completed a record lift of 15,300 t (15,100 long tons; 16,900 short tons) for the topsides of the Leviathan project for Noble Energy, in September 2019.

1,200lb? I hope the work you were doing was no more than making coffee for the people that knew what they were doing.

My lawnmower weighs more than that

And containers.

An extremely explosive combination - Dont worry - Im sure they have adequate dust suppression just like they had adequate ship deflectors and tug escort for the bridge - oh wait...

Don't threaten me with a good time

Largest AVAILABLE from what I understand.

@@joewoodchuck3824 I know, cnn reported that the first one was the largest in the world, i laughed at that.

​@@captbad9313Right!?! From the largest in the world, to the largest on the eastcoast. 🤦‍♂️ Then even in this story, if went from the largest on the eastcoast, to the largest floating crane on the eastcoast. That's still wrong. When in actual fact, it is just the largest close by crane. There are floating cranes, with larger capacity for lifting, working on the windmills offshore from Martha's Vineyard. It can lift 1,600 tons. Oh, and it only has a draft of 19 ft, for all those about to say it wouldn't be able to go in 50 ft of water.

The crane is owned by the US Navy.

The water is only 50 feet deep at the site. Much larger cranes may not be able to operate there. This isn't a deep ocean salvage operation

@@enadegheeghaghe6369 Asia is full of massive crane barges that are designed to work in shallow water. Are there any in the Gulf of Mexico like that?

@@noelwhittle7922 how many of those large barges have cranes that can lift thousands of tons? And how many weeks would it take to move one to the port in Baltimore?

@@enadegheeghaghe6369 this job is going to take months.

Uh...Interesting comment except that most were not legal. Plus...what is the point you are making?

What makes you say they are in the USA legally? They can get a drivers license in MD zero problem. If this was a private contractor they hire “undocumented” people all the time.

Doesn't matter one bit anyway. @@jonathantaylor6926

So hard working they were sitting in the truck.

Cheap Labor

Idk gotta believe this is cheaper closer, and for the most part

I see one of these crane going in the water

It is called the “I Lift NY Super Crane”. It’s max load equals 12 Statue of Liberty or 5.4 million pounds.

@@benjaminfishbeyn1996 max lift capacity posted is 1929 tons, so yeah easy 2000 tons

It's also known as the Left Coast lifter. I passed by it a few times when it was working on the Tappan Zee Bridge. I know the two Operators that were running it. Great guys.

God.

This country doesn’t care about anything outside of profit. You should see our stores, long lines because major companies want to hire 1 cash register while 4 other registers are unoccupied. At a time when a lot of people are struggling to find jobs.

@@Salute51_6 - LITERALLY since I wrote that comment my friend in the US, an IT manager for a very large company just told me - ALL 35 of her staff have just been fired. They are outsourcing the whole IT function...

They are paying themselves a lifetime pension. Save money anyway you can. It's all about the Pensions. $100K dollar a year teacher and cop pensions in Maryland. Broke state government

He DID say “I want it done fast, I want it done RIGHT”. And the Commander Corp of Engineers ALSO said they would prioritize safety… So stop with your own dramatics…

@@ernestgalvan9037 The Governor is using the opportunity to make a show out of it now that he is finally on prime time.

Exactly

I would imagine that that crane will be used to install moorings for the larger cranes when they arrive. Then it will be used to service the main cranes, hold equipment etc whilst the main cranes hold the bridge parts.

They can't. Too corrupt.

Those 6 construction workers. Their families should receive a lifetime pension from the state of Maryland for life. The governor and Mayor get one, so why not the families??????

He’s a radical Muslim he’s probably dancing right now

I'll be back in a few weeks to laugh at you, this is gonna be a huge slow effort to fix could take a year or more, millions of tons of steel to be moved/cut all while recalculating weight/load area after each cut/move, and a lot of work will take dive teams in very hard/dangerous conditions, then they got to rebuild a new bridge too(although ships may be able to move in/out while its being built)how do you come up with these W.A.G.s?

@@SpectreOfChar Incorrect RandomDudeOne is correct. They are saying a month. That will be cleared and open to ship traffic in 2 weeks.

It will take months to reopen the port of Baltimore.

Yeah. I don’t even know what it’s for.

It had the same impact force as almost 50 million chickens running full speed.

Dude I thought the same.... How can the average viewer understand that comparison? Hahahaha

@@NotExpatJoe 😂🤣😂🤣😂

@alanbeckham9093 Yes but Mammoet is a Dutch company and we are the best in everything so we cannot call them. The point you are making is sadly true. We are falling behind in everything technical, we have destroyed our industry and engineering but we have gained in wokism.

​​@@pindapoy1596has it occurred to you that the site may be too shallow for such huge cranes? It only 50 feet deep at the site Also the largest cranes may be busy elsewhere? And even if they were called it would take weeks to get those huge cranes to the bridge collapse site. People who whine about wokeness often don't even think straight

How do you know what the correct cranes for this particular project is? Have you inspected the bridge or the site? Do you know how deep or shallow the site is? Have you consider that mammoet may not have assets nearby and it might take weeks for them to get there?

@@enadegheeghaghe6369the salvage is going to take a while. Do you think it is a better idea to get a good crane to make it go faster or is your pride too high to allow foreign help?

