You did this justice. You even used photos i havent seen before.

That was an awesome start to the video. Im only 1:23 in and loving it

A request from a hearing-impaired viewer- you have a pleasant baritone voice, but it's so pleasant that there are few high-frequency components. This makes it difficult for someone with poor upper hearing to understand you, can you please add captions to this?

Hey Rocketplumber thanks for the heads up! Yes, working on this currently as KZfaq has started to auto-caption less and less videos. Mine were fairly accurate in the past so I went with those. Coming up with a process now to start remedying those that don't have it.

@@BrickImmortar Thanks, I appreciate it, I try not to bludgeon people with my handicap but sometimes it gets tough and I really want to get the full value of your productions.

For no apparent reason... car ahead just tapped brakes, me let off the gas, then hit brakes. Look in horses eyes as we missed is unforgettable

Yup. If someone brakes ahead of you, just do the same. Don't find out by running into it.

Sadly it always seems , a tragedy has to come first and then safety measurements goes place. Like a simple thing of having red light 🚨 warnings and stop 🛑 Lights in case of an accident or even fog where no one can see ahead of them, should have been already in place.

Mianis River Bridge on Rt 95 in Ct went down one night, (mid 1980s) and a car stopped to warn others. At least one car went around and into the water from a height of near 100 ft.

I once was in a second left turn lane (against traffic in the US). Our light turned green and we started to go. I saw the guy to my right brake hard and do the same- just in time for someone to pass right in front of me as they ran the red light. Had I not stopped based on the other vehicle they would have hit me. Taking cues from other drivers is a whole ass skill of its own.

I was just coming to say this. Can't imagine working a job like a coast guard gotta have nightmares

They say sometimes that survivor's guilt is worse kind of PTSD. Oh what would have happened if I had just backed my car into the bus and stop it by force just one of the many of thousands of questions as you laid there trying to sleep. God bless that man. You are a sweet person to think about it. God bless you

One cannot protect others from their mistakes and failure to ignore warning signs. In the weather they may not have even noticed someone on the side of the highway. Sadly this happens daily.

@@richarda996 It still must haunt him terribly.

@@willfriar8054Yeah. It has to be incredibly tough and I hope he has all the support he needs, especially now that it’s happened again. But I think it speaks to his character that, in the spur of the moment with no training and no time to prepare, he acted at all.

​@willfriar8054 did you just say stop a bus..with a car? 😂....I get it though, what ifs will near kill ya

Same thing happend in NYC when the plane landed in the Hudson. In minutes there were ferries and tugs there to help people off.

Smaller scale but very similar to something I saw and experienced in person - a house in my old neighborhood going up in flames in the dead of night. The family thankfully got out right away, but there were a lot of us neighbors running up to them before the fire department arrived, asking if everyone was out, are you hurt, do you need warm clothes or a place to stay, and banging on the doors and windows of the nextdoor neighbors to get them out of their homes in case the fire spread. In those moments it doesn't matter who you are or what you were in the middle of doing. All that matters is that you are there.

Find a version that has the entire radio traffic. It is chilling when the coast Guard announced pon, pon, seelonce mayday

I work in large scale bridge/high rise/ stadium construction the biggest jobs. And i can tell you Tugs working people jump into action in these situations. We had a man overboard recently and we had the guy out of the water in minutes. The radio calls are def haunting.

The one thing thats amazing about the Charger cop cars is in the police radio messages for responses like this you can hear them say in route to assit. Then the V8 sometimes can be heard roaring to a high RPM in the background.

He had been in the Navy in WW2. He stated later that training helped him get out and up to the surface.

@@suzannetaylor5374 I agree, but even so, he was no spring chicken to be expected to carry that out after falling out of the sky, being concussed into unconsciousness, and waking up on the sea floor! That was one tough man!

@@mungbean345 His name was Wes McIntyre. He was driving a Ford Courier pick up truck. He felt “survivors guilt” for the remainder of his life.

@@mungbean345 Oh he sure was.

@@kurtvonfricken6829 Thank you. I was saddened to read that he succumbed to bone cancer 9 years later, but not before people were apparently jerks to him and acted like what he did was no big deal and he shouldn't be troubled by it. 🤦‍♀️ I wish they'd been able to see this video.

