Key Bridge struck

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by BigElCat

I was razzin' Dondi about his Pro-communist stance. Of course there will be a rational reconstruction of the Key Bridge.

There's something bizarre about the accident, though.

The Dali lost all electrical power for about 30 seconds, but the diesel engine kept running. The crew reports that the computers went out, everything electrical went out, and then came back on. The ship has a multitude of electrical systems, they don't all fail at the same time.

I don't know if they had any emergency lighting, but now they're saying the 'black box' stopped recording during that time. It's designed to keep recording, even without external power.

There only one thing that can cause that; EMP. And the EMP did not effect the lights on the bridge, or the vehicles on the bridge.

I'm guessing, and of course it's only guessing, that a "perfect storm" of a combination of events that caused this.
I also wonder if they incorporate some sort of active system to warn if ships are straying out of the channel?