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06/06/2009, 10:28 AM Seadog Joined on 05/03/2007 Posts 402 Re: MSC Napoli - hiccup !! The whisper on the Galley Radio is that the lifting test was not as straight forward as the salvage team would have liked and there is more preparatory work to do before proper lifting and cutting can commence.    Report

08/06/2009, 10:41 AM Seadog Joined on 05/03/2007 Posts 402 Re: MSC Napoli - Stuck fast - salvage ops put on hold! More chatter from the Galley Radio - the wreck remains are indeed stuck fast on the seabed - the salvage master and some of his team have returned to Holland to have a chat! So - what will be the next step? Surely not explosives - that could damage the lifting chains that have so carefully been put in place. Perhaps tucking a few airbags under the remains then slowly inflating them would do the job - will we see a dredger arrive on scene? Whatever they decide, I'm sure there will be a few more vessels out there in the coming weeks - I reckon they'll be here for Folk Week and beyond.      Report

10/06/2009, 11:18 AM Seadog Joined on 05/03/2007 Posts 402 Re: MSC Napoli - chains are stuck in the mud... It appears that, due to movement of the seabed, some of the chains have become stuck. Movement of the seabed? Has anyone in Sidmouth felt the earth move recently?  New arrival at the site is the cargo ship Flinterbay - this vessel has been used to carry clay from the West Country in the past so it looks as though a bit of dredging is called for.    Report

10/06/2009, 11:21 AM Local Yocal Joined on 01/04/2008 Devon Posts 148 Re: MSC Napoli - The earth move in Sidmouth? Feel the earth move in Sidmouth? With the average age being about 90 - I very much doubt it!!!    Report

11/06/2009, 8:46 PM Seadog Joined on 05/03/2007 Posts 402 Re: MSC Napoli - new chains laid - salvage back on track.... A couple of new chains have been laid and it appears that the salvage work is now back on track.    Report

19/06/2009, 5:23 PM Seadog Joined on 05/03/2007 Posts 402 Re: MSC Napoli - new chains laid - and more required.... It now appears that the remains are lying in the 'wrong kind of sand' and up to 7 of the chains have become embedded and need replacing. More delays ............    Report

22/06/2009, 10:29 AM Seadog Joined on 05/03/2007 Posts 402 Re: MSC Napoli - bits and pieces..... The propellor and sections of the rudder were on the decks of the crane barges yesterday.    Report

30/06/2009, 10:44 AM Seadog Joined on 05/03/2007 Posts 402 Re: MSC Napoli - bits and pieces..... More kit was delivered by the cargo ship Est on Sunday morning - she has subsequently left the site and is arriving in Rotterdam this morning. New chains and lifting wires are now in place and activity at the site has been stepped up a notch. Maybe we're in for a full lift any day now.    Report

02/07/2009, 9:02 AM Seadog Joined on 05/03/2007 Posts 402 Re: MSC Napoli - thar she blows..... A successful lift was managed yesterday - both barges are down in the water - and cutting operations are well underway.    Report

06/07/2009, 3:34 PM Seadog Joined on 05/03/2007 Posts 402 Re: MSC Napoli - salvage ops on track... Following update from DCC:-   MSC NAPOLI UPDATE The Maritime and Coastguard Agency has released the following information to media today: The operation to lift the remaining section of the MSC Napoli was successfully completed yesterday afternoon. Cutting has now commenced and will now continue in accordance with the agreed salvage plan. The wreck is now suspended, fully supported by the lifting chains, and locked in place by the 24 chain pullers. Following a parbuckling operation the wreck now has a 2 degree list and a 2 degree trim. Cutting operations commenced shortly after the lift and will now continue in accordance with the agreed salvage plan. There are no reports of any pollution in the vicinity of the wreck. A temporary exclusion zone of 500 metres around the wreck remains in place. The current contract includes the total removal of the stern, including the main engine, together with delivery of all scrap to the recycling facility of Scheepssloperij Nederland at Gravendeel in the Netherlands. Hugh Shaw, Secretary of State’s Representative for Maritime Salvage and Intervention “I am encouraged to see the final cutting phase of this project now underway and before I sign off this project an underwater inspection and sea bed survey will be made before the demobilisation of equipment / project completion begins.”    Report

11/07/2009, 10:19 AM Seadog Joined on 05/03/2007 Posts 402 Re: MSC Napoli - salvage ops on track... The salvage ops seem to be progressing well - it is certainly good news that pollution is at an absolute minimum around the remains. www.sidmouthherald.co.uk/sidmouthherald/news/story.aspx?brand=SMHOnline&category=news&tBrand=devon24&tCategory=newssmh&itemid=DEED08%20Jul%202009%2016%3A31%3A15%3A980    Report

