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People are talking about the Baltimore bridge crash, as the media attempts to bury this story that is so embarrassing for the American system.

Some people think it was some kind of sabotage, while others believe it is a natural result of the diversity that has infested our industrial systems in America.

Personally, I do not have a strong view on this either way. The idea that it is more of what we are seeing at Boeing with DEI hiring is certainly plausible. But it is also a very specific event.

This gif shows the path of the crashed ship, which made the very big turn correctly and then made a small veer from where it was supposed to go and crashed:

It makes you wonder how these DEI people avoided doing this crash for so long.

However, the fact that boats go along this path every day and don’t crash, and the fact that the power went out on the boat just before it hit the pylon, is a bit suspicious.

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From the path, you can see that if the power had gone off at any other time, the bridge would have not been destroyed. A random failure of power could be easily blamed on diversity, but the power going out at the exact moment that it would cause the boat to crash into the support and take out the entire bridge is an extreme statistical improbability.

There are a number of different state actors who could have done this. It’s not gone without notice that it happened just days after Russia started to pin blame on the US for their biggest terrorist attack in decades. Meanwhile, the war in Gaza is ongoing, and many different Islamic groups are threatening various forms of retaliation against the US. It looks like the crew had a lot of Moslems, which means that an Islamic group could have recruited some of them to cut the power. The US is also bombing and threatening to bomb a lot of other people in the world, so it could really be anyone.

The US has become like a global Jew slumlord.

Lara Logan is going around saying she has sources and it was definitely a “cyber attack.” I don’t put too much into what Logan says about anything, but she is the main person going around saying this.

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Frankly, we won’t ever know what happened. You can see that the story is dropping out of the media. No one in the government wants people to see this, regardless of the cause. Even if the US knows that some foreign actor did this, it would make the US look so weak that they would never announce it. In fact, they would bury information about it.

It’s possible that more information will come out, making it more clear to observers, but nothing is ever going to be definite, and the government is never going to admit to anything.

If it was a foreign state responsible, that is quite a thing.

(Republished from The Daily Stormer by permission of author or representative)
 
• Category: Economics, Ideology • Tags: Baltimore, Conspiracy Theories, Shipping 
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  1. mike99588 says:

    Cutting costs, distant owners, inattentive crews ashore (and a whore), what’s not going to happen?

    Over four decades ago, I was around a vessel for several weeks for specialized operations. They supposedly had just had major $$$ maintenance for 5-6 weeks in S’pore.

    Several weeks later, right at the most crucial time, 3 cat engines went dead in rapid succession, and the final, 4th cat sputtered on for several hours more, then we had a total lost of power, and a 5 degree list. How much money was paid vs laid vs booze ashore when they were supposed to be supervising refits, I don’t know – but that was one of my brief experiences with international maritime.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
  2. 迪路 says:

    I think Americans are too conspiratorial about this.
    Ships that hit the bridge without proper control happen even in China.
    The foundation of American industrialization is poor, and the Bridges are weak and in disrepair.
    It’s not surprising that a weak bridge can lead to a complete collapse.

    • Agree: SteveK9
    • Replies: @al gore rhythms
  3. SafeNow says:

    The cover-up of “what happened?” will be matched by the cover-up of the US bridge-building timeframe vs. the China timeframe. China builds infrastructure much faster, especially bridges, and explanations for this disparity have long been common on the Internet. My favorite is the bridge China built in 43 hours. Different Countries do different things well. The French, baguettes. The U.S., drones.

    • Replies: @lloyd
    , @DanFromCT
  4. Munga Bulga [AKA "HeebHunter"] says:

    The Jewnited Snake of Nigmerica is just a piece of turd going down the septic tank. The genetic trashes of mankind all gather there to be exterminated. A fitting end to the jewish nation of Sub-Human.

