Salvage – Professional Mariner

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…

20 Dec

Bulker refloated three weeks after St. Lawrence grounding

Professional Mariner StaffCasualty NewsGreat Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway System, Salvage, U.S. Coast Guard

(MASSENA, N.Y.) — A Canadian-flagged bulk carrier that ran aground in the St. Lawrence River three weeks ago was refloated Monday after lightering and assistance from three tugboats. The 738-foot Tim S. Dool, loaded with Canadian wheat and en route from Port Weller, Ontario, to Quebec, grounded on Nov. 23 outside the navigation channel on the U.S. side of the…

09 Dec

Seattle fireboat extinguishes burning vessel in Elliott Bay

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

(SEATTLE) — The U.S. Coast Guard, Seattle Fire Department, Washington State Ferries and good Samaritans responded to a vessel on fire in Elliott Bay on Sunday afternoon. The Coast Guard launched a 45-foot response boat-medium and a 29-foot response boat-small from Station Seattle after received reports of a recreational vessel on fire in the vicinity of Duwamish Head Light near…

08 Nov

SS United States scheduled to leave on final voyage

Professional Mariner StaffMaritime NewsSalvage

(PHILADELPHIA) — SS United States, a fixture on the Philadelphia waterfront, will leave the city permanently next week after nearly three decades in port, WHYY/NPR reported. On Nov. 14, tugboats will cast lines to the former ocean liner to prepare to remove the ship from the dock in South Philadelphia, where it has resided since 1996. After moving the ship…

28 Oct

Dali companies to pay $102 million to settle U.S. lawsuit

Professional Mariner StaffMaritime Newscasualties, Salvage

(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Justice Department announced Thursday that Grace Ocean and Synergy Marine, the Singaporean corporations that owned and operated the containership Dali, have agreed to pay nearly $102 million to resolve a civil claim brought by the United States for costs borne in responding to the catastrophic collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. The settlement…

02 Oct

Florida county signs deal to turn idle liner into reef

Professional Mariner StaffMaritime NewsSalvage

(PHILADELPHIA) — A historic ocean liner that once ferried immigrants, Hollywood stars and heads of state may soon find its final resting place at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, after a Florida county inked a tentative deal to turn the ship into the world's largest artificial reef, WPVI News reported. The contract approved Tuesday by officials in Okaloosa…

09 Sep

Sale of retired WSF ferries canceled after tow failure

Professional Mariner StaffMaritime Newsferries, Salvage

(SEATTLE) — Washington State Ferries (WSF) has scrapped plans to sell two decommissioned ferries after the buyer failed to tow the vessels out of Puget Sound, The Seattle Times reported. The retired ferries — Elwha and Klahowya — were to be taken to Ecuador last month for recycling. But after the tow crew couldn’t connect the boats in tandem to…

06 Sep

Salvors refloat megayacht after grounding off Maryland

Professional Mariner StaffCasualty NewsSalvage, U.S. Coast Guard

(BALTIMORE) — A 104-foot megayacht was refloated and removed from Chesapeake Bay on Aug. 31 after running aground and partially capsizing a month earlier. On July 27, response agencies received a report stating the vessel Lovebug had run aground about a half-mile offshore between Beverly Beach and Curtis Point, Md. The five people on board were safely removed from the…

20 Aug

Resolve crane barge heads to Puerto Rico to salvage sailboat

Professional Mariner StaffCasualty NewsSalvage, U.S. Coast Guard

(SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico) — The U.S. Coast Guard announced Tuesday that a crane barge is headed to Culebra, Puerto Rico, for Resolve Marine contractors to remove the grounded sailing vessel Obsession from the reef just off Flamenco Beach. A Resolve Marine 400-ton shear-leg barge, 164 feet in length and 54 feet wide, is being towed by tugboat from Baltimore,…