@@pindapoy1596 Do you think such cranes are sitting around, not being used? The bigger heavy-lift cranes tend to be booked for months to years ahead of time. Even if one was not being used, it takes time to prepare them and then cross oceans to the job site. Just getting one from Europe to the US would take a week of sailing.

Made sense to me. You don’t have to be able to do the math to know it’s a CRAP TON of force.

Exactly what I thought.

I thought exactly the same thing 😂

hey they had two choices to try to explain the force of the collision: one rocket motor or a quadrillion rhiinos. they chose something people could relate to...

Figures it’s cbs they are just as bad as cnn

The largest cranes available at the time.... The ones that's not set up and working, and on a waiting list... The largest the Navy had available in that area.... The USA's biggest may not even float in 50 ft of water... ?

You need need crane on barges to be able to operate in shallow water like this. To bring in large sheerleg cranes that can lift 2000-3000 tons from Europe or Asia takes to long time

Titles are often misleading. Nowadays news, you can't just believe the title. 😅

Read please “Largest crane ON EASTERN SEABOARD’ NOT the ‘largest crane we have’

@@ernestgalvan9037 Glad they fixed the title.

Ummm. Have you even tried to follow the story? Or, are you looking for quick blame and “solution “? Ugh. Humans are doomed. We suck.

Insurance takes time and the bridge is owned and operated by the state.

This bridge will be at least a 5 year project to replace.

Biden wants tax payers to pay for it, 10% for the big guy

Legal battle could take years, its better for federal govt to pay now and took the insurance claim later since they need the port working asap.

Exactly. Everyone is to cheap. They don’t want to spend the money for tug boat escort

This was bound to happen eventually. Ships enter and exit ports every day of the year.

@@gregorylyon1004 yup

They should be required to have tug boats both in and out of the port and the the Bay. Along with the failure of the state and city to properly protect the bridge from ships hitting it.

@@kevinwagner3416 I agree, through the bridge at least. There are buttresses there. If the side of the ship had hit it would have been fine. It was the overhang above the bulb that took out the pillar

Apparently it takes five minutes for the engine to stop at that speed, then it has to be cranked into the right position and started in reverse. They couldn't have put it into reverse that fast.

@@GWNorth-db8vn No. The ship was idling at 8kts. I know, I've done it. Lets see what the report says

@@rogerprout5574 - I haven't, of course. That's RU-vid wisdom that makes more sense than a pilot throwing a ship in reverse and making his rudder ineffective. We'll all seen enough about Titanic to know better than that. Yup, we'll have to wait and see.

The second something happens like this, the state calls the government for help. So it's obvious to me that Maryland has no money in the bank for even a small disaster. Too much money being spent paying themselves a lifetime pensions for retirement

You should give the salvage folks a call so that they will know what to do.

​@@roberthenry9319More so the blow down folks much safer to use cutting charges

The port of Baltimore will be down for months just getting the debris removed

What! Really!

Where are the emergency floating bridge to put in place, so the traffic keep go on.

They can use non Union scab immigrants for bridge construction just like they used for filling in potholes. LOL

It will be years before all the red tape is satisfied to even start reconstruction. That is IF the leftists even allow a new bridge to be built. They have stonewalled other bridges recently. The key to reopening the harbor is clearing the wreckage. Road traffic can just go around.

They go around

Long detour.

Swim.

This is adding an hour a day for some Baltimore commuters

How will the state of Maryland pay their pension funds for retired workers??? LOL

Do you really think most other bridges are any better protected?

State governments cut costs to pay themselves a lifetime pension plan for retirement. It's all about the Pensions. Just follow the money

He can't..

Oh yes you can just takes the best contractors, you know nothing about bridge building do you?

Maryland Governor Let the rescue staff, reconstruction team do there job rushing caused some this mess..

Sure you can. You can get something done well and done quickly for a lot of money. You just can't get it done cheap.

@@mikeprice4103 This is a salvage operation, the governor knows nothing about this.

There was once a ferry there

The port of Baltimore is more important than the bridge

No protection

It’s a semi submersible crane with a huge draft, it can’t operate in shallow water like this

​@@12345anton6789 50 foot is shallow waters ??

@@gregorylyon1004 it just the narrow channel that has this depth. The depth between land and the ship channel is between 10-20 feet where the bridge is

They will scrap the whole entire bridge

@bp30656 I noticed it but thought that the power line was built after the bridge and probably safety requirements were different at the time. Nevertheless congratulations to both of us.

Yes, because re-stringing a powerline costs $1 billion and takes 6 years (not).

​@@pindapoy1596there was nothing to stop protective dolphins being added retrospectively to the bridge, at zero disruption to traffic.

​@@pindapoy1596The bridge I live near is older than this one was. It has way more concrete around it than those powerlines. Also, around each hugh chunk of concrete is an island of massive car sized rocks. Plus, whenever a local pilot is needed to control the ship, tugboats must be used to help, just in case. I don't see any of that here. It's pathetic how people are defending how little was done to prevent this.

@@stephengrimmer35 You are totally correct. What remains to be clarified is why the work was not done. I have my own ideas about sending money to Ukraine rather than taking care of our own needs but that is another subject.

Shhhh......... America likes to think it's bigger and better than anyone else.