What an amazing salvage job. All the people who worked so hard on this difficult and dangerous site are to be commended for the effort that they gave to help keep our oceans healthy.
The difficulty of the tasks shown here was met with an equal degree of skill and technological prowess. They did a great job; hats off to all the salvage entities involved. What bothers me is how two modern vessels, each likely equipped with radar, global positioning technology, the latest in all forms of navigational hardware, and well trained crews, could collide in a vast ocean.
Wow...this is quite an interesting documentary. It's amazing how clicking through several links we end up watching something we (or myself in particular) never had a clue about before.
A superb job done; the logistics are almost as mind-boggling as understanding inter-stellar distances. The experts always make it look deceptively easy and video editing down to a manageable time frame further adds to the "That was nowt of a job" syndrome. Col, NZ.
Even considering that much of the English Channel is comparatively shallow, it's still amazing for me how modern ships can be so large in size that when sunk they often block the channel. This one actually came to rest with it's side almost coming out of the water at low tide at least.
What a frickin mess. Such respect for all the people involved in cleaning that up. Hard to be energetic about such hard work in order to clean something up, you aren't even building anything. Uhg!
Just rather amazing that the two ships collided. There is such sophisticated vessel tracking 24 hours a day everywhere, radar, GPS......How did this happen???
In 1942 the sunken Battleships at Pearl Harbor were righted and/ or raised from the bottom of Pearl Harbor and there were up to seven of them 74 years ago and they each weighed over 30,000 tons.
I enjoy these "salvage sagas" on youtube. A piece of information missing on all of them, including this one, is the cost of the operation or the salvage contract value.
*"increasingly smaller* pieces are lifted out of the sea" oh well, English pushed to its limits, uh? XD Very interesting and instructive documentation! I couldn't have imagined how you guys cut this hulk up and lifted it from the sea floor in such large chunks. Thanks for sharing!
I wonder if they encountered any old ordinance from WW I or WW II? I didn't hear any reference to that? Very interesting production. At $30,000 per vehicle $84 million and $30k is probably an underestimate.
what happened to to the vessel it collided with? btw excellent Video - well done that team p.s if only the American's in charge of the BP (Amoco) Gulf Rig had listened to the Schlumberger Team that advised them to postpone drilling prior to that disaster?!! Perhaps things could have been averted? The lesson here being don't overrule the experts, they are the guy's who know their business.
Really amazing.....but the next question is who flipped the bill??? All in all it had to be super expensive between the loss of ship cargo and going out to get it i bet was the worse but it was good no loss of life happen ...
Hopefully this 'grid pattern' thing that was used 40 times during this documentary is retired permanently. My gosh that made this hard to watch. Why use 1970s National Geographic documentary tools? I enjoyed all the info though...
I am doing the assignment about salvage and the case is also from SMIT. It is really great.
Nice vid, very interesting how such a cable can cut through a large ship like the Tricolor.
What an amazing salvage job. All the people who worked so hard on this difficult and dangerous site are to be commended for the effort that they gave to help keep our oceans healthy.
The difficulty of the tasks shown here was met with an equal degree of skill and technological prowess. They did a great job; hats off to all the salvage entities involved. What bothers me is how two modern vessels, each likely equipped with radar, global positioning technology, the latest in all forms of navigational hardware, and well trained crews, could collide in a vast ocean.
Wow...this is quite an interesting documentary. It's amazing how clicking through several links we end up watching something we (or myself in particular) never had a clue about before.
I like the way you handled this good work SMIT.
Excellent video. Glad the entire crew was rescued and no one was hurt during the salvage operations.
A superb job done; the logistics are almost as mind-boggling as understanding inter-stellar distances. The experts always make it look deceptively easy and video editing down to a manageable time frame further adds to the "That was nowt of a job" syndrome. Col, NZ.
Must have cost an absolute fortune to rectify. But you can see all the hard work and engineering that has gone into it
Even considering that much of the English Channel is comparatively shallow, it's still amazing for me how modern ships can be so large in size that when sunk they often block the channel. This one actually came to rest with it's side almost coming out of the water at low tide at least.
Well done. Thanks for a quality show.
What a frickin mess. Such respect for all the people involved in cleaning that up. Hard to be energetic about such hard work in order to clean something up, you aren't even building anything. Uhg!
Amazing team work!
Just rather amazing that the two ships collided. There is such sophisticated vessel tracking 24 hours a day everywhere, radar, GPS......How did this happen???
Amazing salvage operation, never seen anything quite like it before.
I would've loved to check out the state of the cars that were underwater.
In 1942 the sunken Battleships at Pearl Harbor were righted and/ or raised from the bottom of Pearl Harbor and there were up to seven of them 74 years ago and they each weighed over 30,000 tons.
Fascinating, I would'nt have imagined how complex an operation the whole thing was.
