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ANOTHER Massive Container Ship Loses Power Next To Huge Bridge!


It’s getting harder to dismiss all of these accidents and close calls as mere coincidences.

Just less than two weeks following the disaster at the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, yet another container ship lost power while dangerously close to a bridge.

The latest incident occurred near New York City, where the massive APL QINGDAO container ship lost power near the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge on Friday evening.

Three tug boats were brought in to assist the vessel while it regained propulsion.

The Coast Guard confirmed the incident occurred around 8:30 Friday night.

Is the timing of this latest near-accident simply a coincidence?

The New York Post reported on the close call:

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 to the span that connects Brooklyn and Staten Island.

Last year it was train derailments, and now giant cargo ships seem to be at high risk.

What is going on in this country right now?

This is getting a little too close for comfort…

While some may ignore the fact that these incidents are becoming more common, its important to understand how many fail-safes are actually in place to help prevent such accidents from occurring.

What is quite interesting about this story, is that the very same New York Post published an article last week discussing the potential vulnerability of the Verrazzano-Narrows bridge:

New York’s George Washington and Verrazzano-Narrows bridges are vulnerable to the same domino-effect catastrophic collapse that brought down the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, a new analysis warns.

Officials had previously found that the Key Bridge was designed in such a way that if even a single steel component of the span failed, the entire structure could fail.

Indeed, when the massive Dali container ship struck one of the vertical supports last week, the whole 1.6-miles bridge crumbled into the Patapsco River.

At least 17,000 structures in the US have “fracture critical” construction like the Key Bridge did — among them some of the nation’s largest and most famous bridges, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing the Natation Transportation Safety Board.

I’ll say this again.

There are simply too many coincidences to dismiss these incidents…



 

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