That is one of the scariest things I have ever seen in my life.
This video has some more information:
- it happened around 1:30am
- officials think there were 7-20 people on the bridge when it collapsed
- that number includes workers involved in repairs on the bridge and people in cars
- there's also a diesel spill
- the boat that did it was a mile long container ship headed for Singapore and had only been underway for 30 min
Terrifying horror for those 7-20, but I'm surprised it's so few. I can't imagine what it would have been at 1:30pm instead of 1:30am.
I just looked up this bridge on google maps. Am I right in thinking that this debris is also going to block access to the port facilities?
Idk how it couldn't?! At least for a day or so while they work to get a lane cleared for safe passage.
I found this comment in another thread with more information, including a link to the BBC live coverage.
Oh not it's totally blocked off both the ports. Any ship here now is trapped for a while.
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New Stav Character: Container ship captain who just had 12 beers and insists he’s good to pilot a ship.
“Awww naw, I’m fooking foine, let’s fooking gooooo.”
ship, not boat.somebody in the other thread estimated the mass of the container ship, wonder how fast it was going
An actual fear of mine.
Jesus christ. Cold. Wet. Death.
I hope those involved did not suffer.
If I’m in this situation I’m really hoping for a “Being turned into a homogenous paste on contact with the water” situation
Social media is so weird. I woke up ~15 minutes ago and when I went to Bluesky and in my feed I saw...
I keep watching that bridge footage - I’ve never seen anything like it.
Then I scrolled down just a little and I saw...
Anyway, new phobia phobia just dropped. So uhhhh is the ship insured.
And then...
Oh god that bridge in Baltimore.
And I had to wonder if it was some kind of in-joke and I thought to myself - it certainly can't be a Mothman-like event.
I live within an hour of the Mothman bridge, and I was thinking about it a lot this morning! Crazy to think that the little tiny bridge accident near me was more deadly than this giant one in a major city guiding an interstate highway over a huge body of water. It's so weird how timing has so much to do with it - the Mothman incident happened around dinnertime around the holidays, while this one was the middle of the night in the kinda dead time between the holidays and spring.
the little tiny bridge accident near me
I never googled that so I assumed it was fundamental design failure or minor problems grew out of control over time or bad maintenance or some combination. This blows my mind: "a failure triggered by a flaw just 0.1 inches (2.5 mm) deep."
On December 15, 1967, the Silver Bridge collapsed amid heavy rush-hour traffic, resulting in the deaths of 46 people, two of whom were never found. Investigation of the wreckage soon pointed to the failure of a single eyebar in one of the suspension chains as the primary cause — a finding noted in a preliminary report released within 10 months of the collapse. However, to explain why that eyebar failed — a failure triggered by a flaw just 0.1 inches (2.5 mm) deep, which led to a fracture — required significantly more time and effort to uncover, with the final accident report taking three years to complete. The collapse led to significant changes in the way bridges in the U.S. are inspected and maintained.
I watched The Mothman Prophecies last month. I didn't like it much. It was too much drama and not enough horror. But the sound design was great and it was the creepiest part of the movie.
lol, they're lined up with the support so perfectly I didn't even see the boat the first time through the video. I simply did not consider that a boat would be there
that fact that I first read this on SHINE and the fact thats named after the guy who wrote the settler national anthem just really show how cooked America is. All decline, sure you can't afford to feed your family and the bridge your driving on might collapse, but does that really matter? Think about pronouns or something, would ya?
that said, this should be a clear cut propaganda win for delegitimizing the current regime Can't provide bridges, how functional is your government really then?
Honestly idk if this is even a failed state thing, few bridges survive being hit by a container ship
Update: Apparently this bridge was supposed to have extra supports so that in the event of a collision this exact thing didn’t happen, because this exact thing happened in Tampa in 1980. So it was a failed state thing.
Update 2: I still misunderstood. It was supposed to have dolphins, structures surrounding the supports to protect them from getting hit by a ship. It did have some, they were just way too far from the supports and the ship went right between them, and it should’ve had more of them closer to the supports.
I'll make a failed-state-related prediction: the bridge will not be rebuilt.
As a fuckcars moron, I think that society would be better off if that bridge doesn't get rebuilt.
Suburban ring highways are bad because they encourage car dependent development.
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