Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses after ship struck it, sending vehicles into water

[Voyageur]

This is from a boat pilot who messaged Max Igan, who reported this in his video below at around 15 minutes. The pilot believes it was an accident. I just thought I'd post it here, as the more information we have the more likely we can eventually come to a full understanding of the event.

Much investigative data to be gathered, however something not noticed (usually required osit), is that it seems that a ship of this nature coming out of port, around or under navigable obstacles (jetties, rock, bridges), should have had tugs. Again, did not see any or read that they were there - laws may not require. However, a ship of this speed (8 or 9 knots at the time) has little steering - so to make a turn of just a couple of degrees requires advanced adjustments to time a course correction over distance.

Tugs:

Applications Of A Tug​

The usage and functions of tugs vary from port to port, as different ports have different requirements and intakes. The common thing is pushing or towing mega boats or barges. Their usage depends on the following factors:

• Port traffic volume,
• Types of ships to be served by that tug,
• Navigational obstacles to be catered to,
• Conditions of environmental protection,
• Local laws and {have not looked this up}
• Domains to be carried by a tug

The tug boats were among the first to have a steam propulsion engine, which the diesel engine has replaced today.

An average tug boat has 680-3400 horsepower engines (500-2500 kW), but those which are larger and venture out into deep waters have engines with a power close to 27200 hp (20000 kW) and a power: tonnage ratio ranging between 2.20-4.50 for large tugs and 4.0-9.5 for harbour tugs. These are incredibly high ratios, especially considering the ratio of cargo ships or vessels varies between 0.35 and 1.20.

Here is another guy talking about it, and he brings up the anchor issues - as opposed to the above and the Port anchor, it may not have been dropped until after it had happened, he says. It takes a considerable amount conscious preparatory time to drop anchor, even in an emergency it is still not fast (unless it fails (pretty wild here) - see video within Twitter/X link):

https://twitter.com/x/status/1772769061505487215

 

[JEEP]

a ship of this nature coming out of port, around or under navigable obstacles (jetties, rock, bridges), should have had tugs. Again, did not see any or read that they were there

From the Gateway Pundit and per The Washington Post:

The alarms first sounded on the Dali around 1:24 a.m. Tuesday, an NTSB official said in a Wednesday evening news conference, citing preliminary information from the container ship’s voice data recorder.

About a minute and a half later, the ship’s pilot used a high-frequency radio to request assistance, helping to alert the on-duty Maryland Transportation Authority officer. The pilot called for “tugs in the vicinity,” which help vessels leave the port and get into its main channel. Before the Dali hit the bridge, it had no tugs. Thirty seconds later, the pilot ordered the ship’s anchor to be dropped and gave “additional steering commands,” said Marcel Muise, the lead investigator.

At 1:27 a.m., the pilot reported that the Dali had lost all power and was approaching the bridge, Muise said. At the time, there were two Maryland Transportation Authority units at the scene because of the ongoing construction, and those units shut down all lanes of traffic on the bridge, according to Muise.

He said the voice data recorder captured “sounds consistent with the collision” at 1:29 a.m. Around this time, the lights on the Key Bridge also went out.

WRH website note:
It's being reported that the ship suffered electrical problems 48 hours before leaving the dock. Why was the ship allowed to leave without making sure everything was okay?

 

[Ketone Cop]

Much investigative data to be gathered, however something not noticed (usually required osit), is that it seems that a ship of this nature coming out of port, around or under navigable obstacles (jetties, rock, bridges), should have had tugs. Again, did not see any or read that they were there - laws may not require. However, a ship of this speed (8 or 9 knots at the time) has little steering - so to make a turn of just a couple of degrees requires advanced adjustments to time a course correction over distance.

Tugs:

Here is another guy talking about it, and he brings up the anchor issues - as opposed to the above and the Port anchor, it may not have been dropped until after it had happened, he says. It takes a considerable amount conscious preparatory time to drop anchor, even in an emergency it is still not fast (unless it fails (pretty wild here) - see video within Twitter/X link):

https://twitter.com/x/status/1772769061505487215

As per the video in my previous post, around 5:20 minutes in the narrator says that two tugs were used to get the ship into the channel stream then left, and that is the normal operation. Early in that video the narrator also says at 1:30 that the port anchor is down, and early pictures showed the anchor was leading back aft which indicates the anchor was dropped early and it dragged along otherwise it would be straight up and down and it isn't.

This is the video in question. The narrator has a background in shipping.

At this point it's all just information gathering, but this is one of the first videos I've seen by someone with personal experience of the subject matter.

