[HN Gopher] Contact of Containership Dali with the Key Bridge an...
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       Contact of Containership Dali with the Key Bridge and Subsequent
       Bridge Collapse [pdf]
        
       Author : mhb
       Score  : 45 points
       Date   : 2024-05-14 20:48 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (static01.nyt.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (static01.nyt.com)
        
       | jagged-chisel wrote:
       | Matters of Fact, still investigating. All good info to answer the
       | public's curiosity.
        
       | krisoft wrote:
       | It would seem the real mystery is why did the breakers open.
       | 
       | I have watched a youtube video where a knowledgeable chief
       | engineer who works on comparable ships was very dismissive of the
       | idea that it might be a cyber attack.[1] He was mainly reasoning
       | that the on-board equipment is air gapped from the internet.
       | Which of course it makes an attack more complicated but it is not
       | like the airgap saved the centrifuges in Natanz.
       | 
       | That being said it also does not say that it was a cyber attack.
       | Could be any number of ordinary malfunctions. But i don't see
       | that the publicly available evidence would exclude the
       | possibility of a cyber attack as of yet. It would be very
       | different if they would have found a damaged shaft in the
       | generator, or a clogged fuel filter. Something hardware-ish.
       | 
       | 1: https://youtu.be/9B9znFDwdBI?si=aFSoqVsmrTaaQofY
        
         | cirrus3 wrote:
         | I don't see that the publicly available evidence would exclude
         | the possibility of aliens causing the breakers to open either.
        
           | krisoft wrote:
           | We don't see any UFO on the videos and there are no reports
           | about little grey ones on-board. Seems pretty much exluded by
           | the evidence that they tripped the breakers in person if you
           | ask me. Did they do it remotely or in a delayed manner? I
           | think that leads back to my question.
        
             | daghamm wrote:
             | You are ignoring the existence of underwater UFOs (UUOs).
             | 
             | Those are in fact the real UFOs and the Congress have been
             | misleading the public for decades by having everyone chase
             | some made up flying sausage in the sky, as if we are small
             | children. Just the fact that they created the hoax around
             | Area 51, in the middle of a dessert and far from any water
             | should have told you all you need to know. And don't get me
             | started on the 1961 fiasco in Bay of Pigs where CIA failed
             | to capture the damaged UUO that had floated to land.
             | 
             | But if we just for a minute step away from the obvious
             | connection between JFK Jr, aliens and the Illuminati...
             | have you ever considered that training LLMs on public forum
             | comments is a bad idea?
        
           | toast0 wrote:
           | Probably time travelers. Most likely to prevent transport of
           | a specific item or person over the bridge at a future date.
        
             | magicalhippo wrote:
             | Or just thrill seekers[1].
             | 
             | [1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0204686/
        
             | worstspotgain wrote:
             | We can't exclude midi-chlorians either, 5/4 was coming up.
        
         | kornhole wrote:
         | Breakers are usually tripped when too much power is used.
         | Because the ship was traveling slowly in the harbor using lower
         | power, we need to understand other reasons why a breaker would
         | open.
        
           | toomuchtodo wrote:
           | Failing breakers commonly trip below current limits.
           | Hopefully they will comprehensively test the circuit path and
           | its components in scope. Someone will have to explain why
           | they weren't replaced prior to failure if root cause.
        
         | jameshart wrote:
         | 'Airgapped from the internet' is very much the default state of
         | technology on a ship. Connecting things to the internet seems
         | like something that would require additional steps.
        
         | bagels wrote:
         | The fact that they had two explained power failures in port,
         | and they made some changes to the configuration point to more
         | likely causes: they made some faulty reconfiguration or the
         | previously dormant breakers were faulty.
        
         | whimsicalism wrote:
         | i will be counterparty to anyone who wants to bet this was due
         | to cyberattack at 10:1 odds if you find an agreeable escrow
        
           | krisoft wrote:
           | Saying "we do not know if it was a cyberatack or not" is not
           | the same thing as saying "i think it was a cyberatack".
        
             | whimsicalism wrote:
             | i feel that i do know it wasn't a cyberattack, which is why
             | i am confident taking such odds.
        
           | worstspotgain wrote:
           | As is often the case these days, the probability that it was
           | an attack is much higher than the conditional probability
           | that it would ever be publicly proven to be if so. The target
           | wouldn't want it disclosed any more than the attacker.
           | 
           | 100:1 and you will find takers, though.
        
       | usernamed7 wrote:
       | wow i had no idea they had some much generation and distribution
       | going on. That's a lot of power they're moving. That's a lot of
       | things that can go wrong. Even with all the backups, complex
       | systems are complex, and there's obviously a gap in redundancy.
       | Still, better a system failure than a human one.
       | 
       | It was interesting that on the video you can see the ship
       | lose/regain/lose power, and now it makes sense.
        
       | troydavis wrote:
       | The company that acted as salvor, Resolve Marine, publishes
       | detailed explanations of past ship salvage projects:
       | https://resolvemarine.com/services-capabilities/salvage-wrec...
        
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