A BRIDGE TOO FAR?
The Key Bridge: a name resonant with a plethora of curious associations. It really is (was) a key bridge; not so much for commercial shipping (although the port of Baltimore is the second largest in that respect) as for the military support vessels that are now trapped upstream of the tangled wreckage. And Francis Scott Key, for whom the bridge was named, was, of course the person who wrote ‘The Star Spangled Banner’.
Perhaps that helps to make the tragic events of 26 March more surreal; that, and the name of the ship that. However you slice it, the whole affair is the darkest of black swan events (the phrase has been used by a number of commentators, mainstream and otherwise). And the omens have not gone unnoticed in the C-sphere.