 

[Voyageur]

As per the video in my previous post, around 5:20 minutes in the narrator says that two tugs were used to get the ship into the channel stream then left, and that is the normal operation.

Before the Dali hit the bridge, it had no tugs.

Okay, got that. One might think navigating a bridge they would be more involved, at least to open waters. Probably some jurisdictions have laws for this, and some do not.

At this point it's all just information gathering, but this is one of the first videos I've seen by someone with personal experience of the subject matter.

Yes, he seems pretty good.

 

[JEEP]

I believe just four missing now, but this is really bad:

Baltimore Key Bridge Collapses, Killing Six Immigrant Workers Who Had No Access to Emergency Warnings

Six people are missing and presumed dead after a 984-foot cargo ship hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, causing the bridge’s collapse early Tuesday morning. All six have been identified as immigrant construction workers originally hailing from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Maryland Governor Wes Moore said the crew on the ship was able to issue an emergency mayday call before colliding with the bridge, which allowed authorities to stop incoming traffic and prevent more casualties. However, reports say the workers already on the bridge were not given similar warnings. “The question we should be asking about is why the folks on that bridge … had no direct line to emergency dispatch when they are clearly working in a potentially hazardous environment,” says journalist Maximillian Alvarez, the editor-in-chief of the Baltimore-based organization The Real News Network, who has been closely following the story and how it has affected immigrant and working-class communities.

 

[Joe]

I would need to see some proof of sabotage before I believed this was planned. Killing the power also means killing the ability to steer. If the ship can’t be steered, there’s no way to intentionally aim it at the pier.

That's the key point that undermines any conspiracy theory.

 

[JEEP]

Disturbing impact (interesting wording) of the bridge collapse to the supply chain:

Multiple intelligence sources are saying that the container ship incident at Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore was an "absolutely brilliant strategic attack" on critical United States infrastructure – and right at the Mason Dixon line, just like the Civil War.

Investigative journalist Lara Logan wrote on X that the Francis Scott Key Bridge, also known as the Key Bridge, is the second-busiest strategic roadway in the country for transporting hazardous materials, having been strategically designed for such a purpose.

It is being said that rebuilding the bridge to appropriate standards will take four or five years, which means this strategic artery will no longer be accessible for transporting things like unleaded fuel, diesel, propane gas, nitrogen and highly flammable materials and chemicals, along with oversized cargo, that cannot fit through roadway tunnels in the area.

"[T]hat supply chain is now crippled," Logan wrote.

As you will notice, the cargo ship never even got into the approach lane in the channel, which is an absolute must for it to make that turn correctly without a collision.

The location of impact, Logan says, was precise and deliberate. She also criticizes the fact that there was no harbor pilot to pilot the boat, though X is claiming that there were actually two harbor pilots present at the time of impact.

"They chose a full moon so they would have maximum tidal shift – rise and fall," Logan further writes. "Brisk flow in that river on a normal day & have had a lot of rain recently so water was already moving along at a good pace."

"All these factors when you look at it – this is how you teach people how to do this type of attack and there are so few people left in the system who know this. We have a Junior varsity team on the field."

Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse an “absolutely brilliant strategic attack,” say multiple intel sources – NaturalNews.com

Multiple intelligence sources are saying that the container ship incident at Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore was an “absolutely brilliant strategic attack” on critical United States infrastructure – and right at the Mason Dixon line, just like the Civil War. Investigative journalist Lara...

www.naturalnews.com

 

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A couple of oddities:

Strangely, just a few hours before the collision, Baltimore Fire Department Chief James Wallace said that local authorities had detected the presence of vehicles in the water using sonar technology. Water in that particular area is around 50 feet deep.

A Coast Guard briefing report states, concerning the vessel losing power, that "a harbor pilot and assistant were onboard and reported power issues, multiple alarms on the bridge, and loss of propulsion prior to the incident."

The cargo ship in question, called Dali, bore a Singapore flag, which depicts an eclipse not unlike the solar eclipse that will cross the United States on April 8. Its pilot will now undergo drug and alcohol testing as part of an investigation.

MORE DETAILS, mysteries surrounding the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse – NaturalNews.com

A mass casualty incident is being reported after the Francis Scott Key Bridge (also known as the Key Bridge) in Baltimore collapsed after being struck by a large container ship in the early morning hours of March 26. At 1:27 a.m., the bridge, which crosses the Patapsco River, fell piece by...

