Official Footage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse

Container ship hits the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland on March 26, 2024 at approximately 1:30 am. The StreamTime LIVE camera captured the collapse. There is no audio.
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[@alyssa_s88]

I know that they were able to stop traffic just before the collision, but i was still freaking out each time i saw ANOTHER vehicle coming across with the ship looming in the background.

[@SilverOnTheCloud]

Imagine being in those two cars at 4:48 going to the left of the screen and just missing this by a minute. Gives me the chills. (I know that they’re reporting that when the ship issued a mayday, they managed to stop more traffic from crossing.)

[@Bryan-Hensley]

I'm not sure, the police said it had already collapsed by the time they got there.. there were road crews on the bridge, you'd think they would have evacuated. But it does look like the traffic disappeared

[@SilverOnTheCloud]

@@Bryan-Hensley Yeah, I’m pretty interested in the timeline of the events here and how much time there was between the mayday and the crash and if the crew would even have time to get out.

[@BjrnOttoVasbottenbjovas]

@@Bryan-Hensley I would assume that there are some remote controlled barriers or traffic lights that stopped traffic. Great work that they were able to make that effective so fast.

[@Bryan-Hensley]

@@BjrnOttoVasbottenbjovas the ships pilot warned authorities. That person deserves to be called a hero even if he did something to cause the incident. There's a video out there with the emergency dispatch audio.. you might be right.

[@Bryan-Hensley]

@@SilverOnTheCloud find the video of the emergency dispatch communications. The pilot of the ship alerted authorities.

[@eddiehoppe]

Imagine being next in line when they stop traffic and seconds later see the bridge come down.

[@carrie1904]

Thank You, StreamTime Live for providing this Video. Very tragic and sad situation.

[@jthitchens2672]

That's insane how fast it came down

[@joebb11]

steel arch continuous truss bridge(thats the part that fell) 1/4 miles worth of bridge. separated right at the concrete ramps on both sides.(that didnt fall) sounds crazy, but thats the design

[@boydmanuel9257]

Literally 9 seconds.

[@SnakeSalmon8izback]

it's insane how little that commonfolk understand basic physics

[@mderline4412]

@@SnakeSalmon8izback As 9/11 demonstrated. *A hundred years of Cinema vs knowing which way Gravity goes!..*

[@VeronicaGorositoMusic]

Surreal and terrifying....

[@BubbaWarbucks]

Thank you StreaTime LIVE for making this available so quickly!

[@JayWillyLive]

I was in the stream when I saw it I said another day in Baltimore

[@JelMain]

This was up within an hour, far more clear than the original

[@charlottecunningham2141]

@@JayWillyLive😒

[@47dumb]

@@JayWillyLiveI hate Baltimore but Philly, talk about a shithole.

[@JayWillyLive]

@@47dumb who said anything about philly

[@smoketinytom]

Glad to see this wasn't at rush hour. That'd be catastrophic.

[@averythomas7318]

It wasn't catastrophic?

[@AnimeRunnerUp]

@@averythomas7318Don’t be daft. You knew exactly what OP meant. Many MORE lives would have been tragically lost.

[@oliversnow]

It’s such a shame that KZbin doesn’t promote these videos. The site is full of reposted partial clips when this shows the full event.

[@PaulCashman]

And of course, posting without proper attribution so Streamtime Live doesn't get the credit.

[@gimpymoo]

KZbin is an awful platform in that regard. The algorithms are extremely broken but they make soo much money from short, low quality content, they do not care.

[@JayRock907]

the owner of this video restricted (re)circulation

[@LaurieWilliams-lk8fc]

@@gimpymoo Yes. The extent of reposting, in many cases by people lacking the decency to acknowledge the copying, is shameful. You would assume that duplicate content would be easily and promptly detected and removed, or at least marked with a notification but, as you say, a greater number of videos means a greater amount of income. KZbin search is badly ineffective too. Even in cases of short simple text searches It misses many items with precisely the same text in their titles. Typical Google.

[@Mdhamed-bn2lh]

এ😊😮😂🎉😢😮😮🎉😢😢😢😮​@@PaulCashman

[@lynnrogers1216]

This hurts. Even though I would not have been on the Key Bridge at the time of impact, I would have just driven over it if my oldest granddaughter was able to visit this past weekend. My prayers go out to those workers who were on the bridge just doing their job and to their family members. Because of the Port of Baltimore, I have cruised under this bridge on numerous occasions. Going under the Key Bridge was one of the highlights of sailing out of Baltimore. I'm praying they find the missing workers still unaccounted for!

[@dipndalip]

Christ warned of people who boast of their spirituality. The pharisees. Their nature lead to killing Christ. So stop going out on the internet to tell people your prayers blah blah blah. You are not praying by telling people on youtube about it. You are killing Christ over and over again.

[@dipndalip]

Christ warned of people who boast of their spirituality. The pharisees. Their nature lead to killing Christ. So stop going out on the internet to tell people your prayers blah blah blah. You are not praying by telling people on youtube about it. You are killing Christ over and over again.

[@DougGrinbergs]

1:22 lights go off 2:22 some lights back on 2:38 first signs of black smoke 3:28 dark again 5:36:some lights then 5:42 dark as bridge collapses

[@abuzainudin1685]

Mean??

