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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,…

24 Jul

NOAA to provide $54 million to address marine debris

Professional Mariner StaffMaritime NewsNOAA, Salvage

(WASHINGTON) — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced the availability of up to $54 million across two funding opportunities to address marine debris throughout the coastal and Great Lakes states, territories and Freely Associated States. These funding opportunities allow NOAA to support impactful, large-scale marine debris removal projects, as well as the installation, monitoring and maintenance of…

02 Jul

California cruise ship awaits fate after refloating, cleanup

Professional Mariner StaffCasualty NewsSalvage, U.S. Coast Guard

(SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY, Calif.) — A unified command has completed its pollution response to Aurora, a decommissioned cruise ship, which sank May 22 in Little Potato Slough within the San Joaquin Delta northwest of Stockton. Over the past several weeks, response contractors, Global Diving and Salvage and subcontractors, successfully refloated the vessel and removed an estimated 21,675 gallons of oily…

25 Jun

Dali leaves Baltimore, arrives in Virginia for repairs

Professional Mariner StaffMaritime Newscasualties, Ports, Salvage, U.S. Coast Guard

(BALTIMORE) — The containership Dali headed out of Baltimore for Virginia on Monday, nearly three months after the ship lost power and struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing it to collapse. Six construction workers on the bridge at the time of the incident were killed. The ship arrived at the Virginia International Gateway in Portsmouth, Va., on Tuesday, where…

14 Jun

Timeline extended for investigation into loss of Titan submersible

Professional Mariner StaffCasualty NewsSalvage, U.S. Coast Guard

(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation (MBI) continues to actively investigate the factors that led to the loss of the Titan submersible in the North Atlantic Ocean on June 18, 2023, with five people aboard. The Coast Guard’s investigation remains active but will take longer than initially projected to complete. “The investigation into the implosion of…

12 Jun

Main channel fully restored at Port of Baltimore

Professional Mariner StaffMaritime Newscasualties, Ports, Salvage, shipping, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

(BALTIMORE) — As part of the Unified Command response to the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and U.S. Navy supervisor of salvage and diving on Monday restored the Fort McHenry Federal Channel to its original operational dimensions of 700 feet wide and 50 feet deep for commercial maritime transit through the…

06 Jun

Salvors remove final truss blocking Baltimore channel

Professional Mariner StaffMaritime Newscasualties, Ports, Salvage, shipping, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Coast Guard

(BALTIMORE) — Ten weeks after the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, salvage crews removed the final large steel truss segment blocking the 700-foot-wide Fort McHenry Federal Channel on June 3 and 4. The span collapsed after being hit by the containership Dali on March 26. Using concrete breakers, underwater surveys and oxyacetylene torches, they separated tons of concrete…