Dramatic Bridge Collapse in Maryland . - Casualties reported.

BoroBosco said:
One of the ships I worked on hit an oil platform despite there being more than a full complement on the bridge and a raft of protocols in place for approaching platforms.

Listening to the black box recording it was clear that those involved didn't follow the rules, weren't fully concentrating on what they were doing and by the time they realised their mistakes were incapable of correcting them. When the guy who was actually manoeuvring the ship realised a collision was imminent he froze and just kept saying "oh f*ck, oh f*ck" until the ship hit.
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Also a credible scenario. A supply vessel hit a drilling rig I was on last year. That was human factor related too.
 
You could say that it happening in the early hours of the morning saved it from being an even bigger catastrophe but those poor people on that bridge working maintenance.
 
What the hell were they doing, as I started watching this my assumption was that they’d cocked up the fairly simple tidal height/ vessel headroom calc and weren’t going to clear underneath it. But no, they just plough straight into it the support leg, second assumption was strong wind on their port side, but looking at the surface of the water it’s flat calm. Were they even looking? Unbelievable, someone is going to prison for a long time.
 
Juninhoburger said:
Don't forget anyone on the bridge of that ship is probably dead or seriously injured, too.
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No injuries reported on the ship (from Ship Operators). The Captain was on the bridge accompanied (I understand) by two pilots from the Port of Baltimore. Looks like some sort of failure on the ship in steerage/power?
 
Muttley said:
No injuries reported on the ship (from Ship Operators). The Captain was on the bridge accompanied (I understand) by two pilots from the Port of Baltimore. Looks like some sort of failure on the ship in steerage/power?
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Power is my guess. Ships need to have auto recovery to restore power quickly but if that fails, then a manual recovery is needed. That can take a long time.
 
Muttley said:
No injuries reported on the ship (from Ship Operators). The Captain was on the bridge accompanied (I understand) by two pilots from the Port of Baltimore. Looks like some sort of failure on the ship in steerage/power?
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When you look at the damage to the ship from the bridge it’s a minor miracle that no one was harmed on the ship
 
Ingleby_Flash said:
What the hell were they doing, as I started watching this my assumption was that they’d cocked up the fairly simple tidal height/ vessel headroom calc and weren’t going to clear underneath it. But no, they just plough straight into it the support leg, second assumption was strong wind on their port side, but looking at the surface of the water it’s flat calm. Were they even looking? Unbelievable, someone is going to prison for a long time.
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Can see the ship loses power, when they regain power there is a load of black smoke coming from it then it loses power a 2nd time.
 
The two Pilots and the Master of the vessel are in deep $hit for this... they will be looking at serious jail time. The vessel looks under power as there is smoke coming out the stack (the big plume of smoke seconds before it hit suggests they went full astern very late) The lights being out on the vessel is a SOP for entering and leaving port to increase visibility for the crew.

looking at the AIS she was straight on in the channel and lining up so its either a steering failure and drifted into the bridge or a complete breakdown of coms/observations/situ awareness.

What is amazing me is that she doesn't appear to have any tugs on her for such a large vessel and such a tight Bridge... from experience I would have expected at least 2 tugs (more likely 4)

I am not seeing much evidence of High Winds from either the footage or the aftermath interviews and the visibility is excellent so cant see the weather being a factor

My thought are with all concerned parties
 
F@&k I lived in Baltimore 20 years ago, have a lot of friends I’ll need to check in on. I’ve been on the key bridge many times.

Unfortunately anyone going into that water at that time isn’t coming out. It’s a wide expanse of water, it’ll be freezing at this time of year too.
 
BoroMart said:
F@&k I lived in Baltimore 20 years ago, have a lot of friends I’ll need to check in on. I’ve been on the key bridge many times.

Unfortunately anyone going into that water at that time isn’t coming out. It’s a wide expanse of water, it’ll be freezing at this time of year too.
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At the press conference they confirmed they pulled two guys from the water. One who is reported as ok physically , but the orher with serious injuries.
 
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