[@cfeauto5938]

@@abuzainudin1685 Electrical failure of some variety just as it hit a Y junction in the harbor exit. They dredged two "roads" for these ships that go deep enough for them to make the passage. they lost power just as the ship crossed that Y junction kicking the back of the ship right from the flow of water. No power =No corrections. No corrections= an inevitable crash. The fact that lights did come on could mean the crew was working hard to repower the ship to prevent this...but it was just too little too late

[@DoRullings]

It is heartbreaking to see the warning lights on the cars of road workers falling down and disappear into the sea along the bridge.

[@nathbaklawa5304]

Definitely heartbreaking

[@tammy2161]

yes!!!! if u look closely you can see the vehicles going down... so sad

[@eric2082]

Thanks!! May God bless those poor souls!!

[@jonathanfriedel]

the same god that caused the collapse.... be careful, your request for god to change his plans pisses him off.

[@nfgojags1]

There is a fairly steady stream of trucks and cars right up until about 30 seconds prior to impact. All of a sudden no obvious signs of traffic seems to be crossing, or this could have been much worse.

[@bradjtrains]

Yes. The captain made a call and had traffic stopped on the bridge.

[@nathanhart5411]

Yup and a few emergency vehicles parked in middle of the bridge with lights flashing.

[@ElizabethCherryBlossom]

I heard there was a construction crew on the bridge when it collapsed. Judging by the lights' colours, that would be the construction crew.​@nathanhart5411

[@nfgojags1]

@@bradjtrains I hadn't heard that and wondered if it were the case. Given that, and surely the work crew saw the barge, why they didn't evacuate earlier.

[@bradjtrains]

@@nfgojags1 I just heard that the crew was on their 30 minute break. They take their breaks in their cars. I live very near the scene and have crossed that bridge many times. It is tough to see over the jersey wall. They may not have seen or heard at all. It was dark and it was 130am. There was also a bridge inspector that was on the road deck.

[@5argetech56]

All of a sudden the cargo ship went dark. Massive power failure.

[@ClaytonCoffman]

Love and prayers. The silver lining if there is to be one is that it happened in the early hours of the morning when there was the least amount of traffic.

[@SophiaTheSophist]

it would have been even more catastrophic at morning rush hours! its hard to see but it doesn't look like many cars were on the bridge.

[@DiamondPaintWithDiamondDave]

​@TheChesireKat according to official reports there were only 8 people on the bridge..6 are unaccounted for..construction workers that were repairing potholes...Mayday call from ship came in quick enough for traffic authority to close bridge to vehicular traffic.

[@PretzelDuck]

@@DiamondPaintWithDiamondDave really? Because I read something earlier that said there were seven vehicles.

[@Lonech]

That and the pilot reported the mayday signal, which likely gave just a bit more time for anyone on the bridge to respond. Unfortunate that several lives may have been lost still. :(

[@dipndalip]

Christ warned of people who boast of their spirituality. The pharisees. Their nature lead to killing Christ. So stop going out on the internet to tell people your prayers blah blah blah. You are not praying by telling people on youtube about it. You are killing Christ over and over again.

[@Phar2Rekliss]

It appears most of the vehicles and trucks made it across the bridge to safety before it collapsed.

[@DC322]

Except for the construction vehicles on the bridge.

[@fluxcapacitor1621]

The ship called in a mayday then they closed the bridge to traffic just before the accident.

[@MsChristylove]

So far seems like fast thinking was done..

[@stubbytrunk8226]

Other than the 20 construction workers nobody warned.

[@IsaiahSmith-ws2zs]

No 7

[@ralphcrosby9622]

Prayers to all involved

[@A.Netizen.Since.2010]

👉🏼 5:01 you see the last two vehicles crossing the FSK bridge for the very last time....The last small car at 01:28:08AM [ camera ] was being driven by Larry Desantis. .a Baltimore port native...He was rushing to his 2nd job at a backery shop that moment....After the bridge had collapsed, he recieves a chilling phone call from his workplace asking his current whereabouts...He replied that he just crossed the Key Bridge...Then his colleague from his work informs him that the whole bridge has just fell into the Patapsco water !.....Larry didn't listen the sound of the bridge collapsing behind him. . .because he was listening to the radio on his way to work...The aged man appears being emotional while describing about all this during a television interview... ..Finally at 01:28:43AM [ camera ] 👉🏼 5:35 the MV Dali collides into one of the support pillars of the ill-fated bridge....Very much haunting visuals. . .& heartbreaking at the same time !

[@bohemethmonkey]

Thank you! Prayers for everyone involved

[@stevemerritt2721]

commercial wise the port of Baltimore is closed, no ships can not get out and all those in Chesapeake Bay can not get in until that bridge wreckage is cleared

[@kharnthebetrayer1575]

They will go to other ports like here in VA Norfolk and Portsmouth have modern facilities that can handle the ships.

[@SophiaTheSophist]

bridge collapse go to 5:39 this is horrible!

[@orique]

Armchair captain here: 01:20 first blackout 02:20 power available 02:30 full steam (trying to recover?) 03:25 second blackout

[@suntzu5836]

It was made by Boeing!

[@jeanwilson9925]

Was sure ship was blacked out,then lights came on just prior to collision.

[@Nick-zo6uk]

​@@suntzu5836 I shouldn't laugh, but that's funny 😂😂😅

[@ADSUPINTHIS]

If you watch it sped up the ship turns directly into the bridge support. If it can turn I assume it can go straight ahead. So why turn instead of continuing straight ahead underneath the bridge and avoiding this catastrophe?

