In the early morning hours of March 26, 2024 the MV Dali, a 984-foot container ship bound for Sri Lanka, experienced a sudden loss of power while navigating outbound along the Patapsco River from the Port of Baltimore. The ship struck a main truss of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing the immediate collapse of approximately half a mile of the bridge structure. The Port of Baltimore, one of the nation’s largest ports, generates over $2.6 billion in annual business revenue and has only one deep-draft channel providing access to its facilities.
This keynote presentation will discuss the heroic rescue and recovery operations through the eyes of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Army Geospatial Center. Presenters will explore how numerous teams mobilized quickly, leveraging a vast array of geospatial data inputs and advanced analytics to create a groundbreaking common operating picture. This enabled unparalleled collaboration across federal, state, and local levels to address a disaster of this magnitude.
