Indian crew onboard crippled cargo ship Dali 'healthy': Baltimore-based nonprofit organisation
Baltimore last week is «healthy», according to a nonprofit organisation that has been in touch with the personnel.
The 2.6km-long, four-lane bridge over the Patapsco River in Baltimore, came crashing down after Dali, a 984-foot cargo ship bound for Sri Lanka, collided against it in the early hours of March 26.
The 21 crew members of Dali, of which 20 are Indians, are still onboard the crippled cargo ship nearly a week after the collision.
«All I know right now is that they are healthy and we are doing the best we can to support their needs emotionally and otherwise,» Baltimore International Seafarers' Centre Executive Director The Rev. Joshua Messick told PTI.
Messick said he has «been in touch with the crew via WhatsApp» and described the crew's responses to him as well as to those who are in touch with it as being «succinct».
«I imagine they are being very careful about what they say and to whom,» he said.
Messick added that he has again reached out to the crew of the Dali to «see if I could have anything delivered to them today.»
The Baltimore International Seafarers' Centre is a nonprofit organisation serving seafarers who call on the Port of Baltimore from all over the world. Its mission is to «facilitate the well-being of crew members by offering transportation ashore,» according to information on its website.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in New Delhi had said that 20 Indians are onboard the cargo ship Dali and the Indian Embassy in Washington is in close touch with them and the local