[@anavz5473]

The nautical term is "Not Under Command." That means the crew does not have control of the ship or it controls surfaces (rudder) or propulsion. Likely the rudder was stuck. When they made the MAYDAY call they likely dropped the anchor as well to try to slow or stop the ship. Newtons laws apply; that is a huge amount of mass with momentum, it only stops when and opposing force is applied, in this case the collision wit the bridge pylon. @@ADSUPINTHIS

[@spiercephotography]

Oh my gosh, RIP to those construction workers that were still on the bridge. What a nightmare! You can see the ship lose power, them trying to get it back, and then it going on it again, and losing it again. Once it started drifting there was nothing they could do. I'm glad they were able to mayday in to close the bridge to traffic at least

[@kimsmith6469]

It was terrorism .😢

[@lalaithan]

@@kimsmith6469 The terror of a power failure.

[@andrewreynolds4949]

I’m sure the NTSB will be looking into this very carefully. As tragic as this is it could definitely be much worse

[@normw1895]

Looks like it lost power, all lights went out Edit Look at 1:26 ish ship goes completely dark, long before it hits the bridge

[@mitrolltv]

I think it is just the angle, it looks like the lights go on and off again as the boat moves towards the bridge.

[@ufloc]

@@mitrolltv theres a massive light on the front and you can see the lights dim, its not the angle

[@normw1895]

@@mitrolltv apparently they issued a Mayday, so it was definitely was not just the angle

[@mitrolltv]

Wondering how 🤔 many people will say the same thing after everyone else.....

[@lucasdisantt]

Isso mesmo.

[@IronFist.]

Why has this video been cropped and re-encoded at a low bitrate? About 10 percent of the video frame is missing.

[@kaymartin7822]

Anyone know who took this video? Who was up filming at the time of night.

[@Julia-543]

⁠@@kaymartin7822this channel has many high quality, permanently installed cameras which each stream 24/7 for people who enjoy watching ships, planes, etc. As you can see if you look at the current livestreams, they usually only have a handful of people. A moderator said in the Baltimore chat the other day that 7 people were watching the stream at the time of collapse.

[@milepost4846]

I will never understand why they do not put boulders or some sort of protection around these bridge supports in major shipping channels like this to ground ships before striking the support structure.

[@my3dviews]

The water is 50 feet deep there. You would need a lot of boulders to pile up to at least another 25 feet above the surface to block the ship. The bridge was built in the 70s, when ships were a lot smaller. Even if they had made a barrier to stop the ships of the day, today's ships would still likely overpower any barrier from then.

[@roxmattern60]

They do in the newer or updated ports. Chesapeake Bay bridge tunnel has stone island around the bridge pillars

[@joebb11]

@@my3dviews those ships were just as big in the 70s

[@my3dviews]

@@joebb11 Not true. There have been lots of articles about the increase in size of the ships since the bridge was built. They are much larger now. Quote: When the Francis Scott Key Bridge was built between 1972 and 1977 the average container ship carried between 500-800 twenty-foot shipping containers - known as TEUs in the shipping business. But advances in engineering allowed ships to balloon to an average of 4,000 TEUs by 1985. Since then, carriers have continuously scaled up capacity, and Dali, manufactured in 2015, had a capacity of 10,000 TEUs. According to bridge experts, no bridge pylon could survive being hit by a vessel of this size. The continuous growth has pitted ports against each other to attract bigger vessels. The expansion of the Panama Canal in 2016 upped the stakes, with ports along the East Coast racing to dredge their harbors to accommodate the larger ships now traveling through the canal. The Port of Baltimore expanded to accommodate supersized ships in 2013. Since, it has grown into the 9th-busiest port for receiving foreign cargo. Aging bridges. Meanwhile, the Francis Scott Key bridge has remained largely unchanged since the 1970s.

[@my3dviews]

@@joebb11 Not true. Lots of info on the subject. Like this: When the Francis Scott Key Bridge was built between 1972 and 1977 the average container ship carried between 500-800 twenty-foot shipping containers - known as TEUs in the shipping business. But advances in engineering allowed ships to balloon to an average of 4,000 TEUs by 1985. Since then, carriers have continuously scaled up capacity, and Dali, manufactured in 2015, had a capacity of 10,000 TEUs. According to bridge experts, no bridge pylon could survive being hit by a vessel of this size. The continuous growth has pitted ports against each other to attract bigger vessels. The expansion of the Panama Canal in 2016 upped the stakes, with ports along the East Coast racing to dredge their harbors to accommodate the larger ships now traveling through the canal. The Port of Baltimore expanded to accommodate supersized ships in 2013. Since, it has grown into the 9th-busiest port for receiving foreign cargo. Aging bridges. Meanwhile, the Francis Scott Key bridge has remained largely unchanged since the 1970s.

[@deejay4351]

omg - - devastating - - - prayers for everyone involved..........🙏

[@Dominion69420]

I just want to ask... is there a way to save the live stream chat log I just like seeing live reactions to major events preserved as much as possible to give that raw angle.

[@blown22]

I found that the live chat was a cesspool of political rants and crazy conspiracy kook suggestions.

[@Dominion69420]

@@blown22 I mean the chat replay during the actual allision and collapse

[@blown22]

@@Dominion69420 Gotcha. I gotta think all you're gonna get from them is this.

