Navy shows underwater footage of Baltimore shipwreck
By: Jackson Warren
Down in Baltimore Maryland, March 26th, 1:28 in the morning a ship carrying 23 crew members crashed into the Key Bridge after 9,000 miles into their journey. After 2 power losses, the crew lost their stabilization and steering resulting in the ship spinning 180 degrees and running into the bridge's pillar bringing the entire thing down.
While the bridge crew tried their best to stop all the cars, 6 people were presumed dead after the bridge fell. Worse enough, the construction crew was working on the bridge when it collapsed and all of them survived after they climbed onto the wreckage and waited in the freezing cold.
Two weeks later after the crash, the navy went over the wreckage with a sonar and an underwater camera and took pictures of what is believed to be the wreck and cars that did not make it. The water is very murky, deep, and cold so it will take skilled divers to cut parts of the bridge and take it out with a giant crane.
The Navy services have already started to lift parts of the bridge out of the water but it will be a very long process because like I explained earlier, the water is murky, dark and cold. The key bridge was built in 1830 and was heavily armored with concrete but it was not made to withstand a big 30,000 ton cargo ship with so much force.
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Author Bio: Jackson Warren is a 6th Grader at EJHS who loves track, baseball, and his dog toad.