Crews intend to remove the substantial part of the Francis Scott Key Bridge that is draped across the Dali cargo within the next week using precise violent charges.
The team still on the Dali will remain on the box send when they are detonated, according to Coast Guard Petty Officer Ronald Hodges of the Key Bridge Unified Command.
The technique used to so many of the bridge items in the Patapsco River have been broken into into pieces so they can be lifted out by large cranes, according to officials at Unified Command, who determined the explosives would be more successful than ripping apart the item with sharp saws.
Instead of having a man in a cranes cutting a beam that is under a lot of weight and tension, Hodges said, “it’s the safest and the quickest way.” You have these detail cutting tools that can perform the same task without having to wait for hours or days while a worker is standing right next to it.
According to Hodges, the aim is to finish the barrages within the next week, but the exact schedule will depend on other essential steps being completed first. According to Hodges, personnel have been using cranes to move some of the items on board the Dali to one side or another, so that the ship will stay stable when a significant segment of the beam is removed. Bad weather may wait those businesses, he said.
” They’re also doing hoist operations, but weather is a major factor that you have to take into account for when you’re operating the excavators. Lightning is the other major, great consideration”, Hodges said. Although they can only work in a limited ability during the rain, thunder and wind may change the schedule.
According to Hodges, the truss areas are likely to detonate after the bombs are detonated and then be taken off by the cranes operating the site.
According to Hodges, the Unified Command intends to launch a media release with more details 48 hours before the explosion.
He referred to them as “precision reducing products” and likened them to the substances used to destroy the government, but he declined to elaborate further on the type of explosives that would be used. Next month, the Potomac River’s Harry W. Nice Memorial Bridge was constructed.
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