It was a terrible, rickety bridge in my opinion. I've lived in this area nearly my whole life and went over that bridge many times. I was on my way from my morning high school class to my job on my 18th birthday the morning this happened. The bridge elevated quite high in the middle and had metal grading at the top sections so you could look down and see the water. I was always afraid going over it. The new bridge is beautiful, but I still don't like driving over it.

I've lived here in Tampa all my life and have still yet to go fishing there. I live just a few minutes north of Gandy, so that is where I used to fish. I was really pissed when after they permanently closed the old westbound span that had the fishing catwalk, they also closed off access to the catwalk, stating it was no longer safe and there wasn't money in the budget to maintain it. It's been a long time since I have been on the actual bridge, but I think they still allow joggers to use the level sections of each end of the bridge, but where the bridge starts to incline it's fenced off.

@@SirReptitious i had a friend who was working for his uncle at the Palmetto location of Kojaks house of ribs, any way first time i went to hangout we went fishing on the skyway pier. So you drove on the pier on the old north bound lane, and at the end they connected the two where you eould drive back off on south bound lanes. Skip a few years snd i decided to go fishing off the skyway pier, they only had the old south bound pier open because the north bound one built in the 50's was falling apart. I asked if they were gonna fix it, i was told some bank still owned it but was allowing the state to use it. They said once the dept of transportation decided the south bound lane was unsafe they would knock down access but leave the it standing. They should rebuild the damn thing, usually pretty decent fishing

I from Bradenton people still talk about the collapse of skyway bridge and how there is an uneasiness when crossing over.

@@chantaltestman6916 even though it is connected to the highway the toll is stationed a bit before the north bound end and the speed limit is still 55 mph I think

I think all the locals, myself included, remember exactly where they were when they first heard this. I was in my allergist's office and they had a news break on the radio around 8:30-9 am. Truly jaw-dropping.

Concise humans have always made mistakes and learned from them trough out history lol how are we supposed to know something without learning in the first place right

I think you would enjoy air crash investigations

They find the mistake which was made, and try to determine all contributing factors which led to the mistake being made, and then focus on eliminating or otherwise mitigating those factors, so that they can never again lull someone else into making the same mistake.

@@DanEBoyd that's a mistake

@@arctictiger8690 Or the KZfaq channel Mentour Pilot, which is less sensationalized and more informative.

The FSK *was* modified to protect it against ship allisions (the proper term for when a moving object hits a stationery one). Most notably with dolphins (dirt/rock/cement filled sheet pilings placed in front of a pier), amongst other modifications. However the ship came in at an angle (likely caused by the strong currents in that part of the channel) that bypassed them. Most of the other modifications where meant to help a ship avoid it in the first place (since that is by far the leading cause io allisions), which doesn't help against an out of control ship at all.

It’s easier to build them with the bridge than after the fact because no one wants to be liable for potentially upsetting the current structure’s foundation.

FSK did have dolphins, however the ship came in at a sharp enough of angle to avoid them.

"Whew, that was close!" ... "OH SHIT, MY CLUBS!!!"

@@Dat-Mudkip Priorities.

NOT THE GULF CLUBS!!!

Webb City where the chickens dance! The Webb family still has property in Florida I just worked on Todd Webb his grandson's laundromat... Live about 20 minutes from the skyway

@@billycode5144 That's the place.

He murdered 36 people. What are you a sociopath?

@@jamwest3146 You’ve clearly never piloted a ship before. These things can weigh as much as a skyscraper, and have engines that will comfortably power a city. You don’t just suddenly hit the picks if someone jumps out in front of you, lmao. If you see a problem, it is already too late.

Yep and as a student, there can possibly be no one you would listen to more carefully than him, who can really tell you something about decision making and consequences. And just think for a minute, how hard it must be, to go in front of a class (again and again) and knowing, they all know what you did from the news...

@@jamwest3146 the driver in the bus murdered some if any.

@@jamwest3146 He murdered no one. YOU are the sociopath.

The worst part is getting on scene and only finding bodies.

Did you check out the boat evacuation on 9/11?

