Los Angeles, Sept. 10 -- Nearly 70 shipping containers plunged into the water Tuesday morning when a cargo vessel was docked at Southern California's Port of Long Beach, authorities said.
According to a press release from the port, approximately 67 containers toppled from the cargo ship Mississippi at Terminal G shortly after 9:00 a.m. local time. Several of the falling containers struck and damaged a smaller clean-air barge moored alongside the vessel.
Footage posted online captured the dramatic moment as containers tumbled from the vessel like a sea glacier collapsing, crashing into the harbor waters and leaving some twisted and partially submerged. The Mississippi had last docked in China two weeks earlier, according to VesselFinder, a...