In the sun-dappled water below where the Francis Scott Key Bridge once stood, signs of disaster are impossible to miss.
Aboard the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers‘ debris removal ship Reynolds provided a glimpse of Baltimore’s decimated Francis Scott Key Bridge and the effort to clear a major channel for waiting ships. Photo credit: David Gordon / The Washington Times.PATAPSCO RIVER, Md. —
As a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers boat captain deftly maneuvered his debris-removal ship, the Reynolds, around the captive tanker, the Dali, the focus Tuesday was on the salvage operation and the push to clear a channel for idling freighters that have been waiting weeks to access the Port of “This still remains a remarkably complex situation. Our team, though, now is double tracking,” Mr. Moore said during a Tuesday briefing. “What we mean by that is salvage operations are happening while also commercial vehicles are moving in and out of the Port of
Six men were presumed dead, and the bodies of four of the road workers have been recovered. Two members of the construction crew were saved by rescue teams shortly after the bridge crumbled around 1:30 a.m. the day of the crash. The Corps started by mapping out the channel with sonar and then going through the process of identifying pieces to cut and lift out of the water.The final piece of opening the temporary channel took place the past three days. Corps teams had to move a 560-ton portion of the Key Bridge wrapped around one of the structure’s concrete beams.
The Reynolds swung by the Chesapeake 1000 on its tour Tuesday to highlight the scope of wreckage. Mud was visibly caked onto the bottom portion of the bridge segment that was now being chopped into smaller pieces in hopes of recycling the steel.
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