There's a news article about an Uber driver who was going to go over the bridge, but the driver's passenger was late and police had just closed the bridge when they got there. How fortuitous.
There's a huge economic impact unlike any other recent transportation disaster. And there's another thing coming up that shouldn't be discussed here. There's just a lot of extra motivation to get this done ASAP and I think it gets done.
Water isn't that deep there, so no surprise the bow is on the bottom. I'd imagine they'd have to offload the containers before trying to move it anyway, so it shouldn't take much to refloat it back into the channel.
The ship isn't stuck in this case though. It really won't take that long to remove the debris from the ship and begin demo of the bridge. The questions are when are they allowed to start and when can they actually start, meaning having the right equipment on scene.
I lived near Baltimore for 14 years and never even thought about cruising out of Baltimore.
Now, living 1600 miles from Baltimore, we booked a Baltimore cruise.
I would think there will be cancellations at first, then maybe temporary relocations if it's determined it's going to take longer than expected to reopen the channel.
But they're going to have to tear down the entire span and rebuild. And that's where Maryland's laws will kick in. That's going to be an insane amount of wasted time shorts of the Feds telling them to waive it.