Unbelievable how it just falls down
![Shocked :shock:](./images/smilies/icon_eek.gif)
Bit odd how it manages to hit the bridge right at the support.
Wiki say “The general weight of an average-sized cargo ship is somewhere around 165,000 tons, while smaller vessels weigh about 50,000 tons and larger vessels approximately 220,000 tons.“
ClickyWhat caused this incident is still unclear, but BBC Verify has been looking at video of the collision and the Dali's travel history on ship tracking platform MarineTraffic.
The container ship set off from Baltimore's Seagirt Marine Terminal at around 00:24 local time (04:24 GMT) on 26 March.
Its speed steadily increased and it maintained a straight route south east along the Patapsco River.
Then at 01:25 MarineTraffic data shows that the ship suddenly diverted from its straight course and began to slow down.
Around this time, video shows that all lights on the exterior of the ship suddenly turned off and smoke began emanating from the ship's funnel.
The Dali then hit a portion of the bridge at 01:28, causing it to collapse.
I mean, they radio'd in a mayday saying they'd lost control of the vessel - you can have a dozen pilots, if you can't control it and you're at the whim of the currents, you're basically fucked regardless.
I meant a pilot/tug, so 12 of them would definitely have helped... and just one may well have been able to prevent it.
I meant an escort tug, sorry, we always just used to call it the pilot, but that's clearly not a common terminology.