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It would be hard to take that trip across one of the two bridges spanning Halifax Harbour without thinking of the horrifying images from another bridge in Baltimore.
The workers, from Mexico and countries in Central America, were part of a construction crew doing repairs on the bridge. Had the collision occurred in the middle of the day when the four-lane bridge was busy with traffic, the death toll would have been much higher. In the weeks and months to come, investigators and experts will determine the causes, which were likely a combination of things that came together all at once to make a perfect storm.
The ships that pass under the bridges are on their way to the PSA Halifax Fairview Cove container terminal.In the late 1970s, a report recommended the construction of rock islands in the water around the towers that hold up the bridges. The idea was to create a buffer zone to absorb the impact of a collision with a vessel.
Tugboats help the vessels navigate the harbour, and advanced calculations measure the gap between the top of the container cargo and the bridge structures.
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