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Bow Triumph at the Odfjell Terminal in Charleston on Sept. 8, 2022, showing damage to the vessel’s starboard side. Coast Guard photo.

NTSB: Bank effect swung tanker into South Carolina pier

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The dredging vessel WB Wood engaged in dredging operations (with its spuds up) before the January 2023 capsizing. Wood Resources photo via NTSB.

NTSB: Undetected flooding, unsecured through-hull pipe led to dredging vessel capsize

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The MSC Passion III on April 28 was the first container ship to arrive at Baltimore's Seagirt Terminal since the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge March 26. The Passion III transited a 35-foot-deep temporary channel. Port of Baltimore photo.

‘Claw’ tackles Baltimore wreckage as first containership arrives

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With the tug April Moran on a bow line, the bulk carrier Balsa 94 moves past the wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore and the still stranded containership Dali April 25, 2024. ACE Baltimore District photo.

First vessels transit Baltimore 35’ channel

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The Joanne Marie listing at the shipyard on the morning of June 25, 2023. Coast Guard photo.

NTSB: Obstructed valve led to towing vessel flooding, partial sinking

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Salvors prepare to move a large piece of supporting steel from the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore April 22, 2024, in the effort to reopen the Fort McHenry channel. Army Corps of Engineers photo/MST1 Claudio Giugliano.

Bridge section removed for next Baltimore access channel

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Army Corps of Engineers staff surveyed damage from the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. ACE photo.

Baltimore officials file negligence claim against ship owners

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The Fort Carroll Temporary Alternate Channel (in green) has a 20' controlling depth, a 300' horizontal clearance and vertical clearance of 135'. Key Bridge Response Unified Command graphic.

Third emergency channel open at Baltimore

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The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore occurred following a collision with a container ship. Jay Fleming Photography.

The Baltimore blame game

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Donjon Marine's Chesapeake 1000 crane lifts 440 tons of wreckage of the fallen Francis Scott Key Bridge April 14, as efforts continued to clear the main channel to the Port of Baltimore. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District photo.

Chesapeake 1000 lifts 440-ton section of Baltimore bridge

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Heavy rains and currents on the Ohio River led to a breakaway of 26 barges at Pittsburgh, Pa., April 12, 2024. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District photo.

Pittsburgh marinas damaged after barges break loose

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The barge crane Oyster Bay and other contracted salvors remove bridge wreckage from the Patapsco River to reopen the shipping channel in Baltimore, April 10, 2024. Coast Guard photo.

As Baltimore debris removed, NTSB focused on Dali electrical equipment

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The Angus R. Cooper II, a new 6,000 hp, Tier 4 z-drive tugboat constructed at Blakeley BoatWorks in Mobile, Ala., has joined Crescent Towing's for ship assist operations in the Port of Savannah, Ga. Cooper Group photo.

Crescent Towing’s new Tier 4 tug joins Port of Savannah operations

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