Anchor chain connected to the pulley system on the VB-10000 heavy-lift vessel strikes slowly to chop by Section One of the Golden Ray wreck. [St. Simons Sound Incident Response photo]
After ready for climate home windows and overcoming quite a few technical difficulties, the Unified Command (USCG, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Gallagher Marine Systems) engaged on the salvage of the capsized automobile provider Golden Ray stories that chopping of the wreck into sections has now begun.
Photos and B-roll video launched as we speak, present the most important heavy elevate vessel ever constructed within the U.S., the twin-gantry, twin-barge catamaran VB-10,000 beginning the chopping course of.
The first reduce comes greater than a 12 months after the September 8, 2019 capsize of the 660 foot lengthy vessel.
Quite a lot of the preparatory work that has preceded the beginning of the chopping operation has gone into establishing a classy environmental safety barrier across the wreck and organising spill response sources — prepared for no matter occurs when particles from the stays of the autos aboard the vessel when it capsized spills out into the waters.
