Update (Sept 30): Final prep work for relocating the Transocean Winner gear onto the OHT Hawk are proceedingFriday

The supports have actually currently been separated as well as the gear is being hung on 4 pulls regarding half a mile from the Hawk.

The Hawk has actually virtually finished ballasting as well as is making last prep work to get the gear.

Weather problems are boosting. The Coast Guard stated it is most likely that the gear will certainly be drifted over the Hawk later on Friday early morning or very early mid-day. The Transocean Winner will certainly be packed onto the Hawk as well as secured of the water within the following 1 day.

Sept 29: Work has actually started to increase the supports of the harmed Transocean Winner gear in Broad Bay, Scotland to prepare for its action onto a hefty lift vessel.

The UK Maritime as well as Coastguard Agency stated Thursday that teams started elevating the gear’s 4 major supports today. Four additional supports will certainly likewise be gotten rid of leaving the gear affixed to pulls. The procedure is anticipated to take around 12 for both the major as well as additional supports.

The Transocean Winner ran swamped on the Isle of Lewis August 8 after damaging cost-free throughout a tow from Norway to Malta in hefty weather condition. The gear was refloated regarding 2 weeks later on as well as has actually been tied in Lewis’ Broad Bay since. Earlier this month Transocean, proprietor of the gear, acquired the Offshore Heavy Transport’s semi-submersible hefty lift vessel OHT Hawk to to finish the gear’s trip to Turkey where it will certainly be knocked down.

Prior to running swamped, the 30-year-old gear Transocean Winner had actually simply finished an agreement in the Norwegian market of the North Sea as well as was gone to the breakers when the case took place.

The OHT HAWK is a lift semi-submersible vessel created float on/off procedures.

As the gear’s supports are raised, the Hawk will certainly start to ballast down (submerge) as it prepares to get the gear. The gear will certainly after that be pulled throughout to the Hawk utilizing overview factors prior to deballasting– enabling the vessel to find up gradually under the Transocean Winner.

The MCA stated the procedure is anticipated to start daytime Friday to check for any kind of prospective contamination yet might advance Saturday early morning if needed.

A momentary exemption area of 1000m will certainly be implemented throughout the ballasting procedure till such time the gear is safeguarded.

Pollution counter procedures are currently in position as well as an MCA security airplane will fly over the location to moitor for any kind of contamination.

“Our intention all the way along has been to get this operation under way without endangering life or the environment around,” Hugh Shaw, the Secretary of State’s Representative For Maritime Salvage as well asIntervention “All the preparation work has been done in anticipation of this moment so that we could be ready when the time comes as it now has.”