by Peter Koenig, Global Research:
Introduction
The collapse, at about 1 AM on 26 March 2024, of the Francis Scott Key (FSK) Bridge in Baltimore, spanning the 2.4 km large Patapsco River, is a mystery as of this day.
The river is used by massive cargo ships from Baltimore Harbor to reach the Chesapeake Bay and then the Atlantic Ocean and in reverse.
The official version, as of this day, says the Merchant Vessel (MV) “The Dali” hitting one of the bridges two main pylons was an accident”.
However, a more plausible story goes that the downfall of the bridge was caused by the container ship’s planned change of course, so it would hit precisely one of these two crucial support pillars. This could be a remote-controlled cyber-attack, or an on-board wanton deviation of the vessel to hit the pylon.
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The official video shows clearly that the slow-gliding ship makes a rather unusual turn towards the pillar.
Was it an Accident?
The incidence raises many questions, some of them may take a long time to clear or answer. Few witnesses were around at 1 AM.
Who made the only official “witness”-video of the collision and the bridge’s collapse?
Had it gone straight on its course, The Dali would have most likely safely cleared the bridge. See for yourself (click lower right corner to go full-screen)
Video
You may also notice, the very moment the Dali hits the pillar, the entire 2.4 km long bridge comes down, as if it were built with matchsticks.
Strange. This bridge weighs tens if not hundreds of thousands of tons, is almost 100 meters wide, and takes tens of thousands of tons of traffic weight per day.
The MV “The Dali”, Singapore-registered, was apparently headed for Sri Lanka, coming from the Baltimore harbor, the 9th largest in the US, but the nation’s most important port for specialized cargo and passenger facilities.
The Dali is about 300 meters long, can carry 10,000 standard-size containers (6 m long), and weighs empty 95,000 tons. The ship was carrying about 4,700 containers with an average weight of 2.5 tons per container, total cargo weight approximately 12,000 tons.
The sluggishly slow speed of The Dali, about 14 km/h, with its total weight of roughly 110,000 tons supposedly rammed one of the main pilons of the FSK Bridge, bringing the entire bridge down within seconds, literally as if it was made of toothpicks.
The Dali is owned by Singapore-based Grace Ocean Private Ltd. It is managed by Synergy Marine Pte Ltd., also based in Singapore. The MV Dali was built in South Korea by Hyundai Heavy Industries, and completed in 2015, for Oceanbulk Container Management of Greece.
As of March 2024, the vessel is chartered by Maersk (Danish). The captain of The Dali, when it hit the bridge was supposedly Ukrainian.
The complexity of flag-registration, ownership, management, construction, destination after construction, ship-chartering, is so confusing that most readers will roll their eyes and stop thinking.