    • Replies: @RestiveUs
  5. Anonymous[347] • Disclaimer says:
    @mike99588

    The problem with terrorism by computer is that it cuts out the big actors – you don’t need a big spy network – just some brainy kids. It is kind of like the difference between F-35s and cheap drones.
    Anyone can play in the Big Leagues.
    America’s problem is that we don’t realize that – we have these “weenies” in our State Dept. and the CIA who think that they are the “brainy kids” in the World, and that everyone else is a “dumbass”. Jerks like (finally just fired) “Tori” Nuland. Any thinking person can draw a straight line between her and the Nord Stream and the Moscow attacks. One can probably draw a straight line (again) between her and the Baltimore Bridge.
    We may have a trillion dollar military, but it is no match for any really bright nerd with a computer with a grudge. And wait until AI gets going – you won’t even need the nerd.
    America needs a “Come to Jesus” break before we get in real trouble. First things first – fire every f’ing Zionist employed in our “spook” networks – and then hand out cookies – to everyone in the World.

    • Agree: Dr. Rock
  6. Several weeks later, right at the most crucial time, 3 cat engines went dead in rapid succession, and the final, 4th cat sputtered on for several hours more, then we had a total lost of power, and a 5 degree list.

    Now take that rare event and add to it that it happens exactly within the 10-minute time window of a 27-day trip.

    Not crucial time. Not critical time. But a cataclysmic time.

    It is clear that the Russkies’ goal was to drop the bridge but not kill a lot of people because they chose a time of day (12:51 A.M.) when the least amount of traffic was traveling on 695 and across the Key Bridge.

    • LOL: Cyclingscholar
    • Replies: @mr bulister
  7. Notsofast says:

    well now we’re getting surreal, the dali meets francis scott key and the fireworks are spectacular, as the car strangled spanner melts all over the dali. oh, say does that blood spattered banner still wave, over the land of the greed and the home of the slaves?

    is this all a just a little build back better bidenomic urban renewal project, or a response for the continuing attacks on the crimean bridge? either way, 10% for the big guy. when asked for a comment the secretary of transportation, said “it’s going to be expensive, now leave me alone i’m chest feeding my child”.

    • LOL: Buck Ransom
  8. Andreas says:

    Reports are trickling in that IOF have suffered a mass-casualty event.

    But this is not in unison with any claims by Hamas or Hezbollah.

    I’m guessing an Israeli soldier finally did what was right and turned his gun on his fellow soldiers.

    • Replies: @Haxo Angmark
  9. raga10 says:

    You can blame diversity if you must, but the entire worldwide shipping industry runs on diversity. Commercial ships are largely crewed by Indians, Pakistanis and Filipinos, and have been for decades.

    “Cyber attack” on the ship is pure nonsense. None of the systems critical for running and steering the ship are connected to the net.

    The real problem is, like I said in another thread, that the ship had no tugs with it for just such emergencies. In Europe or Australia it would go with tugs all the way to the open waters, but that was not the case here,

  10. Rich says:

    If it was sabotage, we should be seeing more of it, very soon. Could’ve been a warning, so if we see a sudden change in some American policy, that’ll show it worked. The government says it was an accident and we know they only tell the truth by accident, so it probably was sabotage.

    • Agree: Gallatin
    • Replies: @purrturbed
  11. QCIC says:

    I wonder if the policy in the past was ever to have tugs escort ships past this bridge? On the other hand, maybe the situation with a vulnerable bridge and a busy channel is so common that people don’t worry about it too much.

    Contriving a failure on the ship which definitely leads to the destruction of the bridge seems difficult. To better understand the odds one could look at the file of near misses since the bridge was built.

    Whatever the root cause turns out to be, I wonder if the bridge would have survived if the pilot and crew had done nothing? In other words, what are the chances they unintentionally made a bad situation worse?

    A lot of the facts required to sort this accident out are probably being chewed in the professional marine press. Depending on the stupidly level involved or the likelihood of sabotage, this information may never make it into the mainstream press. This was true after Fukushima, where the early discussions by nuclear engineers made it clear the reactor design was very marginal and the plant design was flawed. Most of the subsequent discussion in the MSM down-played these hard truths.

