Baltimore bridge.

[Rita_Poon]

It is going to be a very difficult time when the cars are raised from within the twisted metal and the bodies are recovered.

It sounds like the mayday call has prevented massive loss of life. Well played the team that shut the bridge off so quickly and saved so many lives. Emergency protocols kicked in, in a very short window.

 

[Goat]

It is going to be a very difficult time when the cars are raised from within the twisted metal and the bodies are recovered.

It sounds like the mayday call has prevented massive loss of life. Well played the team that shut the bridge off so quickly and saved so many lives. Emergency protocols kicked in, in a very short window.

Only a matter of time till Putin blames Ukraine for this.

(Sorry for jokes, RIP to all the poor souls)

 

[Eggs]

It is going to be a very difficult time when the cars are raised from within the twisted metal and the bodies are recovered.

It sounds like the mayday call has prevented massive loss of life. Well played the team that shut the bridge off so quickly and saved so many lives. Emergency protocols kicked in, in a very short window.

….reports I’ve read suggest those missing are the poor soles who were working on the bridge fixing potholes.

 

[Street end man]

Jeez, it's longer than the Mersey Gateway, that is sobering.

 

[SerenityNigh]

Shocking

 

[LinekersLegs]

Wouldn't fancy being the engineer who has to design bollards/dolphins that can take the impact of over 100,000 tonnes moving at 6 to 8 knots and also "futureproof" the design - the MV Dali was bigger than any ship built at the time the original bridge was built.

Why the Baltimore Bridge Collapsed So Quickly

Steel structures aren’t as strong as you might think—and the immense power of a container ship shouldn’t be underestimated.

www.wired.com

 

[Abertonian]

Wouldn't fancy being the engineer who has to design bollards/dolphins that can take the impact of over 100,000 tonnes moving at 6 to 8 knots and also "futureproof" the design - the MV Dali was bigger than any ship built at the time the original bridge was built.

Why the Baltimore Bridge Collapsed So Quickly

Steel structures aren’t as strong as you might think—and the immense power of a container ship shouldn’t be underestimated.

www.wired.com

Quite the challenge to future proof against the unimaginable.

 

[NeilMorepies]

 

[The binman chronicles]

Here's a video from a man who knows what he's talking about:

Some of those vehicles crossing seconds before the ship hits will be thanking their lucky stars they didn't drive 1 mph slower that night.

 

[Ruairi77]

1 refused medical treatment.

What a country you have there, when people choose to refuse medical treatment due to how much it costs.

might not even have been costs.
He might not have been properly documented and scared to enter the system.
grim.

 

[LostLegend]

Has there been any news on how many people are missing?

The fact that they managed to get a message to stop some of the traffic coming onto the bridge has probably saved lives.
Also the fact that this happened in the early hours of the morning and not rush hour is lucky as this could have been so much worse.

Still awful for those affected especially the families of the workers who never made it off the bridge in time

 

[LinekersLegs]

might not even have been costs.
He might not have been properly documented and scared to enter the system.
grim.

Or bring accused of sabotage by conspiracy nuts.

 

[degsy]

As far as i understand all ships all around the world are required to have a local pilot who is entirely responsible for safe transit into and out of port. I'd guess its a requirement of insurers.

I'd put my house on a pilot being on board during this ... but what can they do if there's a power failure. This will come down to the ship operators over maintenance ... who'll probably blame and string up the engineer, who's probably been begging for more maintenance budget, to protect their company name.

This all day long

 

[The binman chronicles]

Wouldn't fancy being the engineer who has to design bollards/dolphins that can take the impact of over 100,000 tonnes moving at 6 to 8 knots and also "futureproof" the design - the MV Dali was bigger than any ship built at the time the original bridge was built.

Why the Baltimore Bridge Collapsed So Quickly

Steel structures aren’t as strong as you might think—and the immense power of a container ship shouldn’t be underestimated.

www.wired.com

It's just simply not possible. They would need to be half the width of the ship, else it could just slice through the bottom part of the hull and it would still end up hitting what it was designed to protect. That's based on it being able to handle that force in the first place.

Hopefully they design bridges better that sit in busy shipping lanes like that. If they make more of the bridge self supporting (as per below pic), then you may lose the central span in an accident such as this, but comparatively that's only a small section of it. Add a traffic light system that could stop cars from getting on to that part in an emergency and hopefully you reduce risk to life further and it would obviously take less time to reconstruct if the worst happened.



People won't though as it costs more to build and they'll see this as a once in a lifetime event.

 

[LinekersLegs]

It's just simply not possible. They would need to be half the width of the ship, else it could just slice through the bottom part of the hull and it would still end up hitting what it was designed to protect. That's based on it being able to handle that force in the first place.

Hopefully they design bridges better that sit in busy shipping lanes like that. If they make more of the bridge self supporting (as per below pic), then you may lose the central span in an accident such as this, but comparatively that's only a small section of it. Add a traffic light system that could stop cars from getting on to that part in an emergency and hopefully you reduce risk to life further and it would obviously take less time to reconstruct if the worst happened.

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People won't though as it costs more to build and they'll see this as a once in a lifetime event.

Going to be lots of difficult design choices to be made with new bridge, really don't envy those involved.

Speed of construction will also be an important factor as the hit to the regional economy every day it is out of operation and traffic loads on other routes will be high.