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April 23, 2018

Chesapeake Bay TBM is ‘Chessie'

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The boring machine that will help expand Virginia's bridge and tunnel at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay has been named Chessie, after the bay's fabled sea monster.

The legend of Chessie is more than 80 years old, with reported “sightings” of the snakelike creature picking up in the 1980s.


 
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