The Boats Around The Boat That Crashed
O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming
From The Star-Spangled Banner, written by Maryland poet Francis Scott Key in 1814.
This image is a map of the marine traffic around the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which spans the Patapsco River in Chesapeake Bay, outside the city of Baltimore.
On March 26th 2024, the 300m long container ship MV Dali collided with the bridge, after experiencing electrical failures, causing the bridge to collapse. 6 people were killed, including Maynor Yassir Suazo Sandoval, 38, who was the youngest of eight siblings from Azacualpa, a rural mountainous area in northwestern Honduras along the border with Guatemala.1
I took this screenshot from MarineTraffic.com on the 28th of March, as the clean up began.
Economic losses from the ports closure have been estimated at $15 million per day.2
The state of Maryland plans to rebuild the bridge in 4 years, at a cost of between $1.7 billion and $1.9 billion.3
A picture of the comingled mangle.
An updated screenshot from the 20th of April, after the ship was refloated to be taken back to port. Unedited.