As recovery efforts continued over the weekend to salvage the remnants of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, Maryland leaders urgently appealed to Congress for financial aid to facilitate the reopening of Baltimore’s vital shipping channel. The challenging task of untangling the wreckage from the collapsed 185-foot high bridge poses significant risks with each phase of the operation.
Demolition crews have been carefully cutting sections of the north side of the bridge truss, while Army Corps of Engineers members surveyed the twisted debris penetrating the Patapsco River. The jutting steel structures, weighing roughly 200 tons, form daunting triangles reaching skyward. Dive
