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Narrative Analysis - Report

Key Focus

While none of them were hurt, they would be held on board for more than a day as the ship sat in the harbor, the ruins of the bridge tangled around it, as authorities began their investigation.. . The accident, the deadliest bridge collapse in the United States in more than a decade, will have a lasting impact on the Port of Baltimore, with its 8,000 workers, and industries that rely on the port, which is the leading American hub for auto and other wheeled equipment, said Pete Buttigieg, the U.S ...

"A hundred thousand tons, all going into this pier all at once," he said of the impact on the bridge support structure.. . Officials from the National Transportation Safety Board, which is leading the investigation into the accident, boarded the Dali on Tuesday night to gather documentation. ...

"You might want to notify whoever the foreman is, see if we could get them off the bridge temporarily.". . But even then, the ship was striking the bridge. Almost at once, the pier buckled and collapsed, twisting over the ship, with its cargo containers stacked high on the deck ...

Momentum supporting factors

Challenge supporting factors

(dali,transportation)

(dali,sri_lanka)

(dali,police)

(dali,mayday)

(key_bridge,bay_bridge)

Work-in-progress supporting factors

(bridge,pier)

(bridge,investigation)

(bridge,dali)

(bridge,phone)

(bridge,workers,phone)

(bridge,collapse,drive)

(bridge,workers,drive)

(bridge,workers,company)

(bridge,workers,collapse)

(bridge,workers,brawner_builders)

(bridge,collapse,investigation)

(bridge,collapse,united_states)

(bridge,united_states)

(bridge,collapse,ruins)

(bridge,ruins)

Time Period	Challenge	Momentum	WIP
Report	5.33	3.55	91.13

High Level Abstraction (HLA) combined

High Level Abstraction (HLA)	Report
(1) (bridge,pier)	100.00
(2) (bridge,investigation)	90.58
(3) (bridge,dali)	88.48
(4) (bridge,phone)	61.78
(5) (bridge,workers,phone)	60.21
(6) (bridge,collapse,drive)	59.16
(7) (bridge,workers,drive)	56.02
(8) (bridge,workers,company)	55.50
(9) (bridge,workers,collapse)	51.83
(10) (bridge,workers,brawner_builders)	50.79
(11) (bridge,collapse,investigation)	48.17
(12) (bridge,collapse,united_states)	40.84
(13) (bridge,united_states)	39.79
(14) (bridge,collapse,ruins)	37.17
(15) (bridge,ruins)	35.60
(16) (bridge,collapse,phone)	33.51
(17) (bridge,collapse,company)	31.41
(18) (port,key_bridge)	30.89
(19) (bridge,collapse,brawner_builders)	27.75
(20) (dali,investigation)	26.70
(21) (dali,disaster)	24.61
(22) (bridge,collapse,authorities)	23.04
(23) (bridge,tugboats)	18.85
(24) (bridge,toll_facilities_administration)	18.32
(25) (bridge,national_transportation_safety_board)	17.80
(26) (port,sri_lanka)	17.28
(27) (port,south_africa)	16.75
(28) (port,red_sea)	16.23
(29) (dali,port)	16.23
(30) (port,houthi)	14.66
(31) (port,attacks)	14.14
(32) (dali,national_transportation_safety_board)	13.09
(33) (dali,voyage)	11.52
(34) (dali,transportation)	10.99
(35) (dali,terse)	10.47
(36) (dali,sri_lanka)	9.95
(37) (dali,ruins)	9.42
(38) (dali,recorder)	8.90
(39) (dali,police)	7.33
(40) (key_bridge,national_transportation_safety_board)	5.76
(41) (dali,mayday)	5.24
(42) (key_bridge,tugboats)	4.71
(43) (key_bridge,toll_facilities_administration)	4.19
(44) (key_bridge,john_snyder)	3.66
(45) (key_bridge,engine)	3.14
(46) (key_bridge,director)	2.62
(47) (key_bridge,dali)	2.09
(48) (key_bridge,bay_bridge)	1.57
(49) (key_bridge,baltimore_sun)	1.05
(50) (key_bridge,audible)	0.52

Supporting narratives:

Please refer to knowledge diagram for a complete set of supporting narratives.

momentum - Back to HLA

"Hold all traffic on the Key Bridge.". . The terse command from an officer in Baltimore's busy commercial shipping port was one of the first warnings of a disaster that experts now predict will transform shipping on the Eastern Seaboard and change how ships and bridges function around the world ...
High Level Abstractions:

(port,key_bridge)

momentum - Back to HLA

The terse command from an officer in Baltimore's busy commercial shipping port was one of the first warnings of a disaster that experts now predict will transform shipping on the Eastern Seaboard and change how ships and bridges function around the world ...
High Level Abstractions:

(dali,disaster)
(dali,port)
(dali,terse)

challenge - Back to HLA

But after the cargo ship Dali lost power early Tuesday, there were precious few minutes to act.. . In those minutes, many people - from the ship's crew, who sent out a mayday signal, to the transportation authority police officers, who stopped traffic heading onto the Francis Scott Key Bridge - did what they could to avert catastrophe, most likely saving many lives ...
High Level Abstractions:

