Salvage – Professional Mariner

25 Feb

Salvors remove grounded barge from entrance to San Juan Harbor

Professional Mariner StaffCasualty NewsSalvage, Tugboats and towing, U.S. Coast Guard

(SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico) — The unified command managing response efforts for the grounded barge Defiant announced the successful refloating and removal of the vessel from the Castillo San Felipe del Morro shoreline on Wednesday. The unified command said response personnel and contracted salvors refloated Defiant at 2:22 a.m., just before the arrival of high tide. Salvage crews and tugboat…

18 Feb

Salvors remove residual fuel from grounded barge in San Juan

Professional Mariner StaffCasualty NewsPorts, Salvage, U.S. Coast Guard

(SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico) — The unified command announced salvors completed fuel removal operations Monday as assessments and preparations continue to remove a grounded fuel barge from the rocks along the San Felipe del Morro Castle shoreline. The barge Defiant grounded at about noon Feb. 9 just off the Port of San Juan harbor entrance. There were no reported injuries. The…

28 Nov

Crews complete removal of sunken tug at Bremerton Marina

Professional Mariner StaffCasualty NewsSalvage, Tugboats and towing, U.S. Coast Guard

(BREMERTON, Wash.) — The unified command consisting of the U.S. Coast Guard, Washington Department of Ecology, Suquamish tribe, and the Port of Bremerton has concluded response operations associated with the tugboat Dominion at the Bremerton Marina. The vessel sank on Sept. 17 and the removal of the vessel is now complete. Dominion was a 130-foot World War II-era wooden hull…

29 Sep

Sunken WWII-era yacht raised, taken to Port Townsend

Professional Mariner StaffCasualty Newsmegayachts, Salvage, U.S. Coast Guard

(SEATTLE) — A unified command consisting of the U.S. Coast Guard, Washington Department of Ecology, and Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has concluded its response to the 108-foot vessel Cairdeas, which sank in Sinclair Inlet near Bremerton on Sept. 7. On Saturday, responsibility for continued actions and custody of the vessel was transferred to the DNR. After being raised,…

29 Sep

Salvors complete recovery of fallen containers at Port of Long Beach

Professional Mariner StaffCasualty NewsPorts, Salvage, shipping

(LONG BEACH, Calif.) — The unified command on Friday announced that all 95 containers that fell overboard from the cargo vessel Mississippi at Pier G have been recovered in and around the Port of Long Beach. Early counts for the number of containers overboard increased from the original estimate as some units were crushed, submerged or hidden from view in…

20 Sep

Tugboat leaks fuel after sinking at Bremerton Marina

Professional Mariner StaffCasualty NewsSalvage, Tugboats and towing, U.S. Coast Guard

(SEATTLE) — A unified command consisting of the U.S. Coast Guard and the Washington Department of Ecology was established Friday in response to a tugboat sinking at the Bremerton Marina. Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound received an initial pollution report from the National Response Center regarding the 130-foot tugboat Dominion, which sank at about 4 p.m. Wednesday. It was reported…

19 Sep

Salvors making progress in recovery of Long Beach containers

Professional Mariner StaffCasualty NewsPorts, Salvage, shipping

(LONG BEACH, Calif.) — The unified command continues to make progress in salvage operations at the Port of Long Beach following the cargo vessel Mississippi container incident that occurred Sept. 9. The Container Recovery Group, working alongside salvage crews and members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), has recovered 54 containers from the pier and water, up from…

12 Sep

World War II-era yacht sinks near Bremerton

Professional Mariner StaffCasualty NewsSalvage, U.S. Coast Guard

(SEATTLE) — A unified command consisting of the U.S. Coast Guard, Washington Department of Ecology, and Washington Department of Natural Resources has been established to respond to a sunken 108-foot vessel in Sinclair Inlet near Bremerton, Wash. Cairdeas is a wooden hull World War II-era yacht. The Coast Guard received initial reports that the vessel was sinking on Sunday afternoon.…

04 Mar

SS United States, slated to become reef, arrives in Alabama

Professional Mariner StaffMaritime NewsSalvage, Tugboats and towing

(MOBILE, Ala.) — SS United States arrived in Mobile on Monday after an 1,800-mile tow from its berth in Philadelphia. The iconic national symbol and last surviving American ocean liner will now undergo preparations for deployment as the world’s largest artificial reef off Florida’s Gulf Coast near Destin-Fort Walton Beach. In the spirit of its record-breaking history, "America’s flagship" concluded…

12 Jan

Bulker refloated with incoming tide on Delaware River

Professional Mariner StaffCasualty NewsSalvage, U.S. Coast Guard

(PHILADELPHIA) — The bulk carrier Algoma Verity was refloated Saturday and is moored at Tioga Marine Terminal approximately 2 miles north of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge on the Delaware River. At 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay watch standers received a report from the pilot aboard Algoma Verity stating the vessel had run aground with no injuries. The…