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moondust

(19,993 posts) Wed Mar 27, 2024, 03:17 PM Mar 27

Dali ship had "severe electrical problem" [View all]

“They shouldn’t have let the ship leave port until they got it under control,”...

“And those two days (in port), they were having serious power outages… they had a severe electrical problem,” Mitchell said. “It was total power failure, loss of engine power, everything.”

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/baltimore-key-bridge-collapse-03-27-24/index.html

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Dali ship had "severe electrical problem" [View all] moondust Mar 27 OP

Time is money mercuryblues Mar 27 #1

Yep, and money is the only thing Attilatheblond Mar 27 #3

Yup, like the ill fated "El Faro" that sunk in a hurricane off of Florida. mitch96 Mar 27 #7

A black swan was found in the electronics room. -nt CrispyQ Mar 27 #2

'The Dali cargo ship was docked in Baltimore days prior to the crash elleng Mar 27 #4

Wonder if that solar flare messed with any of their electrical wiring. Blues Heron Mar 27 #5

Anything capable of affecting a ship would have knocked out the entire national electric grid. nt NutmegYankee Mar 27 #6

Here is the alert that went out- it was a G4 (severe) apparently Blues Heron Mar 27 #8

You need wires tens to hundreds of miles long to have an effect. NutmegYankee Mar 27 #9

There are specific rules about a ship leaving port in an unseaworthy condition. Turbineguy Mar 27 #10

On paper malaise Mar 27 #11

They should have fixed the problem before heading out dalton99a Mar 27 #12