Seven weeks after its collapse, which left six people on the bridge dead and the Dali stranded, the simultaneous blasts drove fragments of Baltimore’s once-iconic Francis Scott Key Bridge into the murky waters of the Patapsco River in Maryland.
The crew and authorities believe that the demolition will signal the start of the end of a protracted procedure that has left the 21 men on board stranded thousands of miles from their homes and isolated and cut off from the outside world.
However, it’s still uncertain when they’ll be allowed to go back home.
When the 948-foot (289-meter) container ship Dali struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge during her 27-day voyage from Baltimore to Sri Lanka, hundreds of tons of steel and cement were dumped into the Patapsco. The ship was left trapped beneath a vast area of broken metal.
