ugs prepare to place a dry-dock barge filled with Section Three of the Golden Ray wreckage under the VB-10000 throughout transloading procedures onFriday [St. Simons Sound Incident response photo.]
It ain’t over up until it mores than– and the salvage of the tipped over auto service provider Golden Ray proceeds, though completion currently appears visible. Although the huge hefty lift catamaran VB-10000 has actually finished reducing the vessel right into 8 areas, -responders still need to obtain every one of the staying areas out ofSt Simons Sound, Ga., where the auto service provider tipped over and to a reusing center in Louisiana.
On Sunday, wreckage elimination employees transloaded Section Three of the wreckage from a dry-dock barge on which it had actually been positioned back in July and onto to the barge Julie B. The 400- by 130-foot Julie B can bring lots up to 4,200 extra pounds per square foot and is utilized to transportation the wreckage areas to the reusing center.
Responders are making prep work to transload Section Six, the last area of the wreckage, from one more dry-dock barge to the Julie B complying with which both areas will certainly transportation with each other to the reusing center in Louisiana.
Meantime, absolutely nothing regarding the huge salvage procedure is verifying very easy. During transloading procedures on Saturday, the Julie B allided with the side of among the VB-10000 pontoons. The VB-10000 did not suffer damages. Marine security examiners and reaction designers examined a 12-inch lengthy by 4-inch vast fracture in the side covering plating of the port bow of the Julie B over the waterline and fixed the damages on Monday.
