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BALTIMORE, Md. - Video posted to social media appears to show a cargo ship exploding in the Baltimore Harbor, near where the Baltimore Key Bridge collapsed in March 2024 .

Witness Jay Steinmetz, who was in a sailboat nearby, told FOX 5 DC that the name of the ship is the MV W Sapphire.

"We heard a huge explosion," he said. "I thought that they were blowing up part of the bridge, but obviously I

could see after I turned my head that there was a 200-foot plume of smoke over the boat that we'd just seen."

He said that because he was far enough away, the explosion didn't move his sailboat.

Steinmetz said that he was able to hear some of what was going on through an emergency radio he had on board his sailboat. He said that those on board the MV W Sapphire were concerned abo

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