Tradepoint Atlantic dices 50,000 tons of Baltimores Key Bridge steel for recycling
The pieces they each wrangled Friday couldnt have weighed more than one short ton, less than 0.02% of the 50,000 short tons of bridge wreckage that fell into the nearby Patapsco River. Yet they represented a tiny step in a painstaking, arduous process.
When the Key Bridge collapsed into the midnight-black water in the early hours of March 26, it created a seemingly insurmountable task: clearing the channel of debris and the massive cargo ship that created the mess. The scale of the salvage job is difficult to comprehend, and although crews have begun to remove the wreckage from the channel, piece by piece, one cant simply throw thousands of tons into a trash bin.
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When I tried to highlight more than this, all the prior highlighting disappeared, 3 times. Have they come up with an invisible way to limit copying?
BTW, they plan to use hydraulic shears to cut the bridge into pieces. Especially the underwater parts, this sounds to me like a good idea. I know one can use a torch underwater, but it seems the water would cool things pretty relentlessly, and the shears don't have that problem.