Baltimore bridge controlled explosion: army blows up collapsed section

Baltimore bridge controlled explosion: army blows up collapsed section

today we achieved an important Milestone the objective for today was to separate what we call section four of span 18 from The Vessel doy you saw that occur and that allows us to take the important next step of moving the vessel Dolly over the next 48 hours and then going onto our next phase of work in restoring the full 700t wide by 50ft Deep Federal navigation Channel by the end of the month span 4 weighs about 4,000 tons by our estimate and the uh The Vessel actually had about 10,000 tons of ballast water pumped into the front of the vessel to hold it in place while we remove that massive weight so as they prepare to move the vessel dolly in the days ah head they will take that water out of the front of the vessel and that would be one of the key tasks that they accomplish to eventually move the dolly to a safer part of the port well I’ve learned that Salvage operations is a lot like peeling back and onion so that’s the work you see occurring right now the teams are already out assessing was there any movement to the debris on top of the vessel did the uh the members fall into the channel as we had planned of course the answer is that yes but they’re doing the detailed work and already planning the next cuts and lifts of that uh of those members

US army explosives experts have brought down the largest remaining collapsed section of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.
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Officials said the detonation went as planned. ‘It’s a lot like peeling back an onion,’ said Scott Spellmon of the US Army Corps of Engineers. The bridge section collapsed on 26 March on to the bow of Singapore-flagged container ship Dali, which had crashed into one of its pylons

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