[@BarographSoup]

I found my way to the livestream roughly an hour after the collision, so things were still quiet enough to easily scroll back up to see what the chat looked like at the moment of collision. The chat logs prior to the collision was only 5 messages from channel admins totally unrelated to the collision, so no one was actively watching it live and chatting abt it. Channel admins popped in to chat real fast though, which was interesting on its own, but they didnt say anything particularly notable. Didnt take any screenshots and obviously cant remember word for word what was said, but two admins were chatting in the immediate aftermath before the livestream got any attention. First message after the collision was an admin simply stating that a ship hit the bridge, potentially listing the time as well but I dont remember. Next few messages are a lot harder to recall but still just admins, most of whom were expressing shock and confusion, alongside dismay at the potential loss of life. For the next half hour 90% of the messages are from (presumably legit) journalists requesting if they can use the footage in news coverage. From there a slow trickle of random internet users arrive, most of whom being conspiracy theorists.

[@swingarmer]

@@BarographSoup Well conspiracy or not, the ship takes a hard right and expels a lot of soot doing so. What's up with that?

[@lecsi7321]

RIP to all the construction workers that were on a break and fell into the water.

[@TimedOut...NoWayo]

Looks like 4 construction vehicles had their yellow rotating caution lights turned on when they went down with the bridge

[@EdwardMitchell-l9w]

Why do they keep saying the bridge collapsed the bridge was knocked down shouldn't the headlines read that way

[@johnhaas2523]

No it collapsed because the support was damaged

[@alanmckenzieSBCC]

@@johnhaas2523That's like saying that if someone kicks your leg out from under you, you weren't 'tripped', you just collapsed...

[@DanielClarke-h7q]

@@alanmckenzieSBCCyou definitely were not tripped if someone kicks you leg out from under you you collapsed ever been kicked in the back of your knees cause I have and you collapse there is no going forward so the bridge collapsed if it fell over the top would be the only thing gone it fell from a support beam so there for it collapsed

[@patbanglephoto]

The support was knocked down or, more technically speaking, compromised. The bridge then collapsed. Both things are true.

[@fongdimbulator]

Because saying a bridge was knocked down after a boat hit it is unprofessional prose and wouldn't make it across any editor's desks without being sent back with lots of red marker.

[@Eevee_133]

I went to Ft. Armistead today. To see the bridge gone was eerie to say the least. I come to Baltimore every year on vacation to visit family and drive over the bridge every time. This time, it just felt eerie to see something I’ve been seeing for so long gone

[@chox7517]

Quality of this upload is not as streamed. 720p30 compared to 1080p60 as streamed. This matter a fact appears to be a quick screen recording that is cropped. You can see that account logo on the bottom right just barely in view. Excessive alteration in the appearance of the stream seems to have occurred due to deliberate post production work on color or from poor encoding specifications. This upload is also cropped and not the full frame of said stream.

[@benjaminguilatcoiv]

Yes i was observing the smoke coming out of the ship's funnel and as it was nearing the time of impact that black smoke was strangely 'frozen', it was not in dynamic movement as smoke should billow about naturally.

[@kaymartin7822]

@@benjaminguilatcoiv The early reports said that black smoke was when they tried to restart the engines.

[@benjaminguilatcoiv]

@@kaymartin7822 but my particular point here is on the video i see the smoke seemed to be strangely 'frozen', like as if the video was tampered? But i was watching it on a cellphone so idk if this is the case on a bigger screen..

[@OGlurkerTammyA]

It looked like power failure to me before impact watching from the beginning 😣🙏🙏

[@mrlegoblox448]

yeah that's what I saw. the ship was pretty well lit at the beginging and suddenly all the lights went out. If you watch it's also moving left to right until it gets to the support then it seems to turn and head straight to the support.

[@kckillakrack9714]

Random power failure right by a bridge highly doubtful. Multimillion dollar ships don't have random power failure

[@rprince418]

@@kckillakrack9714 They do when they are pieces of junk that cheap companies do terrible jobs maintaining.

[@SephirothRyu]

The ship also began emitting notably more smoke than normal in the minutes after the power failure. Perhaps either from something going very wrong with its engines, or failed attempts to get power back on.

[@kckillakrack9714]

@@rprince418 they don't though lol. This is a regular thing that happens lol?

[@ChaiLatte13]

Just waking up to see this and this is devastating. 😥

[@skyclimber3934]

If they stopped the traffic you'd think someone would have warned the workers in the middle of the bridge, prayers to all of the worker's families/loved ones.🙏

[@matttalsma]

There wasn't time. I work on roads for a living. (not in Maryland) When you're out of the truck patching potholes, as that's what was reported the crews were doing, you're unable to hear the two-way radio (if their trucks had them) and often times phones are left in the truck. If they had their phones in their pockets, they're difficult to hear or feel vibrating when you're out working.

[@skyclimber3934]

@@matttalsmaYou'd think the one in charge would have some means of communication or one of the trucks radio on a P.A. or high volume. It was about 4 minutes if the mayday was broadcast when the lights first went out. But who would have thought this was going to happen. Anyway, sounds like you know what you're talking about and I don't, I'm just speculating.

[@matttalsma]

All I have is speculation, too. I only say that as someone who has experience with road work. Indeed, praying for all worker's families and loved ones!!@@skyclimber3934

[@my3dviews]

@@skyclimber3934 It's only 40 seconds when the last vehicle at 5:00 just leaves the bridge until it collapses at 5:40. It entered the view at about 4:18. So, only a minute and 22 seconds from the time the last vehicle entered the bridge until collapse. If the Mayday was 4 minutes ahead of the collapse, it takes time to notify people on the bridge.

