56 HAZARDOUS CONTAINERS on Cargo Ship that Destroyed Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge Carr

NTSB officials say 21 crew members and two pilots were on board the cargo ship when it crashed into a bridge in Baltimore. NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said the vessel had at least 56 containers, or 764 tons, of hazardous materials on board as well. Officials are also reviewing six hours of analysis recovered from a voice data recorder.

This gets worse and worse.

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Hazardous materials stored in 56 containers on cargo ship that toppled Baltimore Key Bridge: Coast Guard

By Allie Griffin, NY Post, March 28, 2024:

Dozens of containers onboard the cargo ship that toppled the Baltimore Key Bridge have hazardous materials inside, Coast Guard officials said Wednesday.

The Dali tanker ship was carrying 56 containers with hazardous materials out of the total 4,700 containers atop its deck when it smashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, Coast Guard Vice Adm. Peter Gautier said during a White House Briefing.

“The majority of those containers are closer to the pilot house and are completely unaffected by the damage to the bow of the ship,” Gautier said. “And we have not determined that there’s any kind of release at this time.”

The Coast Guard and the Army Corps of Engineers will lead cleanup efforts — to remove the ship, the mangled remains of the steel bridge and any vehicles trapped below the wreck in the depths of the Patapsco River.

The massive container ship is stuck in place, held down on its bow by the weight of a piece of the bridge, according to Gautier.

“The real critical thing here is that, as you know, a portion of the bridge remains on the bow on that ship, and we will be coordinating very closely with the Army Corps of Engineers and their contractors to first effect the removal of that debris before the vessel can then be removed,” he said. “The vessel bow is sitting on the bottom because of the weight of that bridge debris on there.”

Divers recovered two bodies from the river Wednesday but had to suspend their search for the remaining four people missing because the bridge rubble beneath the surface of the water is unstable and dangerous.

Search parties believe that the bodies of the other individuals — who were likely inside vehicles that were on the bridge when it collapsed — are trapped beneath the rubble.

Once the wreck is cleared, the divers will continue their efforts to retrieve the bodies.
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At least six people — construction workers who were repairing potholes on the bridge roadbeds — were killed in the disaster.

Authorities also hope to clear the wreckage to create a path for shipping purposes with access to the Port of Baltimore.

The crumbled remains of the 1.6-mile bridge are blocking one of the US’s busiest ports and threatening to disrupt $80 billion in cargo and more than 140,000 jobs.

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