Dali cargo ship, which crashed into Key Bridge, is set to be refloated Monday morning
BALTIMORE — The Dali cargo ship is set to be refloated Monday morning, the Key Bridge Response Unified Command announced Saturday afternoon.
After sitting stuck in the Patapsco River following its March 26 crash into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, the vessel is scheduled to leave its position at high tide Monday morning around 5:24 a.m. after being prepped for the journey to a local marine terminal around 2 a.m. The entire process to move the ship is estimated to take about 21 hours, according to a Unified Command news release.
The sequence of preparation activities for the ship to undergo before the transit is scheduled to start 18 hours beforehand Sunday.
During those 18 hours, the crews will release anchors and mooring lines currently attached to the ship, de-ballast some or all of the 1.25 million gallons of water pumped onto the ship to compensate for the weight removed from it last Monday and be inspected for any remaining obstructions that may have been missed by dive survey teams.
Once the ship is free, up to five tugboats will shuttle it 2.5 miles to a nearby terminal, pushing it at about a mile per hour.