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[Joe]

Disturbing impact (interesting wording) of the bridge collapse to the supply chain:
Multiple intelligence sources

Cites "Multiple intelligence sources" then says nothing more about them.

 

[Mike]

In terms of steering, at the end of this video about cargo ship steering the person mentions and shows that the steering system in the cargo ship he is describing has a back up generator specifically for steering that is supposed to come online in case of loss of power. I figure something similar for backup would be standard on all cargo ships.

Also, it has been floated that bad fuel might have been a cause of the loss of power - Investigators Check Dali’s Fuel with Speculation of Possible Contamination

From personal experiences at sea and on ships, bad fuel can be an issue. Water and sediment can easily foul fuel, but with these the ship's master and head engineering officer should have known exactly what they had in terms of any issue with fuel from monitoring, etc during refueling. The other issue of not easily seen or determined when refueling contamination I figure that would be easy to determine from other ships having issues that took on the same fuel (or used the same fuel source).

Accidents do happen with ships at sea even if they seem like they would be impossible to happen. If you read any of the case study reports or accident reports they almost always are the result of a string of events/human error(s) and such that just seem to line up resulting in catastrophe. Side note - this makes me want to find and read the official report on the Suez Canal Evergreen accident that blocked the canal for a good amount of time, which many were questioning at the time.

Yet... as I think someone mentioned in this thread already though, it has gotten so corrupt with the government(s) and related agencies with untold number of lies, etc told over the years and what is or seems like deliberate action and/or gross incompetence that a large portion of people don't believe a word they say. So even with something that really is just an unfortunate accident with an accurate official report, etc some people just aren't going to believe it. What a world 4D STS and the psychopaths have made...

The C's have mentioned far back in time not to see everything as a conspiracy and there is a danger in doing that. Discussion with the C's have also revealed that things like the fires and destruction of food processing plants, Ohio toxic train derailment, Maui fire, and Texas fire have all been deliberate to sow chaos.

I'm trying to keep things open for both ways of seeing it, but if I had to choose a side I would say it looks like it is just a terrible accident.

 

[JEEP]

Cites "Multiple intelligence sources" then says nothing more about them.

That and she clearly got it wrong about the harbor pilots. Stating "multiple intelligence sources" is just supposed to be taken as fact because she's stating it, just like CNN/MSNBC anchors believe that because they say it, then it's absolute fact! Logan's credibility as a reporter/journalist just took a hit and that pieced exposed it. The supply chain impacts were informative, though.

This seems credible and what to make of it - and by vehicles, something other than cars or trucks? Will we hear anything more about this?

Strangely, just a few hours before the collision, Baltimore Fire Department Chief James Wallace said that local authorities had detected the presence of vehicles in the water using sonar technology.

 

[Mark7]

I'm trying to keep things open for both ways of seeing it, but if I had to choose a side I would say it looks like it is just a terrible accident.

Well... there's something weird about this accident. There's something about how coincidences stack around significant events. I am gonna suggest that Cosmic Mind or the collective unconscious or a combination of the two may be at work, maybe it has something to do with the Wave - high strangeness. I am not saying this part of what happened here, but there are precedents - The shadow horseback figure during the Muslim Spring for instance.

 

[JEEP]

in Point Pleasant [...] the Silver Bridge collapse [...] but the book - I learned things I had no idea happened!

high strangeness

In John Keel's The Mothman Prophecies, he said men or figures in checkered pants were observed climbing the bridge - I think the supports but don't remember exactly now. Not sure how many people claimed to have seen that.

and by vehicles, something other than cars or trucks?

were there 3 explosions on the bridge?

Devil's advocate here - what if they were submersibles that had been used to surreptitiously plant explosives on the bridge?

We should watch to see how fast the bridge debris is cleared and where sent as per the 911 Towers steel that was quickly carted off and sent far, far away to be cremated as fast as possible.

 

[Mike]

One person that is out there on twitter pushing the Cyberattack angle and narrative is Laura Logan. She supposedly has insider US intel people, both active and retired, telling her that the accident was a deliberate attack on critical infrastructure.

Figured I’d document all her tweets here in case the story changes from the US government and they turn around and say it was a Cyberattack and deliberate from who else… Russia, Russia, Russia!!!

Welcome to the world of cyber terrorism. Acc to intel sources: The Baltimore bridge collapse was a 9/11 style attack but they won’t admit it and we cannot see it because it was a CYBER ATTACK. All the SCADA systems that run our critical infrastructure like sewage, electric grid, shipping etc are all wide open systems with no encryption because it is too expensive. They can shut us down anytime they want.

