Could Tugboats Have Helped Avert The Bridge Collapse Tragedy In Baltimore? – The Yeshiva World theyeshivaworld.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theyeshivaworld.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
With the 95,000-ton cargo ship Dali powerless and hurtling helplessly toward the Francis Scott Key Bridge, the harbor pilot commanding the vessel had just minutes to make his last, desperate attempts to avoid disaster. Two 5,000-horsepower tugs, which only minutes earlier had helped guide the ship out of its berth at the Port of Baltimore and peeled off, quickly turned back and raced toward the Dali. Whether those tugs could have averted the disaster with the Dali already out of control is debatable.
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Tugboats were not escorting the massive cargo ship Dali when it lost power in the Port of Baltimore and slammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, toppling the span and killing six people. Maritime experts told The Associated Press that this week's disaster is drawing renewed attention to whether such tugboat escorts should be required in the nation's ports to nudge increasingly big ships to safety and protect bridges and other critical infrastructure. Cost-conscious shipping companies have over the years resisted calls for extended tugboat escorts that can add tens of thousands of dollars to every transit.