    • Replies: @Badger Down
  12. This “news item” will be exactly like the so-called “wildfires” that took place in Maui, Hawaii, in northern California and in other parts of northwest United States – the “wildfires,” in my opinion, being caused NOT by the weather, but by directed energy weapons. Add to that the suspicious fires in poultry plants and large farming operations and at least one petroleum refinery.

    Just sweep it all under the rug and the sheeple will quickly go back to playing with their smartphones.

    Thank you.

    • Replies: @KnutHamsun
  13. Jews working with Pajeets to get more corrupt and faulty construction projects for negroes. It’s all pretty straightforward.

    You will not see a new bridge before 2038. Designed by transsexuals. The Chinese will build it. It will be “managed” by negroes. “Financed” by Jews. And celebrated by the media, months before monstrous flaws are discovered by some unfortunate inspector who is found dead shortly thereafter.

    It’s America.

    • Replies: @Pythas
  14. Fair analysis and as always the “truth” remains to be determined.

    Just my own 2 cents is that it is becoming clear to me that in the US the only card available to draw from Brian Eno’s deck of “Oblique Strategies” is the card stating:

    “Use Unqualified People”

  15. SteveK9 says:

    One explanation I read was that the fuel was contaminated, and caused the engine to cut out. Who knows? This would also be in the category of ever-increasing incompetence in the land of the free.

  16. Gordo says:

    It was incompetence, that’s it. Look out for more of the same as the White West deteriorates.

  17. anarchyst says:

    Manipulating GPS signals is one of the easiest things in the world for someone with moderate technical abilities to do.
    I’ll bet the ship was following a manipulated purposely erroneous GPS signal that steered it into the bridge piling.

  18. roonaldo says:

    Hmm…Biden was all over himself emphasizing that the federal government would pay all the costs for an immediate rebuild–he must’ve gotten some panicked calls from the insurance honchos who are on the hook for damages.

  19. Pbar says:

    I used to live in Baltimore, and I can’t help wondering what effect this has on the local whore business.

  20. Dr. Rock says:

    I think a lot of people are looking right past the obvious-

    1) This cargo ship just happened to have a series of odd incidents, immediately before the collision.

    2) In the course of these incidents, and/or “right after”, it turns directly toward the bridge support.

    3) It rams the bridge support, dead center, at speed.

    4) After the collision, the entire bridge collapses into the harbor, blocking the entire port.

    5) Now a major port is completely closed, indefinitely, as they first have to get the bridge remains cleared before it can even be a functional port again.

    6) It also destroyed an important north-south commercial and public traffic artery, for at least years.

    7) The government and main stream media are trying desperately to bury this story, and end further coverage, i.e. “down the memory hole”.

    The very idea that this is all just a happy accident, bends credulity to the breaking point. I’m convinced this was an intentional act by an international adversary, and the ship doesn’t have to be “connected to the internet” to effect something like this, and I am certain that this ship had connection with the internet, as well as GPS guidance that could be hacked or spoofed. All guidance systems have software, and all software systems can be hacked and loaded with malware.

    The total loss of a major port, is more than just a “paper cut”, it’s a serious wound that won’t be healed for years, if ever.

    To look at all of this, and believe it’s just a bizarre and catastrophic “accident” requires willful ignorance and absurd normalcy bias, kinda like believing that all three buildings of the WTC just happened to collapse perfectly into their own footprint.

    Normalcy bias is one helluva a copium drug!

    • Thanks: Gallatin
    • Replies: @Dr. Rock
  21. Anonymous[324] • Disclaimer says:

    Don’t thtese ships have some type of backup power system?

    • Replies: @Haxo Angmark
  22. @Rich

    If it was sabotage, we should be seeing more of it, very soon.

    I feel like we’ve been seeing it all along, and people have been enriching themselves off it. Can’t say I would blame the russians, but israelis/jews are something else entirely.

