Featured on Mar 26, 2024 by Null: The Francis Scott Key bridge, an important part of the Baltimore-D.C. I-695 Beltway, has collapsed after being impacted by a Singaporean cargo ship manned by a crew of 22 Indians.
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well now that the NTSB has ruled out fuel as the cause - have you managed to find any evidence of the silly engines used as the cause? Cause you know, almost all engines in these ships have been on these ships Prior to Biden taking office; unless of course you’ve found evidence Biden went back in time, and became President and swamped all these engines out before 2020.My step dad works in shipping and he shed some light to me on how this happen and it is the fault of the EPA. When Biden took office one of the first things he and the EPA did was put new regulations on the types of engines that ships are allowed to use. Only green energy friendly engines can be used for these ships. These ships need a lot of power to function and these new green energy engines are not cutting it. It is uncommon now for ships to lose power while sailing in the water. People have lost their jobs and lives from how bad these new engines are when before you had no problems with the old engines.
The FAA didn't ground the Boeing Max until every other nation grounded it and the FAA realized it was embarrassing itselfNice to see the
well now that the NTSB has ruled out fuel as the cause - have you managed to find any evidence of the silly engines used as the cause? Cause you know, almost all engines in these ships have been on these ships Prior to Biden taking office; unless of course you’ve found evidence Biden went back in time, and became President and swamped all these engines out before 2020.
Let me know what you find.
And none of what you said has anything to do with the fact that since Biden was in office, the engines nor the fuel has changed in the vats majority of these ships - and in particular this ship. So what's the point of peddling it?The FAA didn't ground the Boeing Max until every other nation grounded it and the FAA realized it was embarrassing itself
The CDC refuses to acknowledge that the Covid vaccine was ineffective - to the point it literally redefined what a vaccine was
You really think the NTSB will be on the up and up on something that embarrasses the Democratic government?
Have you ever had the main breaker trip in your home? You turn off a few circuits and reset it and once you start turning on circuits it trips again? Similar thing.
I’m thinking it’s unlikely to be generator (engine) failure, as 3 or 4 should be running during this stage of navigation, and even if one shuts off, it should be handled seamlessly. So more plausible that a serious electrical or control problem happened causing all of them to trip off, or breakers open. As we did see two restarts
This horseshit has been covered at least once and is still horseshit.
You a smug nigga - you know that?
A quick review of the NTSB interim findings by everyone’s favorite airline pilot.
He does fumble a couple of parts of the explanation but it’s not critical.
How did my predictions do so far…
[blaming the EPA and fuel]
Amusingly the trigger for the whole thing could be put down to a pajeet closing an exhaust shutter when he shouldn’t, the previous day when the boat was in port, which caused them to swap to the alternate electrical circuit, which then blew up at just the wrong time.
But by and large this is misfortune with a sprinkling of bad maintenance, so basically what we expected.
If this guy can’t even mange to control how many cheeseburgers he stuffs at noon how am I supposed to believe anything he’s saying?A Tuber I follow did a nice break down of the report.
Why should you watch it? Well the Tuber in question has been a Master Engineer onboard cargo ships for like 20+ years so he probably knows wtf he's talking about and he's not a poo in the loo so he's probably not covering up for anyone.
His take is pretty straightforward; the Dali's crew fucked up and lots of what they said happened and how they reacted is "unusual and not what is normally done".
https://youtube.com/watch?v=FAy8L9sqeCg
I work around a L O T of fat guys, but they pull their weight (literally) when needed. Need some 60lb chain dragged 500 ft? Call the fat dude over. Need to break a bolt? Tell the fat guy to come break it and you take care of the rest. They may be grotesque, but they are heavy hitters when it counts.If this guy can’t even mange to control how many cheeseburgers he stuffs at noon how am I supposed to believe anything he’s saying?
Theres a reason we call the Samoan guy "office equipment" behind his back, and it's pretty much this.I work around a L O T of fat guys, but they pull their weight (literally) when needed. Need some 60lb chain dragged 500 ft? Call the fat dude over. Need to break a bolt? Tell the fat guy to come break it and you take care of the rest. They may be grotesque, but they are heavy hitters when it counts.
ps he doesnt even have the fatty voice.
I assume these kinds of fatties are more in the vein of sumo wrestlers where, yes they’re fat, but they’re probably less fat than they look because they’ve got a decent bit of muscle underneath the flab.I work around a L O T of fat guys, but they pull their weight (literally) when needed. Need some 60lb chain dragged 500 ft? Call the fat dude over. Need to break a bolt? Tell the fat guy to come break it and you take care of the rest. They may be grotesque, but they are heavy hitters when it counts.
ps he doesnt even have the fatty voice.
Yeah, thats an accurate way to look at it.I assume these kinds of fatties are more in the vein of sumo wrestlers where, yes they’re fat, but they’re probably less fat than they look because they’ve got a decent bit of muscle underneath the flab.
Fat guys who do manual labor and fat guys who sit behind a keyboard have very little in common beyond being fat. There's a lot of jobs where the minimum fitness threshold means that if a fat guy's doing it, it because he's strong enough to haul the extra weight.I assume these kinds of fatties are more in the vein of sumo wrestlers where, yes they’re fat, but they’re probably less fat than they look because they’ve got a decent bit of muscle underneath the flab.
Note also that this is the special fuel system to deliver the 'clean' low sulfur fuel many ports require now.Both backup generators were not hooked up to their primary fuel pump that would automatically supply fuel in case of power loss
Hats off to the NTSB again.Attached Summary of the NTSB hearing
Key points:
- Heat shrink wire label on a signal wire for the HV bus was installed over the insulated portion of the ferrule which kept the ferrule from being fully inserted into it's terminal block. This was fine until it wasn't and caused the active HV-LV breaker to trip.
- Both backup generators were not hooked up to their primary fuel pump that would automatically supply fuel in case of power loss
- The HV-LV breakers were set to manual mode not allowing automatic transfer to the other breaker after power loss.
- The backup generators took 70 seconds to start because the limit switches on the cooling air dampers took too long to activate
The pumps are the main bit that screamed at me. This is some bullshit, any engineer worth their while should have seen a problem with using a pump like this for generator fuel supply. Although, chief will be the one to roll for it because he will have overseen this. Fuel pumps are always dual redundancy to avoid silly shit like this happening, why they weren't using them, implies they weren't working to begin with. Alternatively, someone found that it is possible to use the flushing pump, which will use less power and so saving fuel. But with failure consequences being major accidents like this.Hats off to the NTSB again.
A lot of this reads as classic normalization of deviancy. Manual operation of breakers might be because of previously known issues in automatic mode. Using the flushing pump for fuel instead of the primary is almost certainly due to some level of inoperablity of the primary or booster pumps. Not much was made of the two previous power outages in this report, but I'd be curious what sort of effort went into diagnosing the problem vs. "turn it off then back on again".
Really no telling what level of duct tape and "field engineering" this ship has been through.
Eh, depends on if they touched it. If it was overheating repeatedly and they noticed the wire blackening and didn't do shit other than stripping it back to jam back into the terminal so it would "work" again... I can see it.Can't blame the jeets for the terminal coming loose as that's shipyard work, but there is a definite curry smell to the rest of it.