Baltimore Bridge Collapse: Analysis of MV Dalis Collision Course

Today we awoke to the horrible news that a container ship, MV Dali, had collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland. This is being described as a mass casualty event at present. The past few weeks our channel has been creating videos that focus on the physics and dynamics of big modern ships like container vessels, so seeing the principles play out in real time has been quite jarring. In this video we ll take a look at the surrounds of the bridge, the track of the container ship MV Dali and the sequence of events that may have led to a loss of control of the vessel as it bore down on the bridge. Map data 2019 Google Oceanliner Designs explores the design, construction, engineering and operation of historys greatest vessels from Titanic to Queen Mary and from the Empress of Ireland to the Lusitania. Join maritime researcher and illustrator Michael Brady as he tells the stories behind some of history s most famous ocean liners and machines , sh