10:40 AM · Mar 26, 2024

https://twitter.com/x/status/1772634628513284353

Multiple intel sources: Baltimore bridge collapse was an “absolutely brilliant strategic attack” on US critical infrastructure - most likely cyber - & our intel agencies know it. In information warfare terms, they just divided the US along the Mason Dixon line exactly like the Civil War. Second busiest strategic roadway in the nation for hazardous material now down for 4-5 years - which is how long they say it will take to recover. Bridge was built specifically to move hazardous material - fuel, diesel, propane gas, nitrogen, highly flammable materials, chemicals and oversized cargo that cannot fit in the tunnels - that supply chain now crippled. Make no mistake: this was an extraordinary attack in terms of planning, timing & execution. The two critical components on that bridge are the two load-bearing pylons on each end, closest to the shore. They are bigger, thicker and deeper than anything else. These are the anchor points and they knew that hitting either one one of them would be a fatal wound to the integrity of the bridge. Half a mile of bridge went in the river - likely you will have to build a new one. Also caused so much damage to the structural integrity of the bottom concrete part that you cannot see & won’t know until they take the wreckage apart. Structural destruction likely absolute. Attack perfectly targeted. “They have figured out how to bring us down. As long as you stay away from the teeth of the US military, you can pick the US apart. We are arrogant and ignorant - lethal combination. Obama said they would fundamentally change America and they did. We are in a free-fall ride on a roller coaster right now - no brakes - just picking up speed.” The footage shows the cargo ship never got in the approach lane in the channel. You have to be in the channel before you get into that turn. Location was precise/deliberate: chose a bend in the river where you have to slow down and commit yourself - once you are committed in that area there is not enough room to maneuver. Should have had a harbor pilot to pilot the boat. You are not supposed to traverse any obstacles without the harbor pilot. They chose a full moon so they would have maximum tidal shift - rise and fall. Brisk flow in that river on a normal day & have had a lot of rain recently so water was already moving along at a good pace. Hit it with enough kinetic energy to knock the load-bearing pylon out from under the highway - which fatally weakens the span and then 50 percent of the bridge fell into the water. All these factors when you look at it - this is how you teach people how to do this type of attack and there are so few people left in the system who know this. We have a Junior varsity team on the field. Tremendous navigational obstruction. Huge logistical nightmare to clean this up. Number of dead is tragic but not the whole measure of the attack. That kind-of bridge constantly under repair - always at night because there is so much traffic and they cannot obstruct that during the day. So concern is for repair guys who were on foot (out of their vehicles) working who may now be in the water - 48 degrees at most at this time of year. When you choke off Baltimore you have cut the main north-south hazardous corridor (I95) in half. Now has to go around the city - or go somewhere else. To move some of that cargo through the tunnel you may be able to get a permit but those are slow to get and require an escort system that is expensive and has to be done at night. For every $100 dollars that goes into the city, $12 comes from shipping. Believe this will cripple the city of Baltimore at a time when they do not have the resources to recover.

1:23 PM · Mar 26, 2024

https://twitter.com/x/status/1772675651599770093

All truck traffic across the Francis Scott Key bridge - over 11 million vehicles a year (mostly semi trucks) - now have to go through the tunnel. In and out. No shipping can go into Baltimore - the bridge and the port are down. That also means the shipping containers now have to go north to NY or south to North Carolina. This cyber attack just forced everything to flow through the Baltimore tunnel which will inevitably be overloaded. Not all semis are permitted to move through the tunnel because of the nature of the load. The enormity of this is just setting in for US intelligence & those in power are already covering it up. 11:02 AM · Mar 26, 2024

https://twitter.com/x/status/1772640372864204880

How do you know they are lying about the cyber attack on the bridge in Baltimore? You have one of the most important strategic supply lines in the United States & people online all over are trying to say it’s just a toll road & means nothing. That is so blatantly false & easy to disprove, it can only be an information op. But it’s a good sign - I love when I see negative comments or attacks because it means the truth has broken through the feedback loops they use to divide us & is reaching everyone. Also, many people ask me how they can figure out who to trust - this is a great opportunity to weed out the political operatives, liars & traitors. Anyone minimizing this event is not who they claim to be - or they’re so ignorant/unreliable it’s not worth the effort to follow them. You can do better.

