Golden Ray: Cutting and clean-up efforts proceed

The cutting chain progresses along the pre-cut groove during operations to separate Section Three from the remaining Golden Ray wreck on Sunday. [St. Simons Sound Incident response photo]

After the setback that adopted final month’s fireplace contained in the Golden Ray wreck, reducing operations have continued as responders work to dismantle the stays of the capsized automotive service and take away them from St. Simons Sound, Ga.

{A photograph} taken Sunday confirmed the chain utilized by the heavylift vessel VB-10000 to chop by way of the wreck making good course of alongside the pre-cut groove ready for it throughout operations to separate Section Three from the remaining portion of the hull.

ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE

While it’s the reducing operations that entice essentially the most consideration, environmental safety measures are an necessary factor of the response and on Tuesday environmental mitigation personnel recovered oil that discharged from the wreck with operations on the shoreline and within the neighborhood of the wreck web site.

The 150-yard security zone across the EPB (Environmental Protection Barrier) across the wreck has been elevated to 200 yards for leisure vessels.

With the enormous heavy carry vessel VB-10000 over the wreck, a response vessel tows a Current Buster to gather any oil that escapes the Environmental Protection Barrier (EPB) throughout air pollution mitigation operations on Tuesday. [St. Simons Sound Incident Response photo]