Saturday's detonation should free the ship that hit the Key Bridge. What's next?

[Kennah]

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Source: Baltimore Sun

The Dali has sat, entangled with the remains of the Francis Scott Key Bridge that it knocked down, for the past six weeks, becoming a Baltimore landmark as crews work to clear the channel around it of debris.

But in the most dramatic step yet to free the ship, authorities plan to use explosive devices Saturday evening to slice up a huge piece of bridge sitting atop the container ship, paving the way for it to be freed and pushed from the incident site in the coming days.

If all goes as planned, the detonation will sound like fireworks, look like puffs of smoke and plunge into the water the pieces of bridge that have weighed the ship down since the vessel appeared to lose control and crash into one of the span’s support piers March 26, killing six construction workers.

In the immediate aftermath of the explosive cuts, however, the Dali is likely to remain in the Patapsco River. Freeing a ship is a calculated, steady process and, despite the suddenness of the explosion, it is best to slowly refloat a ship, experts say.

Read more: https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/05/10/dali-demolition-refloat-port-baltimore/

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When she gets back to port, how about a band playing "Hello Dolly"?

[Old Crank]

1. Pay walled

[keithbvadu2]

2. Don't let it go on until the new bridge is in place. Investigate for several years.

[wolfie001]

8. ?

The ship lost power and was unnavigable. That is what caused the ship to strike the bridge. Does that help?

[keithbvadu2]

9. Yes. Investigate why it lost power.

[wolfie001]

10. Yes. Surely these big conglomerates are cutting back on maintenance.................nt

[underpants]

3. Pretty incredible job they've done there

Of course it’s barely followed up in the press because it’s that boring old infrastructure and it shows what professionals in government (with the private sector) can do. A lot of contractors made some gooood money on this too.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. Right now

the underside of the bow of the ship is sitting on the bottom of the waterway. I expect the hope is that it doesn't spring leaks as it gets re-floated.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. Since she's shown a taste for bridges, I hope they don't have to put her down.

[Martin68]

5. I hope the demolition goes as planned. It sounds a little risky to me.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. It won't be like an action movie; they're just slicing some steel.

It's just safer to do all the cutting from a distance, rather than having people crawling on the structure with plasma cutters or torches.

[Emile]

11. After an alert and discussion with the hosts locking.

We feel this is a speculative opinion piece on something yet to happen and that it would be a better fit in General Discussion.