American Military News by Hayes Gardner - Baltimore Sun April 06, 2022
The next step in the Ever Forward saga is one that officials have wanted to avoid from the beginning: container removal.
The 1,095-foot cargo ship has been stuck in the Chesapeake Bay off the coast of Pasadena since missing a turn March 13 and running aground in shallow waters. A week later, two clamshell dredges began digging up the mud that surrounded the ship’s hull and then twice last week, Tuesday and Wednesday, at least five tugboats pushed and pulled on the ship, hoping to free it. Those tries were unsuccessful.
So, a new plan from authorities is to remove some — not all — of the containers that sit on the ship. The Ever Forward can carry as many as 12,000 containers, which are 20 feet long, but currently has 4,964 full containers on board. A few hundred are expected to be removed.
The process of removing containers is cumbersome and complicated, and U.S. Coast Guard Capt. David O’Connell said two weeks ago that the hope would be to free the ship without removing the containers.
“Still planning for it,” he said March 22 of potentially needing to remove containers, “but hoping that that won’t be the case.”
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