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Good news that some of the mid-sized cargo vessels are now able to enter and exit Balitmore Harbor once again. IIRC, they have a safe channel now that can handle 30 foot draft vessels, which opens up a lot more ability to move ships in and out.

The workers that died make this a criminal matter, and there are going to be overlapping NTSB, FBI, and possibly Coast Guard investigations into this clusterfuck. I expect negligence in the repairs or upkeep, is going to be the culprit. When power loss happens, it's usually cause something...

So apparently the West Point Mafia in the Pentagon has so utterly gutted the Navy and maritime services, in favor of their land forces meant for COIN in the last couple decades, that the reserve/utility ships the Corp of Engineers or Navy salvage/utility fleet is almost non-existent now. All...

Given the stupidity we've seen out of the Biden Admin to date, it's rather believable. Now this is true; your average prostitute has more honor than your average journalist.

Trying to keep people in the dark about the salvage and recovery efforts is not a great look for Biden admin.

https://gcaptain.com/dali-salvage-baltimore-gas-pipeline/ Ah shit, this is going to make salvage way more complicated, if there is actually a gas pipeline underneath everything. All the salvage efforts are paused till the evaluate how to safely remove the ship and debris without damaging the...

...wait, the handleheld's are too weak to even reach from ship to shore in the harbor reliably? That's not what I thought the situation was.

It's not that I 'blame' the pilot for anything, not at all. It's more about the ship not having a battery power handleheld radio in the bridge for him to use instead of his cell phone. The pilot did everything right, with what tools he had on hand; it's just the ship probably should have had a...

Yeah, and that is something the Coasties and NTSB are likely to cite them for; the pilot having to use his cell phone to do this is not how things are supposed to operate.

Yeah, not having some handheld battery powered radio's for a back-up is an oversight, that I would agree with. That may end up as a new reg for the Coasties to enforce on commercial shipping. No, a Voyage Data Recorder is not the same as a aircraft type black box, even if they fill similar...

The harbor pilot knew they were heading toward the bridge without power, and at a decent clip. He'd also know the tide, currents, and timing of both better than the ship's crew. He saved lives with that phone call, even if he probably hoped it would end up as unnecessary. They want to blame...

Very important thread. The harbor pilot used his cell phone to call the harbor master and tell them to close the bridge, within 30-60 seconds of the ship losing power and the loss of radio, and likely saved lives, as it was only 90 seconds after the harbor master ordered the bridge closed that...

You haven't watched enough Deadliest Catch if you think ships suffering power loss issues an inopportune times is this suspicious. Also, you have seen those videos of ships running into cranes at docks, and you have to remember Evergiven in the Suez. Sometimes accidents happen in really shitty...

There is a fine line between reasonable suspicions when things are looking fishy, and deciding every fucking breaking news event/evolving news story is part of some grand conspiracy of some sort as a kneejerk reaction. Kneejerk conspiracy claims are what undermine legit situations where a...

The source is likely 'shit I heard on 4chan' or 'shit I heard from people who have no actual on the ground knowledge, but want clout via me'. Meanwhile, actual credible sources are not exactly hard to find for this matter.

And why the fuck are you rebroadcasting this shit, when we already have a big old mod-post around claims of responsibility/guilt and needing to provide evidence with any claims? Logan cannot prove shit, the idea this was an attack rather than an accident requires positive proof, and no one...

...no, this is a rather run of the mill shipping accident; losing power underway happens to a lot of ships, just not usually in such a shitty location. Maybe stop trying to turn every event into some sort of political stunt or trying to use every event to push political narratives that have...

So not the first time this particular ship has had a very unsightly mishap.