Agreed, there are many different weights possible, depending if vessel is empty, ⅓ weight capacity loaded, ¼ weight capacity loaded, ⅛ weight capacity loaded, full weight capacity loaded, the density of the cargo being such the volume is fully capacity loaded, but cargo density is low enough the ship still does not settle to the plimsoll line....etc....

That wasn't the point I was trying to bring out.

I was addressing the contention of moving the loaded Dali laterally, by pushing it at the center with a tug that is a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the weight and size and draft depth.
Trying to do that in 80 seconds, or less, was a time element I put in there, because going by the available videos, and publicly released timeline, it seems reasonable to expect that is all the time that was available from the point trouble was known to the point there was absolutely no time remaining to avoid collision.

If pushing those behemoths with a flea-sized tug at the center point of their length is the way to get the job done, it seems unreasonable to think the tuggers wouldn't be doing that after this many years of ........I dunno.......doing it wrong, I guess.

Maybe for a comparison, not necessarily to scale, but it may help get an idea.

Imagine yourself in a stream with a 120' long log, let's say, 8' in diameter. That log needs to be moved sideways to go through an opening between two pilings set in the river bed, but it is angled in the stream and heading toward one of the pilings, going off course, and it isn't very far from that piling.
At the speed it is travelling, it will be there in about 40 seconds.
Let's say it's only going 2.5 feet per second.

Now, you want to swim out there to the center of that log, push it straight sideways in the angled orientation that it has so it will go through that space between the pilings, without hitting either one, in less than 35-38 seconds.

If the way to sideways move, guide, control, shift, direct an object of 100,000+ tons, nearly one fifth of a mile long, whose lower edge is 40-50 feet below the surface of the water, using a little pusher of very diminutive size and weight, pushing only in the center of that wayward almost fifth of a mile long island, and get it done in 80 seconds or less, and not hit the.......

.......you're right !!!!!
They got nothing but numbskulls in those boats back there.....
......and after a few generations, they're only going downhill.

I hope you don't think that 8mph is a high rate of speed. The ships momentum (even at 8mph) would have carried it forward hundreds of yards after the loss of power. The pilot even gave the order to drop anchors but it doesn't look like that happened. The anchor dropping mechanism is totally manual and would not have been effected by the loss of power. This information was reported by FOX News. The "Black Box" carried by marine craft is very primitive compared to the "Black Box" on aircraft. The information recorded was not continuous information but snap shots taken a specific intervals. This information was reported by the head of the NTSB.

Years ago I read an article on a "breaker yard" in SE Asia. To save money they didn't use a dry dock, they waited for a very high tide and then with tugs and/or the ships engines got each ship up to max possible speed and ran them up the very wide and very slick sand & mud beach of a very low, flat shoreline as far as the momentum would carry them. Some made it so far they were above the tide line. Then work crews with cutting torches etc. swarmed over them until the last ton of metal went off to be melted and recycled.
With things as heavy as ships momentum is king.

You can be sure of several things. There will be an "investigation" that will take one to two years.

Competent people could complete it in a few days, but that is not how our government works.

The clearing of the wreckage should begin immediately but it won't. It will probably take months to clear at least one shipping channel. Again, remember that the people in charge don't care about the interrupted commerce.

The bridge could be rebuilt quickly. They already have all the engineering data. That won't happen because idiots are in charge. It will probably take years and the Democrats in charge will blame the whole thing on Republicans. If Republicans were in charge, they would blame Democrats. God forbid that they would all understand the importance of working together to just get it done.

Meanwhile, billions of dollars of commerce and inconvenience will be imposed on the thousands of commuters and businesses that rely on the use of the bridge and the port of Baltimore.

I am not a marine engineer (my experience is limited to a plastic canoe) and all I know about this event comes from the internet. I have to believe that the pilot who was in charge was experienced (you don't get to be a pilot without experience) and did whatever (s)he could to prevent the ship from going off course. After all, (s)he is answerable to the authorities and his/her future is at stake. Answers will come from analysis of the black box and interviews with the crew as well as the videos of the ship and everything we have seen on the internet. Until then, I have to consider that it's an accident. There may be events or actions that led to the accident but this is not the forum to lay blame. That will be up to the NTSB (or maritime equivalent).