A director of a Baltimore ministry was in touch with those aboard the Dali after their ship crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.
The cargo ship Dali sits in the water after running into and collapsing the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. The director of a Baltimore ministry heard a loud boom in the wee hours of Tuesday and figured it was thunder. Then he woke up, turned on the radio and learned that the noise had been the sound of a catastrophe — theApostleship of the Sea, texted a seafarer aboard the 985-foot container ship Dali.
Although the Dali’s trip from Panama to the Chesapeake Bay appeared uneventful, records show the nine-year-old ship has had problems related to propulsion in the past.inspectors at the port of San Antonio, Chile, discovered a problem categorized as relating to “Propulsion and auxiliary machinery,” according to the Tokyo MOU, an intergovernmental shipping regulator in the Asia-Pacific region.
On Monday, while the ship was docked, Middleton said, he drove its captain and a crew member to shop at a Walmart. In the car, Middleton said, the captain told him about the vessel’s upcoming journey to Sri Lanka — explaining that it would take about a month, because the ship would be traveling around the southern tip of Africa to avoid the Suez Canal and Red Sea, where Yemen’s Houthi rebels have been attacking ships.
But then it lost power as it neared the Key Bridge. Thick black smoke began to appear from the ship’s port funnel, video showed. The lights turned off, then on, then off again. The vessel was traveling at eight knots, which Moore called “a very, very rapid speed.” At 1:28 a.m. — less than a minute after the first warning — the Dali struck one of the bridge’s piers.
In 2018, a technician onboard a vessel managed by Synergy was killed when a personnel elevator malfunctioned, according to authorities in Australia, where the vessel was registered.
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