LIVE from SkyTeam 11: The Dali container ship makes its way to Seagirt Marine Terminal- wbaltv.com 

Only partly done. Still have most of the roadway to haul up.

This is actually the job of the tugs…we use the tugs to do this specific job under normal circumstances.

Yup, that's what those tugs do - day in and day out.....push ships to the dock and pull ships away from the dock.

@@capicolaspicy yep, and this is the company we always use also. This is not part of salvage crew…it is the usual Tug Providers (McAllisters).

Imagine if Congress could work that way......

Yes. There's something surreal about it being towed away with a chunk of a four-lane span across the bow. Some things are just not meant to be seen together.

That’s crazy

@@lavenderlampit’s probably keeping water out of whatever’s below it

And yet at the same time it's bridge is still attached.

One Small Piece for Mankind !

"Breaking up is hard to do" 🎶 The Dali will have to rely on its own (much smaller) bridge.

Some of these little guys have in the range of 4000 SHP and the props to deliver it.

Tide doesn't make you rock

@@MrOlgrumpy what is SHP? Thank you 😊

Shaft horse power​@@marjoriecorcora7617

​@@marjoriecorcora7617 SHP is Shaft Horse Power. I cant speak to the Moran tug on the stern, but the Eric McAllister is there, shes rated at 5150 hp. 💪💪

Can you imagine if the Dali had’ve sunk?! Now that I say that, it would have been months reopening the channel, no?

Huh? Where do you get that info? They can't stack the containers any higher, and a good chunk of them are actually stacked down inside the ship. The bow is the only place, and even if it were clear, they can't put a lot on the bow.

@@Woody615 I, 100% heard that through newscasts & other media channels. I'm sure you could Google it yourself. But YES indeed, the Dali was ONLY at half capacity 👍

@@Woody615 Her container capacity is 9,971 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU)

@@Woody615 When it impacted the Key bridge, it had approximately, just, 4500 containers on board.

They are McCallester ~Moran Tug boats.

Yes he would!

I would have continued the voyage after being re-floated! heiwaco.com/DALI.htm

I see help wanted signs up all over and with the Dali, I'd bet tug boats will be in big demand from now on at all container ports with bridges. Go for it!

Electrical problems caused by fires

Thanks for the point out. Lots of other www coverage of the Savannah. Interesting.

Well the Dali was going backwards and sideways. Not the direction the hull was designed to move through water. I suppose they could have turned the Dali around, towed it to the dock and turned it around again. I'd bet those tugs are getting paid by the hour, not the job so what's the rush. The ship will be sitting at the dock for a very long time.

@@rickpaulos They were not about to let it get away a second time. 👍

Most of the time the Dali is going sideways, or nearly so, which it can't do on its own engine. Also, sharing propulsion power between 6 tugs is more precise than using a single large engine. Then again: nobody is going to trust that ship's engine until the faults have been corrected.

Plus I can only imagine with the added debris on the bow, slow and steady to not jostle anything. Precarious.

I have never witnessed tugboats in action before. This is fascinating!

@@patricklockerby4308 Maybe the investigators can find technicians that work on electrical protection systems that can use the electrical prints and the targets from the relay protection that will explain the loss of power both times and what was the protection system actually designed to do, expected to do and tested to make sure it works as designed.

Good questions! I’m guessing they will get another ship there to take the containers to their destination. Where was the Dali headed to when it hit the bridge?

@@marjoriecorcora7617 Sri Lanka

The cargo will likely be arrested, and auctioned to part pay for the cost of the salvage.

@@AndrewRoberts11 So if I was a shipper with a load on that ship, I'm screwed?

​​​​@@jimswist ...those Owners, shippers and Customers will, or have already been compensated. IF they had their cargo or containers insured. 🤔

One wonders how many survive from low bridges, signal and obstacles?

Could be worse. They could be in Gaza. They are alive, well fed & sheltered. I doubt they will have PTSD from the experience. Merchant Mariners are some pretty tough people.

⁠The ship and crew may have played a part but the main reason that the bridge was taken out was the totally obsolete dolphin structure protecting the towers. Bigger ships and no corresponding upgrade to the harbour protection devices. No different to having tinfoil railings on a highway overpass.

@@tomwebster3249 Ever see a semi hit a guardrail they mays well be tinfoil. Without proper protection that ship should of had tug's going at 8 knots.

@@UQRXD You did see that it took five tugs about three hours to move the Dali from the site of the allision to the quay, right? A tug going 8kt to keep pace with a medium-size cargo vessel like the Dali would have virtually no effect in changing its course. It's just physics.

@@Joe-by8jh completely disagree. There are many ways to redirect a ship of that size in order to protect the bridge. One thing should have been that a ship of that size should be guided by tugs until PAST the bridge. That should have been done long ago, if they were unable to build a structure capable of stopping a ship that big from hitting bridge structures, then both speed and tug guidance should have been mandatory. The problem with today's attitudes, is it has never happened and so we continue on as though it won't ever happen, and time and time again we are proven WRONG.. it CAN happen and it WILL happen. The all mighty buck is always the deciding factor. IMPO

I believe I heard that the ship was resting (partially) on the river floor with all the weight. So they had to remove stuff to refloat it upwards.

They use water as ballast, so they pump it out or transfer it to a different ballast compartment.

@@willydavid Your Welcome

It was just a soft grounding - heiwaco.com/DALI.htm

Those really big cranes that are cleaning out the bridge parts are still in the area. Yeah, the container cranes have specific tools on the ends of the cables just for grabbing and lifting containers. And the container cranes surely have weight limits. That concrete roadway has to weigh a lot more than any container. Surely they will have a crew on deck cutting up the concrete so they can lift it out in pieces onto a barge. On the other hand, they may just tell the ship owner its your problem to deal with now.

Sorry ? The cranes are on rails, so they can come along the ship in 3 minutes. Why to direct the ship under the cranes? How old are you?

@@iuliandragomir1 The cranes are on rails, so they can come along the ship in 3 minutes. --That's the answer.---Why throw a jab at the guy? Did that validate your pathetic existence? #keyboardwarriorbullypunk

The Dali will be unloaded. It is due to go in for major repairs.

Another ship.

Nah no treason in Maryland

@@nothanks9503 do not understand your reply? I gave “kudos “ to Maryland for doing a good job.

It’s going to it’s destination minus the stolen vehicles

At 1:35 Tim mark

I was named after president Eisenhower Dwight.

Do you mean in the background? The black hull, with the white superstructure and a red slash on the bow? I believe that is a Coast Guard buoy tender. They place, relocate, and maintain the channel buoys. They can lift them onto the ship and then crews scrape all the sea growth and barnacles off of them. At the 8:00 mark, is a good shot of it. You can make out U.S. Coast Guard, and the crane that lifts the buoys on board onto the deck. You can even make out the cutout so that they can load and unload them.

Yes - it’s the John W Brown a museum ship. A google search will bring up their webpage.

Yeah! I looked it up, the gray Liberty Ship is the S.S. JOHN W. BROWN 1943. I thought is was Liberty Ship the moment I saw it.

Just before that 1:34 is the NS Savannah, nuclear powered cargo/passenger ship being refitted as a museum.

NS Savannah, has been a museum ship in Charleston for years, must be going through restoration

You mean except for the shots starting at the 1:28:00 mark. Good views of the bow then.

@@Woody615 You watched them tow a ship for 88 minutes? Hats off to you. Too bad they didn't zoom that shot and hold it longer.

@@FerrisSOCAL Nope. I set the mouse on the time slider and moved it over and it showed a preview of what was happening. I just slide it over till I saw the bow. 🙂