Capt. Andy and your extended team/family. A huge thank you for your past and future coverage of the collapse of the FSK Bridge, you are awesome. Steve Souder, USCG (ret.) Kent Island, MD
Thanks. Always a great video. Yesterday, The Coast Guard Spokesperson said there is 4000 gallons of ballast water (33,360 lbs.), in the bow to facilitate the grounding. You notice a significant difference in the ship attitude as they pump out this water. When this happens, they will be close to moving the ship. Again, thanks for the great videos. 👍👍
Refloat: Optimum conditions call for the transit of the M/V Dali to commence at high tide, predicted to be Monday at 5:24 a.m. The vessel will be prepared at 2 a.m., allowing the M/V Dali to catch the peak high tide for a controlled transit. Not likely to see much until 5 am.
@ 21:00 - I hope I am completely incorrect about them not getting it moved for a number of additional days. I have not yet found any news about whether divers have located the gas pipeline that may be going underneath the bow bulb of the ship or maybe just a little ways in front of it where it won't be a risk. Other than that I am betting that they will not find any below the waterline damage to the ship's hull that would prevent safely relocating the Dali! Laying my protractor up against the screen I don't see that the bow has raised up at all compared to before they blew the truss section off the ship.
Thanks Capt Andy. I got here too late for the live feed today, but I will be ready for tomorrow. That anchor chain is doing some shaking of the mangled container. I would like to have a mike close to it to hear the crunching.
At the 3:02:04 mark, as the 533 is pulling up the anchor chain, you can see the red container on the port side forward drop down slightly. I bet some folks had their splinter tighten when that happened.
Those workers have to be careful. I worked on a bridge job and the were cutting. They stepped on the lead dust with their work boots and got into their vehicles and walked into their house with their boots. Two guys have little babies that crawled/played on the floor and they got lead poisoning.
Where they are downsizing the scrap on the TPA property they have it all marked off with the contamination signs and ribbons and in order to go inside the area you have to have the full protective gear. They aren't wearing it on this site. Just masks.
Does the DALI Container ship have bulbous bow if this is a fact then' it's most likely its stuck in the mud with a berm' in front from forward motion if it hit bottom before striking the bridge support. In my opinion' if the bow is a bulbous design? and it did hit bottom, there is a strong possibility its really stuck and the suction will be a problem.The Army core of engineers may need to set charges at the front of the Dali ti break the suction of the mus to release this ship. I hope all this goes well, this is a monumental task the claw anchor may be also under the bow.
I hope they realize now that they need to replace this section of bridge with a tunnel system similar to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge tunnel, works great for the Navy. Let the shipping companies chip in on the cost$$ Sunrise will be about 05:15Hrs & it’s 4 days away from a full moon.
believe that the Dali is stuck in the mud and its gonna be a tough job to re-float this ship, even with many tugs. They may need to add polyurethane flotation bags, to help get this ship off the bottom? Time will tell, this is not going to be easy.
I am willing to bet that the roadway and steel supports that are still on the bow the front of the ship weigh about 200,000 Lbs. Even when they pump out the water, I think its about 10,00 gallons, or more? moving this ship is not going to be an easy task. I will say this again there is a very strong possibility that the bow is stuck down in the Mud, if this is the case? the suction will pose resistance.
