Massive container ship loses power near
NYC’s Verrazzano Bridge days after Baltimore
Key Bridge disaster
New York Post,
by
Chris Nesi
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
4/7/2024 4:59:18 PM
A massive container ship lost power in the waters around New York City and was brought to a rest near the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge Friday night — less than two weeks after failure on another massive cargo vessel caused it to smash into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge.
The US Coast Guard confirmed that its Vessel Traffic Service received a report that the 89,000-ton M/V Qingdao lost propulsion about 8:30 p.m. as it traversed Kill Van Kull waterway — the shipping lane between Staten Island and Bayonne, New Jersey.
An image shared on X by John Konrad, CEO of maritime-focused news outlet gCaptain, shows the 1,100-foot Qingdao floating uncomfortably close
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
chumley 4/7/2024 5:16:09 PM (No. 1694749)
I'm curious how often this happens in real life before the bridge thing happened. It sounds like they had three tug boats attached and three more were available to help once power dropped, so maybe it is common?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Skinnydip 4/7/2024 5:24:17 PM (No. 1694754)
We still don’t know why the Baltimore ship lost power.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jhpeters2 4/7/2024 5:41:08 PM (No. 1694770)
Well we will begin to suspect something is a foot when the government/media complex starts spinning these issues like they did the election counting assurances - "It is normal for election counting to go on for weeks after and election..." "Ships do this all the time when they navigate near piers, bridges, lighthouses and more - nothing to see here."
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
wsdiego 4/7/2024 5:46:05 PM (No. 1694774)
I didn't see any bumpers to redirect shipping around the Key bridge pylons! I wouldn't be surprised if the same condition was present here! Just lucky this time.Time to wake up!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 4/7/2024 5:57:11 PM (No. 1694778)
Is this something that just has been always happening and not covered by the media because it normally doesn't cause anything but some inconvenience to that ship? Or are they now paying attention because of the Baltimore accident?
is this like when your friend buys a blue Ford you start noticing that there are blue Fords seemingly everywhere, just because now you are noticing, not because there are any more blue Fords than before?
I don't know.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bamboozle 4/7/2024 6:04:48 PM (No. 1694782)
That's twice
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
RobertJ984 4/7/2024 6:17:09 PM (No. 1694793)
Without any evidence, without any investigation, the governor of Maryland immediately said it was not terrorist activity on the FSK bridge.....now this!
"There is no such thing as coincidence"
Gibbs rule #17
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
plomke 4/7/2024 6:17:25 PM (No. 1694794)
This has been a problem ever since the rise of ESG-Net Zero.
The ships and their cargo float on a sea of borrowed money.
Who lends that money and collects the vig?
The same banks that promote ESG Net Zero.
And how do you get to ESG Net Zero?
Reduce the carbon output of your organization using "green" fuels
Fuels that don't mix well with standard heavy oil bunker fuels.
Multiple incidents in the last 7-8 years involving disabling of large vessels due to fuel issues.
Now,all of this does not explain why a data recording of the Baltimore incident is missing two minutes of data.
And thats the real puzzle.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Catherine 4/7/2024 6:18:56 PM (No. 1694796)
Like all these train accidents in the last few years. Is that normal? I don't know but I lived in a subdivision with a train passing several tines daily. Not one accident in all the years I lived there. Then there are the fires destroying canning plants, government destroying farms and ranches. No, I don't think any of this is normal.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Kate318 4/7/2024 6:19:20 PM (No. 1694797)
These are not random accidents. I don’t know what they are, but I sometimes wonder if the Deep State is sending a message to President Trump.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Birddog 4/7/2024 6:38:15 PM (No. 1694815)
V Narrows bridge has protective dolphins/caissons around it's supports, as do most major(and even minor) Bridges.
Baltimore's Key bridge does not....though they DO have them around the Powerlines running just next to the Bridge.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 4/7/2024 6:54:45 PM (No. 1694828)
Re #7, IIRC, that's rule #39, but that's just from memory.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 4/7/2024 7:56:15 PM (No. 1694845)
There's a reason, yet to be revealed, between all the recent incidents, accidents and the upcoming residential election.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
downnout 4/7/2024 8:16:39 PM (No. 1694854)
Once is an accident.
Twice is coincidence.
Three times is enemy action.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
red1066 4/7/2024 8:48:12 PM (No. 1694869)
Those dolphins or as I call them islands were not required on a bridge when the Francis Scott Key bridge was built in 1976. They are required now, and have been since the early 80's. Why they weren't retrofitted to the Key bridge with all the cargo ship traffic that passes by is beyond me. I guess it was all about money and the odds of a ship actually running into the supports.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Birddog 4/7/2024 9:38:23 PM (No. 1694891)
Baltimore had "More important" things to spend money on....such as shutting down Beth Steel, that had employed 30,000 people for 100 years, building public housing with "Mass Transit", rather than saving vast swaths of already in place neighborhoods that became boarded up abandoned blocks...while losing around 30%of it's populations.
BUT on the bright side...over 80% of those that remained now vote Democrat...."Religiously"
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
danu 4/7/2024 10:00:44 PM (No. 1694903)
seems there was a similar follow-up incident after bal'imer. ,,,out west? that would be 3
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
hershey 4/7/2024 10:10:42 PM (No. 1694905)
There is something very strange going on here...and just because 'they' say it's not a conspiracy, doesn't mean it isn't a conspiracy...
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#14 Sometimes both once and twice are enemy action
(regardless of what the government tells you within minutes)
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Lazyman 4/8/2024 7:39:06 AM (No. 1695077)
When the second tower came down it was clear to all.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/8/2024 7:50:30 AM (No. 1695087)
I won't make my decision until Pothole Pete speaks.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
paral04 4/8/2024 10:39:29 AM (No. 1695194)
Maybe they need to open up the Brooklyn Navy Yard since there are no bridges to deal with there.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Zigrid 4/8/2024 10:49:10 AM (No. 1695205)
Seems to me...there's most to these stories than WE're being told....and what's the useless traffic czar doing these days...off on another vacation in his private jet?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 4/8/2024 12:16:14 PM (No. 1695300)
Where's our illustrious Transportation Secretary, Pete Bootygig, on this?
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
msjena 4/8/2024 2:37:59 PM (No. 1695357)
Qingdoa. MIght that be Chinese?
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
JackBurton 4/8/2024 5:33:30 PM (No. 1695425)
What #14 said:
Once is an accident.
Twice is coincidence.
Three times is enemy action.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 4/8/2024 9:04:24 PM (No. 1695523)
So tell me, is a cabal the same as a conspiracy theory?? Asking for a friend.
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