@@manbaby9166 yesss that makes me cry every time haha it makes me so so happy to know; yes there are bad people out there, but the good people will always be there too.

@@kdrapertrucker I know, heart wrenching. But for their families? It’s got to be reassuring to know people still came straight to them, their loved ones weren’t just left there alone.

It made me sniffle too. People can be amazing when necessary; heroes are not born, they are made in an instant.

Huh?

​@@uberspaz7484 Similar incident destroyed the Francis Scott Key bridge.

Yeah, but slightly different failure modes, though. The old Sunshine bridge wasn't hit at a main support column, but a column at the end of the cantilever. The cantilever section should've stayed intact if the it wasn't presumably rigidly connected to the column. After all, half the cantilever stayed up, and there's even a picture @12:00 of a bunch of feds just chilling at the edge of the abyss, probably talking about the car parked on the precipice.

yep, I'm waiting for the vids from both Brick Immortar and Plainly Difficult

Native Bradentonian here

East coast superior ;)

Yeah man its weird going over the bridge and seeing whats left.

Always nice to hear from the locals and thank you one and all 👍

Do you still make Tampa Nugget cigars?🗽👍

Hindsight is always 20/20. What you describe loosely mirrors the natural evolution of design and engineering. Almost every improvement in safety and durability of everything you use in your daily and not-so-daily life has been a result of an accident that resulted in loss of life and/or property. There was a time- within the lifespan of many people alive today- where cars didn't even have seatbelts. It's quite easy to look back from the perspective of today and say, "it feels seriously reckless..." without understanding that at that time, they weren't considered to be necessary. The Champlain Towers collapse in Miami is another example of this; building codes and engineering standards are being rewritten as we speak to prevent that from happening again.

As a daily traveler of the bridge, I can see the buoys in question and have marveled at how tight the actual lane is relative to the peak of the bridge. More buoys? I dunno - rather just don't go through in poor weather?

@@Prototheria Did you know that airbags were invented to replace seat belts? The ironic thing about seatbelts is they weren't super helpful until airbags, it completely depended on the type of accident you had, more severe accidents still greatly resulted in death. When airbags were first being tested, they used seatbelts to hold the dummies in. To their surprise, because of a result of not testing the technology without the use of seatbelts, when the public started using air bags, people who weren't wearing seatbelts were instantly dying in low speed crashes because of airbags. This caused quite a new problem, which the car companies reacted by starting a big campaign and putting warnings out to wear a seatbelt at all times with an airbag which eventually came into law years later. The real safety miracle though was when they finally made collapsible steering columns. Those things brutally killed a lot of people regardless of any other safety measure, seriously don't look up the old pictures of accidents before these existed. They were horrible in even just simple low speed collisions.

@@BillyOatmeal I was aware of some of that, but not all. Thank you for sharing!

@@BillyOatmeal Crushed chests from steering columns. I haven't heard that mentioned since the 80's! Not just crushed bones, impalement, also. Yet another reason to wear your seatbelt, and one that is not often mentioned.✌😸

Same here. 😢😢

As a Marylander, I had the same thought for how the Tasman Bridge collapsed in 1975. Both tragedies, the Skybridge and Tasman, have similar elements for what likely happened in Baltimore.

Same

I immediately thought about Sunshine Skyway when I heard about the Key Scott bridge

I think most followers of this channel had the same thought. It was certainly the first thing that raced through my mind when I saw it this morning. It feels odd to say, but it's unfortunate that we'll have more content.

