US Genius Technique to Recover Billions $ Ship in Middle of the Sea

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Welcome back to the Fluctus Channel for a special feature on some of the unique methods the US employs to salvage vessels, their crew, and cargo. In addition to a snapshot of these ships' next life as reefs.
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@HAmatelot Год назад

If it's US genius how come the Dutch have the biggest and most succesfull salvage company ?????

@---OZ--- 2 месяца назад

They are brilliant only for surface recoveries....hahaha, the Dutch are the true professionals and unique for deep recoveries

@HUNDREDACREWOOD. 23 дня назад

because America isn’t anywhere as great as we were indoctrinated into believing as children…

@mikebrase5161 9 месяцев назад

We used to have a pretty famous salvage boat in my area called the Salvage Chief. A week ago i was talking with a buddy who is an ABS inspector. He was telling me how sad everybody was when he had to fail its final hull inspection.

@remcovanvliet3018 Год назад

US invented techniques, huh? Smit Internationale and Mammoet would like to have a word. Greetings from the Netherlands.

@nazismomsrhos 9 месяцев назад

Everything usefull you use is pretty much american like cars phones computere the internet nuclear power and advancements the submarine the us creates more daily than the rest of the world combined.

@Mark-hc8ek 2 месяца назад

F the nothinglands

@bornfree735 2 месяца назад

@@Mark-hc8ekf the us!

@c.a.mcneil7599 Месяц назад

Great show us a example

@marthakrumboltz2710 Год назад

Having engineered ocean tugs on gulf, east coast and north, Central America, I never ceased to be amazed at the stupid things people manage to do with vessels. Picked up a drunk in a zodiac after separating from a sailboat off Yucatán. Didn’t even know he was alone. Never found the sailboat so we just took him along. Good cook though. Bizarre stuff every day.

@rhuttrho88 Год назад

🫡

@BVonBuescher Год назад

I hope you had some chocolate chip cookies on hand

@johna.4334 11 месяцев назад

@@BVonBuescher Huh?

@lubecavi Год назад

No cure, no pay is a London Loyds open form contract. And in salvage procedures the Dutch are the leaders by far.

@mjjvdberg Год назад

I know that in the USA everything seems bigger and better, but now you are quite wrong. In a small country, the Netherlands, which has 17 million inhabitants, the famous Smit salvage has been established for decades and has a leading role and has established a huge name worldwide.

@mr.clicknail Год назад

Het is algemeen bekend dat Nederlanders groot gereedschap hebben :P

@TiffMcGiff Год назад

Tell me more…

@usernotfound904 Год назад

They’re #2

@mikemurphy5898 Год назад

'MMMUUUUUUURICA!!

@1BigDaDo Год назад

Lol there is 30 million people in Texas alone here in the USA..

@askhowiknow5527 Год назад

The one saving grace is that the cars inside weren't any good.

@gordonormiston3233 Год назад

The Dutch have been the leaders in ship salvage for hundreds of years!

@Jay92925 Год назад

You’re wrong, Americans have been the leaders of this for hundreds of years. Or that’s at least what the Americans would say, and they do tend to know everything. Just like how they’re the leaders of everything possible in the world and have been for millennia

@sheikhkhalid5969 Год назад

Tell it like it is.

@donbrashsux Год назад

Yes they have done some truely amazing salvages

@Shawn_313 Год назад

Who cares?

@anthonyxuereb792 9 месяцев назад

True but it was the US that salvaged the Costa Concordia if I'm not mistaken

@johna.4334 Год назад

"Kia and Hyundai vehicles" No great loss.

@RonnieStanley-tc6vi 9 месяцев назад

When I was a kid we lived on the Intercoastal waterway in Chesapeake VA. My friends and I went fishing and crabbing where several ships were cut up and sitting on the shore. I never knew that they used a cutting chain to get them out of the water though.

@Disinterested1 Год назад

"The ship flooded after it sank" nah it probably flooded first as that is what sinking is

@cleverusername9369 Год назад

You want an award or something?

@Disinterested1 Год назад

@@cleverusername9369 how are the cats?

@purdyboi8078 Год назад

@@Disinterested1 🤣

@blackhawk7r221 Год назад

Ballast was off. It was top heavy. Went over sideways then flooded.

@AgricultureTechUS 10 дней назад

Completely mind-blowing! Innovation knows no bounds.

@johnrudy9404 Год назад

So much good stuff. Happy for the 4 engineers saved! People working together...sometimes. also always happy to see Reef from disgarded Material.

Год назад

Dutch owned SMIT Salvage used this technique long before the the Americans

@daveneil3963 Год назад

WOW, the hugeness of that recovery barge is hard to comprehend! Thank you for sharing that with us, I'm hooked now!

@eentest9875 Год назад

That is a small crane vessel with 6800 ton lifting capacity. Dutch Heerema could offer 20.000 tons of lifting capacity on one ship...

@michaellicavoli3921 Год назад

First buy a Chinese built rescue ship, and put on an American flag.