[@matt9c1]

MDTA Police attempted to warn the bridge crew, but there just simply not enough time. MDTA was able to stop traffic in time.

[@my3dviews]

At least, most of the vehicles got off of the bridge before the collapse. Could have been a whole lot worse if it had been during the daytime, especially at rush hour when people are heading to or from work.

[@DC322]

Except the construction vehicles on the bridge. Six construction workers missing at this hour.

[@PUMPADOUR]

Imidiately after losing power, the ship pilot called the port authority, and they called police to block the booth sides of the bridge for traffic. That took 1.53 minutes, which I find to be amazing. That why you can see how the reafic dissappear just before the accident and there were so few casualties.

[@paulmurray4106]

Great Catch With Your Live Bridge Cam.....

[@squirrelgirl6398]

@StreamTime Live; super curious--how do you happen to have a camera pointed in this direction, presumably streaming all the time. It's wonderful footage (very tragic event), but it gets my curiosity up!

[@skyclimber3934]

I believe the cam is located on the Fort Carroll sanctuary, a man made Island about 1/2 mile east of the bridge.

[@YellowWhiteRose]

Most of the cameras have a "home" or fixed position when an operator isnt moving it. Seems that was its home position.

[@griffinmckenzie7203]

There are cameras *everywhere* bud. Why is this a surprise?

[@heatherconnelly8169]

It's a livestream that was set up for those who enjoy watching the port and ships moving in and out

[@squirrelgirl6398]

@@griffinmckenzie7203 Of course there are a lot of cameras. It's just curious how this one was aimed exactly at the point where the disaster occurred. I don't mean that in a spooky or conspiratorial way. I just wanted to know more!

[@alyssa_s88]

I keep thinking about not just the poor road workers, but also the people who just barely made it across in time 😢

[@dynomiteadventures3161]

Horrible accident. So said to hear about the loss of the road crew. Had the PD not stopped the traffic so quickly there would have been a lot more loss. Thoughts and prayers for the families.

[@DC322]

two people survived the collapse and were rescued.

[@BillHetzel]

@Judd - Thanks so much for posting this. Could we please get the original 1080p 60hz version instead? There is so much detail lost in this 720p version. Thanks!

[@daniellechadwell5170]

prayers for all involved

[@joeomalley2835]

Same here. It's a tragic event.

[@brysonadams4172]

That just breaks my heart so bad💔🥺🥺 Praying for the people who lost their lives🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@DragonstarFighter]

Streamtime Live, what is the chance of us getting this in this in as high a definition as you have?

[@davidmende4438]

Francis Scott Key wrote our National Anthem. America has several enormous problems headed our way. Will this be our fate.

[@zerocompanyhq]

For reference: 00:08 MV Dali visible to left of frame. 01:23 First blackout (indicated by the deck passageway lights, forecastle illumination lights, and forward masthead navigation light being extinguished simultaneously). 02:23 Power to deck passageway lights, the main masthead navigation light (white - seen above the bridge), the forward masthead navigation light (white - seen at the top of the mast on the forecastle), and the starboard navigation light.(green - seen on the starboard bow, at deck level, just aft of the forecastle). 02:24 Power to deck lighting in the vicinity of the entrances to the accommodation and the engine room (at deck level). Possibly emergency lighting to liferaft and lifeboat embarkation stations. 02:33 Signs of dense smoke emitting from the funnel, possibly indicating a main engine firing up from idle or being given a high revolution input on the engine telegraph (e.g. "Full Astern" to carry out a "crash stop" manoeuvre). 02:40 Further illumination of the forecastle deck. 02:46 A visible change in aspect of the vessel (relative to the camera) is becoming apparent, indicating that she is no longer maintaining a steady course through the dredged and buoyed narrow channel, and there is an increasing rate of turn to starboard. 03:00 The dense black smoke from the funnel now very clear and persistent. Appears to indicate moderate winds on the vessels port side. 03:20 Turn to starboard now more-so apparent as we are now seeing more of her port bow. 03:28 Second blackout. Note that there is still light visible in the vicinity of the deck level access to the accommodation this time. This is possibly emergency lighting at lifeboat and liferaft embarkation stations. The navigation lights on the main mast, forward mast and starboard bow also appear visible during this second blackout. 04:01 Power to the forecastle area lighting is restored. 04:16 Both main masthead and forward masthead navigation lights are visible. Notice the aspect of the vessel has changed significantly to an almost head-on view where both masthead nav lights align. 05:35 Allision with bridge

[@blown22]

Thanks for this!

[@__________Anonymous__________]

Why not 1080p 60fps like the source video (the live stream)? You downgraded it to 720p 30fps. By accident? You should delete this and upload it in the same quality as the original video.

[@mellchiril]

Knowing what was about to happen I was begging traffic to go faster and get themselves away from that bridge. That was painful to watch, but I appreciate being able to see how it actually unfolded, and what happened to the ship before it crashed into the bridge.

[@marlonnoquillo1955]

At 1:24 i think all auxilliary engine are dead and at that time power for all pumps like hydraulic pumps for steering, cooling and heating pumps on boiler, turbo and fuel pumps are dead so the main engine is dead, the emergency genset works only for lighting but the ship regains its power around 2:23, you will start again to prepare the main engine once the auxilliary engine start, at 5: 36 out of control the ship hit the bridge even on 8 knots and dead calm around 6000 teu that ship are imposible to control on that period of time.

