Baltimore Ship ‘Black Box’ Data Recorder
Taken by Investigators as Search for Missing Continues
Breitbart Europe,
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Oliver JJ Lane
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
3/27/2024 2:13:01 PM
The investigation and recovery after the catastrophic bridge strike over the Patapsco River continues, with National Transportation Safety Board officials having boarded the MV Dali and professionals continuing to seek victims of the collapse.
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) officials have now removed the MV Dali’s data recorder — like the famous ‘black boxes’ of commercial aircraft — which upon evaluation may contain further information about the cause of the loss of propulsion that seems to have contributed to Tuesday’s disaster.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 3/27/2024 2:49:04 PM (No. 1687009)
Taken by investigators - sounds suspicious to me. Better information would have been - found and are being reviewed by the NTSB. Will we ever know the true cause or a sanitized version to placate the public.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
TCloud 3/27/2024 3:02:05 PM (No. 1687019)
Would a Tug boat or two have helped the wayward container ship?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Michaelus 3/27/2024 3:13:24 PM (No. 1687025)
Have they asked the captain and the pilot what happened? Why did the ship make a rather distinct turn to starboard? There was no wind and the currents would not have been able to move the bow in that direction.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 3/27/2024 3:18:30 PM (No. 1687027)
As with the twin towers, we'll probably never really know what happened. The government will get engineers and experts lined up to explain why there is nothing to see here, and maybe there isn't. But it's extremely suspicious. Something or someone--whether chance or cyber-criminal--steered that ship into exactly the right spot to bring down an important bridge in a place that blocks an important shipping lane.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Venturer 3/27/2024 3:50:17 PM (No. 1687046)
The victims will be coming up in a couple of more days.
But with less boat traffic due to the bridge collapse, plus the cold weather they may escape being found right away.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 3/27/2024 4:00:29 PM (No. 1687062)
The Gov. of Maryland today sounded more interested in getting the debris hauled away than investigating the catastrophe. He's realizing that shutting down the port for months and having no bridge for 3-4 years will be a death blow to Baltimore.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Mcscow sailor 3/27/2024 5:05:08 PM (No. 1687101)
The boat was departing just before high tide. Flows would have been weakly into the gpharbot (away from the bridge). One would guess this to be strategy…nearly stagnant water leaving the congested early, tide running out helping the boat on the way out out of the Chesapeake, deepest water under her keel.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Safari Man 3/27/2024 5:41:21 PM (No. 1687113)
There are far more questions than answers at this point. I absolutely do not trust the federal government to tell us what actually happened the CIA, FFI, NNA, etc. are simply not trustworthy.
I do know that they appear to have dropped the starboard anchor. That could make them turn to the right. what doesn’t make sense is that the boat was going straight and then took a right turn in a short span, and then continued straight as an arrow to the base of the bridge. I know this because I went and captured the AIS data. When you look at the GPS path, it looks highly suspicious. Especially when you consider that the exhaust smoke was billowing in the last two minutes, so they had power
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Safari Man 3/27/2024 5:43:02 PM (No. 1687114)
CIA, FFI, NNA == CIA, FBI, NSA
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Safari Man 3/27/2024 5:46:43 PM (No. 1687116)
(sorry for the multiple posts)
I got it wrong. It was the port anchor. That should’ve made the ship turn to the left the opposite of the direction it ended up going. Even more mystery I’m saying highly suspicious.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
franq 3/27/2024 5:57:45 PM (No. 1687119)
I expect a Flight 800 style whitewash, results withheld until after election.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
danu 3/27/2024 6:11:28 PM (No. 1687126)
investigators? would that be sherlock holmes, or dr who?
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Dropping an anchor is correct action to take, but with the momentum carried by a ship of that size it probably did little to slow it down in such a short drift. Was the capstan set in time to stop the chain from feeding out? If so, did the anchor even set or did it drag the bottom before the flukes dug in (not uncommon)? The master no doubt ordered the diesel engine in full reverse, which would have created all that black smoke but again: momentum = mass times velocity, and there was a lot of mass for that propeller to bring to a stop. Even without hitting anything it probably would have needed a half-mile or more to come to a halt.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
red1066 3/27/2024 9:15:32 PM (No. 1687210)
Tugs were requested by the pilot three minutes before the ship hit the bridge after the first power outage. Tugs were used to escort the ship out of the harbor and into the channel. It's a straight shot out into the bay after that. The black box on the ship does not collect as much info as on an aircraft.
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