Breaking News Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapses

[ShadowArxxy]

Is the ordinance banning cabotage to no US owned and crewed vessels still in force? The one you mention must be its close kin.

The ban on cabotage actually came in two parts; passenger traffic cabotage was barred under the Passenger Vessel Services Act of 1886, but cargo traffic cabotage was not barred until the much later Merchant Marine Act of 1920.

The dredging act restrictions came about because of a rather bizarre conspiracy theory / mass hysteria in the wake of the 1900 Galveston hurricane that foreign dredging ships that came to assist with the cleanup were STEALING AMERICAN SOIL. This is why the Foreign Dredging Act, unlike the Passenger Vessel Services Act, has no exceptions for emergency situations.

 

[S'task]

The dredging act restrictions came about because of a rather bizarre conspiracy theory / mass hysteria in the wake of the 1900 Galveston hurricane that foreign dredging ships that came to assist with the cleanup were STEALING AMERICAN SOIL.

Man, old time conspiracy theories seem almost hilariously innocent in comparison to modern stuff...

 

[Husky_Khan]

The dredging act restrictions came about because of a rather bizarre conspiracy theory / mass hysteria in the wake of the 1900 Galveston hurricane that foreign dredging ships that came to assist with the cleanup were STEALING AMERICAN SOIL. This is why the Foreign Dredging Act, unlike the Passenger Vessel Services Act, has no exceptions for emergency situations.

Conspiracy Fact is more like it. If it was allegedly occurring back in 1908 or whatever how come this is the first time a very stalbe free thinker like me has heard of it?! Sounds like Big Media is hiding something. Maybe the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge is a plot to bring in foreign dredging vessels and thus open up all of America's waterways to foreign vessels STEALING AMERICAN SOIL.

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[49ersfootball]

Can’t disrupt the bread and citruses

Please explain in full detail.

 

[Iconoclast]

I can almost guarantee you that the Dali's little accident was because of diesel bug.

Low-sulfur diesel/Biodiesel blends form a nasty, sludgy mat of bacteria at the oil-water interface, where bacteria literally feast on the fuel inside the tank, forming fistfuls of brownish-blackish gunk that can clog fuel filters instantly if your fuel pumps suck it up. There's little else out there that can take out the main engine and multiple auxiliary generators on a ship this size, simultaneously.

It happened to WSF, too:

Fungus, bacteria in Walla Walla fuel caused ferry to run aground in April

Contaminated fuel led the M/V Walla Walla ferry to run aground on Bainbridge Island in April, according to a Washington State Ferries (WSF) report.

komonews.com

Investigators Check Dali’s Fuel with Speculation of Possible Contamination

Further details are emerging on the issues surrounding the fuel of the containership Dali as speculation is centering on a potential fuel contaminati...

maritime-executive.com

 

[ShadowArxxy]

Note that the claim that not allowing Chinese ships will make clearing the channel take months instead of weeks do not appear to be credible; the current report is that the Army Corps of Engineers does expect to have the channel cleared in weeks.

Currently, they've removed eight shipping containers from the wreck, which sounds ridiculously puny until you realize that they're trying to *safely* remove containers that are structurally compromised and attached to each other in stacks that are toppled over and hanging over the side of the ship, and they have to do so with the limited capability of ship-mounted floating cranes and not the massive land-based straddle cranes that normally unload a container ship.

Things will speed up dramatically once they have about twelve containers removed, as this will make a clear zone where they can safely bring more workers in; they expect it to take about two weeks total to clear the approximately 140 containers that need to be removed to refloat the Dali, at which point it can be towed back to a cargo slip.

 

[Buba]

I imagine that getting the containers off is a sort of

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game. Especially the first ones.

 

[Scottty]

I imagine that getting the containers off is a sort of

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game. Especially the first ones.

Well it would be if they could pull the boxes off from above with a helicopter...

 

[PsihoKekec]

You don't really need helicopter (although Mi-26 would be doable) as you have ship crane there, the issue is that these containers are mangled and in difficult position, so the real issue is attaching the crane catches on the containers without them falling onto workers, a process that can go for hours for each continer and that doe sot involve all the support bracing preparation, it would be impractical to have helicopter hovering over all that time.

 

[Rocinante]

FBI opens criminal investigation into the ship crash that collapsed the Francis Scott Key Bridge

Multiple outlets are reporting that the FBI has opened a criminal investigation into the events surrounding the boat wreck that caused the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore a few weeks ago.

notthebee.com

So the FBI is investigating.

Are we still under that retarded ass ruling that we aren't allowed to talk about how maybe there might have been foul play involved?

 

[Cherico]

FBI opens criminal investigation into the ship crash that collapsed the Francis Scott Key Bridge

Multiple outlets are reporting that the FBI has opened a criminal investigation into the events surrounding the boat wreck that caused the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore a few weeks ago.

notthebee.com

So the FBI is investigating.

Are we still under that retarded ass ruling that we aren't allowed to talk about how maybe there might have been foul play involved?

Thats retarded you always do a full investigation into shit like this. Yes it could be an accident and most likely is but you always investigate first because if it is enemy action you do not want to encourage more.

 

[Rocinante]

Thats retarded you always do a full investigation into shit like this. Yes it could be an accident and most likely is but you always investigate first because if it is enemy action you do not want to encourage more.

Yes most likely an accident, but the FBI is investigating, while we aren't allowed to speculate, which is retarded.

 

[Cherico]

Yes most likely an accident, but the FBI is investigating, while we aren't allowed to speculate, which is retarded.

increibly retarded and self destructive.

 

[The Whispering Monk]

while we aren't allowed to speculate, which is retarded.

My understanding was that we could speculate, but not blindly.
IFF (which translates to IF AND ONLY IF) you have some sort of evidence to back up your speculation.
That way we can each take a look at it and judge the merits of your 'case'.

 

[Zachowon]

NTSB and FBI investigation is guaranteed to make sure.
No matter what there will be ome

 

[Husky_Khan]

Yes most likely an accident, but the FBI is investigating, while we aren't allowed to speculate, which is retarded.

I think the only reason we weren't allowed to speculate was because when the incident was happening, this thread was clogged with spectulation and most of the speculation was retarded and based off of retarded takes made by retards with semi-visible media accounts who were engaging in gaining engagement with their retarded takes which were unironically retarded... sorry... reported by viewers who retarted... sorry repeated the retarded speculation everywhere else engaging in this amplification of retardation.

Now that none of those retards care anymore to farm views from their retarded followers perhaps retarded speculation is not as big a concern anymore.

 

[LTR]

Speculation will be allowed but only controlled speculation above a certain IQ level arbitrarily determined by the staff after the fact.

Speculate responsibly (or with as much responsibility as you do in other threads).

 

[Simonbob]

Well, now it's allowed.....


IT WAS ALIENS!! I HAVE PROOF!!!!!!!

But the pic's won't upload! THE ALIENS MUST BE STOPPING THE UPLOAD!!!!!!

 

[Cherico]

Speculation will be allowed but only controlled speculation above a certain IQ level arbitrarily determined by the staff after the fact.

Speculate responsibly (or with as much responsibility as you do in other threads).

I think it was an accident and they just fucked up.

 

[Simonbob]

If I'm being serious, I don't know.

It'd be hard to arrange, but not impossible.