Golden Ray Salvage

[Lepke]

If you're interested, they are making the first cut. The chain they're using is on the right side of the ship from the bow. They've already removed the prop and shaft, big money in salvage.
https://www.marinelink.com/news/gol...-11-12&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MT-ENews
https://www.marinelink.com/news/golden-ray-salvors-begin-cutting-483060

 

[menzies]

https://www.trawlerforum.com/forums/s3/golden-ray-its-finally-going-start-54029.html

 

[Sailor of Fortune]

If you're interested, they are making the first cut. The chain they're using is on the right side of the ship from the bow. They've already removed the prop and shaft, big money in salvage.
https://www.marinelink.com/news/gol...-11-12&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MT-ENews
https://www.marinelink.com/news/golden-ray-salvors-begin-cutting-483060

My company took the propeller off last January. It is now a reef on the Georgia coast.

 

[RT Firefly]

Greetings,
Mr. SoF. Was there no scrap value in the prop? Was it brass/bronze?

 

[Sailor of Fortune]

Plenty of scrap value. Insurance company orders. I think they were trying to buy some good will in a horrible situation.

 

[Ski in NC]

Seems like a waste of a valuable alloy. The could make a reef out of other steel parts.

Strange.

 

[Comodave]

But it was probably pretty easy to make it ready for being a reef, no hazmat from oil etc.

 

[Sailor of Fortune]

Seems like a waste of a valuable alloy. The could make a reef out of other steel parts.

Strange.

keep in mind handling and transportation costs of getting this 40 plus ton piece to a processing place. Cranes, barges and a staging area to cut,load and truck. No much processing area in Port of Brunswick. This is small potatos for insurance company during a big project on its hands.

 

[Maerin]

Some hubbub in Brunswick with the docking of the bow section. The one pic is of the bow section looking at the top deck, the 2nd pic is the cross section of the piece that was cut off. Fascinating.

 

[GoneFarrell]

Wow, what a job!

Slight thread drift: used to go through the ships at Zidells ship breaker in Portland with hooligan buds. We'd drift down between ships then get aboard and search below with newspaper torches. Big adventure, especially when the torches burned out! I'll bet Lepke has some stories like that.

 

[kthoennes]

Wow, now that's impressive.

 

[oscar]

We watch a lot of Youtube videos about Svitzer/Wijsmuller and Smit-Tak, companies that have been doing jobs like this, and many a lot harder, for decades. (Look for the raising of the Russian sub Kursk, see link below, to get started.) So half out of flat water this is not particularly challenging within this industry. But, it's good to see it finally getting underway.

 

[kthoennes]

Looks like the divers were using Desco diving helmets. Hardly changed at all from my commercial diving days in the 1980's. I had no idea those models were still used or made. They were tough old tanks, can't tell you how many times I whacked my helmet on a girder or pipe or the bottom of a work barge.