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with Eisman. Hello, welcome back to the channel. Well, we have had much more information about the terrible incident in Baltimore. Let's talk about the chronology of what appears to have happened on board based on the images. filmed live at the time and AIS data, etc., and discuss a question that seems to be emerging, was it an accident or was it deliberate, so the timeline The

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left the dock at 0441 hours, uh UTC, which It's 12:41 a.m. m., so, uh local time, which I will use local time from now on at 1:24 a.m. local time, the

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is traveling at a speed of 8.7 knots, the tugs have already abandoned the ship, that's right, it had two tugs to guide the ship. out of the port that they already abandoned when approaching the Key Bridge is due to a speed of 8.7 knots, as we said in the previous video, it is now at this point the ship experiences the first blackout at 1:24 a.m.

EDT time, so if we look at the video footage of the live stream that was there at the time, you can see the time in the top left corner and in the corner. Power is now restored at 125 hours local time, which is only 1 minute later, according to AIS data, this is when the ship begins to deviate from its course at 1:26 am. m. There is a second blackout and

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is restored at 1127 AM. m., you know, less than a minute later, and at approximately 1,128 a.m. m. The ship crashes into the bridge, at this point the bridge is. begins to collapse so it would seem that they were going through a series of blackouts on board which has contributed to this incident now the ship also dropped an anchor into the water asks for anchor it goes down into the water uh what must it have been to try to bring the ship up stop, this is standard procedure for drifting ships and the huge ship would have dragged that anchor along the seabed to try and stop it, but it obviously didn't, it didn't have any. effect or did not have the desired effect, it could be that the anchor drag could have contributed to the ship going off course now there has been a lot of talk in many videos about a plume of black smoke coming out of the funnel after the first blackout this is Consistent with restarting the engines, it is normal to have these columns when starting the engines now, according to engineers who have worked on ships like these, when the ship shuts down the engines would have been disconnected and everything on board would have had to shut down. restarted, the generators are

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ing the equipment, you know all the

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equipment like the computers etc, now you can see the power when it comes back, it's the generators back online which obviously powers the lighting and Then a few seconds later, about 10 seconds later, black smoke is seen as the engines restart, so a call was made from the ship before impact and this had a massive effect on the incident.

It could have been much worse. We'll be in in a moment you north side guys keep the traffic on Key Bridge. There's a ship approaching and it just lost its way, so until they get it under

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, we need to stop all traffic, just make sure no one is on it. bridge at this time a number of questions have arisen based on other videos, comments in several different places that we are not, we are just going to go directly to them and discuss each on their merits, uh, emergency generators, does the ship Don't you have an emergency? generators well yes this ship would have an emergency generator or will have an emergency generator they are a requirement and would be connected to its own emergency panel connected in parallel with the main distribution board obviously recognize if the main distribution board goes offline, then it will or or know if it detects the blackout and it will start automatically now.

She will also have her own separate fuel supply. Your generator is now required to automatically connect within 45 seconds of a power outage, as we've seen in the video. You can see from the pictures that the power is about a minute away, so the emergency generator may have done its job, but they were able to restart the main generators very quickly, so it probably didn't have any. Any real effect now the emergency generator supplies emergency power to the ship to critical systems and instruments, such as watertight doors, alarms, communication equipment, steering gear, emergency lighting and, of course, navigation.

However, as I said, as we saw in the video, the engineers seem to understand the main generators are back online within a minute. How do I know that the main generators are back online? Due to all the lighting going on outside the ship, the Amer generator will only provide emergency lighting that is designed to help the crew know how to escape. a ship if it's in trouble all the lights wouldn't come on and so on with the emergency generators now the May Day call uh a report said that uh depending on how the day was sent either by VHF using a unit you know board the boat which is powered by the boat or through the pilot's portable radio.

You can determine if there was a

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of power. I am not subscribed to this. I don't see how that would work because all the radio equipment on the VH bridge. The jef radios are all connected to a gmdss system which has its own 24 volt dc power whatever and that is the main power it is the battery and if the power goes out at the bridge then the radios will not They will be

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because it will already be connected to the 24 volt DC power supply, so even if they had a blackout on board, the radios would still work, so whether or not they used that radio to call MayDay is irrelevant.

I think it was sent on MayDay now. MayDay is more likely to be sent by you know there are quite a few people on that bridge there were two pilots on the bridge one captain uh several coxswains several other people um they probably would have delegated to the captain or the pilot may have delegated that to someone on the bridge and it may be faster for the pilot to call you since he would have had direct contact with the port authorities. The next question was why there was no tug support for a ship of this size.

This is a very good situation question, there were tugboats to help the ship out of port, but they left before the ship reached the Key Bridge. Why? Why? Why? Why? Why were there no protections for the bridge supports? Know? bridge struts in the water considering that the bridge crossed a busy shipping lane. I think you can expect both of those things to be addressed in the future. A new bridge will of course have protection to prevent it from happening again and, no doubt, ships. of this size will require tugboats to transit this area in the future.

Another question that has come up frequently in the comments and many people seem to think it is obviously a deliberate event. Everything we have seen in the video and heard suggests an accident from a Mayday call before the accident. The power problems they seem to have on board. There were also two local American pilots on board the ship at the time of the accident. Now I'm sure. Authorities will release audio from the ship's bridge. You know, the trip data recorder records audio on the bridge. I'm sure they will publish it, which will also help us understand what was happening on that bridge.

There are no signs or clues or evidence that it was anything other than an accident now, apparently a UK based cybersecurity FM said that it could have been hacked to block the ship, well yes, and they would say that because they are a cybersecurity company, right? I know if you ask them what the problem is, they will point out a computer problem because they work with computers. The ship's bridge controls are not the ship's integrated bridge. You are not connected to the Internet. They are independent local area networks. They are not connected to the internet, in fact if you connect one to the internet it will stop working or the software will stop working on that bridge and the ship won't go anywhere so if you try to connect it to the internet it's just not going to work the equipment is not going to work now uh it could have been a lot worse right uh the injuries could have been a lot worse than the police stopped traffic on Key Bridge in less than 30 seconds seconds once they received the Today's call from The Vessel, it's a incredible response time.

You can see that the bridge structure also collapsed onto the deck of the ship and, as you can see in this video here, went through the decks and probably onto the movement platform. There would have been crew on those morning platforms, possibly there could have been crew there. You know, they dropped the harbor anchor, which shows that they were. There was a crew there. You can't do it from the bridge. It has to be done. locally, then there would be crew in these areas dropping those anchors, so it could have been fatal for the crew on board as well, so you know, it could have been a lot worse.

I know it's horrible for those who are currently six people, uh. Still missing, presumed dead now, um, and it's a horrible situation, but it could have been a lot worse if they hadn't closed that bridge. I mean, you can see in the pictures that there's a big truck with a trailer on the back literally driving across. One minute before the bridge collapses and it could have been a lot worse anyway guys I'll leave it there thanks for watching and I'll catch up with you soon bye.