Why No Tugs? Bridge Collapse Q&A, Why Dali Turned? NEW Channel

Okay, so Unified Command issued us this graphic here the other day and it shows how the alternate

channel

s are going to work, so if you look at the

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d

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that's right here and the dolly is here, they created that

channel

for us. the other day, which is this one here, it's up here next to the sun point and it's the last section of the

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before you get to the trust section, so the whole red area here is the trust section that fell and if Do you remember the video I showed. The other night, that barge was the first ship to go through this new canal that they set up with all these new markers and I showed them that it was actually going through the bridge this way and going out into the Chesapeake and if you remember that last view, the last point from view in the video where it's shown you can see the dolly in the background with all the girders in the water that were taken from here looking this way and I pointed out the other one today and I'm right you know a lot of people tried to correct me and say it was 11 M, it's 11 feet deep, here's your clearance, this is a draft of 11 t, this is what this allows, it doesn't give you much, basically, something essential. barges and some other vessels, many of their cargo ships are not going to do this at all, but there is a depth of 11 feet, 264 feet wide and 95 feet high, so yesterday they opened this other channel here and another section to the south. from where the ship crashed and you can see that she goes right here and this one has a depth of 14 feet and a width of 280 feet and a height of 124 feet.

I'm a little nervous about how close these are. It's where the power poles are, here's one right here and you can see the lines if you look really carefully there and then especially this one here, this guy is really close to this one so these guys are going to have to be really careful. . passing through here making these tight turns like this, so the other night when I posted that video about the first boat that came through on the new alt channel, several of you tried to correct me on my 11 feet and were like no, Jeff, it's no it's 11 feet, it's 11 M and you know, like I said before, I try to do everything based on facts whenever I can and I try to double check and my numbers are correct, it's 11 feet, it's not 11 MERS, so let me show you . you where I got that information from and then the people who want to claim it's 11 M.

I want you to show me where you got it from. The first place I got it is here, directly from the unified command in Key Bridge. response and this was your update five from a few days ago and I was on Monday April 1st and I know this is not an April Fool's joke, but when you scroll down here and they're talking about the new temporary channel right there it says right here that this temporary channel has a control depth of 11 feet, a horizontal clearance of 264 and a vertical clearance of 955 feet. The other place I went to check here, of course, is the official map, the bay depth map and here's your Francis.

Scott Key Bridge right here, this is where the collision happened right in the center of the Federal Channel and then if you look over here towards the Sun Point, somewhere around here is where they made that access point and you can see the depth there same. it shows 10 feet here 10 feet but it's probably somewhere like here where the depth would then be 11 feet and then, in the same way, where I showed you on the graph, the secondary channel here will probably be like right here because here you I can see 12 feet 13 feet, so they quoted 14 feet, so everything agrees and here is my third piece of corroborating evidence: The chart they gave us yesterday clearly shows 14 feet in the South Alternate Channel and 11 feet deep in the North Channel. alternative channel, so this is not to accommodate the largest ships, it is actually intended for the essentials, like these barges, so, for example, here is the Chesapeake 1000, the Donj Grand Crane that was sent next to the

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of the bridge there in Baltimore and if we look at its dimensions to see if this fits like the north canal, the length is 191 feet, the width is 101 feet, so it should fit, it will be reasonably close, so they must have very careful but let's look at the draft so it can be between 8 feet and 9 feet so this and most barges are usually around 8 or 9 feet anyway so almost any barge should be able to pass there well and any of the smaller ones, such as tugboats, as long as the draft is less than 11 feet.

You should be fine going through that channel. Another question that comes up a lot as well is that a lot of people, especially conspiracy theorists, were wondering. It seems too convenient, how come the ship suddenly

turned

towards pillars like that on the bridge, it just seems like it had to have been under someone's control or maybe someone hacked or whatever, well, some of You might know what's going on with shipping and he mentioned, I think the other day as well, about the flow of Curtis Bay Waters, remember there's a canal here, there's a canal here and there's a canal there and, Sometimes currents can affect each other, so this is what I'm talking about here, so here is the Fort McKenry channel that the rolling boat was coming down and This is the area where it had problems, but you can see that The Curtis Bay channel comes from here and you knew this was coming folks, my own brand of high tech again, so the Navy has their sonar and lar, but only Jeff has the mobile Dolly I think I'm going to register this thing, yeah that's right folks my famous AI representation here so here's the doll well hello look who's here doll I'm Lou hello L Doly and originally the doll was supposed to work So.

