Salvage efforts began Monday night to free a freighter lodged in a reef off Fort Lauderdale since Thursday. So how do you move a 34,589-ton cargo ship, including a load of 30,000 tons of a cookie-dough-like substance, perched precariously on an environmentally sensitive reef just off the coast of one of South Florida’s largest cities?
You hire a team of engineers and environmental scientists, and you use tarps, sprinklers, pumps and cranes.
You hope a tugboat keeps it steady. And then you pray for high tide.