DEI may have destroyed the Baltimore bridge - ship operations company Synergy Marine Group

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[–]jet199 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I have an acquaintance who is involved in reinsurance for parts of the bridge. Apparently they are going to do whatever they can to not pay out so if there is anything dodgy or the shipping company was negligent we will hear about it.

[–]UncleWillard56 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (13 children)

I love the comment "the all Indian crew put out a mayday that saved lives." Yeah, but you forgot to stop the fucking ship in the first place, morons.

[–]jet199 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

That's not how ships work

[–]UncleWillard56 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

How do you figure? They didn't see the bridge? They couldn't emergency stop when they figured out it was going to collide with it?

[–]slavdude0 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Apparently power went out and they've lost the ability to steer.

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And even if they still had the ability to stop all propulsion, nothing that size and weight is going to stop on a dime.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Yeah, like the Titanic did with the iceberg

[–]UncleWillard56 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It was at night in open sea and in 1912. Francis Scott Key bridge has been there for 47 years and it was daylight, not to mention all the technology at their disposal plus the Port of Baltimore, with tons of assistance, was close by. And yet again, the root cause was not the berg/bridge, it was the choices made by the company who owned the boats; Titanic owners thought it was unsinkable and didn't properly compartmentalize the ship allowing it to sink very fast. In this case, cutting corners on maintenance. It certainly wasn't the bridge's fault.

[–]Titanic 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Titanic also used defective steel plates.

[–]ID10T[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

They are heros for sending an SOS after their shoddy maintenance caused the power to go out...

[–]Titanic 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Which resembles the Titanic because the wireless operators on the titanic were belligerent and nasty to the closest ship causing them to shut off their radio. They saved the day, but not after fucking up.

[–]UncleWillard56 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It's routine to do this, though. It's not heroic. There are no heroes on that ship or in that company. They caused a fatal accident because they cut corners.

[–]ID10T[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yeah it's some dumb shit. "They heroically called 911" haha fuck off. They caused billions of dollars in economic loss.

[–]UncleWillard56 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I get that wasn't the crew's fault, necessarily, but just calling 911 isn't heroic, it's part of your job. That Mayor and Joy Reed are the real villains here. Now they're saying that calling someone a DEI hire is equal to the n-word. Once again, any criticism equals racism. He also said he likes to make white people scared. Well, he's doing a marvelous job given that most of the white people moved out of his shithole city.

[–]LyingSpirit472 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well, when things like saying DEI caused the destruction goes past reasonable and go to "just be a man for one moment in your pathetic life and say 'niggers, faggots, trannies, and Jews used mind bullets to blow up the bridge", of course it will occur.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Didn't they say there were only 2 people on that entire ship? This is like the shit with the rail companies expecting 1 or 2 people to run crazy machines with corners cut on maintenance. Blaming that on DEI is a bait and switch to make you look away from these companies trying to siphon off so much profit that they can't keep their industry working correctly. Same shit going on with Boeing right now. DEI is like "hey look over here while we sacrifice safety so we can maximize profits."

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think it was 22 on board

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That might make sense if I lost a digit while browsing the stories yesterday.