MASSIVELY REVISED! Below. Crash, Bang, Pancake Time! Baltimore Lights Out. By Gene W. Edwards. Reposted 3/30/2024.

The ship that rammed Baltimore’s “Key” Bridge was:

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

· At its widest (its beam), it was 138 feet.

· The ship was named “Dali,” after Spanish painter Salvador Dali.

· The ship had a maximum tonnage (cargo carrying capacity) of 190,000,000 pounds.

· The Key Bridge was 1,200 feet long, its roadway 185’ above the water.

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

· The weight of the bridge is not known. It took five years to build it.

· The bridge is just 100 yards from where Francis Scott Key witnessed the shelling of Fort McHenry and wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

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

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

· That would come to 231,000,000 pounds if all of them were full.

· The air enclosed in a ship adds to its buoyancy. Air is much lighter than water!

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