@msw7021 Год назад

@@michaellicavoli3921 Gulf Marine Fabricators Texas

@michaellicavoli3921 Год назад

@@msw7021 Didn’t expect made in TEXAS,

@Shawn_313 Год назад

@@eentest9875 who cares

@markbowen3638 Год назад

People have been salvaging ships before the good ol US of A was born. As others have stated the Dutch are by far the most experienced in this field and are the go too for seemingly impossible salvage jobs.

@marthakrumboltz2710 Год назад

Who claimed to be the end all for salvage in the “good ol’ US”?

@montanasnowman3138 Год назад

No America created God ships, fish in the sea and everything else.

@Matityahu755 Год назад

Dat klopt.

@destroyer6867 Год назад

Yeah the Dutch were there before, doesn't mean they are the best now

@incognitoalias2808 Год назад

@@destroyer6867 Didn't Howard Hughes salvage a Russian Submarine and not a Dutch Company......

@welshpete12 Год назад

The Dutch are excellent at this sort of operation.

@freedomforever6718 Год назад

The lifestyles of contemporary human beings require massive infrastructure to maintain. Human ingenuity has yet to find its limit.

@BrunoKarett Год назад

I am fascinated by working at sea. People can do anything, nothing is a problem. Great

@housemana Год назад

what... do you mean nothing is a problem?

@Hangover-ry9bo Год назад

This is regulated with an overload of procedures and approvals. Every step is a process to mitigate risks of what might happens. They don't rock up and start working.

@jimjoe9945 Год назад

God does everything.

@haroldplante8287 Год назад

I worked a Lampson 1200T Transalift. The spreader-bar alone was 150T. Super cool job.

@frankangermann6460 Год назад

Still not shure if the „recycling“ of rigs and ships into reefs isn’t just a cheap way to get rid of it…..

@DamienJoldersma Год назад

Great video, but yeah, my feeling exactly: like ohh! All of a sudden it's like, Let's fix the ocean reef after our trawlers wrecked it!

@mikeyyoyo6464 Год назад

Poor fish swimming around looking for they’re Hyundais

@siggyincr7447 Год назад

By all accounts that I've seen they seem to be pretty big successes in terms of increasing biodiversity. In areas that are lacking hard substrates, the wrecks offer places for corals to settle that are otherwise lacking. Once the corals and other sessile invertebrates get established it doesn't take long for fish and other animals to move in. As an added benefit they are often located in no fishing zones and help stop nets from being hauled through the area by destroying them should they be hauled over the wreck.

@hisheroship Год назад

It is win win.

@johnrogers9481 Месяц назад

…poor fish looking around for they are Hyundais🙂

@peteryeung111 Год назад

You won’t realize how massive this wreckage and crane is, until you see the scale of men walking around.

@bellenvideo5629 Год назад

4 crew members saved was amazing 🙏 wow 🤩

@mikeyyoyo6464 Год назад

The expression on the guys face was moving

@GetOutsideYourself Год назад

Nice editing on this one. The only thing missing is Forest Gump and Sargent Dan battling the storm.

@BubbaVision948 11 месяцев назад

-- Thats Lt. Dan...!

@mattheweburns Год назад

Wow, so close to home! Imagine if there had been a hurricane stopping operations, that could have ruined Tybee island

@whodat90 Год назад

“The ship flooded just after it sank, then it caught fire”. See, this kind of mixup is why order of operations is important.

@MrCrabbing 9 месяцев назад

Have a look on here for the Minorcan Mullet he did great coverage of the whole thing from grounding until disposal was completed

@historical_figures_unveiled Год назад

got ur video suggestion today and subscribed in 30 min . amazing content

@allthatjazz641 Год назад

Turn the music up buddy, I could almost hear you.

@jonahgadoury6421 Год назад

As long as ships have existed, recovery efforts have been made. Ships have been around much longer than 1,500s . Also, why is it called cargo on a ship, and shipment in cars?

@51hankyspanky7 Год назад

What is so strange is how we go to such great lengths to save someone, yet somewhere else bombs of war are blowing up towns with apartment buildings, killing hundreds. How does this make sense?

@dennisnickoloff1723 Год назад

It doesn't

@iwaswrongabouteveryhthing Год назад

profits

@tomrogers9467 Год назад

“The ship flooded just after it sank” 13:38. Yes, I suppose if it sank it would have flooded! 😂

@oxyfee6486 Год назад

Someone forgot to close the screen door.😃

@raychambers3646 Год назад

The Dutch are world leaders in this.

@alexandertsanga Год назад

Can image being the Person who made a Mistake that Sunk a loaded Ship.

@426superbee4 Год назад

I would love to have some of the good scrap, I beams, and pipe I got many many uses for it.

@sfdntk Год назад

Like what?

@NathanNostaw Год назад

What was so amazing? There was a very brief mention of a special saw chain, but that was it. Hardly a video to learn anything from.

@Leo-gt1bx Год назад

No video of it in operation

@ElCid70 Год назад

They didn't recover it. They salvaged it.

