How to right a ship for 10 million dollars

[Cole]

Yes I am a cross posting whore. I stole this from General chit chat on pirate.
Pretty cool stuff - Ship (Cougar Ace) is carrying 4,703 Mazda cars in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska has a ballast accident and tips on its side. $103 Million in cargo, $100 million dollar ship that is sitting on its side. A crew comes in for $10 million dollars and rights the ship.

It's a long read but they did a great job of telling the story. I can only imagine what that job would be like.
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-03/ff_seacowboys?currentPage=all#

 

[Jeep Family]

All that work and time and the death of a friend to end up shredding all 4,000+ cars is just crazy.
I would have taken some of the cars and signed a waiver or something.

 

[InDaShop]

Damn that sounds like a hard but bad ass thrilling job. Money doesnt sound too bad either.

 

[blacksheep10]

wow.

 

[muchado]

That is a crazy ass job.

 

[jtreeves1]

id do it

 

[Travis]

id do it

Damn right, sounds fun.

 

[Mr. Underkill]

Faxing a resume tonight.
That's a great way to think about salvaging a ship. In the past the Dutch method was about all there was.
Bring another boat with big pumps and air bags.

 

[Cole]

Their website http://www.titansalvage.com/

 

[Mr. Underkill]

it's some amazing work they've done.

 

[under_psi]

i didn't see (read) the part where they had to scrap all the cars....

i did read the grizzly details of the guy that fell and hit his head 80ft down and hit his head on one of those huge winches....

 

[InDaShop]

off and on took me all afternoon to read that article, but well worth it.

Lou it was the very last of the article where they scrapped the cargo.

 

[Juan_Hong_Loe]

That's crazy as hell! Would be one hell of a job!

 

[under_psi]

they lose one empoyee a year....consistently....nto for me....but a $10million payday seems nice....wonder what their investment in 'righting' the ship was?

 

[InDaShop]

wonder what their investment in 'righting' the ship was?

Exactly, they had tugs, and ships, and you have to pay the Coast Guard, plus all that expediated travel, etc.... I bet it was a good chunk of change, but still....dude died.

 

[under_psi]

the correct answer is:

more than they bargained for....(in regards to the death of a coworker)