[@justinadamson3155]

I think probably they got the engine back and tried to reverse. Reversing the engine will cause any single-screw ship to turn to starboard, as happened here.

[@sirbuvio4088]

@@justinadamson3155 - correct - for right turning propeller. For left turning is opposite. Just to comment, you know.

[@marlonnoquillo1955]

With a time window from 1:24 to 5:36 upon hitting the bridge and that the aux.engine goes on and off the main engine need pre heating again and compressed air to refill the behemoth air tank for starting the m.e.

[@tauntdragoon]

@@justinadamson3155 and that what the theory is they tried that and that why the ship turned to starboard so they also think that when that happen they dropped the port anchor but which didnt do anyhting cause of the speed

[@ssmoky1]

This reminds me of: The Tasman Bridge disaster which occurred on the evening of 5 January 1975, in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, when the Lake Illawarra, travelling up the Derwent River, collided with several pylons of the Tasman Bridge and caused a large section of the bridge deck to collapse onto the ship and into the river below. Twelve people were killed, including seven crew on board Lake Illawarra, and the five occupants of four cars which fell 45 metres (150 ft) after driving off the bridge.

[@SideHustling84]

Why weren’t the construction workers off the bridge when they stopped traffic? They had ample time to be off the bridge and safe from the collapse. Rest In Peace 🕊️ to those who were lost and to their families and loved ones.

[@LokiOdinson-fz8ps]

How do you know they had ample time??? They were concentrating on what they were doing not the ship. There is a lot of noise and bright lights on them so they had little ability to hear or see anything outside their work area.

[@paulaharrisbaca4851]

My guess is the workers actually assumed it was not going to be a big thing. And, for all we know, they might have been illegals who didn't understand or hear any radio commands to get their a$$es off the Bridge. Or they have gotten so sick and tired of having to clear off the roadway because they were in the middle of a job and wanted to get it over with ASAP....I too find it strange they weren't radioed to physically run off the bridge or hop in their cars and just LEAVE as soon as they heard the "MayDay" warning....

[@levanataylor790]

Listen to the audio of the first responders. They got the traffic stopped at the north end first, and two police units headed for the south end, and then there was the following exchange [transcription by the NY Times]. Times are from when the first alert went out (1:27:53 EDT) 0:32 DISPATCHER: Is there a crew working on the bridge right now? 0:36 OFFICER approaching south end: [inaudible] 0:42 DISPATCHER: Got it. 0:44 OFFICER: Want me to stop traffic along this side right now? 0:49 DISPATCHER: Yeah if we could stop traffic, just make sure no one’s on the bridge right now. I’m not sure where there’s a crew up there. You might want to notify whoever the foreman is, see if we could get them off the bridge temporarily. 1:06 OFFICER: 10-4, once the other unit gets here I’ll ride up on the bridge. I have all inner loop traffic stopped at this time. 1:24 OFFICER [to other southbound unit]: Once you get here, I’ll go grab the workers on the Key Bridge and then stop the outer loop. 1:34 [ship strikes bridge] It is very likely that the construction crew could not see the ship approaching. Their worksite was lighted, and there were lights on the bridge, but none in the river and few on the ship, so they wouldn't have been able to see much if anything beyond the bright area they were in.

[@JayaJaya-pc9tb]

The bridge just crumbled on impact...tragedy

[@r1ch4rdw4gn3r]

Hello hello. I noticed that this video is slightly cropped. Top left "StreamTime" is missing the first 3 letters and on the top right side the magnification level "8.3x" is also missing a bit. Is there anywhere I can find the full resolution, uncropped footage? Maybe you have a download link? Thank you! 😊

[@ichetuknee]

Why would an unescorted ship be allowed to approach infrastructure such as that bridge? Why aren't tugboat escorts mandatory? Didn't anyone realize that bridges can be knocked down, so that both surface traffic and shipping could be stopped? Is there no thought for security? Are all of our ports so open to either accidental or intentional attacks? What preparation has Homeland Security planned for such potential since 9/11/2001? And it's right there in their backyard!

[@sirbuvio4088]

Everything, including answers to your questions, is inside de CFR - Code of Federal Regulations.

[@skyclimber3934]

Foreign flagged ships are required to have a local pilot to guide them in and out of port, so the pilot here was a local pilot.

[@LokiOdinson-fz8ps]

Apparently the Port of Baltimore doesn't require tug escort out that far.

[@randyg4288]

Pray for the workers on the bridge 🙏🏼

[@doughershberger4285]

You can see the yellow strobes of the construction crews working on the right side. All that steel fell on top of them, god rest their souls!🙏🏻

[@MrBostonrobb]

Looks like he turned directly at it.

[@jorgejefferson8251]

Crazy fate. Last two vehicles pass over the bridge @ 4:45, less than a minute before the bridge is hit and collapses.

[@MsChristylove]

Watching the vehicles go across gave me extreme anxiety

[@TaxingIsThieving]

Liar

[@trevorbryant4360]

Imagine driving across and seeing the ship with no lights heading straight for one of the bridge piers. Depending on where I was on bridge, I would stomp on the gas and go as fast as I can to get off or pull a U-turn and stomp on the gas to get off.

[@marywillard9753]

So sad God bless them all

[@noxcorvus93]

Very strange

[@LokiOdinson-fz8ps]

Not in the least. Ships lose power all the time. You just don't hear about it.

