The Ever Forward is finally free from the Chesapeake Bay — one month later

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NPR by Jaclyn Diaz 4/17/2022

After a month of being lodged in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay, the Ever Forward cargo ship is finally free.

Thanks to the help of a high tide, several tug boats and barges — and perhaps a little Easter Sunday miracle — crews plucked the the 1,095-foot ship free from the shallows off Pasadena, Md., on Sunday.

"A tremendous team effort with a little help from the Easter Sunday rising tide in the Chesapeake Bay. The Evergreen, Ever Forward has been [refloated]", he said.

More: https://www.npr.org/2022/04/17/1093245643/ever-forward-freed-maryland


Tugboats, bottom, align a barge near the container ship Ever Forward, top, which ran aground last month, as workers
remove containers from it in efforts to lighten the load and refloat the vessel on April 13.

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This video was made on Saturday, but gives a good overview of what happened to ground the ship, and how the plan was going to re-float it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAXCOFNrI_4