(dali,transportation)
(dali,mayday)

challenge - Back to HLA

Also caught up in the disaster were the ship's 21 crew members, all from India, who had prepared for a long journey to Sri Lanka on the Dali. While none of them were hurt, they would be held on board for more than a day as the ship sat in the harbor, the ruins of the bridge tangled around it, as authorities began their investigation ...
High Level Abstractions:

(dali,sri_lanka)

challenge - Back to HLA

In those minutes, many people - from the ship's crew, who sent out a mayday signal, to the transportation authority police officers, who stopped traffic heading onto the Francis Scott Key Bridge - did what they could to avert catastrophe, most likely saving many lives ...
High Level Abstractions:

(dali,police)

challenge - Back to HLA

Officials acknowledged that the Key Bridge would not be able to withstand that kind of direct hit from a heavy cargo vessel. "I would have to say if that ship hit the Bay Bridge or the Key Bridge - I'm talking about the main supports, a direct hit - it would knock it down," John Snyder, the director of engineering for the state Toll Facilities Administration told the Baltimore Sun at the time ...
High Level Abstractions:

(key_bridge,bay_bridge)

WIP - Back to HLA

The others could not be found.. . Jack Murphy, who owns Brawner Builders, the company whose workers had been on the bridge, got a phone call about the collapse and raced to the area, about a 30-minute drive away. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(bridge,workers,phone)
(bridge,phone)
Inferred entity relationships (2)
(bridge,phone,workers) [inferred]
(bridge,phone) [inferred]

WIP - Back to HLA

Jack Murphy, who owns Brawner Builders, the company whose workers had been on the bridge, got a phone call about the collapse and raced to the area, about a 30-minute drive away. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(bridge,workers,drive)
(bridge,collapse,drive)
(bridge,workers,collapse)
(bridge,collapse,phone)
Inferred entity relationships (7)
(bridge,collapse,drive) [inferred]
(bridge,collapse,investigation) [inferred]
(bridge,collapse,united_states) [inferred]
(bridge,collapse,ruins) [inferred]
(bridge,collapse,phone) [inferred]
(bridge,collapse,workers) [inferred]
(bridge,collapse,company) [inferred]

WIP - Back to HLA

Two of the workers who had been on the bridge were rescued from the water. The others could not be found.. . Jack Murphy, who owns Brawner Builders, the company whose workers had been on the bridge, got a phone call about the collapse and raced to the area, about a 30-minute drive away ...
High Level Abstractions:

(bridge,workers,company)
(bridge,workers,brawner_builders)
Inferred entity relationships (1)
(brawner_builders,bridge,collapse) [inferred]

WIP - Back to HLA

"A hundred thousand tons, all going into this pier all at once," he said of the impact on the bridge support structure.. . Officials from the National Transportation Safety Board, which is leading the investigation into the accident, boarded the Dali on Tuesday night to gather documentation ...
High Level Abstractions:

(bridge,pier)
(bridge,national_transportation_safety_board)

WIP - Back to HLA

"You might want to notify whoever the foreman is, see if we could get them off the bridge temporarily.". . But even then, the ship was striking the bridge. Almost at once, the pier buckled and collapsed, twisting over the ship, with its cargo containers stacked high on the deck ...
High Level Abstractions:

(bridge,pier)

WIP - Back to HLA

While none of them were hurt, they would be held on board for more than a day as the ship sat in the harbor, the ruins of the bridge tangled around it, as authorities began their investigation.. . The accident, the deadliest bridge collapse in the United States in more than a decade, will have a lasting impact on the Port of Baltimore, with its 8,000 workers, and industries that rely on the port, which is the leading American hub for auto and other wheeled equipment, said Pete Buttigieg, the U.S ...
High Level Abstractions:

(bridge,collapse,investigation)
(bridge,collapse,united_states)
(bridge,ruins)
(bridge,investigation)
(bridge,united_states)
(bridge,collapse,authorities)
(bridge,collapse,ruins)
Inferred entity relationships (7)
(bridge,collapse,drive) [inferred]
(bridge,collapse,united_states) [inferred]
(bridge,collapse,investigation) [inferred]
(bridge,collapse,ruins) [inferred]
(bridge,collapse,workers) [inferred]
(bridge,collapse,phone) [inferred]
(bridge,collapse,company) [inferred]

WIP - Back to HLA

"A hundred thousand tons, all going into this pier all at once," he said of the impact on the bridge support structure.. . Officials from the National Transportation Safety Board, which is leading the investigation into the accident, boarded the Dali on Tuesday night to gather documentation. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(bridge,investigation)

WIP - Back to HLA

Officials from the National Transportation Safety Board, which is leading the investigation into the accident, boarded the Dali on Tuesday night to gather documentation. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(bridge,dali)

WIP - Back to HLA

A much smaller freighter did hit the bridge in 1980, but the bridge stood strong.. . Minutes after the bridge collapsed on Tuesday, both tugboats that had accompanied the Dali arrived on scene, followed soon by the Coast Guard and the Baltimore City Fire Department. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(bridge,dali)

