Couldn't they have dropped anchor to stop themselves? It worked in the movie Battleship.
Baltimore Key bridge collapse
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His follow up video with some more info. One of the best things of the internet are the geekier niche areas such as this YouTube channel.
>>Biden emphasized that the bridge collapse was an accident and praised the ship's crew for reporting the issue so that local authorities could quickly close the bridge to traffic before the bridge was struck. He said the quick-acting crew "undoubtedly saved lives."<<The Francis Scott Keybridge off of the 695 beltway in Baltimore collapsed earlier this morning as a container ship ran into it around 130 this morning.
6 workers presumed dead after cargo ship crash levels Baltimore bridge
The six vanished after the Francis Scott Key Bridge disintegrated from the impact of a container ship that struck it early Tuesday. A search is now a recovery effort, officials said.www.nbcnews.com
Ok that explains the big question I had. Even at 1:00 am there would have been more traffic on the bridge than that. Thank God they made that call.
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for the record they did, port for sure not sure about the starboard
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yep- last ditch effort to stop a ship that size
(not a marine engineer, but I have a good bit of experience navigating and driving ships)
O.K., the real question. How is this bridge collapse going to affect our recruiting?
Formerly being a fishermen(on weekends of course), I am sure the bottom of that river is all sludge and there was nothing for the anchor to grab onto like most intercoastal waters on the east coast.
I guess the other question I have is, should a ship that size have tug boats guiding it through what looks like a very a narrow opening under that bridge? I mean the bridges over the Delaware in Philly are nice and wide. This one looks a wee bit narrow of for a boat that size.
watch the video above , it is very good. they had 2 tugs pull it out and point it the right direction, it should have been good to go from there without problem provided it didnt have any problems.
I've never been into that harbor, but the 90 degree turn from one channel into the one going under the bridge caught my eye when I looked at the chart. And I did wonder about why they positioned the bridge where they did. Usually tugs are used when you are fairly close to a dock or pier, and they weren't- but tugs might have helped if they were big enough.
again you are not asking the right question, what does this do to our garbage OOC schedule?
where was CJF when the ship lost power?
If my quick research is correct, here are the lengths of the main spans:
Francis Scott Key Bridge: 1,200 feet
Delaware River bridges:
Delaware Memorial Bridge: 2,150 feet
Commodore Barry Bridge: 1,644 feet
Walt Whitman Bridge: 2,000 feet
Benjamin Franklin Bridge: 1,750 feet
Betsy Ross Bridge: 729 feet
Tacony-Palmyra Bridge: 558 feet
There was also a Maryland bay pilot on board to assist the crew to navigate out of the harbor, as per protocol.
My work partners brother lives and works in MD, he told her the mood is like post 911. The community is bumming so hard
It's pretty devastating.
Bob,
The guy is a little off base. He is talking about redundancy related to the bridge superstructure, ie the steel truss.
It really doesn’t matter the factor of safety incorporated in the design of the super structure ……
IF THE SUBSTRUCTURE (Concrete pier) IS REMOVED, AND NO LONGER SUPPORTS THE BRIDGE………
THE BRIDGE COLLAPSES AND GOES… BOOM
Granted, the bridge piers should have been better protected from incidents like this.
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I never use that part of the beltway, but living not too far from there I can say yes this is devastating to the Baltimore region.
The bridge’s superstructure ’collapsed’……
The pier foundation was ‘destroyed’
What about those big honking structures they built around the piers after the Sunshine Skyway disaster 30(?) years ago?
Saw a clip about “dolphin” structures, care to elaborate Step? Enough to stop that size of a ship?
How the Baltimore bridge collapse compares to the fall of the Sunshine Skyway
The original Sunshine Skyway Bridge, which collapsed in 1980, opened just a few years before the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
this article comes close to answering your question
Engineers ask if Baltimore’s Key Bridge piers could have been better protected
Many bridges similar to Baltimore’s Key Bridge are protected by barriers designed to prevent or reduce the impact when vessels collide with piers. Such installations include cable systems, po…
www.baltimoresun.com
I should note that a year ago, work started to add dolphin protections to the Delaware Memorial Bridge -- a bridge which @TheBigUglies indirectly mentioned in an earlier post.
Delaware Memorial Bridge gets a $93 million upgrade to protect against ship collision
A multimillion dollar project is underway at the Delaware Memorial Bridge to enhance its protection system and prevent future collisions like the 1968 tanker.
whyy.org
Taken from where I worked for five years. I went over that bridge thousands of times
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It is now clear to me that the USA needs a funding bill exclusively dedicated to “infrastructure” 
If that is the standard to post... this thread is 70+ posts too long. And this whole site should be locked.
Thanks guys for thinking of me last December when I had a severe case of Salmonella and C-diff. I appreciated it very much.
I was never fortunate to be involved in marine substructure design.
I believe someone on this board had a thread about a month or so ago. Maybe an eerie premonition, or just reinforces the fact to
make me apprehensive about them.
It was about bridges in the DMV area.
make me apprehensive about them.
It was about bridges in the DMV area.
OT: Scary bridge crossings.
I visited my daughter in LSD (Lower Slower Delaware) and the winds were howling when I crossed the Bay Bridge at around 1530 yesterday, on the way home. I’ve made the trip a thousand times but never was it more challenging than yesterday, the van was buffeting. I’m a strong guy, but I had to...
Whatever the cause was, there was a time when I would be certain that we would eventually be given the truth - all of it. Unfortunately, those times are long gone.
If you'd like something else to worry about (and who wouldn't?), take a look at our major ports and see how many of them require ships to pass under bridges.
