Wreck elimination personnel conduct upkeep and hearth harm assessments of the VB-10000 lifting beams [St. Simons Sound Incident Response photo.]
Following the latest hearth within the inside of the Golden Ray wreck, St. Simons Sound Incident Response engineers have been persevering with harm assessments of each the wreck itself and the tools getting used to chop it into sections and take away it.
Naval architects and response engineers are assessing the construction of the remaining wreck and the custom-fabricated lifting buildings welded to its prime. Meantime, wreck elimination personnel proceed to evaluate, restore and exchange tools on the VB-10000 heavy elevate vessel.
Although there’s no phrase but on when chopping will resume, divers and rope-access technicians are persevering with pre-cutting operations on the wreck that embody the drilling of further drainage holes and hearth suppression entry factors alongside the remaining sections of the wreck.
Environmental response efforts stay ongoing, with shoreline survey groups recovering elevated numbers of small, plastic particles from the shorelines of Jekyll Island and St. Simons Island.
Safety personnel proceed air monitoring locally utilizing cell air monitoring tools.. Air high quality evaluation and water pattern evaluation continues to verify no exceedances of air and water high quality requirements.