Thanks so much for the thoughtful comment. As a rec sailor I've only been involved in one serious collision. It was absolutely a result of poor choices by the captain. It was his boat, he'd done more offshore sailing than me, but in fact, I had better training and i didn't realize it. I deferred to his judgment in a dangerous situation - sudden, thick fog reducing vis to maybe 150ft, and going down to 30 ft or less, sometimes losing the bow from the cockpit on a 43' vessel. He was brilliant - a PhD in economics from Stanford. He was "salty" AF most of the time. But he didn't have a proper approach to seamanship in this situation. Nobody was hurt in the collision and neither boat sank. But what I came away with was how even the sharpest people could not operate well in an emergency situation without preparation. It was the decisions he made 15 mins before the collision that made it happen. I'd been on watch and had suggested we drop sail and was thinking of changing course due to the dozen or so contacts strewn out before us on radar. We were on Long Island sound maybe 10 miles off of Newport, 20 mins earlier it had been sunny with a great breeze, we were flying the gennaker in a light breeze downwind. it was amazing how quickly it all changed. I think he was so used to being casual about stuff as a cruiser that he just didn't adjust his mindset. As crew, I told him "I'll post a good watch" and proceeded to intently scour the water ahead for any vessel. Looking back now, I should have been more direct and aggressive in challenging him. With that low vis and that many contacts on radar? 6kts knots under sail was crazy. Consider he did this while having radar. I pointed out the contacts to him and he dismissed my concern. I should have said, "Nope, I'm dropping the headsail and you should drop the main, and fire up the engine". The problem for me was that I couldn't stand watch and watch the radar. That is perhaps the other thing I could have done differently. Maybe if I'd worked the radar and tracked the contacts and made it obvious the risk we were in he would have listened. When the contact we collided with came into view we could have avoided it. I did what I'd done on race boats many time - 'called' whether we could pass the other boat safely on current course or if we needed to tack quickly. On a raceboat there is one person responsible for this. You scream at the helmsman one word only "left" or "right". You don't even use port or starboard. They are to immediately turn as hard as possible in the direction told to avoid a collision. You have many such situations when racing and it's not that hard to judge it actually. We could have avoided the collision but instead the skipper froze. I'm screaming "left, left, go left, now, turn left, left, left, left" and he's vapor-locked. Then adjusts too late and then turns back into them. it was so stupid, and I could do nothing but watch the last 10-15 seconds unfold. It was a 30,000 lb boat, it wasn't that nimble so in the end i was counting down 5-4-3-2-1 as they crashed into us. I think one of the things that is deceptive to people as that in a boat these collisions happen in slow motion compared to say a car or plane crash. The energy and mass differentials are not obvious. We lost one shroud and for a moment I thought the 60ft, 2k lb mast and rig were going to come down on our heads. Turned out to just be an expensive sailing lesson in the end, on someone else's dime, hehe. Two takeaways for me. If I think a situation is dangerous I need to push back hard at a captain. Second? Posting a watch during deep fog instead of manning the radar was probably not the best choice. It was decent radar, i could have reduced the range and gotten much more detailed tracks on any vessels of concern. As for this situation, I have a lot of empathy for the pilot. Seems to me that this was super bad luck. The weather forecast, the bad sighting of the buoy, and then this massive cell coming at the absolutely worst moment - I didn't see any single decision he made as wrong or dangerous. It also seemed like such quickly developing situation that I'm not sure how he was supposed to react? When he loses visibility, what do people expect? He's got to maintain 6kts for steerage way, and in that kind of wind, a bit more than that to maintain a course and fight the leeway. Could he have stopped safely in that shipping channel? Could he have turned 180 degrees and navigated back out? I'm curious what folks think he should have done differently. One of the most telling aspects for me is that the master didn't feel alarmed enough to override the pilot. This is spun in the vid a bit, as though he's at fault cuz he didn't override the pilot. No, that's the wrong way to see it. He didn't override the pilot cuz it was not clear what to do and what the pilot was doing was reasonable. The ultimate cause of this is an absurd placement of a bridge that was destined to result in a freighter collision.

@@glenn2745 What a detailed and thoughtful comment. Thanks for sharing your experiences with boats and what to do when in a situation where you feel someone is taking things in a hazardous direction.

People don't know how to deal with problems anymore. All they can do is scream for blood. Someone's got to pay when something goes wrong, but noone wants to fix it.

Mr Levine That was a great comment.

@Mr Levine.. It's a GREAT point. I believe the driver's license testing should be more rigours and include physics and common sense information. The point you make about long range vision (ahead of us) when we're driving is EXTREMELY important and NOT taught as part of licencing. My 2 bits 🙄

That Cortez Road Drawbridge is soon to be torn down and replaced by a fixed-height span some say is modeled after...the Skyway. Except absent any cables, so not really. Funny to put it that way, but basically every bridge in Florida is compared against the Skyway whether the designers intended or not. So yeah, the Skyway seems to be the flagship of the fleet. I think the Sarasota span is closer to the new Cortez design, but "Skyway" is part of the mental map for many in the area.