WIP - Back to HLA

Jack Murphy, who owns Brawner Builders, the company whose workers had been on the bridge, got a phone call about the collapse and raced to the area, about a 30-minute drive away ...
High Level Abstractions:

(bridge,collapse,company)
(bridge,collapse,brawner_builders)
Inferred entity relationships (8)
(bridge,collapse,drive) [inferred]
(bridge,collapse,investigation) [inferred]
(bridge,collapse,united_states) [inferred]
(bridge,collapse,ruins) [inferred]
(bridge,collapse,phone) [inferred]
(bridge,collapse,workers) [inferred]
(brawner_builders,bridge,workers) [inferred]
(bridge,collapse,company) [inferred]

WIP - Back to HLA

A much smaller freighter did hit the bridge in 1980, but the bridge stood strong.. . Minutes after the bridge collapsed on Tuesday, both tugboats that had accompanied the Dali arrived on scene, followed soon by the Coast Guard and the Baltimore City Fire Department ...
High Level Abstractions:

(bridge,tugboats)

WIP - Back to HLA

"I would have to say if that ship hit the Bay Bridge or the Key Bridge - I'm talking about the main supports, a direct hit - it would knock it down," John Snyder, the director of engineering for the state Toll Facilities Administration told the Baltimore Sun at the time.. . But building a bridge that could withstand such an impact was simply not economically feasible, he said ...
High Level Abstractions:

(bridge,toll_facilities_administration)

WIP - Back to HLA

. He recalled the captain telling him their next port was Sri Lanka, but that they were taking a longer route, down around South Africa, in order to avoid recent Houthi attacks on cargo ships in the Red Sea ...
High Level Abstractions:

(port,sri_lanka)

WIP - Back to HLA

He recalled the captain telling him their next port was Sri Lanka, but that they were taking a longer route, down around South Africa, in order to avoid recent Houthi attacks on cargo ships in the Red Sea. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(port,south_africa)
(port,houthi)
(port,attacks)
(port,red_sea)

WIP - Back to HLA

McAvoy said the tragedy would ripple over the port for years.. . Fishing crews always have found their way home following the Key Bridge, he said. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(port,key_bridge)

WIP - Back to HLA

While none of them were hurt, they would be held on board for more than a day as the ship sat in the harbor, the ruins of the bridge tangled around it, as authorities began their investigation. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(dali,ruins)
(dali,investigation)

WIP - Back to HLA

Officials from the National Transportation Safety Board, which is leading the investigation into the accident, boarded the Dali on Tuesday night to gather documentation. They obtained data from the voyage data recorder, the equivalent of an aircraft's black box, hoping that it could help investigators determine what led to the accident ...
High Level Abstractions:

(dali,recorder)
(dali,investigation)
(dali,voyage)

WIP - Back to HLA

Also caught up in the disaster were the ship's 21 crew members, all from India, who had prepared for a long journey to Sri Lanka on the Dali ...
High Level Abstractions:

(dali,disaster)

WIP - Back to HLA

On board was a local harbor pilot with more than 10 years of experience and deep familiarity with Baltimore's port, as well as an apprentice pilot in training. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(dali,port)

WIP - Back to HLA

Officials from the National Transportation Safety Board, which is leading the investigation into the accident, boarded the Dali on Tuesday night to gather documentation ...
High Level Abstractions:

(dali,national_transportation_safety_board)

WIP - Back to HLA

At 1:25 a.m., after the two tugboats detached and turned back, the Dali had accelerated to about 10 miles per hour as it approached the Key Bridge. But just then, according to a timeline released by the National Transportation Safety Board on Wednesday, "numerous audible alarms" started sounding on the ship ...
High Level Abstractions:

(dali,national_transportation_safety_board)
(key_bridge,dali)
(key_bridge,national_transportation_safety_board)

WIP - Back to HLA

At 1:25 a.m., after the two tugboats detached and turned back, the Dali had accelerated to about 10 miles per hour as it approached the Key Bridge ...
High Level Abstractions:

(key_bridge,tugboats)

WIP - Back to HLA

"I would have to say if that ship hit the Bay Bridge or the Key Bridge - I'm talking about the main supports, a direct hit - it would knock it down," John Snyder, the director of engineering for the state Toll Facilities Administration told the Baltimore Sun at the time. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(key_bridge,toll_facilities_administration)
(key_bridge,baltimore_sun)

WIP - Back to HLA

"I would have to say if that ship hit the Bay Bridge or the Key Bridge - I'm talking about the main supports, a direct hit - it would knock it down," John Snyder, the director of engineering for the state Toll Facilities Administration told the Baltimore Sun at the time ...
High Level Abstractions:

(key_bridge,director)
(key_bridge,john_snyder)

WIP - Back to HLA

When a ship of this size loses engine power, there is little to be done to correct its course, even dropping an anchor down. And the Key Bridge was particularly vulnerable ...
High Level Abstractions:

(key_bridge,engine)

WIP - Back to HLA

But just then, according to a timeline released by the National Transportation Safety Board on Wednesday, "numerous audible alarms" started sounding on the ship. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(key_bridge,audible)

Semantics Relevance

The Five Minutes That Brought Down the Francis Scott Key Bridge