12:37 AM · Mar 27, 2024

https://twitter.com/x/status/1772845466331369495

BALTIMORE UPDATE: Analysis from specialists in predictive behavioral analytics, counter-terrorism, hazardous materials, maritime attacks, cyber, national security & intel - this is their view: Based on their training & experience, they believe this was two types of operation: 1) “Penetration testing” where they are probing/testing to identify vulnerabilities in our responses and defences, AND 2) a shaping operation to set the conditions and prepare the battlefield for a potential future event. The concern is that other critical infrastructure disruptions/hits recently that appeared to be independent, isolated events, MAY not be. For example, the Ohio chemical disaster, train derailments, fires at food processing plants etc when taken in isolation do not appear to be that significant but when taken together, could indicate shaping or stacking operations that are paving the way for a bigger event where they do any number of these types of operations together. That could potentially paralyze the U.S.. So the critical question our government should be answering right now is this: “When will they trigger a multiple episode that causes the paralysis effect?” Some of the indicators are how many incidents have occurred within “a relatively short timeline” & what they see as the departure from what is “normal”. They believe those in charge will make sure the investigation into the bridge crash “goes nowhere quick”. And one of the goals here is to give the public mental anesthesia while they test this, using train derailments or exposure to chemicals in Ohio where they told everyone to shelter indoors - to ask questions like: Did they comply? Is this going to successfully deceive & cause behavioural change? They use the media to create the assumptive narrative - do not want the facts analyzed because they do not want people processing the truth. Truth naturally leads to questions they do not want asked. But it would be “foolish and naive at the expense of national security not to question the Government narrative on the Baltimore bridge crash given the level of corruption in spheres of power and influence in this country today”. With many years of experience in “spoofing” - the tactic used in cyber warfare to hack into someones’s system and deceive in order to achieve a certain outcome - they recognized multiple indicators watching the video that tell them the GPS signal was likely hacked. It would have led them to believe they were not as close to the bridge as they were and may be why in the video you see the crazy lean to port and then to hard starboard as they realized they were not on course in spite of the GPS indicating they were. In information warfare terms, here are some of the tactics they see being used now that many of you will recognize: 1) Engineered complexity - where they throw in nonsensical variables (information) to distract. This is designed to keep you from serially processing multiple channels & give you processing overload that prevents you from toggling different channels of information. IE: they create processing decoys to distract you from truth. 2) They are trying to reframe the issue by focusing on details that do not matter. They do this by throwing in a variable that is not relevant to the main equation. 3) Common sense, skepticism and intelligence are huge “overlays” that get in the way of manipulating human behavior so they analyze you to learn how to create channel overload as you toggle/handle different channels of information such as the speed of the boat, temperature of the water etc. 3) They need to load you up with enough variance to create channel overload so you create an error that they can use to discredit you. One way is to create doubt in yourself. Most effective because you make yourself less efficient when your brain is processing self-doubt. And it will propogate into the future. “Population so much easier to dupe today than 20 years ago.”

12:49 AM · Mar 28, 2024

https://twitter.com/x/status/1773210735822156028

For those who know and understand what happened in Baltimore, the truth is obvious. They can attack me all they want - these are the same people who said Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian disinformation” and Joe Biden won the 2020 election. Here’s what the professsionals are saying to me: “Sadly the media is trashing you for educating the public on the National Security vulnerabilities of how foreign adversaries can gain control of the GPS navigation systems and used as a weapon. This was illustrated years ago in Afghanistan when the Iranians gained control over one of our Military drones in Afghanistan and flew it into Iran.”

3:04 PM · Mar 28, 2024

https://twitter.com/laralogan/status/1773425959305187709

Here is Logan being interviewed by Steven Bannon:

https://twitter.com/RagingKuJo1222/status/1773105268445855843

edit added: bolded a part of Logan's last tweet...

 

[JEEP]

One person that is out there on twitter pushing the Cyberattack angle and narrative is Laura Logan.

That and she clearly got it wrong about the harbor pilots. Stating "multiple intelligence sources" is just supposed to be taken as fact because she's stating it, just like CNN/MSNBC anchors believe that because they say it, then it's absolute fact! Logan's credibility as a reporter/journalist just took a hit and that piece exposed it.

How come her intelligence sources didn't accurately tell her there were two harbor pilots on the ship rather than none?

Meanwhile, still wondering:

A Coast Guard briefing report states, concerning the vessel losing power, that "a harbor pilot and assistant were onboard and reported power issues, multiple alarms on the bridge, and loss of propulsion prior to the incident."

Anybody know anything about multiple alarms on the bridge? Did they go off because they detected an imminent collision or something else? From the quoted sentence above, it seems they were activated before the ship sent a warning there was going to be a collision.