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From: "UFO" <tech@parts-link.net>
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Subject: Re: Full video of ship hitting and destroying the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 02:06:28 -0400
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Out of all the hours it sailed in operation, maintenance checks were all 
fine
then out of the blue not 1 but 3 power failures, and not out in the middle 
of the ocean
from harms way...just close enough to a bridge and hit the weakest spot. 
What a
"fluke"

> I read that cargo ships of this size run diesel generators to power the 
> steering pumps at low speed and then do PTO from the main shaft once 
> they're cruising, and that the black smoke may have been an emergency 
> generator coming up. But the steering pumps probably aren't a priority, in 
> a river current that thing's a cork on backup power.