SEE IT: Crews conducted a controlled demolition to break down the largest remaining steel span of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, a major step in the cleanup as officials seek to fully reopen the port’s busy shipping channel. https://t.co/vIH4r9UPoK pic.twitter.com/TtYSNjj7u4
— ABC News (@ABC) May 13, 2024
The Baltimore Bridge is EXPLODED 💥
Workers detonate explosives to help free the Dali from the wreckage of the Key Bridge near Baltimore. pic.twitter.com/tIk52mC0CF
— FocuSeaTV (@focuseatv) May 14, 2024
They left the crew on board for two months- and whilst they blew up the bridge on top of them- because “they don’t have visas or shore permits” https://t.co/I2tGc0O3ZL
— madeline odent (@oldenoughtosay) May 15, 2024
Per the BBC, “Crew trapped on Baltimore ship, seven weeks after bridge collapse”:
As a controlled explosion rocked the Dali on Monday, nearly two dozen sailors remained on board, below deck in the massive ship’s hull…
Authorities – and the crew – hope that the demolition will mark the beginning of the end of a long process that has left the 21 men on board trapped and cut off from the world, thousands of miles from their homes.
But for now, it remains unclear when they will be able to return home…
The crew, made up of 20 Indians and a Sri Lankan national, has been unable to disembark because of visa restrictions, a lack of required shore passes and parallel ongoing investigations by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and FBI.
On Monday, the crew remained on board even as authorities used small explosive charges to deliberately “cut” an expanse of the bridge lying on the ship’s bow.
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