Sharon Hill
Complicated biological machine
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- Dec 16, 2014
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Conspiracy ideas make me retch. People are so warped by lack of critical thinking these days.
More on the heroism and a system that worked fairly well:
The ship radioed a mayday call that was immediately transmitted to the highway (Beltway) police. Within 4 minutes, it appears, in response to some short directions, the traffic on the bridge was stopped. There was an effort to pull out the construction workers but the bridge had then collapsed.
I don't know how much of that was true but it does mostly fit.
I find this idea interesting (from Washington Post):
The Dali went dark as it lost electrical power just before the bridge disaster, and the pilot lost the ability to control the ship as it veered toward the support structure of the bridge. That power loss could have been caused by dirty fuel clogging filters that lead to the ship’s main generator, said Gerald Scoggins, a veteran chief engineer in the oil and gas industry and the CEO of the Houston company Deepwater Producers.
Dirty fuel is when a mix of industrial products ends up in marine fuel. The supply chain for fuel is not clear and dirty fuel has been implicated in hundreds of engine failures in recent years that have left ships without power and adrift.
More on the heroism and a system that worked fairly well:
The ship radioed a mayday call that was immediately transmitted to the highway (Beltway) police. Within 4 minutes, it appears, in response to some short directions, the traffic on the bridge was stopped. There was an effort to pull out the construction workers but the bridge had then collapsed.
I don't know how much of that was true but it does mostly fit.
I find this idea interesting (from Washington Post):
The Dali went dark as it lost electrical power just before the bridge disaster, and the pilot lost the ability to control the ship as it veered toward the support structure of the bridge. That power loss could have been caused by dirty fuel clogging filters that lead to the ship’s main generator, said Gerald Scoggins, a veteran chief engineer in the oil and gas industry and the CEO of the Houston company Deepwater Producers.
Dirty fuel is when a mix of industrial products ends up in marine fuel. The supply chain for fuel is not clear and dirty fuel has been implicated in hundreds of engine failures in recent years that have left ships without power and adrift.