I just received a call last night and will be flying out tonight to North Carolina where a dredge that was being towed started sinking and then flipped over. It is now upside down with a small portion still floating on the surface. This will definitely be a very challenging engineering problem as we need […]
Entries Tagged as 'salvage'
Off on another marine salvage trip
April 13th, 2007 · No Comments
Coal carrier safely afloat
March 7th, 2007 · 4 Comments
I mentioned a salvage case I was working on a couple of days ago and after working through many calculations and submitting a salvage plan that was then approved by the USCG, I am happy to report that the vessel was safely refloated this morning! As I talked about in my earlier post, this type […]
Sometimes I really enjoy my day job
March 2nd, 2007 · No Comments
I received a call last night that a 225 meter bulk carrier fully loaded with coal ran aground in Maryland and I was being asked to use my salvage engineering skills to develop a salvage plan to help refloat her. Check out one news article about the situation. Groundings are kind of my speciality and […]
