Key Bridge, Baltimore, has collapsed.

[Alan Harper's Tash]

It's giving Brexit Jim a few ideas I bet.

How to demolish a load of steel scaffolding next to a canal on the cheap...

He’s just leased SS Rösler’s Grandad too.

 

[cleavers]

It's difficult to know as most stopping distances assume you can put engines to astern. And tides, etc. Also no-one really considers an inertial stop option.

I've seen video of a warship (much smaller) turning at pretty much full tilt, I was glad I wasn't onboard it, but it was quite quickly, if somewhat scary.

 

[theres only one carlito]

America cannot be a real place man fucking hell!

it does look like Tracey island

 

[MillionMilesAway]

I've seen video of a warship (much smaller) turning at pretty much full tilt, I was glad I wasn't onboard it, but it was quite quickly, if somewhat scary.

Yeah, a crash stop won't do the engines any good, so a fast turn is a better option.
Even with power, I doubt cargo ships do fast turns well.

 

[cleavers]

Yeah, a crash stop won't do the engines any good, so a fast turn is a better option.
Even with power, I doubt cargo ships do fast turns well.

Oh I agree, I was just remembering the warship turn, and was grateful I wasn't on it.

 

[Coatigan]

Bbc had a professor of engineering at oxford explaining how there isn't a situation where any other bridge withstands that type of force.

 

[BongoBlue]

Just awful. I have driven over that bridge many times on the way to, and way back from visiting my daughter in DC. Thank God that it was at 1:30AM or so in the morning when not that many vehicles were using it.

Besides the tragedy of lost lives; there will now also be a supply chain impact, and not only for the US.

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

"Fears of disruption to global supply chains after Baltimore bridge crash"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us...al supply chains after Baltimore bridge crash

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

There’s no way that bridge is finished by November, but “being seen to be doing” is important and people seeing the bridge being rebuilt is probably sufficient.

Assuming people died in this accident, it’d be hard to use it as the backdrop for a campaign rally…at least by Biden.

Trump knows no shame, so he’d be out there today talking about how shithole foreigners on a shithole foreign ship going to some shithole foreign country have hit our beautiful Francis Scott Key (look him up!!) Bridge, but he is going to rebuild it bigger, better and more beautiful, because nobody knows construction better than he knows construction!

Cheers for that - didn't know any of that...........

 

[waspish]

Why don't the build a tunnel done seem that long a span