The tasks of clearing debris from the mouth of the Port of Baltimore, after the crash of a cargo ship brought down a bridge on March 26, have some witnesses in the front row.
The 21 crew members of the Dali, the container ship that caused the disaster, are still locked inside the ship, without yet knowing when they will be evacuated.
The trip to its destination, which was Sri Lanka, lasted 33 days and 21 hours. At this point they have already surpassed that period of time.
This week several controlled explosions occurred, to try to remove the remains of steel from the bridge that are above the ship and, in addition, move containers, and the crew had to be protected, in case something did not go well with those detonations.
Since March 26, 20 Indian citizens and one Sri Lankan have cried for the six dead (all the bodies have been recovered, all Hispanic) and seen how the operation to reopen that area of ??the port is developing.
All the crew members had their cell phones confiscated and were interrogated by FBI agents, who boarded the freighter while they continued to suffer there. “It is very hard for everyone because they are on board watching the accident site day and night,” Gwee Guo Duan, assistant to the Singapore Maritime Office and spokesperson for that group, told CNN, since the ship has the flag of that country. .
The news, for now, is not favorable to them. It may still be days or weeks before they are released. There are a series of complications for them to return to land, from the problem that their visas to enter the United States have expired while they were trapped there, to the fact that they are part of the investigation and that, if the ship has to be moved or a problem arises, the crew members are essential pieces to respond.
