According to which report you read, the ship radioed that it had lost power either two minutes or four minutes before it hit the bridge.
OT: Baltimore bridge replacment
Mar 26, 2024
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several of the CCTV clips were speeded-up
Have we got any of the same sort of construction spanning mile-wide rivers?
Prompted entirely by "The Wire", I crossed the stricken bridge on a day visit to Baltimore from New York in 2011. I wasn't too impressed by Baltimore.
There's a tunnel carrying the I-895 about five miles upstream, and the I-95 (main east coast N/S route) a couple of miles further on.
As someone else has remarked, there is also Maryland state route 50 about 20 miles to the SE, crossing Chesapeake Bay and providing access to the NE towards Wilmington and Philadelphia.
Not the same sort of bridges. I'm not sure we have any estuarial crossings built in the same manner.
Still very, very little time to change course in one of those monsters.
Stopping times and distances are huge, a quick search turned up this figure for the stopping distance of a not very big cargo ship:-
Cargo ships loaded, displacement 28000 tonnes L 145 m 11-13 ship's length 9-11 minutes
This is much smaller than the ship that hit the Baltimore bridge. Changes of direction will take a bit less time two to four minutes isn't enough to make a major change of direction.
There's more than one way to pay.
Off hand I cant think of any.
Forth bridge is sort of close
The tay bridge disaster is reminiscent in terms of total collapse of a girder bridge, but is significantly older tech
A map of the Baltimore metro area shows several freeway and tollway alternative routes.
It seems so.
There are various bridge crossings to the NW of the city centre.
And, should it be necessary, a bridge crossing of Chesapeake Bay some twenty miles to the SE.
Boards of enquiry on maritime accidents are certainly not unknown in the UK. There was a very well-reported one which examined the Titanic disaster.
Was it KFC who coined that word, back in the 1970s?
A chap I knew, who had been Chief Engineer on a supertanker told me that their emergency stop distance from cruising speed was 30 miles.
There is a difference between establishing what happened with a view to it never happening again, and looking for someone to sue.
Cf the UK Covid inquiry.
*I* wanted to know how to avoid so much disruption next time, not to know where Boris crossed some f****ng line in the sand.It's typical of today's 'Never mind reality, just think of the morality' snowflake leftywoke culture
That is fairly consistent with my understanding, too.
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Doesnt explain a runcible mast on a ship.
Ours are sold as spayds and are the size of a normal small spoon and arent just used for buffets. I eat my currys with mine and most microwave ready meals.
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Also called a spork.
It doesnt take anything like hours when leaving port like that.
A century before that in fact.
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I’ve looked. The stack clearly stops short of the bridge.
Tim
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