First on WBAL: Explosives to free Dali from Key Bridge wreckage, crew will shelter in place on board
Source: WBAL-TV Baltimore
Updated: 6:15 PM EDT May 7, 2024
BALTIMORE — Unified Command will use explosive charges to free the Dali container ship from the wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, and the ship's crew will shelter in place on board while the explosives are detonated, 11 News Investigates has learned.
When detonated, the explosives will separate a large portion of the bridge's truss that's lying on top of the Dali's bow, according to Unified Command's Petty Officer Ronald Hodges. Unified Command has determined the crew can safely stay on board the Dali and does not need to evacuate prior to detonation, Hodges said. Hodges said he could not say where the crew would be kept on the ship while the explosives are set off.
Earlier Tuesday, Gov. Wes Moore and Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott were asked why explosives are being used and why the Dali's crew will stay on board the ship during detonation.
"What they're doing are best practices and historic best practices, and the way that you remove large amounts of steel," Moore said. "We know that as soon as that operation, that precision cutting is done, then we also have the tools to be able to remove that steel from the water, to safely refloat the Dali, and to reopen up the federal channel."
Read more: https://www.wbaltv.com/article/key-bridge-wreckage-freed-explosives-crew-shelter-in-place/60719318
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A soothing image of just the sun coming up over the water and a shore far off in the distance... at least at the moment. 
