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TITAN Salvage Making Progress in Effort to Re-Float Sunken Ship |
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Thursday, 24 January 2008 08:11 |
(DANIA, Fla.; Jan. 24, 2008) TITAN Salvage, Crowley Maritime Corporation's salvage and wreck removal company, reported today that its salvage team on site in Gibraltar responding to the wreck of the bulk ship New Flame is preparing to begin cutting the stern section of the ship from the sunken bow so that the stern can be re-floated and towed away.
The New Flame, which sank following a collision while exiting the port of Gibraltar in August of last year, now lies in the open ocean off Gibraltar's Europa Point with the forward four cargo holds of the ship lying on the ocean bottom, and cargo hold No.5 and the engine room still floating while being maintained by TITAN's salvage pumps. The ship is loaded with over 42,000 tons of scrap metal, which was being transported from New York Harbor to Turkey for recycling.
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