  23. Dr. Rock says:
    @Dr. Rock

    Gee, another highly convenient coincidence to go with this most bizarre and improbable “accident”…

    https://www.zerohedge.com/military/huge-problem-pentagons-rapid-wartime-response-cargo-ships-trapped-baltimore-after-bridge

    Imagine the odds!?

    • Replies: @Dr. Rock
  24. It’s like 9/11: The official story is … hypertechnically … plausible if a plethora of highly unlikely events and inputs coïncide.

    We don’t know if it was sabotage, but yes, it was sabotage.

    Maybe it’s Israel crippling one of our harbours for building one of “theirs.”

  25. @迪路

    Our understandable cynicism about the political situation across the West is making us overly suspicious of everything that happens now. It seems pretty far fetched that a foreign government would use veering a ship into a bridge as a form of state terrorism, or that the government would use something like this as a ‘distraction’. Maybe it just is one of those things that happens that has no particular meaning. At most, if it has to be about something, then maybe it’s just part of the general decline in competence for the reasons we all know so well.

    • Agree: Gordo
    • Replies: @迪路
  26. Dr. Rock says:
    @Dr. Rock

    And this…

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/baltimore-bridge-cover-up-begins-reveal-itself-new/

    The coincidences keep piling up, how “unusual”.

    Maybe the Feds don’t want to confirm that it was an attack, because it makes them, and the US, look weak and vulnerable.

  27. Erik1953 says:

    How can the right part of the bridge collapse under its own weight?

    • Replies: @mike99588
  28. Dwayne says:

    I just want to know WHY the generator failed and if there was/is a back up unit.

  29. The reason they don’t all crash is local pilots. A $300k gig btw.

  30. It wasn’t a conspiracy. Everything is not a conspiracy. Accidents actually do happen.

    • Replies: @DanFromCT
  31. The Key Bridge is 20 minutes from NSA HQ at Fort Meade and a lot of NSA folks use 695 and the Key Bridge coming and going to work. Seems like a message sent.

  32. lloyd says: • Website
    @SafeNow

    From my experience of ten years in China when Chinese are not at festivals or resting, they are working. It is globally known Chinese shops are always open expect for their festivals. They work at the same steady methodical pace. I was astonished they fixed the internet cables of a building estate in a few days with manual implements. However they are deficient in micro business. Merchandise are usually shoddy and they live up to their reputation with laundromats.

  33. mike99588 says:
    @Erik1953

    Very cheap, light weight, non-redundant design that went severely out of balance and lacked support when the left side (main span) fell in and heaved the road off the column. Minimum metal trussed structures quickly collapse.

    I’m wondering to what degree Nancy Pelosi’s family skimmed that bridge since her father was Baltimore’s mayor in the earliest stages. Biden sure jumped at cleaning/covering up the mess for “free”, when his style to let taxpayers rot in an emergency. Or left behind, like Afghanistan.

  34. Pythas says:
    @Just another serf

    The onlt thing the sub-saharan african nergroes knew how to build was a primitive mud-hut. Look at their history. Also read some of the old anthropological reports from European missionaries which I have red from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries describing how these primitives lived. And no they weren’t living like Europeans, they didn’t even know what European Culture and Civilization was or probably where Europe was geographically. Now you know the truth…

  35. Baltimore’s mayor makes a statement/open threat to Whites.
    This is lawful in USA ?

    Baltimore’s young thug mayor threatens his white constituents. If you’re white you aren’t welcome in Baltimore. pic.twitter.com/Oi2qg8X9hi— @amuse (@amuse) March 28, 2024

    • Replies: @Alden
    , @Supply and Demand
  36. @Andreas

    the only “mass casualty event” was in Syria, where the Izzies pulverized Babyface Tsar’s ally once again.

    and once again, Babyface Tsar did nothing about it.

  37. @Anonymous

    probably. The lights went off….then the backup kicked in….the lights went back on….then the power failed again. Personally, I think an important data point is that the ship had a Uke captain.

