After recovering two of the bodies, four other Hispanic workers remain missing in the Baltimore bridge collapse.
But as of this Thursday, his search is considered exhausted. Having ruled out that they are still alive, the priority now focuses on the process of cleaning the scrap metal and debris in that area, the area of ??the accident.
This accumulation not only makes the work of submariners in search of the missing people very dangerous, but it is an insurmountable impediment for the port of Baltimore, one of the most important in the United States in volume and business, to return to activity.
The cranes were moving to that mouth, with the idea of ??trying to evacuate the Dali, the cargo ship that collided with the Francis Scott Key bridge. The National Transportation Safety Board (NSTB) has published a video showing the investigative work being carried out by the organization’s professionals inside the freighter.
After the impact, some of the 56 containers, a total of 764 tons, containing flammable or corrosive materials that could be a public threat, fell into the water. Cracks have been detected in other of these containers.
This circumstance is another factor to accelerate the attempt to clean that part of the Patapsco River, while the investigation continues to clarify what happened for the ship to impact one of the pylons or feet of the infrastructure. The biggest enigma to solve is knowing what caused the total blackout that caused the freighter to be left without a mechanism for its rudder.
In the recovered recordings, equivalent to the black box, the five minutes of the disaster are recorded.
Apparently, the ship began the maneuver out of port well, but at 1:24 a.m. last Tuesday the sound of alarms was heard on the ship. Two minutes later, the pilot asked for a tugboat to come to his aid. At 1:27 a.m. he ordered to drop the anchor to try to brake and make a maneuver to avoid the bridge. After a few seconds, he called the emergency call to close the bridge to vehicles. At 1:29 a.m. the impact is heard.
