How Safe Are Our Bay Area Waterways?

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🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Traveling across one of the bay’s many bridges, it’s normal to see a massive container ship heading to port or back out to sea. The recent crash of a cargo vessel into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key bridge, an accident which killed six people and spilled thousands of gallons of oil, might lead you to ask: could that happen here? For example, in 2007, a container ship hit a Bay Bridge tower, which spurred the adaptation of improved safety systems. We’ll talk to maritime experts about our waterways and the safety protocols we have in place to prevent and react to disasters. Guests: Scott Humphrey, executive director of the Marine Exchange San Francisco Bay Area Region; chairman of the San Francisco Harbor Safety Committee Captain Taylor Lam, captain of the Port for Northern California, US Coast Guard Tony Munoz, publisher and editor in chief of The Maritime Executive Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:10.5	Music From KQED. From KQED. From KQED, A modern cargo ship is one of the largest things you're
1:29.1	likely to ever see move. You're talking about a vessel that requires an engine with 80 or 100,000
1:35.9	horsepower. Assisted by tugboats and specialized pilots, these massive ships navigate crowded
1:42.7	waters filled with little boats and, of course, human infrastructure,
1:46.7	like Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge, which collapsed after a container ship hit it last week.
1:52.2	We asked today, could that happen here?
1:54.4	What processes and precautions are in place to prevent such a disaster at the Golden Gate or anywhere else in the Bay.
2:01.5	That's all coming up next, after this news.
2:13.2	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.
2:15.9	The maritime world that we're going to dive into today is
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