Mind boggling, being able to cut clean all the way through a ship like that, the mother of all saws.
I enjoy these "salvage sagas" on youtube. A piece of information missing on all of them, including this one, is the cost of the operation or the salvage contract value.
SMIT ftw, great video, thanks for sharing...
very good details in this video
Dutch engineering and salvaging at its best.
Amazing equipment and planning operation.
Hugely impressive.
Amazing. Thanks for sharing this.
Which ship was found to be at fault for this accident?
Impressive engineering.
Sometimes it feels like man can do the most incredible things
11:09 "Are you sure??" written on that button haha
*"increasingly smaller* pieces are lifted out of the sea" oh well, English pushed to its limits, uh? XD
Very interesting and instructive documentation! I couldn't have imagined how you guys cut this hulk up and lifted it from the sea floor in such large chunks. Thanks for sharing!
How many of those vehicles will end up being sold someplace? For sale. 2002 Honda Civic.... low miles, slight water damage
Wow great job SMIT Salvage.
I wonder if they encountered any old ordinance from WW I or WW II? I didn't hear any reference to that?
Very interesting production. At $30,000 per vehicle $84 million and $30k is probably an underestimate.
Very nice, i love watching salvaging shipwrecks!
Very well job! Gratulations to this great work.
very good salvage work
Thank´s for sharing these video...
It´s very interesting stuff!!
Bernhard from Germany
Amazing, great job!
This video was so painful. Knowing how many beautiful cars were lost.
Very interesting though. The cutting wire works amazingly well.
Great Video..Great Job.....
what happened to to the vessel it collided with? btw excellent Video - well done that team
p.s if only the American's in charge of the BP (Amoco) Gulf Rig had listened to the Schlumberger Team that advised them to postpone drilling prior to that disaster?!! Perhaps things could have been averted? The lesson here being don't overrule the experts, they are the guy's who know their business.
It always surprises me that a lot of dutch companies do these kind of jobs.
Think the Giant 4 barge was used with the kursk, pretty cool shit.
Holy cow the intro is over a minute!
Great video!
Een groot gedeelte van deze secties liggen nog in de Waalhaven (Rotterdam) daar kan je ze goed bekijken.
They are dutch.....the masters of the sea of course.
+Chris Haasnoot indeed your reputation is formidable, agreed
UNBELIEVABLE
Really amazing.....but the next question is who flipped the bill??? All in all it had to be super expensive between the loss of ship cargo and going out to get it i bet was the worse but it was good no loss of life happen ...
Loved it. Thx for the upload.
Amazing. .. well done!!
Thank you.
Why couldn't they use a giant magnet to pull all the "smaller" metal out of the wreak area?
I must say I think they did a pretty good job.
All those brand new tires, over 8000 of them. What kinds of cars were on the ship, any really expensive cars, and did any come out in one piece?
Even if they did, engines are flooded and rusting. Theyre not usable anymore
i remember hearing about this. a bunch of new volvos.
they had that new car and saltwater smell.
crazy work. great video.
Fascinating but still tragic.
it reminds me of the Herald of Free Enterprise
Good vid!
this is really amazing to see:)
Fascinating to put it mildly....
Great vid!
I'm thinking 250-500 million total labour and all material lost but not sure. Thoughts?
+Steve Harris They mentioned that luxury cars were on board that ship, over 2000 in count. That's a lot of money by itself!
Nice work !
One wonders how much something like the salvage costs, and how who pays? Owners obviously and insurance I presume.
if i was a owner of one of them cars i still wanted the remains of my car
That's gotta be some dangerous working environments..
Open sea??? I hate when people over exaggerate.
extraordinário, excelente
whose fault for the collision?
I am proud to be dutch...
Cool stuff
it is not a salvage if the ship is all cut up now!! what about the cars inside it?
poor cars, i wonder how many cool cars were lost.. :-(
Hopefully this 'grid pattern' thing that was used 40 times during this documentary is retired permanently.
My gosh that made this hard to watch. Why use 1970s National Geographic documentary tools? I enjoyed all the info though...
Amazing. Very interesting
The front fell off
Hell of task good job though they made it look easy
It is interesting g to watch this after watching vids on how they break ships in Bangladesh or India.
Great job .
Awesome!!!
thanks for the good video
who was at fault the tri color or the tanker ?
great video to cut a ship in half is so cool
Awesome,what a way to make a living !
love that Eric webber
What's a ship of that size worth in scrap?
NICE WORK!
high end Mercedes , BMW all very expencive cars
Very impressive.
did everyone onboard the sunken car carrier, survived?
Skip the intro, video starts at 0:54.
Amazing
👍👍
what a major job with millions lost but the ocean floor is better off then by leaving the ship and cargo there to rest...
Well done to you all
the poor cars
nothing less than Incredble
is all of the car's retrieved.