HMMMM? the picture didnt turn out. i cant think of anything i would not want to do more than driving over that old metal grate wet in the dark. and when i had to do that i never saw anything except the road strait in front of me and i didnt stop for nothin OOOOOOO!!

The Skyway is no joke, certainly still unnerving for many including myself. My mother was telling me about this the other day, I remember hearing slightly about it growing up but not until now that I’m older do I truly understand how massively tragic this was. My mother also said there was a greyhound bus on the bridge that went into the water that day. Absolutely devastating and terrifying to know people were just driving right off the bridge into the ocean because they didn’t know it was damaged and had collapsed on the other side.

@@mybro727 YEAH IT WAS VERY SAD. BETWEEN THE BRIDGE FALLING AND THE BLACKTHORN COLLISION QUITE A FEW GOOD PEOPLE LOST THERE LIVES. the EVIL BRIDGE AND CHANNEL WERE LIVING UP TO THERE NAMES. SAD!

Been over both the old and new bridges many times. My Aunt lived in Bradenton when the bridge was hit. She lived all over the bay area for years.

@Keith Stevens Who is supposed to have told that story, when no one on the bus survived?

@@Mighty_Ogrelord ignore the troll

Wwle need you for the show. Get over here!

Yeh I remember crossing it before they built the new one. It was a scary ride. Looking out window to the see the west span which seemed close enough you could touch it, come to an end and disappear at the top into thin air. Id think about those people just sailing off not having any idea bridge was out. Very tragic.

congrats on getting in first

After the ntsb report is released

Was gonna say the same thing

Given the two similar tragedies, I wouldn't be one bit surprised to see a nationwide push for bridge pier protection on ALL bridges over navigable waterways, including inland rivers.

BUT could they have seen or heard anything in that squall?

@@williamdaniels6943 You raise an interesting point about any alert system regardless of the conditions. Barring multiple multi-arm "stop points," you're never going to be able to completely defend a bridge from such an event. There's always going to be a segment where a vehicle ends up past a point of no return. You can limit the total number, but not all of them. It is far more prudent to prevent the bridge from being damaged or destroyed in the first place.

@@Alxnick We could do both.

I remember driving over the Skyway Bridge and seeing the damaged sections.

The bridge connecting Port Lisbea (I think) and South Padre Island has warning signal, telling you to stop when the light is on.

I didn't think anything could scare a Tasmanian if simply living in Tasmania didn't!

@@penguinsscareme I have to ask, what would be scary about living in Tasmania? - I've lived here since 1967 - and it is a great place - we have access to everything, and live in the most stable environment on the planet (look it up) - not to mention lifestyle is fantastic. But this is just my opinion of course.

@@penguinsscareme well, apparently penguins scare you, so I'm guessing maybe a lot of things do?

When we drive down to Hobart for medical and shopping, I get uneasy feelings on the Bridge too. I went over it not long before the collapse. Prefer the longer drive around. Know how you feel

If money were less prioritized, I don’t think the pilot would have risked moving into the bay...he could have waited, but time is money, so it wasn’t an option to just call all stop and sit tight foe things to clear up. That money pressure regularly underlies these massive tragedies. We could be more careful, but that costs money, so we aren’t...and we’ve gotten away with it before, so why would anything go wrong now, for me?

Sadly it always seems , a tragedy has to come first and then safety measurements goes place. Like a simple thing of having red light 🚨 warnings and stop 🛑 Lights in case of an accident or even fog where no one can see ahead of them, should have been already in place.

@N Fels ... where did you get the idea the bridge was built cheap and without crash protection? They specifically mentioned crash protection and then said why it didn't work, which is a common problem when the boat was built decades after the bridge was designed.

@N Fels ... The crash protection in place is for smaller boats, as stated in the video.... but it's there. You also have to note that this ship was NOT in the normal shipping lane. This would be the same as a car leaving the road and wondering why proper protection was not in place.

