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Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses.
Yes, and who owned Dali then, and who was the local pilot, and who was her captain in 2016? To allow her to dock, or leave port, the Port Authority in Baltimore requires maritime insurance. Insurance will pay for the bridge and salvage, pay for the ship and cargo. How much and who has to...- Briar Lee
- Post #113
- Forum: General Discussion
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Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses.
The territorial jurisdiction of the USA ends at 12 miles, and it’s 200 miles for an exclusive economic zone. But can you imagine if the mayor of Baltimore could send a city cop out there and arrest the captain of the Dali? Or if some bottom feeding billboard advertising lawyers could run to a...- Briar Lee
- Post #112
- Forum: General Discussion
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Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses.
She’s in international waters inside the state of Maryland. The bridge has caused her bow section to rest on the bottom. Her hull is sound, but she’s well anchored.:) The first thing they’ll do is get her cargo off, which the terminal is right there, to unload her. A 100,000 ton ship has...- Briar Lee
- Post #109
- Forum: General Discussion
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Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses.
It just floors me, to see the United States as not only the largest oil and gas producer on the earth, but we export more oil and gas than we use. Top 5 U.S. Exports As the second-largest exporter in the world—outranked only by China—total U.S. exports for 2023 climbed to $3.1 trillion, a new...- Briar Lee
- Post #106
- Forum: General Discussion
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Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) announced a tentative timeline to open a limited access channel that would restore safe navigation in and out of the Port of Baltimore after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed, blocking the vital waterway. The USACE said it plans to open a...- Briar Lee
- Post #105
- Forum: General Discussion
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Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses.
Why opening the channel is the foremost goal: Rotterdam is a major seaport in the Netherlands. The entire economic output of all the nation of the Netherlands is about one trillion dollars, and the people there are prosperous. But just exports, alone, nothing else, the USA exports three...- Briar Lee
- Post #102
- Forum: General Discussion
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Watch Out or Watch on? Pt 2.
To show I don’t always buy the Four Aces Red grade Chinese homage watches, about twenty years ago I asked my watchmaker what watch he wore outside of the shop (he sold railroad approved Seiko Quartz watches). He opened a drawer and showed me the most beautiful little watch I’d ever seen, a...- Briar Lee
- Post #687
- Forum: General Discussion
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Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses.
The order of salvage is first restoring shipping channels, then moving the Dali, and then they’ll put the bridge back up: Xxxx More than one week on from the disaster, two temporary channels have now been opened in the river, allowing the passage of some deeper vessels in and out of the port...- Briar Lee
- Post #101
- Forum: General Discussion
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Watch Out or Watch on? Pt 2.
I stand corrected! My Nautilus homage came, and the hands were loose. The seller refunded my money. Try getting $27,500 back if you ain’t happy.:)- Briar Lee
- Post #682
- Forum: General Discussion
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Watch Out or Watch on? Pt 2.
Evidently their sales office at least is Missouri based (likely in St Louis) and they make wooden watches. https://www.bobobird.com/ St Louis has an international trade zone https://ded.mo.gov/international-trade/resources Bobobird charges sales tax when shipped to a Missouri address but...- Briar Lee
- Post #677
- Forum: General Discussion
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Benchmade Means a Marxman
The cheaper Marxman pipes were the Morocco, Select Grain, and Dunsboro at $2.50. A Mel-o was $3.50. Any of those, plus a $5-10 Super Grain, could be ordered in choice of shapes. They were machine fraised. At $5 you got a Benchmade. Each one was individually made on a bench, and the carver... -
Benchmade Means a Marxman
I saw that too. It’s not deep, if it’s a crack, and it’s been banged upside down on an astray most likely Lookie at the brown bowl in the bottom. That briar is about as soft as butter. A file will dress that right up, if if needs a file. A sharp pocketknife might work. Underneath the... -
Benchmade Means a Marxman
I just bought this Marxman Benchmade grade A size for $20 delivered, likely because the seller didn’t realize a Benchmade was a pre 54 Marxman. It looks to be that one is barely smoked, and should clean up to new in less than ten minutes. One of the best ways to judge condition on a Marxman... -
Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses.
Baltimore will ship mostly to Europe and the Middle East and West Coast ports mostly to Asia. The USA is the second largest exporter in the world, after China. 1/10 of our economy is exports. Three T-Trillion a year. I didn’t know that. A bridge falls down and the entire world knows it...- Briar Lee
- Post #100
- Forum: General Discussion
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Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses.
The most relevant recent comparison is the August 1 2007 collapse of the I-35 Mississippi River bridge in Minnesota. It also spanned about a quarter mile, but that bridge carried about five times the daily traffic the Key bridge did. It’s easier to span a river than a tidal estuary and the...- Briar Lee
- Post #98
- Forum: General Discussion
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Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses.
The cost of rebuilding the bridge is just minuscule compared with the loss of the 17th largest port in the USA. Last year the port handled 74 B-Billion dollars of cargo. The Dali and her cargo alone would build a good sized bridge. And there are a lot more container ships unable to leave...- Briar Lee
- Post #93
- Forum: General Discussion
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Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses.
Complicating the problem is that it’s a tidal estuary and whatever you sink has to be fifty to sixty some feet under flowing river water with a tide. Sheeesch! And there is a big water and natural gas pipeline down there on the bottom somewhere. The good news (if there is any) is that all the...- Briar Lee
- Post #87
- Forum: General Discussion
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Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses.
Heavy crane and lift ships are on the way to get the remains of the bridge off the Dali, and clear her so the channel can be reopened. https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/heavy-lift.htm BALTIMORE (AP) — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore warned Thursday of a “very long road ahead” to...- Briar Lee
- Post #86
- Forum: General Discussion
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Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses.
When you look up and see a big jet up five miles high, that new jet costs 100 million to 400 million dollars, list price. Buy a fleet and they give you a discount.:) Those huge container ships start at 100 million dollars, too. But the container ships, might carry well over 100 million...- Briar Lee
- Post #82
- Forum: General Discussion
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Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses.
At the Lake of the Ozarks, when a boat gets over about thirty feet long they generally have two engines and two propellers. I was out once in a friend’s 36 foot Chris Craft Constellation and he lost his starboard engine and we still had a good time cruising back to the dock. Today, there are...- Briar Lee
- Post #80
- Forum: General Discussion