March 26, 2024· 30 min

Sal Mercogliano on the Baltimore Bridge Collapse

Orality
Model
70%
Oral-dominant (speeches, podcasts, storytelling)

Speaker Breakdown

HostTracy Alloway(1,051 words)
M:28%
HostJoe Weisenthal(604 words)
M:94%
GuestSal Mercogliano(3,953 words)
M:28%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic40%
literally, completely, very
Engagement55%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, now, so
Repetition100%
bridge (48x), know (46x), ship (43x)
Parallelism79%
And I'm Jill Weisenthal...., So, Jill, this is an emergency..., And so yes....
Sound Patterns58%
36 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases3%
i mean

Literate Indicators

Hedging5%
could, probably, maybe
Passive Voice9%
was chartered, is owned, been cleared
Abstract Nouns24%
investment, recommendation, university
Subordination8%
because, provided, until
Sentence Length41%
Avg: 15.1 words/sentence
Word Complexity46%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style45%
340 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style91%
literally, completely, initially

Description

On March 26th, a massive container ship called the Dali ploughed into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge, a major overpass just outside the city's port. The collision caused the bridge to dramatically collapse, sparked a search and rescue mission for survivors. It also cut off a busy shipping lane in and out of the Port of Baltimore. So what do we know about the collision? And what could the impacts of the latest maritime disaster actually be? On this emergency episode of Odd Lots, we speak to Sal Mercogliano, a professor at Campbell University and the host of the What Is Going On With Shipping? show on YouTube, about what we know so far. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.