    • Replies: @M.Rostau
  38. Pamique says:

    By coincidence I was listening to Ben Shapiro today (maybe it was yesterday) in a long piece about how conspiracy theories are generally loony, and can really make a mess of societies. It was a sensible essay, in a sociological/poly-sci way.

    Just my luck, out of boredom I came to this web site today. AA and the commenters are proving ol’ Ben Shapiro right.

    What a lot of loony conspiracy hokum can be found in one place.

    And of course, for no apparent reason whatsoever, unhinged AA throws in something about a Jewish NYC landlord. What’s this bridge calamity have to do with a Jewish NYC landlord?

    Ok, I’m cured, I won’t be back for awhile.

  39. RestiveUs says:
    @Munga Bulga

    Elegant, insightful, constructive…Pure poetry.

  40. rgl says:

    Sometimes, shit simply happens. Too much is being read into this. If there was malign intent to bring the bridge down, more efficient ways exist.

    Sometimes, shit simply happens.

    • Replies: @Gallatin
  41. @raga10

    neither were iranian centrifuges… but nonetheless…

  42. @QCIC

    Agreed, and looking at it from the other direction, it is not a good plan to cut the power and hope the ship will hit the pylon. Looking at the above gif, I can’t see where you would cut the power to have a better than 50-50 chance of hitting it. Unless someone or a bot steers the ship.
    I once dropped a B5 sheet of paper, which landed and stood on its long edge.

  43. @Pseudoprime number

    probably a reason why we can rule out Israel or the CIA, who would have dropped the bridge in the middle of the day.

  44. @Pamique

    Oh, he’s gone. And I was just about to tell him the multiple connections between this bridge calamity and the most-recent most-hated man in NYC.

  45. Of course “diversity” is being blamed, but international shipping has been diverse FOR EVER.

    Doesn’t each port employ pilots to steer ships in and out? I have a relative who does that job. I would like to hear from this particular pilot!

    America definitely has enough enemies to make a cyberattack a possibility. How do you guard against a foreign vessel being taken over electronically and used as a weapon? And the resulting damage is far worse for America in a practical sense than 9/11, which is utterly negligible by comparison. A couple of office buildings, versus a crucial port and a bridge that will take at least 3 years to rebuild!

  46. Alden says:

    The ship was steered by computer software as most ships are these days. The electricity went out. So the computer steering stopped working. The ship like most ships these days could not be steered manually. So the ship steered itself into the bridge support. Similar to Teslas that steer themselves into lakes, off cliffs and into buildings. Or GPS that directs drivers to drive into a ravine or off a cliff Steersman was a Ukrainian.

  47. Alden says:
    @Arthur MacBride

    Yes it’s lawful as long as a non White threatens Whites. Baltimore, one of the oldest and most beautiful cities in America.

  48. lavoisier says:
    @Pamique

    What’s this bridge calamity have to do with a Jewish NYC landlord?

    It is simple. So much of what is going wrong today in the West can be blamed on the Jews taking over.

    The productive US economy has been hollowed out by Jewish financiers, and all the wars being fought on behalf of Israel have drained our resources and left our intrastructure vulnerable and dccrepit.

    Jewish machination to import the Third World to the West has lowered productivity and the intelligence level of the citizenry.

    Jewish money has corrupted the political system and the West has devolved into banana republics and a police state.

    The Jewish takeover of the West has been an unmitigated disaster.

    Pretty simple.

    • Replies: @Pamique
  49. Gallatin says:
    @rgl

    The way the bridge came down is exactly how an enemy would want it done. If you plant bombs on it and blow it up, it would be obvious. The fact that the insurance company wasn’t allowed to investigate it and pay for a new bridge shows me that the Feds are afraid it was an attack. The power on a ship goes off right before it goes under a bridge? That’s very fishy. If that ship hit 4 hours later at 8:00 A.M., there would have been over 200 people fall in the water instead of 12. Some of the people would be going into D.C.
    They are probably going to try and blame it on dirty fuel stopping the engine or whatever, but it only happened right at that crucial time, not out on the big ocean? Again, very fishy story.

