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 -  (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.