Containers being removed from ship that struck Baltimore bridge

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: ABC News

April 7, 2024, 9:08 PM


Unified Command, the group in charge of the Baltimore bridge collapse wreckage, began removing containers from the cargo ship on Sunday, officials announced.

The purpose of removing the containers on the ship, known as the M/V Dali, is to create access to the part of the Francis Scott Key Bridge that fell on top of the ship when it collapsed, according to UC.

Unified Command, which includes the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Maryland Department of the Environment, Maryland Transportation Authority, Maryland State Police and Witt O’Brien’s representing Synergy Marine, said it will remove the containers this coming week, weather permitting.

Over the weekend, UC continued to remove wreckage from the site to help increase the channel to allow more container ships through. "The Unified Command is concurrently progressing on its main lines of effort to remove enough debris to open the channel to larger commercial traffic, refloat the M/V Dali and continue recovery efforts for missing loved ones," Coast Guard Capt. David O’Connell, federal on-scene coordinator, Unified Command, said in a statement. "Every day we are working to achieve these goals safely and efficiently."

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/containers-removed-ship-struck-baltimore-bridge/story?id=108972014

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The underside of the ship's bow is sitting on the bottom of the channel due to the bridge pieces that fell across the front of the ship.

[mopinko]

1. this is gonna surprise ppl.

i think this is gonna get fixed a lot more quickly that the naysayers think.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. It's gonna depend on the weather over here

There have been a series of nor'easters that keep spinning up and impacting the east coast including both the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays. That stirs up sediment in the water making it difficult for divers to even see clearly enough to do recovery ops and cut the collapsed bridge into "small enough" pieces that can be lifted away by the cranes, plus get the huge chunks of road bed off the bottom.

I *do* think alternate channels will definitely get opened much quicker for the smaller cargo ships including any that can navigate through channels going to maybe 20 - 30 ft deep. But the bigger ships that need 40 - 50 ft depth will have to wait.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

3. Partly fixed. The sea lanes will be opened quickly, putting the port into operation...

... the bridge, that'll take a while. It will have to be re-designed, with modern engineering specs.

[mopinko]

4. i think the bridge gets rebuilt pretty quickly, by the standards of such a huge thing.

will b interested to see how fast they get the harbor open.

[FakeNoose]

5. I was at the Baltimore harbor over the weekend and I saw this from a distance

The container ship Dali has hardly moved since the incident, but otherwise crews are working around the clock to get the chunks of the bridge structure hauled out as quickly as possible. A tremendous amount of work still needs to be done.