How to earn 10mm refloating a 654 ft boat! Sea Cowboys.....
01-27-2014 | 09:15 PM
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How to earn 10mm refloating a 654 ft boat! Sea Cowboys.....
I just read this in Powerboat and Motoryacht, it was originally written for Wired magazine:
http://www.wired.com/science/discove...urrentPage=all
Sadly a salvage guy died during this event and the cargo of 4000+ brand new Mazdas were scrapped!
On July 23, 2006, she was en route from Japan to Vancouver, British Columbia; Tacoma, Washington; and Port Hueneme, California, with a cargo of 4,812 vehicles. During a transfer of ballast water south of the Aleutian Islands, she lost stability and developed a 60-degree list to port. There were reports of a large wave striking the vessel during the ballast transfer, but it is unknown what effect this had on her loss of stability.[3] On July 24, the United States Coast Guard and the 176th Wing of the Alaska Air National Guard successfully rescued the 23 crew members.[4]
4,703 of the vehicles on board were Mazdas,[5] with about 60% of these being the 2007 Mazda3s and 30% being Mazda CX-7 crossover SUVs. The remaining Mazdas were mainly RX-8s and MX-5s. According to Car and Driver magazine, the exact contents of the shipment were 2804 Mazda3s, 1329 CX-7s, 295 MX-5s, 214 RX-8s, 56 Mazda5s and 5 Mazdaspeed6s.[5]
110 of the vehicles were not Mazdas, but Isuzu vehicles, mostly Isuzu Elf. The total cargo is said to have been valued at US$117 million. Later Mazda North America scrapped all of their vehicles that were on board the vessel during the incident
http://www.wired.com/science/discove...urrentPage=all
Sadly a salvage guy died during this event and the cargo of 4000+ brand new Mazdas were scrapped!
On July 23, 2006, she was en route from Japan to Vancouver, British Columbia; Tacoma, Washington; and Port Hueneme, California, with a cargo of 4,812 vehicles. During a transfer of ballast water south of the Aleutian Islands, she lost stability and developed a 60-degree list to port. There were reports of a large wave striking the vessel during the ballast transfer, but it is unknown what effect this had on her loss of stability.[3] On July 24, the United States Coast Guard and the 176th Wing of the Alaska Air National Guard successfully rescued the 23 crew members.[4]
4,703 of the vehicles on board were Mazdas,[5] with about 60% of these being the 2007 Mazda3s and 30% being Mazda CX-7 crossover SUVs. The remaining Mazdas were mainly RX-8s and MX-5s. According to Car and Driver magazine, the exact contents of the shipment were 2804 Mazda3s, 1329 CX-7s, 295 MX-5s, 214 RX-8s, 56 Mazda5s and 5 Mazdaspeed6s.[5]
110 of the vehicles were not Mazdas, but Isuzu vehicles, mostly Isuzu Elf. The total cargo is said to have been valued at US$117 million. Later Mazda North America scrapped all of their vehicles that were on board the vessel during the incident
01-27-2014 | 09:51 PM
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I read the same story last night, great read! I was telling the wife about it afterward, those guys are crazy and the best of the best it sounds like at what they do. I think it would be a very exciting and rewarding job! The story would also make one hell of a movie!
01-28-2014 | 09:44 AM
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I emailed the link to a buddy and he responded with a few more facts:
1. Titan is doing the salvage work on that Italian cruise ship (Costa Concordia) that sunk near the port.....now estimated to be a 799mm salvage job!
2. Titan was sold a few years back to Crowley (the shipping, towing empire)
1. Titan is doing the salvage work on that Italian cruise ship (Costa Concordia) that sunk near the port.....now estimated to be a 799mm salvage job!
2. Titan was sold a few years back to Crowley (the shipping, towing empire)
