Brad Christy

Really makes one wonder why the working crew was still on the bridge. If they had time to get traffic blocked, surely they could have signaled to the crew to get the Hell off the bridge...?

Thanks. Brad.

Tartilla

There would have been a local Pilot that would have been onboard, no?

Steering systems should have double redundancy.

Also heard folks speak to tug assisted navigation as an option with sensitive waterways.
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RIP the workers on the bridge, and the 7 cars in the water.

Tartilla

Communicating an emergency and acting out a quick plan to move off the bridge would have taken time. Did they even have a vehicle or were they all on foot? Rough go all around.

offshoredrillin

all ships leaving the port have bay pilots, they are rquired well below the chesapeak bay bridge and up the top in the C&D canal. in one of the vids you can see where it lost all power, and even see the smoke from trying to reverse, but to no avail.

tlark

breakdown in communications in this case is without excuss, those are city or state road crews up there

CheckmateScarab

There was only a 4 minute warning between when the ship signalled and when it collided - even if crews left that same second it's not a lot of time to make it several thousand feet. Feel terrible for everyone in this mess

Wildman_grafix

How the heck could they have even stopped traffic? I watched and as others said it was very little time. The bridge is 1.6 miles long, no chance on foot and very little if in a vehicle and need to turn around.

You can see in one video some of the work trucks falling into the water RIP,

Man, one minute you are doing your job the next,,,,,,,,,,,horrible.

36Tango

Prayers out to all of the families affected.

That said, can you imagine calling your insurance company with this claim? I cannot imagine the cost of building a new bridge.

bajaman

It makes one think that after this, and the Sunshine Highway Bridge in Florida back in 1980, if they will consider building some sort of safety piers AHEAD of the abutments for these bridges, in both travel directions? These bridges don't stand a chance against these massive ships.

tlark

Been following this guy for awhile, knows his stuff Pretty good info including ship tracking from port into channel. Breakdown of navigation as well