Crash, Bang, Pancake Time! Baltimore Lighs Out. By Gene W. Edwards. Posted 3/28/2024

The ship that rammed Baltimore’s “Key” bridge was

· 984 feet long (longer than three football fields).

· Almost as long as it was wide.

· The ship weighed 213,000,000 pounds.

· The Key bridge was 1,200 feet long.

· The main span of 1,200 feet (366 m) of the bridge is the third longest span of any continuous truss in the world. (From Wikipedia, “Francis Scott Key Bridge.”)

· The ship contained 4,200 cargo containers. A 20’ container weighs 5,000 pounds.

· Such a shipping container contains 50,000 pounds of goods.

· That comes to 231,000,000 pounds.

· 15,000,000 pounds of oil was on board, and 56 containers of hazardous material.

· Virtually no shipping containers were lost.

· Two pilots and 21 crew were on board. The home country of the ship is Singapore.

· The ship simply lost power and could not stop, no incompetence involved.

· The Titanic was much smaller.

· Did the ship outweigh the whole bridge? Probably.

· The total cost of the accident may total $2,000,000,000 to all entities.

· Maryland contains six million people and is 250X100 miles in size.