hmmmm, well… I have just learned from Alias Capt_Phoenix how to be diplomatic , hence I will decline to make any harsh statements and neither deny nor confirm agreement with Your statement and/or evaluation. But many thanks for your valuable input on the issue. Cheers and have a wonderful rest of your day and weekend with Happy Easter.
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Actually I believe he hasn’t one day of being in command which shows that simply holding the license does not make a man a “captain” with any claim to the honorific title but certainly nobody in media cares about any of this. They know absolutely nothing about our world.
It is quite sad how many OUPVs or 100ton masters put Captain on their business cards to puff up their own self importance.
In any event, the fact others see the comments made to that TV station as inaccurate at best, I will myself defer further posts on this and just let the video provide the evidence here.
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Pls see or listen the whole video and the timeline/transcript i have cut out from it .
It will look bad in ANY CONTEXT You care to imagine . And only this part which I have quoted has caused my concern or simply curiosity. Cheers.
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I don’t have enough bandwidth or data to watch videos.
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I am afraid that he did
I don’t recommend that you do
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It may as well be California. It’s Maryland, aka, the People’s Republic of Maryland, aka, Marylandistan; there is a huge environmental lobby here. I doubt there’s much streamlining to any process with respect to environmental controls.
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I think you need to be in the $100/year discord server to fully understand how AI could have stopped this, that is where the brightest minds of the industy are, after all.
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To get back to the story…
We do know the sequence of events in the three minutes before the DALI struck that tower supporting the bridge although what specifically was done by watch engineers to restore steering and propulsion in those three minutes or if the whole sequence was controlled by the automation?
We still do not know if the ship got underway with compromised electrical generating or distribution but hearsay evidence indicates that they did. We do not know that the pilot was made aware of any if they existed.
We do know that there was no escort tug made up to the stern of the DALI and that none was required by any regulation and that it was common practice in the port although VL Containerships already have reputations as being ships liable to loss of control.
We know that there is a fault in the VDR system of the ship which blacks it out recording data streams exactly at the moment they are so critical but if the data streams can be analysed leading up to the blackout we should be able to determine the specific cause it occurred.
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Whoever’s calling it “Marylandistan” obviously has no concept of what goes on in the Stan’s or any “People’s Republic” when it comes to environmental issues
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AFAIK there’s only one report from a single individual of “serious power outages” while the ship was alongside. Seems like if there were in fact outages while cargo was being worked they’d be other reports by now. If there are I’ve not seen them.
The Coast Guard did report that the ship had done “routine engine maintenance” while in port which is to be expected.
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Which why I used the term “hearsay”
The one report about power issues in port I’ve seen pertained to reefer boxes. I’ve seen bad boxes trip breakers but usually you get a ground fault alarm. Different plants will have different responses from there but I have worked ships where you open the reefer breakers one at a time til you find the fault and then leave it open til the electrician can get there. That could look like a power issue to someone who didn’t realize what was up.
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Yes, AFAIK the “serious power outages” and the breakers tripping were both from the same individual. .
A port worker has said the cargo ship that rammed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore was experiencing technical issues for two days before the crash.
Julie Mitchell, Co-Administrator of Container Royal, which tracks the tonnage on container ships in Baltimore port, told ITV News the ship was "having serious power outages".
She said: "The reefer boxes that we have, one of which is the refrigerated boxes, were actually tripping the breakers or mechanics that were keeping the generators running on those while they were trying to fix the ship.
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Again, this is hearsay and may be a complete red herring in the investigation however ships going black like the DALI should never happen if mechanically sound and operated properly so there is a cause to be found which I am going to speculate as being both mechanical and human (vis a crew member overriding a mechanical deficiency)
If you want to pick nits, almost anything said outside of a Court is hearsay. “Uncorroborated” or “not verified” might be better.
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USCG knows what went wrong
https://maritimesutra.com/2024/03/28/uscg-enhanced-examination-program-april-june-2024/
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From what I understood at the NTSB press conference, it wasn’t that the VDR itself quit recording when main power was lost. Rather, the data stream for whatever engineering information was present (RPM, rudder angle) quit at the presumed time of the blackout. That data returned when power returned.
They made it quite clear that the bridge audio recording was uninterrupted throughout, as it was running on its own battery backup during the blackout(s).
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This is unrelated to the DALI.
The USCG has EEPs going on every year, all the time for a constantly changing focus areas.
“This EEP apparently appears to be introduced after the recent Baltimore bridge collapse due to allision incident by MV Dali.” is BS. There is no way they could have an EEP put together that fast if it was truly related to the DALI.
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There is a lot of irrelevant reporting in the media about anything they can find that is connected to the MV Dali, however remote.
I read somewhere about a technician that fell into a elevator shaft that was not properly secured on another ship. The “relevance was” that the ship was managed by Synergy at the time. (Synergy is now managing the MV Dali)
That this ship is now on Time Charter to A.P. Møller (Maersk) has also been mentioned in the media (and here) several times. They are not the Owner, and do NOT manage the operation of the ship, except on a commercial basis.
PS> This ship has NOTHING to do with Maersk Line Ltd. USA.
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I agree that this is too soon after the incident for them to have been able to promulgate this Plus we don’t have any evidence that points to an engine room fire on the DALI.
I believe we are all here of the same opinion that something caused the ship to go black which caused it to lose propulsion then they got current going to the switchboard again which allowed them to restart the main in reverse however enough time had passed and that the ship had swung too far to the right for them to be able to either steer out of it or halt the forward motion.
Obviously something or someone failed for the ship to blackout which must be determined but that there’s also a systemic failure in the system that allows those ships to Transit under bridges without having the preventive measure of an escort tug. We’ve had enough years of ultra large container carriers like the DALI to know by now that it is very easy to lose control of one and their size makes the potential damage far too great to permit
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