More than five weeks after running aground, a massive cargo ship called the Ever Forward was freed on Sunday from the muddy bottom of Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay, according to the US Coast Guard. It was the largest ship ever stuck in the bay.
The long-running rescue of the 1,095-foot vessel was the culmination of weeks of work. Teams of naval architects, scuba divers, and the largest clamshell dredge in the Western Hemisphere all worked to free the Ever Forward from the mud. At least 210,000 cubic yards of mud was dredged around the boat, enough to fill about 64 Olympic swimming pools.
