Very sad update on the story of Brother Loadholt’s passing in Georgia:
It started as a typical morning on GPA’s Ocean Terminal docks.
Longshoremen, members of ILA Local 1414, were loading vehicles onto the Wallenius Wilhelmsen ship Tiger, which had come in to port overnight.
Operations had been underway about two hours, with longshoremen driving the vehicles staged on the docks one-by-one up the wide ramp to the ship. Suddenly there was a splash and the vehicle being driven by Jabri Loadholt — known as Bri — was in the water.
It hasn’t yet been determined what caused Loadholt – a veteran of the docks and well-versed in ro-ro operations – to lose control of the car he was driving and plunge into the river. Because the vehicle suddenly swerved before going off the dock, some family and friends have speculated that he suffered a medical emergency and blacked out.
Despite heroic efforts to save him, the longtime Savannah resident and father of three was pronounced dead at Memorial Health University Medical Center.