@N Fels ... do I have to spell it out on a first-grade level? What you are saying was in the video and I already said that.

I drove a semi for 13 years. One of the reasons I gave it up was I had developed a fear of bridges over water. It got to the point I was having to force myself to keep moving. I was on the Minneapolis bridge the day before it fell, but my bridge phobia didn't become an issue for several years after.

I have that same fear. In case you aren’t aware, there is a product called life hammer that has a seatbelt cutter and glass break hammer. I’ve never had to use it thankfully but just having it in an accessible place and from a reputable manufacturer makes me feel better as it gives me at least a bit more of a chance. Surviving an accident and then dying from not being able to escape would be a waste terrible way to go. The fact that he was able to pry open the door and escape is extremely unusual in its own right.

@@Alexlfm maybe the benefit of wind down manual windows over electric windows with servos that fail in water.

@@MrSCOTTtheSCOT I thought that too but I looked it up and apparently he claims he forced the door open. The news articles talk of bending the door out of the frame and pushing it open (at least that’s what contemporary reports at the time claimed and is what’s repeated today). Even in “only” 40 feet of water, the truck had to of been almost filled with water all the way to the top for him to have been able to do that. Had to of been terrifying.

@@Alexlfm hell yeah, I freak out when I'm a passenger in a car that drives onto a harbour or alongside a canal, even when I'm driving , my blood pressure goes up. real phobia and for good reason of been in a car entering water. The whole scenario of this collision and bridge collapse reading about this tragedy gives me palpitations, the will to survive in that guy, so glad when he surfaced they were there to get him out.

Dude. I’m so glad you weren’t there. Idk you but I feel sick to my stomach right now hearing this story

My father had just crossed as well, very lucky as well.

Did you notice what happened to it or did you find out later?

Why you move so many times? Nobody lives in Tampa, only seniors in Florida, time to move back now?

I couldn’t do it. I went the long way if I had to go south.

it was always sinister riding over that old span.

We drove up from Clewiston to purchase a car in the area and crossed in fog Northbound, it was erie to say the least. For the return trip with the car we chose to go the long way around lol. I just remember the fog blocking out everything so all you saw was the remaining span we were driving on and then all of a sudden the open end of the west span appeard through the fog from nothingness. it was spooky as hell lol.

@@myjunkisstuffgarage967 yeah, and this sort of weather was part of the problem. Ships sometimes couldn't see the bridge. The guy who was trying to guide them through the gap... was moving slowly and carefully. But he was dealing with a full blackout where he couldn't see anything at all.

Yeah, I was down there one evening on the south fishing pier and an enormous cloud of sea fog rolled in, in daylight. It completely covered the bridge and made me think about the disaster, even though I wasn't alive then. Amongst all of that I was even hearing fog horns go off in the distance, which was a little chilling. Hell, even recently being down there a summertime thunderstorm rolled into the bay and even though the bridge now has thousands of LED lights illuminating the deck, at one point I couldn't even see it through the rain. I imagine that's what those pilots had to deal with on that fateful morning.

I first thought about the cable car accident that happened in my home country but then thought about this accident.

The new bridge has even steeper approaches. Not by much but steeper.

@@matthewscott5977 Just checked it out. Looks crazy steep for such a long bridge.

Reminds me of the Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia. It’s excitingly steep, allows ships to pass, replaced a ferry, and was duplicated. Still standing though.

I have lived within 15 minunites of the Skyway bridge all my life. From a young boy to a old man I still get the "Heebie Jeebies" going over that bridge. I still remember where I was and what I was doing on that day. Actually the the front that caused the nasty weather started on the 8th of May. I spent all that day pulling flooded cars (taxis cabs) out of flooded streets. Punching holes in floor plans to drain the water and using CRC to dry out the ignitions so they would start. Yep, remember it like it was yesterday.

The new bridge is pretty steep as well. I remember going over the old bridge when i was a kid. On our road trips my parents used to try to get us to go to sleep before going over it because it was so narrow and steep. It never really worked though because of the metal grating would be really loud when driving over it. Anyway, us kids were terrified to go over it.

I get the creeps sitting in traffic on the spot where Air Florida 90 hit the 14th Street Bridge in DC. But, I calm myself by thinking that it is pretty unlikely that it would happen *twice.*

I am with your mom - no thank you!