23/07/2009, 9:09 AM Seadog Joined on 05/03/2007 Posts 402 Re: MSC Napoli - salvage ops on track... Some interesting comment from a Lloyds List article :- LATERAL thinking was needed when working out how to remove the badly-damaged stern of the MSC Napoli. Tried and tested methods failed, and eventually purpose-built equipment was constructed that enabled the salvors to place a chain cradle under the wreck and raise the aft section in one piece. Within a month, the final remains of the containership should have disappeared from Lyme Bay, but the postmortem on the wreck clearance operation is likely to continue for some time, because of the lessons learned and questions that remain unanswered. For a brief time, the 4,700 teu MSC Napoli was the world’s largest containership. But compared with today’s giants, the 1992-built ship, with a length of 275 m, breadth of 38 m, and weighing 53,400 gt, is a minnow. Take one of the latest ships to join the world fleet, the MSC Kalina. This titan has a nominal intake of 14,000 teu, is 349 m long, 51 m wide, and weighs in at 151,559 gt, almost three times that of the MSC Napoli. Ships of this size are becoming commonplace in the Asia-Europe trades, and many more will be delivered over the years ahead. So what if the worst should happen, and one of these, piled high with containers, was involved in a major shipping accident? The chain-puller system devised for the MSC Napoli probably only worked because the ship was already split in two, leaving the salvage team with a considerably smaller and lighter chunk of metal to lift than an entire hull, plus accommodation block and machinery. Nor does the salvage equipment exist to be able to crane off the containers from a stranded, fully-laden post-panamax vessel, and using helicopters may not always be possible. None of these concerns is new. The salvage industry has been complaining for years about under-investment because shipowners and insurers tend to go for the cheapest solution. That may prove more expensive in the long-term, however. Clearing the MSC Napoli has taken a year longer than expected because the first attempt did not work. That may be a wake-up call for the entire industry.                                          -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Word on the tide is that a lift of the final chunk of wreckage will be attempted today.      Report

23/07/2009, 4:28 PM Seadog Joined on 05/03/2007 Posts 402 Re: MSC Napoli - She's gone !! The final chunk of wreckage was lifted at 3.45pm today.    Report

30/07/2009, 10:26 AM Seadog Joined on 05/03/2007 Posts 402 Re: MSC Napoli - The Fat Lady has sung.... Its all over - tugs Mustang & Eurosund have departed with their charges - Mustang is well on her way in the channel with her tow Sanity 8 one of the larger barges with most of the scrap on board. Tug Eurosund with tow Missing Link took brief shelter off Brixham yesterday then proceeded on voyage in the early hours - at present some 20 miles south of Portland about to enter the shipping lanes. All assets are en-route to Rotterdam. I would imagine either Trinity House or the Coastguard will attend and remove any buoys that remain - the exclusion zone has been cancelled as of yesterday. Had a look out this morning - nothing to be seen - don't know what all the fuss was about.    Report

30/07/2009, 5:23 PM Seadog Joined on 05/03/2007 Posts 402 Re: MSC Napoli - The Fat Lady has sung.... Latest 'wrap-up- bulletin from the Coastguard:-   MSC NAPOLI SALVAGE OPERATION IS FINISHED Hugh Shaw, the Secretary of States Representative for Maritime Salvage and Intervention (SOSREP) officially declared an end to the salvage and wreck removal operations of the MSC Napoli on Thursday 29th July 2009, 924 days after it all began. MSC Napoli The MSC Napoli was beached at Branscombe on Saturday 20 January 2007 and since then there have been several salvage and wreck removal phases aimed initially at removing her fuel oil, then her cargo, and ultimately the wreck of the MSC Napoli itself. The final stage of the operations involved removing the stern section of the MSC Napoli from the sea bed and this work was undertaken by Global Response Maritime, a salvage and wreck removal company based in Holland. They had been contracted by the P&I insurance underwriters, The London P&I Club, to lift the final section from the sea bed, cut it up, and remove the scrap to an approved disposal contractor. Following completion, a multi-beam survey of the seabed was carried out to clearly demonstrate that there was no further risk to safety or risk of pollution from hazardous substances. This has now been successfully completed and the contractors, their barges and tugs have now left the site to return to Holland – well ahead of the expected completion schedule of the end of August. Ian Ferguson, Director – A Bilbrough & Co, Managers of the London P & I Club, said: The Club is delighted that the two and a half year operation to remove the MSC Napoli has come to a very successful conclusion. The Club extends its thanks and appreciation to all those who have worked so hard to make this possible. Julian Wardlaw, Chairman of the Environment Group said: We are pleased that after two and a half years all of the Oil, Cargo and Wreck has finally been removed with minimum impact on the Environment. We would like to thank all those involved in the clean- up project and for the fantastic team effort in bringing it to a conclusion. Hugh Shaw, SOSREP said: I am delighted that together we have all brought this incident to a successful conclusion. Every effort has been made to protect the environment throughout this operation. It is therefore particularly pleasing to be able to leave Lyme Bay with only the anchor on display at Branscombe Beach as a reminder of the complex and challenging wreck removal operation that took place close to the shore.    Report

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