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No headlights on a ship. Perhaps the mast light. Looks like the ship was backing from the black coming out of the stack. Report is the Port Anchor was dropped-but that would not stop the ship at 10kts speed.
I believe he was talking about the headlights on the cars that stopped before going over the bridge.No headlights on a ship.
Possible, but unlikely. Ships are supposed to have a Cyber Risk Assessment. The integrity of that assessment is largely dependent on two parties: 1. Flag State and 2. The ship operator. All this comes down to how well the ship is managed from the shoreside perspective. This will have human error as a causal factor.FBI is investigating.
Potential cyber issue?
And what is the purpose of that? To steer away from the bridge?Note the ship swung to starboard quickly just before hitting the bridge. Im thinking this may be that she let her starboard anchor go and it started fetching up causing the right hand turn at the last minute. The Port anchor was in the water but appears not to have done much. Of course the speed of the ship needs to be below about 3 kts. for the anchors to do any good.
Dropping the anchors was likely an attempt to slow and stop the ship. Too bad the Pilot could not have steered out of the channel and grounded the ship-thats often the best choice. It's really hard to backseat drive these situations.And what is the purpose of that? To steer away from the bridge?
I cannot imagine the frantic activity onboard as all realized what was happening….
Thank you. That is what I figured as the ship has to have some speed for steering and controlThat appears to be normal speed for the size ship and location.
The swing to starboard could also been caused when they put the astern bell on to try and stop the ship. With a single screw fixed pitch right-hand turning propeller the stern will 'walk' to port and the bow will swing to starboard when you back the engine.. The anchors aren't gonna do much good unless you set the brakes on those wildcats or throw the riding pawls to get them to fetch up.. and I'm sure when the crew on the focsle head saw they were gonna hit they weren't worrying about any of that; they were running for cover..Note the ship swung to starboard quickly just before hitting the bridge. Im thinking this may be that she let her starboard anchor go and it started fetching up causing the right hand turn at the last minute. The Port anchor was in the water but appears not to have done much. Of course the speed of the ship needs to be below about 3 kts. for the anchors to do any good.
The speed looks okay to me too. The pilot probably had her on a 'slow ahead' bell for that 7~8 knots of speed.Was the speed of the ship just before the allision in the safe range? I read a statement from a Maryland government official (Mayor or Governor I can't remember right now) saying that the speed was excessive. I saw 8 knots at max, but idk if that is safe for that size ship in that area or not.