I walk and straight down the canal in the middle of the bridge, right here is the center of the canal, yes, there is the center of the bridge, so I was supposed to go in this direction, but what happened was somewhere around here, probably within a couple. In a matter of minutes it

turned

15° or so, very short, not a very big turn, and then it came this way and it just missed. Look, it doesn't take much turning to get from there to there. Look, okay, so what did he do? it does, so if we back it up to here or so and here is Curtis Bay and it has the channel here and the currents might go like this, then one hypothesis is that maybe the currents hit the back of the dolly boat just here. and make it spin enough, you know, maybe combined with a little bit of wind did the same thing and remember it doesn't have to spin that much for it to go that far off course and take a hit right there like that and that's where his final resting place is here there is a close up of him here and you can see he was supposed to go there and it doesn't take much turning for him to go there see that boom a lot of people will watch that original video and think it was turned on purpose and I can't imagine any pilot in their right mind doing that on purpose and keep in mind that most of the conspiracy people don't know that there were two pilots and there's also a whole crew that I stopped him, hey, you know, something else What people also forget is that everyone assumes, hey, I had a backup generator, I should have never lost power, well you know, backup generators aren't instantaneous, they can often take 45 seconds to a minute to come on. turn everything on and running, this is not an instant change, it doesn't just turn off and then automatically trip, this takes a finite amount of time and then once power is restored how do we know if the ship was? going fast enough to exert enough force on the rudder so that when you turn the rudder it turns in time and also remember that these big shipping containers have a huge turning radius, a big rectangular shipping container, think about it, think about it. how high that thing sticks out of the water if it has no power and is just floating.

What is it? the general direction of the prevailing winds now another question that I have received as literally a pun with boats full of that this week a lot of you were asking about these

tugs

, they were like some people didn't even think

tugs

had been used at all. but they were and we'll talk about that in a second, but people said, well, where were the tugboats? Why didn't they call the tugboats? Why don't the tugboats take them out to sea? cross the bridge so you can get out of there safely. I imagine this issue will probably come up during the investigation and ports will probably start looking into this and questioning whether we should have major container ships like that. taken out by the tugboats, okay, so to answer we want to look here in the port and first I want to take a look at where the tugboats are.

My best guess is that it's them, right here, this is where they're stored, look, it looks like the tugboats are there, okay, and then this is where the dolly took off from here at the Seagert Marine Terminal, so you can see all the gantry cranes and I was probably under one of these gantry cranes and then. The tugboats come and grab the boat here and pull it away from the dock and help it turn and then as they're guiding it and it's looking straight down the channel, it's now moving away a little bit. Once the ship is here and looking this way and coming this way, it's now a straight shot down the Channel, all they have to do is go out over the bridge for the tugs to say goodbye, maybe go back to their place of duty. rest.

I don't know if they sit and wait or what they do, but at this point we can assume that the tugboats were still here. How far is this? From this point where the tugboats are stored there is a little more than 3 miles, it is 3.39 miles to the bridge and the ship had problems somewhere like here or so remember that it took the ship Dolly 1 hour to get from here to the dock to turn around and come here to where the bridge is a full hour if You are here and you make a distress call to the tugs and they are way behind here and the tugs can only go 15 knots at best.

You know that a tugboat will take 20 minutes or more to reach you. We're in and by that time it was too late, so that's where the problem was: people said they didn't ask for tugboats, but yes, they did ask for tugboats because, as you remember, the NTSB published the source of what was happening, about 125 o'clock this is probably when they started to see problems because there were all the alarms going off, so here it says about a minute and a half later, the ship's pilot made a general call on the VHF radio for tugs in the near the Del So in the mdta data from around this time indicated that the Pilots Association dispatcher called the mdta duty officer regarding the blackout, so they called in tugboats, many people assumed that perhaps There was no call, I don't know where.

I got it from I don't know why you would assume that a call for tugboats wasn't made. These guys are clever and know what to do when certain situations arise and it seems to me that at least they did everything they could, but you. I can see that there is simply no way for a tug to get there in time. Make sure you keep submitting your questions here at Baltimore Bridge Clubs because we want to address that in more analysis in the next video. I like to keep them brief and Of course, we will keep an eye on any new evidence released by the unified command.

I'm going to continue to monitor everything here about the Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse and in the meantime you can check out this video right here which is on The FIU Bridge Collapse was one of my best engineering videos yet so thank you very much for tuning in again today and stay tuned for the next one and we'll see you in the next one.