Anchor chain affixed to the pulley-block system on the VB-10000 heavy-lift vessel steps gradually to puncture Section One of the Golden Ray wreckage. [St. Simons Sound Incident Response photo]
After awaiting weather condition home windows and also getting over a variety of technological problems, the Unified Command (USCG, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Gallagher Marine Systems) servicing the salvage of the tipped over auto service provider Golden Ray reports that reducing of the wreckage right into areas has actually currently started.
Photos and also B-roll video clip launched today, reveal the biggest hefty lift vessel ever before integrated in the UNITED STATE, the twin-gantry, twin-barge catamaran VB-10,000 beginning the reducing procedure.
The very first cut comes greater than a year after the September 8, 2019 capsize of the 660 foot long vessel.
A great deal of the primary job that has actually come before the begin of the reducing procedure has actually entered into building an advanced environmental management obstacle around the wreckage and also establishing spill action sources– all set for whatever occurs when particles from the remains of the lorries aboard the vessel when it tipped over splashes out right into the waters.
