Crews are working to recover the nearly 70 heavy shipping containers that fell off a cargo ship into the water at the Port of Long Beach.

The 2-ton containers were stacked on the vessel Mississippi Tuesday morning when they toppled into the water . Some landed on a barge next to the cargo ship, which arrived earlier that morning from China with merchandise that included clothing, shoes, electronics and furniture.

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Some merchandise and boxes could be seen floating in the water, but most of the containers that went into the water did not break open.

A Long Beach Fire Department boat used high-pressure jets of water Tuesday to corral the containers in one place.A crane will be used to retrieve containers that sank in

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