On June 10, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and U.S. Navy Supervisor of Salvage and Diving restored the Fort McHenry Federal Channel to its original operational dimensions of 700 feet wide and 50 feet deep for commercial maritime transit through the Port of Baltimore.
🏗 Fully restoring the Federal Channel to its original width and depth involved the removal of about 50,000 tons of #FSKBridge wreckage from the Patapsco River. At its highest point, the Unified Command, consisting of six agencies, led the response efforts among about 56 federal, state, and local agencies, represented by 1,587 individual responders. Additionally, about 500 specialists from around the world operated a fleet of 18 barges, 22 tugboats, 13 floating cranes, 10 excavators, and four survey boats. Subject matter experts from all over the U.S. also provided essential technical knowledge to the Unified Command.
✅ Following the removal of wreckage at the 50-foot mud-line, the Unified Command performed a survey of the Federal Channel June 10, certifying the riverbed as safe for transit. Surveying and removal of steel at and below the 50-foot mud-line will continue to ensure future dredging operations are not impacted.
The entire key bridge is in the harbor,
That breaking news that you started with, Matt, overnight in Baltimore, Maryland, A stunning bridge collapse
at the Port of Baltimore. The Francis Scott Key Bridge struck
by a cargo ship and collapsing overnight. As the sun rises, we'll get a much better
sense of just how much damage there is and how much work there will be
when this recovery begins in earnest. Spellmon:
Our thoughts are with those families who lost loved ones
in this terrible accident. We're going to do everything in our part
to help the governor achieve his number one priority, which is to return
those loved ones to their families. Pinchasin: As our engineers are assessing and surveying and figuring out
how they're going to lift those loads, they know in the back of their minds
that they are also looking for any traces of the fallen
and anything that they can recover. That is an integrated part of our effort. Mission first, people always. Suarez: Because of these murky
and dark conditions, and despite the Coda footage
that we're using to help further the salvage assessments on the bottom,
you're also limited by the safety factor. This is wreckage in all sorts of shapes and sizes, and it's dangerous. Pinchasin: I can't say enough about the team
that we've assembled here. That incredible wealth of knowledge,
expertise, skills, experience. It's a really powerful partnership. O���Connell: It just shows, you know,
what you can do with a unity of effort. Federal, state,
local is all working together. Biden: From the air, I saw the bridge
that's been ripped apart. But here on the ground, I see a community
that's been pulled together. I want to thank you all the first responders, the port
workers, state and local officials who sprang into action
before dawn, who've been here ever since. Moore: This work is much bigger than one person. It required all of us, and every single one of you stepped up. And instead of 11 months, we got this thing done in 11 weeks. Tuer: I am very proud that we get to assist in this,
especially the Baltimore District. I mean, this is our home.
That's our bridge. So being on scene is important to me. Like I said
to one of the visiting officials we had yesterday,
they had asked my background in the area. I said this was home for me. Watching all this. This is the boat I'd want to be on. Pincashin: We can't forget that before we even started to think about this,
we were handling a human tragedy. Now, to be able to return the channel
to its original dimensions gets us one step closer to returning Baltimore
to hopefully on the path to normalcy.
As I passed on my visit to the Unified Command and eloquently stated by Gov Moore at the Coast Guard Foundation dinner this week. This was an extraordinary team effort that has set a standard of performance that will be studied for years. The ACOE played a critical role and I pass my personal thanks for this massive challenge that was met with class!
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For the Navy, it would be a heavy, highly litigated lift. Aside from the daunting political and operational barriers to reactivation, the shipyard is sandwiched between some of the priciest real estate in the world. The Navy would have to take great pains to build local, subsidized and potentially government-owned rental housing for aspiring shipyard workers and visiting crew members. It might even need to seize, by eminent domain, some of the property that has already been redeveloped.
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Double the drills, double the fun of working to keep our communities safe!
To our friends and neighbors in or traveling through the Emergency Planning Zone (the 10-mile radius around Seabrook Station) on Wednesday, February 7: We will be holding a drill as part of our graded exercise cycle. In ADDITION, the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard will be holding its own drill on the same day.
What does this mean? It means you may see extra emergency responder activity and could potentially hear the Giant Voice (the shipyard's loudspeaker) during this time. Don't be alarmed if you do; it's all routine activity. #BePrepared#BeSafe#ReadyNH#PracticeMakesPerfect#EmergencyManagement
As we enter the new year, Alex luck reviews the most important aspects concerning Chinese naval modernization in 2023 🇨🇳
More amphibious assault capacity, new frigates and aircraft carrier Fujian preparing for first sea trial this year 🔗👇
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Lecciones aprendidas de uno de los más importantes programas de construcción naval para la Armada de Los Estados Unidos.
“…the LCS was well on the way to becoming one of the worst boondoggles in the military’s long history of buying overpriced and underperforming weapons systems. Two of the $500 million ships had suffered embarrassing breakdowns in previous months. The Freedom’s performance during the exercise, showing off its ability to destroy underwater mines, was meant to rejuvenate the ships’ record on the world stage.
But like the LCS program’s reputation, the Freedom was in bad shape. Dozens of pieces of equipment on board were undergoing repairs. Training crews for the new class of ships had proven more difficult than anticipated. The sailors aboard the Freedom had not passed an exam demonstrating their ability to operate some of the ship’s most important systems.”
#naval#navalarchitecture#shipbuilding#gianaval
The future of Canada's navy is taking shape with the River-class destroyers, a fleet set to redefine our nation's maritime combat power. This ambitious project is a historic investment in the Royal Canadian Navy's capabilities, ensuring the protection of Canada's waters and continued contributions to international naval operations.
Based on the British Type-26, Canada has significantly modified the combat systems to future-proof the ship and make it more interoperable with our allies and NORAD. This is the best overview of the class that I've read in the context in allied naval renewal.
What do you think of Canada's approach?
UKSSH TEMPORARY SHELTERS HELP TO KEEP THE NAVY LOOKING SHIP SHAPE.
Famously, nowhere in England is more than 70 miles from the sea, so it really shouldn’t be any surprise that the team at UK System Scaffold Hire has vast experience of working in shipyards and on shipbuilding projects. In fact, our team has experience of working in naval shipyards as far afield as Oregon in the US.
For obvious reasons we can’t go into project details (hence the use of an archive photo) but suffice to say that in addition to creating suspended access for repairing the side of ships, UKSSH are supplying temporary shelters and buildings to provide protected working areas for blasting, painting and general repairs.
#Temporaryshelters#Suspendedaccess#ScaffoldingAssociation#NASC#Marineindustry#Defence#MoD
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1moAs I passed on my visit to the Unified Command and eloquently stated by Gov Moore at the Coast Guard Foundation dinner this week. This was an extraordinary team effort that has set a standard of performance that will be studied for years. The ACOE played a critical role and I pass my personal thanks for this massive challenge that was met with class!