by Oliver JJ Lane at Breitbart News
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board has given the first glimpse of conditions of the MV Dali after it allided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge, showing teams searching for chemical leaks, hidden fires, and inspecting damage.
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigators and U.S. Coastguard boarded the container ship MV Dali on Wednesday to inspect damage and retrieve data from the onboard recorder to form part of their investigation. The Board has now released a series of photographs and video from those visits, giving an insight into the level of damage sustained by the ship — which is to be freed, refloated, and recovered by U.S. Army engineers and a specialist salvage firm — in the impact.
An important part of the early investigation is ascertaining whether a wider threat may be posed by hazardous materials loaded aboard the Dali, which according to the manifest are present in 56 of the 4,700 shipping containers aboard. In the footage NTSB investigators are seen using thermal cameras, likely to detect hidden chemical reactions or fires deep inside the cargo containers that may have been set off by the crash, and a portable get detector to find potential leaks…
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