Julio Cervantes Suarez, 37, recalled praying to God as he plunged into the Patapsco River after a cargo ship struck Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.

Julio Cervantes Suarez has spoken publicly for the first time about his ordeal. The only person to survive the fall into the Patapsco River when a cargo ship crashed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in March described his experience for the first time during an interview Wednesday with NBC News.

Julio Cervantes Suarez endured the unthinkable when a 100,000-plus ton cargo ship crashed into the bridge he was working on, collapsing the critical structure and sending him tumbling into the dark, unforgiving waters below.

Julio Cervantes Suarez recounted the March tragedy, which killed six construction workers, to NBC News in his first interview.

The only person who survived falling from Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge during its catastrophic collapse says he watched in horror as his coworkers, friends and relatives plunged to their deaths.

Speaking out for the first time since the catastrophic bridge collapse in March, Julio Cervantes Suarez describes to NBC News’ Tom Llamas his fight to survive after he was thrown from the Francis Scott Key Bridge while working.

Julio Cervantes Suarez is opening up about surviving the Baltimore bridge collapse The husband and father was one of seven construction workers on the structure when it collapsed, but was the only one who survived More than three months after Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed,

Only survivor in Baltimore bridge collapse reveals miracle escape as coworkers and relatives fell - Julio Cervantes Suarez was able to roll down the window of his rapidly sinking truck and climb out i