Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapses

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21 dudes are still stuck on the ship that hit the Key bridge and can't yet get off. It's been 7 weeks what the actual fuck.


The crew, made up of 20 Indians and a Sri Lankan national, has been unable to disembark because of visa restrictions, a lack of required shore passes and parallel ongoing investigations by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and FBI.
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The ship's owners need to be launched into the sun.

U.S. sues Dali ship owner and operator for $100 million over Baltimore bridge collapse​

The main cause was the primary transformer, which powered the bridge and engine room controls, failed right as the ship approached the bridge. That transformer had had issues with vibrations, so they had welded this turnbuckle on it to stabilize it a bit. Shockingly, that didn't work and the primary transformer shut off right at the wrong time.

Additionally, the crew had disabled the backup transformer which should have taken over in the event of a primary failure. They did restart the primary transformer, however the generator fuel pump had been replaced with a cheaper unit which would not turn on automatically after a power outage. So, they never got the main engine and propeller going again after the power was restored.

That's at least 4 or 5 points of "This never would have happened had you done things properly instead of like a cheap asshole."

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Huntr said:
The ship's owners need to be launched into the sun.

U.S. sues Dali ship owner and operator for $100 million over Baltimore bridge collapse​

The main cause was the primary transformer, which powered the bridge and engine room controls, failed right as the ship approached the bridge. That transformer had had issues with vibrations, so they had welded this turnbuckle on it to stabilize it a bit. Shockingly, that didn't work and the primary transformer shut off right at the wrong time.

Additionally, the crew had disabled the backup transformer which should have taken over in the event of a primary failure. They did restart the primary transformer, however the generator fuel pump had been replaced with a cheaper unit which would not turn on automatically after a power outage. So, they never got the main engine and propeller going again after the power was restored.

That's at least 4 or 5 points of "This never would have happened had you done things properly instead of like a cheap asshole."

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That's a complete disregard for safety and insane culture. They deserve to be hammer f'ed.
 
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A couple of years ago I went on a binge of watching YouTube videos of plane crash investigations as well as a few ship, truck, and train incident investigation videos. About 90% of the time, it was some safety shortcut or a string of such shortcuts that led to the disaster. Safety rules sometimes seem pedantic, but they're in place for a reason.
 
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Bishop2b5 said:
A couple of years ago I went on a binge of watching YouTube videos of plane crash investigations as well as a few ship, truck, and train incident investigation videos. About 90% of the time, it was some safety shortcut or a string of such shortcuts that led to the disaster. Safety rules sometimes seem pedantic, but they're in place for a reason.
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If you haven't heard of it there's a great channel on YouTube that's called Green Dot Aviation that does amazing breakdowns of aviation disasters.
 
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GATTACA! said:
If you haven't heard of it there's a great channel on YouTube that's called Green Dot Aviation that does amazing breakdowns of aviation disasters.
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I had not heard of it. I'll look into it. Thanks.
 
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Huntr said:
The ship's owners need to be launched into the sun.

U.S. sues Dali ship owner and operator for $100 million over Baltimore bridge collapse​

The main cause was the primary transformer, which powered the bridge and engine room controls, failed right as the ship approached the bridge. That transformer had had issues with vibrations, so they had welded this turnbuckle on it to stabilize it a bit. Shockingly, that didn't work and the primary transformer shut off right at the wrong time.

Additionally, the crew had disabled the backup transformer which should have taken over in the event of a primary failure. They did restart the primary transformer, however the generator fuel pump had been replaced with a cheaper unit which would not turn on automatically after a power outage. So, they never got the main engine and propeller going again after the power was restored.

That's at least 4 or 5 points of "This never would have happened had you done things properly instead of like a cheap asshole."

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I am not at all surprised. I read somewhere that there is a martine law that states you can only go after the at fault party for so much money. I believe 100 million was the number.
 
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F taxes and the government. Not concerned ass I'm already on the Watch List and drones follow my every move.
 
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GowerND11 said:
Isn't owned by the Maryland Transportation Authority, which is a state agency?

Sooooooo he's just flat wrong then?
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This is called intentional disinformation or in other words… lying.

Generally these types of authorities are special in that they are part government and part private but they are able to use public funds to provide public services. They are very common with Airports and other Transportation modes such as ports, subways, trains and shipping. My wife works for one. She is a state employee and gets state benefits and retirement and her pay is paid for by the state. The authority runs the airport and everything about it and gets funds from both private and public sources.

ETA: for example at the airport it’s basically a Mall. It leases its facilities to the airlines. All airlines lease terminal space for ticketing and bag collection. They lease apron and gate access. They lease time parked at the gate. They lease fuel from the airport. Also the airport leases its spaces to vendors for food and shops. It’s basically a huge mall. And it’s managed by the authority. The authority is managed by a board of directors mostly consisting of local politicians that have other jobs like mayors and state congressmen. The airports budget is made up of grants from state and federal agencies, local fees paid by passengers while in the airport or parking, and their leasing fees by pribvate entities such as airlines and shippers. The employees are all state employees hired and fired by the state except the private entities who run the shops and airlines.

He is a fucking liar.
 
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ndfanatic78 said:
That sounds almost like every medical advancement that has come about in the past 20 years. Funded by the tax payers and donation campaigns. Then the resulting advancement is privately owned and puts its recipients in a lifetime of debt.
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That’s American capitalism at this very moment. Privatized gains and public losses and risk mitigation.
 
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Huntr said:
The ship's owners need to be launched into the sun.

U.S. sues Dali ship owner and operator for $100 million over Baltimore bridge collapse​

The main cause was the primary transformer, which powered the bridge and engine room controls, failed right as the ship approached the bridge. That transformer had had issues with vibrations, so they had welded this turnbuckle on it to stabilize it a bit. Shockingly, that didn't work and the primary transformer shut off right at the wrong time.

Additionally, the crew had disabled the backup transformer which should have taken over in the event of a primary failure. They did restart the primary transformer, however the generator fuel pump had been replaced with a cheaper unit which would not turn on automatically after a power outage. So, they never got the main engine and propeller going again after the power was restored.

That's at least 4 or 5 points of "This never would have happened had you done things properly instead of like a cheap asshole."

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People wonder why we have heavy regulations and required redundancies and inspections. … I wonder how often or thoroughly these ships are actually being inspected.
 
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Cackalacky2.0 said:
People wonder why we have heavy regulations and required redundancies and inspections. … I wonder how often or thoroughly these ships are actually being inspected.
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And isn’t that 100 million the most they could sue for?

I remember hearing on one of the local new stations that there was some kind of maritime law that the owner could only be responsible for so much.
 
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