Desperate Rescue Mission Shifts to Grim Search for 6 Workers’ Bodies on the Bridge

Rescue Mission Descends into Tragedy: Cargo Ship Collides with Bridge, Leaving Six Workers Presumed Dead. [ad_1] As a spring tide rushed out of Baltimore harbor just after midnight on Tuesday, the hulking outlines of a cargo ship nearly three football fields long and stacked high with thousands of containers sliced through frigid waters toward the Francis Scott Key Baltimore harbor Bridge. The vessel, the Dali, was a half-hour into its 27-day journey from Baltimore to Colombo, Sri Lanka. Then the lights on the Dali went dark. The crew urgently reported…

The Dali was just starting a 27-day voyage.(Unfortunate)

[ad_1] The Dali was less than 30 minutes into its planned 27-day journey when the ship ran into the Francis Scott Key Bridge on Tuesday. The ship, which was sailing under the Singaporean flag, was on its way to Sri Lanka and was supposed to arrive there on April 22, according to VesselFinder, a ship tracking website. The Dali, which is nearly 1,000 feet long, left the Baltimore port around 1 a.m. Eastern on Tuesday. The ship had two pilots onboard, according to a statement by its owners, Grace Ocean…