[@channingadams4152]

It's like God orchestrated that there should be no vehicles on that bridge. Imagine the catastrophe if that was rush hour. I pray for the people who are still missing. Apparently the maintenance guys. I pray to God for closure.

[@Velvetina88]

Prayers for all who have been impacted and praying there are more survivors.🙏♥️

[@theminingassassin16]

The impact looks so gentle. Yet, it wasn't.

[@bjv93]

Our tragedies are in HD now. So surreal to see. Will at least make it easier for historical purposes moving forward, seeing the future's next "Hindenburg" or "9/11" recorded forever in crystal clear quality.

[@roxmattern60]

Does this mean no other ships can use the shipping lane until this gets cleaned up? Dont the cruise ships go by here?

[@cslloyd1]

I downloaded the AIS data and the ship turned toward the support in the last couple minutes. If it had not turned everything would be fine. It could not have hit the support more squarely. It looks very suspicious to me.

[@PierreNgo]

Exactly, plus the exhaust smoke cloud at the same time proving the full throttle at the last moment

[@LokiOdinson-fz8ps]

Yeah ok Ricky Redneck. Your continued regurgitation of right wing conspiracy theories only shows your lack of critical thinking ability.

[@LokiOdinson-fz8ps]

​@@PierreNgoyeah to attempt STOP the bloody ship. Do you think they use a low power setting to try an emergency stop? No they USE FULL POWER.

[@mistertagnan]

@@user-mp4pn3rl4m they were in the middle and lost control. Once you lose control, the seas alone control your path

[@glennfjenkins2702]

How is it even possible that whole bridge came down with that one ship something seems not rite

[@Kingofturves]

Ship is big. Alot of mass. Only a single propeller. Big turning circle. Takes a long time for an emergency stop. Ship lost power and was out of control. Big span is rather small and tight for a big container ship to navigate through. A dangerous hazard. 1970s? Construction. Lightframe to create the span. But it's supports have no chance against large ships like containers. Its not surprising that it collapsed. Potentially it's modular Construction might be an advantage. The rest of the bridge either side still stands. The major question is, does Baltimore have a tug fleet? Or have they been scrapped to save money? & Whilst concrete structures in front of the supports wouldn't stop the Ship. They might deflect it enough to reduce damage. I don't know whether other bridges in America or in Europe. Have more substantial protection in place? Potentially some neglect could be tugs and bridge protection structures. But this is not surprising. Big Ships can cause all sorts of damage to other structures during other port accidents.

[@ChadSimplicio]

This will definitely help investigators with their work. The only other silver lining is that it happened late at night, and not during rush hour. That is all i can say.

[@tracycapilot2002]

Very, very true! Can you even begin to imagine what this would have been like during the morning commute just 4 to 5 hours later?! I understand this bridge is a major connector to the port and port workers are the major commuters on it.

[@mike605]

I think Captain Crunch is going out of business.

[@gearhead000TV]

For sure there's CCTV in the bridge.... I mean the ship's control bridge.

[@gawyton1]

How long has the camera been set-up at that particular location?

[@MalecKat]

It's like seeing this in a movie. This is so sad. We had something similar happen to our 35W bride in Minnesota. Sending prayers 🙏 to all involved.

[@talkswithhandswhisper744]

38 seconds after last car or truck passes

[@brandonmongero802]

Why did the ship make a hard right into the pillar of the bridge? That’s what I don’t get all while having no power

[@burnstick1380]

Well there was a river outlet and thus a possible missing bank effect which caused it to veer to that side. Though that's just a theory.

[@burnstick1380]

@@user-mp4pn3rl4m They where pretty much in the center iirc (there are lanes for shipping so they probably adhered to it), it just turned at the wrong place and wrong time. They where doing just above 8knts which means they had enough waterflow over their rudder to steer. Of course it will be investigated as basically every maritime incident does. It's just the case that currently we don't posses all the information (the public at least) but we got enough to get a decent picture. Could be wrong but it's a good guess I would say. Every system has weaknesses and can fail, that's nothing new.

[@theresaotoole9141]

As a structural engineer I find the way the box truss collapsed odd. By odd I mean that once one of the central support pylon was ''taken out'' by the ship; the box truss would have tried to span between the other two supports pylons on either side - this would make the ''new" span almost double and despite the large safety factors involved in the design of the structure - it would have either possibly ''Hung up'' or probably failed from the center of the new span, together with at the new span supports. But that's not what these videos show and only makes sense if structural elements in Box Truss were 'taken out' simultaneously as the ship struck the pylon support frame - by explosions (?) as some other videos are suggesting / showing .... or some prior prepared weakening or structural elements in the shorter left span box truss. Otherwise, it just doesn't make sense ...

[@Kristiemiller1969]

That gave me chills!! Why on God's green Earth did the captain of that cargo ship sail under the bridge, sooooo close to the piling, then reverse engines right after the ship was on the other side?? ETA: sorry I thought it looked like it might have reversed engines but it was drifting because they had no power to the engines.

[@JimRink]

How can that ship miss that big opening

[@loft306]

No power and the wind.

[@makermod]

They lost power while turning. When it came back on it was too late to recover.

[@AdmiralBlackstar]

Actually that opening is relatively small. On top of that you can clearly see they lost power. Even your car is a pain to steer without power.

