Elizabeth Worthington live from the scene of the controlled demolition

Elizabeth Worthington live from the scene of the controlled demolition

[@JohnShinn1960]

1:35 (a marker for myself)

[@vforwombat9915]

10 million pounds of steel. i wonder why they didn't bother offloading all that cargo on the dali? i hope no one's special order was on it.

[@roconnor01]

Because they need to assess the stability of the vessel when the bridge deck is lifted off the bow.

[@vforwombat9915]

@@roconnor01 makes sense,i guess, but there's giant hashes in the front from the bridge. so it can't really go anywhere except someplace to be repaired. now the bridge is off it, i'd guess first thing is it turns around and unloads all that stuff anyway. but that's just a guess, maybe they'll decide it's sea worthy despite the gashes?

[@G6JPG]

That cargo is many thousands of shipping containers, which were loaded by the specialist cranes at the dock. The crane they have for removing wreckage _can_ move containers, but only a few at a time - it would take months to do so; it was used to remove a hundred and something ones from around the bow - mainly the ones that were mangled; the rest are best left on the ship; even assuming it can't sail to Sri Lanka where it was going (and I doubt they're going to let it do that), the quickest way to unload it would be to take it back to the sort of dock where it was loaded. (There will be some such dock facilities lightly loaded since the port is operating way below its usual capacity.) There will be people's orders on it - but people in Sri Lanka and points beyond.

[@vforwombat9915]

@@G6JPG "There will be people's orders on it - but people in Sri Lanka " some poor gibbon is wondering where his ipad got to.

[@roconnor01]

And she talked over it !

[@G6JPG]

To be fair, she said she'd been told there would be a one minute and a ten second warning, and there wasn't either.

[@Bulvan123]

They could've saved a lot of time & money by telling the dope fiends they can sell for scrap whatever they can take. The bridge would've been gone in 15 minutes.😂