Suez blocked.
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Google did most of the heavy lifting I have to admit
Fr J Hackett
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Fascinating video and story difficult to see how they made profit on $4.2 million salvage award after 95 days and all the equipment loss.
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Kukri
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About twenty five million dollars now.
JumbleDuck
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This is another cracking good YouTube salvage video: Ulrich Harms bringing the SS Great Britain back from the Falklands.
Kukri
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Smit used to make films of their big wreck removals. I remember one on the “London Valour” (very sad case) and one showing their first use of expanded polystyrene granules rather than compressed air and one on the “Betelgeuse” - a case where I think a manslaughter charge might have been brought against a certain French oil company - she exploded because her ballast tanks were so corroded that she snapped in two in the course of discharging her cargo at Bantry Bay.
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westhinder
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That is something totally different, a nostalgic book about typically Dutch products of the past. Think mopeds to sweets, via the design of adverts and posters. Probably good fun for those interested in that sort of thing ?
JumbleDuck
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Strange but true: the inventor of that technique was denied a patent because refloating a wreck with ping-pong balls had appeared in a Disney cartoon (printed) fifteen years earlier.
Kukri
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Thanks for that too! I knew Euan Corlett, he was the most notable consultant naval architect of the age, with a big practice as an expert witness. I also had some dealings with Ulrich Harms and Rizdon Beasley. Harms bought out Beasley and then in turn sold to Smit. They were a pair of highly entrepreneurial and courageous characters, it might be said of each of them that they certainly had guts.
Thistle
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Back on topic ...
I see that Ever Given is still in the Great Bitter Lake. Any news on what's going on / how long she's likely to be there?
I see that Ever Given is still in the Great Bitter Lake. Any news on what's going on / how long she's likely to be there?
Kukri
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Dive survey, for sure. And a very careful going over of the machinery. I would not be surprised if there is some damage.
Kukri
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Here is the “Elwood Mead” in later life as the “Good Leader” owned by Nick Frangos and Nick Moundreas - whom I also knew... she cleaned up nicely - but was unlucky. They sold her in ‘84 and she became rebars in 2002. She was (obviously) a very well built ship, built in Japan for Kaiser Steel.
If you look at the words
ELWOOD MEAD
and
..GOOD LEADER
you will see why she was called that.
penfold
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How very 'Watery Fowls'
Gary Fox
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Lego 'Huge Ship' set is selling fast
Babylon
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Amazon is now completely sold out, but still available on Nile...
Kukri
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You mean it’s in De Nile?
Frank Holden
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Lego are on the band wagon? This is getting truly in Seine....
Concerto
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That's the trouble with these box ships.
Frank Holden
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Be thankful IKEA hasn't got into shipbuilding....