The 16,000 dwt car carrier Tricolor sank after she collided with a container vessel in the English Channel near France in 2003. SMIT Salvage led the consortium that successfully removed the wreck.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!!
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 ...
