{"id":640067,"date":"2024-03-30T10:14:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T04:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=640067"},"modified":"2024-03-30T11:31:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T06:01:44","slug":"baltimore-bridge-collapse-puts-specialised-role-of-pilot-under-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/baltimore-bridge-collapse-puts-specialised-role-of-pilot-under-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore bridge collapse puts specialised role of pilot under spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The expert pilots who navigate massive ships in and out of Baltimore&#8217;s port must often manoeuvre with just two feet of clearance from the channel floor and memorise charts, currents and every other possible maritime variable. <\/p>\n<p>The highly specialised role &#8212; in which a pilot temporarily takes control of a ship from its regular captain &#8212; is coming under the spotlight this week. <\/p>\n<p>Two pilots were at the helm of the cargo ship Dali about 1.25 am Tuesday when it lost power and, minutes later, crashed into a pillar of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing the bridge to collapse and kill six construction workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The expert pilots who navigate massive ships in and out of Baltimore&#8217;s port must often manoeuvre with just two feet of clearance from the channel floor and memorise charts, currents and every other possible maritime variable. The highly specialised role &#8212; in which a pilot temporarily takes control of a ship from its regular captain &#8212; is coming under the spotlight this week. Two pilots were at the helm of the cargo ship Dali about 1.25 am Tuesday when it lost power and, minutes later, crashed into a pillar of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing the bridge to collapse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}