Anyplace where sudden and tragic death has occurred, some of those who passed may still be energetically trapped to the scene. So yes, it likely is haunted. Certainly the cumulative energy of the tragedy is still there.

They had some. However the ship lost steerage (ie couldn't maneuver,) and took the protective pier out too.

@@KibuFox They really didn't. Look at an aerial photo of the dolphins protecting the Sunshine Skyway Bridge piers in Tampa. They are massive structures meant to at least keep the span intact. The FSK bridge piers were elegant, thin, delicate structures with almost no pier protection. Apparently, we never learn. EDIT: I just watched the NTSB B-roll footage. The piers had almost ZERO dolphin protection. I also noted a power line crossing adjacent to the bridge had MAJOR protection for its pylons, despite being a FAR less important crossing. Shameful.

Personally I've never understood that motto, it doesn't make sense for any situation I can think of, it basically suggests that unless something is completely broken you shouldn't try to fix it even if it showed signs of breaking or need of repair beforehand, which doesn't work at all irl

@@lollmaoidc8804 Definitely why there is so much crap software out there. Once it is kind of working, or in my field, you’ve cobbled together a prototype of the solution, managers won’t let you go back and fix it. I once complained that the current setup was like a cardboard box taped to a roller skate coasting down the highway. They told that maybe we could fix it if we got enough complaints or it stopped working all together

@@lisapt6702 Indeed… I’m a dev as well and I’m currently haven’t to refactor code that has been “working” for almost 10 years because of complaints of mysterious connection issues. The most problematic code was contributed by a contractor who was well outside his area of expertise

It comes mainly from things you need now, or have to be in working order at the moment. Someone touches something or tries to "fix it" that puts the whole machine out, when it could have waited for better timing. It doesn't apply to everything in all cases. Another one is, "you'll open up a bee's nest" which I've seen mostly in home remodeling.

@@lollmaoidc8804 mostly i find it relates to some machines that are running fine ans doing their job

Lotta Tampa natives have this on our mind after what happened in Baltimore, including this one.

Me 💯🫶🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Im here today🫡

It'll be a while, he waits until the NTSB releases their findings and that can take years.

Well said

i think it was a loss of power and thus control. before it hit the lights turned on and off multiple times.

The ship's lights go out about a minute and a half before the collapse implying a power failure.

Came here just for this. Being from Baltimore

From the footage, it looks like the ship lost power as it was approaching the bridge.

Im in awe that this happened a few years ago and then in Baltimore, why didnt they learn from Florida and put actions into place so this would never happen again. Dumb founded😢

Why would he feel guilt?

@@PointNemo9 From an article in Psychology Today: "survivor’s guilt begins with an endless loop of counterfactual thoughts that you could have or should have done otherwise, though in fact you did nothing wrong....There are also other factors that could predispose someone to survivor’s guilt. For example, Alan Siegel (2005) did research on the dreams of firestorm survivors, which offered revealing results. He found that those who were victims of childhood trauma were even more susceptible to dreams about death and that all healthy defenses are weakened by trauma. Unresolved past losses often become emotional Achilles heels or vulnerable areas that affect a survivor’s ability to cope."

@@PointNemo9 You're asking a rational question about an irrational thought process. There would be no reason to feel survivors guilt only that he did.

@@glennrishton5679 His survival did not come at the expense of anyone else.

@@PointNemo9 And that is exactly why your rational question was about an irrational thought process. Because there was no reason to feel guilty since he neither contributed to the disaster nor failed to help . Therefore survivors guilt was irrational.

It'll probably take a while before he covers it, man has impeccable detail in these vids. Can't wait to see it though

@@hughwilliam4039I agree. He would definitely wait for the all the details to come out and I’m sure it takes a lot of time to make a video

I felt a little weird when "can't wait to see the Brick Immortar video on the Key Bridge in a few years" was one of my first thoughts after hearing about it.

With how long NTSB invesigations take, it'll probably be a while till Brick makes a video. As far as i can tell he likes waiting for NTSB reports whenever applicable.

It is really chilling to hear the actual naval communications.