After more than a week of dredging mud, crews made their first attempt Tuesday at refloating the Ever Forward, a massive container ship that has been stuck in the Chesapeake Bay for more than two weeks, reports the Loadstar.
Second attempt free the vessel
The first attempt to free the grounded Evergreen vessel, Ever Forward, ended in failure after five hours yesterday, despite five tugs pulling and pushing.
A second attempt to free the vessel by salvor Donjon Smit is expected to be made at high tide on Sunday and Monday with the tugs added to by two anchored pulling barges.
Read more: Ever Forward? Cargo Ship Doesn’t Budge In First Refloat Attempt
Steps to unload cargo
Sources close to the salvage team have said that if the second attempt failed, cargo would be unloaded to lighten the vessel and add to its buoyancy.
Ever Forward ran aground on 13 March while departing the port of Baltimore. The ship is in shallow water, around 7 metres deep, and the muddy seabed is hampering the salvage of the ship. Dredging the mud from around and underneath the vessel was done in a bid to help.
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Source: The Loadstar
