Major bridge collapse in Baltimore

[Batman]

Capt. Ted Davisson should have been Capt. Sully before Capt. Sully happened. On the other hand, I don't think anyone was injured at all in the Miracle on the Hudson.

IIRC, he got a hell of a lot of awards and attaboys from the river pilots' association in Louisiana after that.
Also IIRC, the very first reports blamed him for crashing the freighter before it was revealed a few days later that he'd probably saved hundreds of lives.

 

[goalmouth]

The Port of South Louisiana for years was the largest U S. port by tonnage from bulk shipments such as grain and not containers. It's currently No. 2.

 

[DanOregon]

Capt. Ted Davisson should have been Capt. Sully before Capt. Sully happened. On the other hand, I don't think anyone was injured at all in the Miracle on the Hudson.

You land a full airplane on the Hudson River right when local TV stations and newspapers are doing their afternoon budget meetings - THAT is how you get to be Capt. Sully. Imagine if it happened at night when newsrooms are past deadline, and there is only a skeleton crew. No footage, no Sully, No movie directed by Eastwood and starring Tom Hanks.

 

[tapintoamerica]

You land a full airplane on the Hudson River right when local TV stations and newspapers are doing their afternoon budget meetings - THAT is how you get to be Capt. Sully. Imagine if it happened at night when newsrooms are past deadline, and there is only a skeleton crew. No footage, no Sully, No movie directed by Eastwood and starring Tom Hanks.

And no illuminated video.

 

[Neutral Corner]

Dali ship that wrecked Baltimore bridge was 'unseaworthy' before it left port, city claims

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...worthy-baltimore-bridge-collapse/73426706007/

 

[Della9250]

 

[jr/shotglass]

That stranded an entire college campus -- Texas A&M at Galveston.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

I thought getting rid of DEI was supposed to prevent ships from crashing into bridges?

 

[Deskgrunt50]

It's a red state, so I assume Biden will make Texas beg for help with this accident.

No? Because he's not a ****ing psychopath? Is that trump behavior what some are "nostalgic" for?

 

[garrow]

Baltimore shipping channel fully reopens after bridge collapse

 

[wicked]

Curious to see how long it will take for shipping at the port to get back to normal. Wondering if our resident expert on these things will chime in.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Baltimore shipping channel fully reopens after bridge collapse

Thoughts and prayers for Trumpists.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

We live about an hour and a half from Baltimore and I was talking to a travel agent last month who said they had a Royal Caribbean ship scheduled to leave out of Baltimore at the end of May. I was stunned.

 

[Justin_Rice]

Facebook friend just posted cruise pics that included their Carnival ship sailing past the bridge remains, so yeah - that's a thing.

 

[User 4332]

My family's been at Emerald Isle, N.C., this week and twice since we've been here, we've driven over to Beaufort. Once for the kids to do a pirate excursion and once for everyone to go to Shackleford Banks for the horses and seashells.

Anyway the route takes us right past the small port at Morehead City. I've been coming down here for 40+ years and I've never seen the Morehead City port as busy as this week, except in August 1990 when the US Navy used it as an onboarding point for 1,000 or so Marines from Camp Lejeune.

This morning we almost missed our ferry to Shackleford because we got stuck by the port as a semi tractor carrying a massive blade about the length of four normal tractor trailers slowly made its way out of the port. My guess is that it was an off-shore windmill blade.

On the way back this afternoon, we were next to a car hauler coming out of the port loaded with new Mercedes Sprinters. Thinking about those vans is when it finally dawned on me why the port has seemed so much more active than I'm used to.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Damn:

https://apnews.com/video/vietnam-br...and-typhoons-a299ea1c51894f6da58bae9a4138b6c8

 

[maumann]

Damn:

https://apnews.com/video/vietnam-br...and-typhoons-a299ea1c51894f6da58bae9a4138b6c8

Wow. The dump truck just disappears as the bridge is suddenly gone. And the look the motorcyclist gives the driver of the car, too.

Shades of the Greyhound bus and the Sunshine Skyway incident. Horrifying.

 

[User 4332]

The U.S. Dept. of Justice filed a claim against the Dali's owners today seeking more than $100 million in damages. It outlines some key findings from the federal investigation including that its rudder, propeller, anchor and bow thruster were all offline and it blames the company's janky repairs. This is just for the cost of the federal emergency response, including assistance to the port workers who were out of work while the port was closed. I imagine the state of Maryland will be seeking an even bigger claim given the almost $2 billion price tag to replace the bridge.

Justice Department Files $100 Million Claim in Fatal Baltimore Bridge Collapse

 

[tapintoamerica]

The U.S. Dept. of Justice filed a claim against the Dali's owners today seeking more than $100 million in damages. It outlines some key findings from the federal investigation including that its rudder, propeller, anchor and bow thruster were all offline and it blames the company's janky repairs. This is just for the cost of the federal emergency response, including assistance to the port workers who were out of work while the port was closed. I imagine the state of Maryland will be seeking an even bigger claim given the almost $2 billion price tag to replace the bridge.

Justice Department Files $100 Million Claim in Fatal Baltimore Bridge Collapse

The Trumpist Congressman from the 10th district of Georgia rises to object.