    • Replies: @Hang All Text Drivers
  50. 迪路 says:
    @al gore rhythms

    I understand.
    The moral standards displayed by leading Americans for profit may not match those of terrorists.
    So some people tend to make wrong predictions when they read from this moral level.
    Addictive drugs, LGBTQ, immigrants, untested vaccines, COVID-19, monkeypox virus. It seems that these things are out to destroy the existence of society, but the result may be only the short-term interests of the top class.
    But the core problem is that no one dares to point out that these problems are the malignant result of the excessive pursuit of short-term interests by the former class.
    Because the top class put a shield on themselves, a shield called the Jew, a shield called the vegetarian, a shield called the LGBTQ, but they forgot one thing.
    Such actions are only deceiving themselves, and in the end, all Americans will only pursue short-term interests and cause the destruction of the United States.

    • Agree: Kolya Krassotkin
  51. DanFromCT says:
    @SafeNow

    Are you talking about the technology that China and the rest of the world owe almost entirely to America? When America is gone, China will revert back to where it was.

    • Replies: @bike-anarkist
  52. @Arthur MacBride

    I wish he had been more direct about how it’s important to murder all the elderly MAGA hat wearing whites. Torture them, too.

  53. DanFromCT says:
    @obwandiyag

    Let’s see. Everything is not a conspiracy and accidents do happen, therefore it wasn’t a conspiracy. No comment needed.

  54. Pamique says:
    @lavoisier

    I guess I lied. I’m back, killing time before breakfast.

    Me: “What a lot of loony conspiracy hokum can be found in one place.”

    Then, your post, unwittingly supporting my statement.

    • Thanks: lavoisier
  55. Jameson says:

    Doesn’t a large heavy object continue in a straight path when power is lost? Why would the massive boat suddenly veer to the right/starboard in this case over such a short distance? It was headed straight under the bridge for quite a distance.

    • Agree: Richard B
    • Replies: @Richard B
    , @raga10
  56. @Brad Anbro

    Global Warming isn’t weather – it’s, as far as we can tell, the shifting of atmospheric and oceanic circulations which is the result of pumping GHGs such as carbon and methane into the atmosphere.

    In 2020, global Maritime regulations killed off the emissions of sulfate particulates into the atmosphere. Those particulates acted as an atmospheric “shield” that essentially reflected sunlight away from earth (Global Dimming). Such is the double-bind of pollution – you increase global average temperature through GHGs, however you also block additional warming from the sun due to an atmospheric “shield.” In reality, we were both under a process of global average warming while at the same time reducing additional warming through a proxy of pollution – therefore we have NO IDEA just how much imbalance we have caused.

    Remember when “our goal” was 1.5c of average warming? We surpassed that last year. February 2024 was 1.7c higher than average. Might I recommend buying a HEPA air filter for this summer?

    Well, what’s the “solution,” anyway? That lies in geoengineering projects such as Operation Brimstone Angel, otherwise known as Stratospheric Aerosol Injection.

    https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-0618

    https://makesunsets.com/

    Have no fear – govts and scientists are working hard to fight Entropy with….Entropy….

    • Replies: @bike-anarkist
  57. Hibernian says:

    The start of the journey is a point of vulnerability, especially if maintenance, correct fueling, correct startup, etc., were neglected, and the bridge was encountered very early on, which is in the nature of this terminal and harbor. Tugboats should not be casting off their lines before the ship clears the bridge, but the rules allow it (or we would have heard about it by now) and they did. This incident can’t be downplayed for long, especially after it becomes widely realized that the ship (it’s owners, operators, insurance carrier’s.

    • Replies: @Hibernian
  58. Hibernian says:
    @Hibernian

    Excuse me, the parties I mentioned above have, between them, liability limited to the value of ship plus cargo.

  59. Anonymous[514] • Disclaimer says:

    Nice pipeline ya got there. I used to have a pipeline like that…

    https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2024-03-30_08-32-59.png?itok=rimUI8pq”

    The sublime perfection of this asymmetric response gives me nocturnal emissions.

