Ship happens: How the Golden Ray's final voyage went wrong in a hurry: ThrowbackThursday
’s doomed cargo included SUVs and trucks built by Mercedes, GM, Ram, and Kia that were headed to the Middle East.A Coast Guard forensic analysis zeroed in on the 411 tons of additional weight that thetook on in Brunswick when it swapped those subcompact cars for SUVs. The ship had also discharged 1645 tons of ballast water en route from Freeport, and combined with an underloaded deck 5, the addition of the Tellurides raised the ship's center of gravity to a dangerous height.
. The full conclusion of the investigation likely won't be reached until fall at the earliest. Hyunjin Park, the officer responsible for vouching for theAs for the monumental task of scrapping the shipwreck, well, it's taking some time. Initially, traffic through the channel slowed for about a month as response teams laid an oil-containment boom around the hull. Next, crews began the lengthy process of siphoning 320,000 gallons of fuel and water from 26 tanks in the.
The 50-ton rudder and 100-ton propeller were torched off the carrier first and discarded in an artificial reef alongside M-60 battle tanks about 20 miles southeast of St. Simons Island. Then a salvage crew welded 16 steel girders, each weighing between 35 and 80 tons, to the's starboard side to serve as connection points between the eight ship sections and the 255-foot-tall twin-gantry catamaran that would lift them.
To make the seven cuts, the salvage team threaded a 400-foot string of 80-pound steel rings under the hull and attached it to the's lifting pulleys, which worked the chain back and forth to saw through the ship. The cutting began on November 6, 2020—425 days after the ship capsized—and came to a halt just a day later when the line broke. That was one of several setbacks, along with weather- and COVID-related delays, that pushed the recovery effort months beyond the initial estimate.
Currently, some 400 people and 70 vessels are engaged in the cleanup effort. Their work doesn't come cheap. In a May 2020 disclosure, North P&I Club, the's U.K.-based insurer, expected the accident to run up more than $400 million in claims, a potential record for the 161-year-old company. Much of that cost comes from measures being taken to protect the environmentally sensitive Golden Isles coastline. disaster, it provided a small windfall for some locals. Business owners on St.
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