Comments by "WALTERBROADDUS" (@WALTERBROADDUS) on "US Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore's Salvage Plan | MV Dali u0026 Francis Scott Key Bridge" video.

  1. Too dangerous, too expensive.
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  2. No.... you are not going to use demolition charges.
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  3.  @SteamCrane  I think the Salvage people already have factored the methods they wish to use?
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  4. Then you won't mind simply paying the bill? Because the cost of doing so will erase the budget of doing everything else that needs to be repaired.
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  5.  @dickdaley9059  I love people with these Quick Fix ideas. You will have no money in budgets for actual Bridge upkeep and repair which are far more likely issues. The potholes were the problem being fixed at the time. I know when I worked at PennDOT we already had 7 year backlogs of Highway projects. And that was not even Maritime related.
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  6.  @SteamCrane  Most states have years of other Bridge projects and road to repair. When I worked at PennDOT, we had a 7-year list. That's just to fix regular overpasses, deck repair, corrosion and cracks. Trucks running into things. Where in the budget are you going to fit that to start adding this to Marine Traffic Bridges? And to what level are you supposed to build them to? There are ships even larger than this one that runs through Baltimore. THe Delaware River alone, has 6 bridges to Delaware Bay open to commercial marine traffic to Philadelphia. Not every bridge requires this sort of retrofitting or protection. And cost of going to be astronomical to require some sort of broad brush adoption. It's sort of like asking every building to be built to earthquake standards.
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  7. Please give us what regulation would have changed here?
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  8. The Jones act doesn't make any sense. It's a leftover document of protectionism.
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  9. It's all very theoretical. Any damage to a structural component on the Bridge would have resulted in the rest of the bridge failing.
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  10. You are overly complicating a situation. We have cranes and we have barges already.
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  11. It's too dangerous.
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  12. It has to be dry docked.
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  13. It's rather self-explanatory. The visibility is near zero.
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  14. It's not really narrow. And how far are you proposing to do this? You are going to escort ships all the way to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and back? Do you realize how long that is it going to take for each ship? And tugboats are not really designed for braking.
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  15. ​ @dennislesh2374 that's not really so. Tugboats are not brakes.
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  16.  @Chilled_Mackers  the tugs were already released from service because the ship was in the main Channel and no longer in need of their services. Tugs would not have arrested the ship's motion once it's up to speed in escorting ships all the way from Baltimore to the ocean is not particularly practical.
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