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Questions revolve around the collapse of the bridge after a massive shipment crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge moments after wasting force early Tuesday.
By Thomas Fuller
As a spring tide rolled out of Baltimore Harbor shortly after Tuesday, the towering silhouettes of a shipment sent roughly three football fields long and filled with thousands of boxes across the frigid waters toward the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
The ship, the Dali, departed an hour after its 27-day journey from Baltimore to Colombo, Sri Lanka.
The team urgently informed the local government that they had lost power and propulsion. The ship crashed into the deck.
In a scene captured via a live-streamed camera, the ship slammed into a bridge pillar with such force that the southern and central spans of the bridge collapsed within seconds.
A road repair crew on the structure, working night shifts to plug potholes. At least 8 members of the structure’s team were submerged in the Patapsco River, 15 meters deep.
Six other people were presumed dead when the government suspended search and rescue operations on Tuesday night.
“Based on the amount of time invested in this search, the extensive search effort put into it, the temperature of the water, at this point, we don’t expect to locate any of those Americans who are still alive. “said Coast Guard Rear Adm. Shannon Gilreath. “
Two members of the structure’s staff were rescued from the water; One of them went to the hospital and was later discharged.
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