 Meantime, he says he checks soil moisture meters and the weather and hopes for the best. Kate Ryan, WTOP News. When that container ship hit Baltimore's Key Bridge in March, eight construction workers fell into the water. Two of them survived. One of those survivors, Julio Cervantes Suarez, spoke with NBC Nightly News about the fight for his life and the search for his co-workers in the cold waters of the Patapsco River. He's being translated now by NBC's Tom Yamas.