1,000 footers pass through the Sault Ste. Marie locks with 2.5 ft. of clearance on each side. The Baltimore channel provides more than one-half mile clearance on each side of the ship. I do not understand the width being a problem.

come on you guys these are not boats! they are ships.

@eraldway

2 ай бұрын

A boat is a term used for any water vessels, big or small.

@wood98357

2 ай бұрын

Boat.

The truth of the crash may never come out, lest Insurance/Compensation be denied for the Pilots/officals erranous actions, when faced with a emergency situation,

Zelinski says that he wants more money. The heck with that busted up bridge. I need money 😊

a tug boat hit a pillar on the bridge going to baytown

@spvillano

2 ай бұрын

In 1980 a freighter hit one of the bridge piers as well. Ships were a wee bit lighter back then, this ship was a neopanamax, as big as you can get and still fit inside the Panama Canal.

Question for u Why are we paying for Baltimore toll bridge that was owned and operated by a Italian consortium and ship was owned by mearsk let's keep the bridge down till mearsk and toll bridge owners come to agreement and why were the crew and pilots not drug tested hair blood and skin tested why were all the cameras taking down before ntsb boarded 3 days later if I have a crash with my boat cops are testing me immediately as soon as accident happens dali crew never got checked and never got boarded till 3 days after plenty of time to cover up and erase files and cover up hacking operations

@standback5806

2 ай бұрын

True. After investigation and ship found at fault(dah) their insurance should pay.

Damn! This was more an advertisement for the pilots than any actual scenarios. Talk about the 'Texas Chicken'. Why didn't they get that on film?

@Commandoj251

2 ай бұрын

Well you know the media loves the unions sometimes…

@spvillano

2 ай бұрын

Given that most people don't know what a pilot is and frankly, only think there are pilots on airplanes, river and port pilots should be explained by those who know the field.

Everyone is innocent until and unless proved guilty. Are we caring for the crew and pilots, or are they left with zero pay and not allowed ashore? If it was a mechanical failure, the pilots must be going through hell.

Boats?

I thought ships had captains, not pilots?

@rickss69

2 ай бұрын

Port pilots navigate ships in and out of harbors...not the ship's captain.

@DementedButtHole

2 ай бұрын

Think of pilots that help navigate oversized trucks on the roadways. Similar thing.

@spvillano

2 ай бұрын

@@rickss69 although, the captain still holds responsibility for his or her vessel. My uncle was a Port of Baltimore pilot for many years, after decades at sea as a merchant marine.

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Wow , the Americans destroyed that ship and knocked their own bridge down.... What a mess.

@fuzzybutkus8970

2 ай бұрын

WTF is the matter with you?? I’m hoping that’s sarcasm to have so little empathy for other human beings. I’m thinking your about 12 years old.

😂 when having american harbor pilots did ish to prevent Baltimore 😂

@grondhero

2 ай бұрын

It prevented a lot more deaths. They stopped traffic which means no one crossing the bridge fell in; it was only the workers whose vehicles were stopped in the middle of the bridge to begin with. Open a book and educate yourself.

@rickss69

2 ай бұрын

@@grondhero Wrong - They caused deaths and the destruction of a bridge and the loss of use of a port by dismissing tugs 20 minutes before even reaching the bridge. Educate yourself.

@mikeprice4103

2 ай бұрын

@@rickss69 Your the one wrong again releasing tugs was protocol. Try and use that lil brain of yours.

@grondhero

2 ай бұрын

@@rickss69 That's standard operating procedure. Educate yourself. They called for tugs after the initial power outage. The tugs couldn't make it in time. If you cannot tell us _why_ the power went out and how it could have been avoided, then sit back in your gamer chair, quietly.

@spvillano

2 ай бұрын

@@grondhero that's one thing I'm waiting for the NTSB to answer, why the vessel lost prime power, hence headway. Without power, that's no longer a ship, it's a barge without a mover to guide it. But, they were Johnny on the Spot getting that emergency call to shut the bridge down, which saved a hell of a lot of lives. From the videos I saw, they lost power at the worst possible time, when even dropping an anchor couldn't help. I used that bridge many times when I was in the military, as we would be moving fuel and explosives in our convoy and that's the main hazmat route. Now, all hazmat traffic on the road needs to go 30 miles out of the way to go around all of Baltimore and commuter traffic either through town, around the city or use the tunnels. Meanwhile, the port is blocked, which prevents most of the cars imported for the East Coast from coming into the country, along with $20 billion a year in imports, losing tariffs for those goods as well. I did get a chuckle over the Houston pilot's take, yeah, Port of Houston is a wee bit different than Port of Baltimore. There's no room to install dolphins to protect the bridge piers and I'm unaware of any bumper system that can withstand a neopanamax hitting it. That's just way too much mass to protect against when it's moving. As a hint, in the USS Fitzgerald and MV ACX Crystal collision, Crystal weighed in around 1/3 of the Dali and nearly sank the US destroyer USS Fitzgerald. The Dali would've cut her clean in half and still continued forward with that much mass!

Pilot either needs glasses or did it on purpose.