[@Cantsaydog]

That’s what you get when you don’t wanna pay for the tugboats Our great government had a chance to put bumpers on that bridge but they said it was too expensive what’s it gonna cost now Stay the hell away from Baltimore it’ll be 5 mile an hour traffic for the next 20 years

[@tracycapilot2002]

It's already been posted that tugs would have made NO DIFFERENCE to this disaster!

[@colbymusic-lv8rw]

I dont even know what to say tbh

[@kaymartin7822]

What the source of this video? Just wondering who was up with a video camera at that hour?

[@Kingofturves]

It's from one of those live feed cams that broadcasts 24hrs. You get them setup at lots of sites of interest.

[@raydalton1110]

@2:33 coming in from far right screen and traveling the entire length is that a small plane or helicopter ? Can anyone go online and find out exactly what and who was operating that craft ?

[@midnight-2021]

Something big happens yet again in the USA on March during a presidential election year.

[@daved1535]

Was there some kind of warning? Because I didn't notice any cars on the bridge when it collapsed. You can see quite a bit of cars before it collapses, then nothing. I heard some reports of cars on the bridge when it came down

[@skyclimber3934]

Someone said when the ship put out a mayday that the bridge was blocked on both ends as soon as they could.

[@blown22]

There were vehicles being used by the contruction workers on the bridge, for sure. You can see what appears to be strobe lights, which I assume are either from DOT or subcontractor vehicles, hired by the city. There may also have been personal vehicles of the workers parked there.

[@Marinijahp]

They had about 2 minutes from mayday to collision to react

[@gerrywood5325]

Where the hell was the Harbor Pilot who's responsibility was to ensure that the ship wouldn't hit that bridge?

[@buckhorncortez]

Watch the ship carefully. All the lights go out, then come back on then go out again. Obviously, the ship is having problems with the main engine(s). A harbor pilot isn't going to do anything with no power.

[@matt9c1]

Harbor pilot, small child, astronaut.....if you have no steering, it won't matter much will it? The ship made a distress call to MDTA police who only had enough time to get traffic stopped. Based on what we know so far, it sounds like the Harbor Pilot did his best. Perhaps point the blame finger to the ships owner for equipment failure?

[@cambridge7]

Was the ships horn sounded as it approached the bridge?

[@Shipspotting_Vietnam]

I wonder why they dont call the tug boats from the port to support, it took quite a long time before hitting to the bridge!!

[@Marinijahp]

Tugboats are too slow to catch up, and less than 5 minutes is not nearly enough time to get the tugs and move that big of a ship that is for all intents and purposes drifting

[@Shipspotting_Vietnam]

@@Marinijahp Yes, Agreed!

[@Shipspotting_Vietnam]

@@Marinijahp it would be one or two tugboats remain with the ship until she is cleared for the bridge ,i think!

[@FaceStuffer]

you can see construction vehicles still on the bridge. :-(

[@garymorris1856]

I take no pleasure in saying this, but it has been over fourteen hours since the bridge collapse, and I doubt if any survivors will be found.

[@blown22]

I heard a report that they pulled 2 people out early on. But with a water temp of 47F, anyone who fell in that didn't die in the collapse itself and/or fall, or drown from being trapped would have quickly been overcome by hypothermia.

[@AmtrakFlareon]

I feel bad for those construction workers that were filling potholes on the bridge.

[@JoeLinux2000]

Only vehicles on the brdge seem to be the construction workers.

[@charlottecunningham2141]

I see several trucks going across, @JoeLinux2000

[@my3dviews]

@@charlottecunningham2141 The last moving vehicle gets off, or at least out of view of the video at about 5:00. Forty seconds before the collapse. So, only vehicle or vehicles on the bridge at the time of collapse were stopped.

[@juliusvisi2869]

I would like to know when the ships power came back on just prior to hitting it why did they not turn in the other direction instead of turning into the support

[@griffinmckenzie7203]

Would have changed nothing, even if they did regain rudder power (which they didn't). You can't turn a ship that size that fast.

[@bingbong4848]

Just because power is back on doesn't mean that they have full restart and control of machinery yet. Also steering may have been very limited at that speed. These things don't turn easily. Also it seems that they tried to go full astern to reduce impact speed. Captain will also be taking advice from engineers and the port pilot. Unless you're on the bridge in that situation it's hard to know the why and why not answers.

[@Marinijahp]

They didn’t “turn” into the support, they drifted into it due to current/wind and lack of propulsion, most likely

[@deepsleep7822]

Looks like ship lost power twice. First outage lasted 1(one) minute. The second one 30 seconds.

[@Twinkling7]

Shouldn't all ships have clearance "height and weight", before entering or leaving the harbor?

[@Mark59396]

Old man Biden has money for war but no money to update the infrastructure; bridges are in disrepair; train wrecks every month. Bravo, grandpa, you are the worst president! I'm happy for you! Why do we need new bridges? We will spend billions in Ukraine! That money will be stolen there! Ha ha ha!

[@griffinmckenzie7203]

They do. The ship lost all power.

[@Mark59396]

@@griffinmckenzie7203 And what about Boyeng!? Soon the whole world will laugh at the USA! Are there only old idiots living there!?

[@griffinmckenzie7203]

@@user-mp4pn3rl4m ...

[@rhatid]

1:23 the ship went dark.

[@Shadowstar13]

Prayers to all the people involved. It will interesting to find out the chain of events that led to this. Two power failes engines belching black smoke like an emergency maneuvering was taking place.