    • LOL: bike-anarkist
    • Replies: @bike-anarkist
  60. M.Rostau says:
    @Haxo Angmark

    That seems to have been an error.

    They scrambled their notes. The Ukrainian was only ship’s master for 5 months in 2016, eight years ago. The 22 man crew hitting the bridge? All Indian.

    More impressive is no crew names (or US harbor pilot) have been released in the reports I have read. It might be company policy but for a disaster this far-reaching even American news outlets should get a bit more curious.

  61. Richard B says:
    @Jameson

    Doesn’t a large heavy object continue in a straight path when power is lost? Why would the massive boat suddenly veer to the right/starboard in this case over such a short distance? It was headed straight under the bridge for quite a distance.

    What does a reasonable question this incident have to do with what matters most – that the mayor of Baltimore is black?

    Besides, the people that died probably didn’t even vote for him.

  62. John1955 says:

    And the name of the harbor pilot at the helm who ACTUALLY ran container ship DALI into the bridge ???

    Search for harbor pilot identity, ethnicity and qualifications is still ongoing.

    Null hypothesis:

    Affirmative Action Amish named Menno Yoder or Benuel Schwarzentruber. Transition from horse-drawn buggy to container ship is complicated.

  63. raga10 says:
    @Jameson

    Why would the massive boat suddenly veer to the right/starboard in this case over such a short distance?

    Wind? Current? Why did Ever Given get stuck in Suez Canal?

    • Replies: @Jameson
  64. @DanFromCT

    ‘Murica has nothing to look forward to,
    Except Zio-orchestrated terrorism.

  65. @Anonymous

    Good sleuthing!

    Plausible resolve.

  66. @KnutHamsun

    When ALL geo-engineering projects are shut down, observe how the weather behaves.

    Geo-engineering is the climatic elephant in the room.

    • Troll: bike-anarkist
  67. Jameson says:
    @raga10

    Seems like too short a distance for that much of a turn due to wind or current, for something that huge and heavy. Didn’t Ever Given ground?

    • Replies: @raga10
  68. “Frankly, we won’t ever know what happened.”
    ———————————————————————–

    Finally anglin said something intelligent. The gover-media lies about everything.

  69. @Gallatin

    “The power on a ship goes off right before it goes under a bridge?”
    ————————————————————————————-

    There’s not a shred of evidence for that. It’s just something the state media told us.

    • Replies: @Jameson
    , @Gallatin
  70. Jameson says:
    @Hang All Text Drivers

    The lights off is visible in the cam video. If it was a terrorist attack the lights off and on could have been a diversion.

  71. Gallatin says:
    @Hang All Text Drivers

    Look at the video. All the lights on the ship went out for a second before it really veered off course.

  72. raga10 says:
    @Jameson

    Seems like too short a distance for that much of a turn due to wind or current, for something that huge and heavy. Didn’t Ever Given ground?

    No, it veered and run into the bank of the canal. It seems that the pilots were not doing a great job, to put it mildly, but the reason they had problems controlling the vessel in the first place was the strong wind.
    Container ships and cruise ships expecially are actually quite affected by the wind because although they have enormous mass they also present enormous surface area for wind to push against.

    I have no idea if it was a windy day in Baltimore, but it could be a factor.

    • Replies: @orchardist
  73. @raga10

    Suez was just a dry run for Baltimore.

    Both sabotage.

  74. I am puzzled by the timeline, why traffic was still on the bridge at 1:28 am according to the bridge webcam. one semi just got across before the ship impacted.

    Nobody at the bridge or harbor control seems to ae been monitoring the ships passage and crisis.

    Only by sheer luck were no vehicles on that section, apart from the doomed road crew.

    • Replies: @Jameson
  75. Jameson says:
    @Beyond the pale and fedup

    They must have regular or port police stationed near the bridge, a mayday call 4-5 minutes before impact was responded to and they did stop traffic onto the bridge, the workers were possibly out of range, perhaps without a radio handset for immediate contact.

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