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.
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!
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.
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.
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???
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.
remember watching this when it first happen big news the first couple of days and when they started lifting it,totally amazing cutting it up, watched the one about Russian sub only if they had swallowed there pride sooner maybe some sailors might have lived, I believe that must be in the top 3 of horrible deaths drowning, such shame, so sorry for the family's!!
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...
could you imagine just the money off the batteries,ali wheels, forgot the name of small bits of metal under the car something converter so say you get £5 for batteries, £25 for wheel's and spare, converter can go for good money but I will just say£10 then scrap the car if everything is feck on it like doors ooooo forgot about engine you would be doing no bad a tall, if you're self employed and that was your job u would mind getting up early and finishing late just good money makes the difference as everyone would agree am sure lol
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.
Excellent video. Glad the entire crew was rescued and no one was hurt during the salvage operations.
I am doing the assignment about salvage and the case is also from SMIT. It is really great.
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.
Nice vid, very interesting how such a cable can cut through a large ship like the Tricolor.
Amazing salvage operation, never seen anything quite like it before.
Must have cost an absolute fortune to rectify. But you can see all the hard work and engineering that has gone into it
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!
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.
Mind boggling, being able to cut clean all the way through a ship like that, the mother of all saws.
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.
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.
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???
Dutch engineering and salvaging at its best.
Fascinating, I would'nt have imagined how complex an operation the whole thing was.
Well done. Thanks for a quality show.
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.
Holy cow the intro is over a minute!
They are dutch.....the masters of the sea of course.
+Chris Haasnoot indeed your reputation is formidable, agreed
Impressive engineering.
Amazing equipment and planning operation.
This video was so painful. Knowing how many beautiful cars were lost.
Very interesting though. The cutting wire works amazingly well.
Amazing team work!
Wow great job SMIT Salvage.
Sometimes it feels like man can do the most incredible things
very good details in this video
i remember hearing about this. a bunch of new volvos.
they had that new car and saltwater smell.
SMIT ftw, great video, thanks for sharing...
Hugely impressive.
How many of those vehicles will end up being sold someplace? For sale. 2002 Honda Civic.... low miles, slight water damage
Very nice, i love watching salvaging shipwrecks!
I must say I think they did a pretty good job.
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.
it reminds me of the Herald of Free Enterprise
11:09 "Are you sure??" written on that button haha
Which ship was found to be at fault for this accident?
Thank´s for sharing these video...
It´s very interesting stuff!!
Bernhard from Germany
Amazing. Thanks for sharing this.
*"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!
Very well job! Gratulations to this great work.
That's gotta be some dangerous working environments..
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.
Een groot gedeelte van deze secties liggen nog in de Waalhaven (Rotterdam) daar kan je ze goed bekijken.
very good salvage work
Fascinating but still tragic.
remember watching this when it first happen big news the first couple of days and when they started lifting it,totally amazing cutting it up, watched the one about Russian sub only if they had swallowed there pride sooner maybe some sailors might have lived, I believe that must be in the top 3 of horrible deaths drowning, such shame, so sorry for the family's!!
UNBELIEVABLE
Amazing, great job!
Why couldn't they use a giant magnet to pull all the "smaller" metal out of the wreak area?
Fascinating to put it mildly....
Great Video..Great Job.....
Hell of task good job though they made it look easy
I am proud to be dutch...
Thank you.
Great video!
Amazing. .. well done!!
The front fell off
Pick up the pieces with a magnet!
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.
poor cars, i wonder how many cool cars were lost.. :-(
Cool stuff
crazy work. great video.
It is interesting g to watch this after watching vids on how they break ships in Bangladesh or India.
NICE WORK!
Awesome,what a way to make a living !
Nice work !
this is really amazing to see:)
Very impressive.
Loved it. Thx for the upload.
thanks for the good video
Amazing. Very interesting
Great job .
Great vid!
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 ...
Well done to you all
what a major job with millions lost but the ocean floor is better off then by leaving the ship and cargo there to rest...
Awesome!!!
extraordinário, excelente
Good vid!
great video to cut a ship in half is so cool
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
the poor cars
Open sea??? I hate when people over exaggerate.
love that Eric webber
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...
Wow!
high end Mercedes , BMW all very expencive cars
whose fault for the collision?
only if they could do this with the titanic
it is not a salvage if the ship is all cut up now!! what about the cars inside it?
Amazing
👍👍
Cool!
nothing less than Incredble
could you imagine just the money off the batteries,ali wheels, forgot the name of small bits of metal under the car something converter so say you get £5 for batteries, £25 for wheel's and spare, converter can go for good money but I will just say£10 then scrap the car if everything is feck on it like doors ooooo forgot about engine you would be doing no bad a tall, if you're self employed and that was your job u would mind getting up early and finishing late just good money makes the difference as everyone would agree am sure lol
Smit i think is the same team that desmanteled the Reijin ship here in my city some years ago.