Sounds like maintaince on the steering gear was the main factor to me.....jk

LOL, was on same, with same, over 40.years ago.
Went other direction though.

Fuzzy memories, cutting a deck at $5 a pop, high card wins, Cape Charles USGS station.
Hung over as I'd even been next morning, just in time for HORRENDOUS seas....

marine traffic show
looks like this is going to shut down a whole lot of product coming in and out
https://www.youtube.com/@wgowshipping

look to the end and see all the stalled ships, you thought Suez was a mess

the above post of mine should do this

What strikes me is how it was going parallel to the bridge then looked like it turned right into it. Seems kind of odd

I heard they dropped the an anchor as a emergency maneuver I would guess that is right about the time it caught

I am hearing engine trouble....no power to drive the vessel

Gary Benson, that is beautiful !!!!!!!!!!

That makes sense.

Now who is paying for clean up, the rebuild, and all the lost income from ships stuck in the port routing ECT.

You, me, us. Taxpayers get the bill.

Drop an anchor from the bow and it’s just gonna swing the stern around. If far enough away from the bridge it could’ve stopped them in time . Channel looks to be at perfect right angle to the bridge

IOU

Solved it **meme

Strategic subterfuge by foreighn navigation hackers....just ask Lara Logan.......brilliant attack on our infrastructure.

When I was a kid we would build houses on the living room floor with playing cards. Take 2 cards and make a triangle house and kinda keep adding more little 2 card triangles to it and we’d see how high we could build them.
Then someone would walk by and the little gust of wind would knock the whole house down just like that!
Anyways, that’s what that bridge falling down reminded me of.

Reminded me of the economy.

Yep , the tough guy already said he will pay every cent to repair the bridge , like it's his money and he's some kinda hero

Had a bridge fall into the Mississippi around 30 years ago. Was from a defunct RR line. Took em close to a year and half to decide then cut it into 3 pieces with explosive charges. By that time there were over 90 barges stacked up waiting. Nothing compared to the magnitude of this in comparison.

Build a bridge where there is boat traffic sooner or later one will hit it. When the whole thing collapses after its a design flaw, material degradation due to age, or both. We have a lot of iffy bridges in this country.