@cleverusername9369 Год назад

Ugh. Don't be that guy

@supers0nic77 11 месяцев назад

Savage

@BIBIWCICC Год назад

This project was 100’s of millions of dollars over urgent due to incompetence of USCG and US salvors. The jones act only allowed antiquated American equipment in US waters. The VB 10000 was already owned by the bank and was destined for the scrap yard! Modern equipment would have allowed for faster recovery, sadly the US hasn’t got any.

@sleepyjay2664 Год назад

Go away troll. You can't even keep your lies straight

@streamin2605 8 месяцев назад

Vb10k was paid for already. Cheaper for them to buy vs rent it. It was built in 2010. Not that old considering and even by todays standards, it's still a heavyweight in the salvage world!

@edkiely2712 4 месяца назад

@streamin2605 I was reading where in 2015, preliminary plans were in place to build a bigger VB. Whether those plans have been put on hold or not, I don't know. Also, just because something is "older" doesn't mean it still isn't highly useful. Personally, I find the VB 10000 to be a fascinating engineering marvel!

@webstercat Год назад

That smile on the man’s face ..

@JPRPhotoandVideo Год назад

Hmm, I think the Dutch are the real masters at ship salvage.

@norbertgabler8267 Год назад

Well ... as we all know the U.S. are like MEN IN BLACK. Always the best of the best of the best, Sir. With honours. 🤣

@dirkvettigeran4628 Год назад

Pioneering Spirit this ship can take the drilling rig and the legs at the same time and can also lay pipelines at sea and is Dutch

@Michael-0000 Год назад

Also the biggest vessel in the world. The most impressive installation vessel I’ve ever seen.

@johnnycrash3270 Год назад

Ships cook "Did you guys find my Knife set ?"

@anthonyxuereb792 9 месяцев назад

"recks to reef is a euphemism for "dump it in the sea." Call me a sceptic.

@antonioguardiola1977 Год назад

La verdad que da gusto el al pobre hombre salir del barco, eso es lo más importante de toda la película.

@c123bthunderpig Год назад

Incredible operation, amazing engineering. I wonder if the two year salvage operation paid a profit that's really expensive equipment per hour not to mention paying salaries for expertise, permits. Etc.. Envious of people who are visionaries and can sell an operation like this to investors. Otherwise this would have been navigation danger for at least a 100 years.

@walsterdoomit Год назад

Big crane. Big saw. Genius.

@SuperDirk1965 Год назад

There's no mention of no cure no pay in the Brussels Convention of 1910. That convention is about responsability in case of collision of ships.

@galaxies4415 Год назад

beautiful video

@TheSunseeker007 Год назад

The Art of Salvage . Real Professionals !!!

@user-js4zx1lr2u 9 месяцев назад

It might be the largest single ship job but I'd say Pearl Harbour or Scapa flow was bigger.

@IvesMarcelin Год назад

would be possible to depollute the red sea because there ae the bottom in These waters warships with tons of materials from the time of the first war ...and it would be realy good to rénover retrieve These objets for the museum in England ...some wwi era shipwrecks are filled with motocycles and ..war vehicles and period ammunition and weapons. // Recovering on the French Coast the 1300 wrecks dating from the second war would also be good with the help of the French and English and American Companies

@Shipspotting_Vietnam Год назад

Each ship has its own final destination.

@stephenstephen5753 Год назад

Kinda funny at around 1:30 seeing the aerial footage of the Tangalooma wrecks at Moreton Island. It's an artificial reef, all deliberately scuttled. No one failed to salvage those hulls.

@markthornton7347 11 месяцев назад

old rigs are good for birds and fish etc. snd should be left despite being a sea hazard for people....im sure there is some way to let ships know of their presence....

@reggierico Год назад

I don't think too many gen Z types will be interested in this type of work...

@quantumss Год назад

Would have been much better without the music.

@mr.clicknail Год назад

Word has it the US learned it from the Dutch ;)

@chesslerbooks Год назад

What happens to the fuel oil? I am sure it can be cleaned up, all the salt water taken out. I am sure every ship at sea has that ability. Its gotta

@dutchsailor6620 Год назад

Fuel oil is good to reuse, nothing happened with it. The fuel will float on water so if contaminated it is easy to separate the water.

@JPRPhotoandVideo Год назад

Taklift 4 is literally a dutch lifting ship

@dustinshuey1477 Год назад

Usmm train on USS Ironwood I've always been interested in Salvage I'm a little AK River Rat but I do like the Salvage part of the industry a lot it interests me a lot

@brt-jn7kg Год назад

Others might have been doing it longer some may do it better but every single one of them are doing it because they got money from the US of A! Every single country would be in a feudal system still if it wasn't for American so just say thank you!!

@mattheweburns Год назад

6800 tons doesn’t sound like very much when you’re talking about large ships

@daleburnfart6845 2 месяца назад

Watching this makes it impossible to really look at the Egyptian pyramids and still be impressed.

@eentest9875 Год назад

That is a small cranw vessel with 6800 ton lifting capacity. Dutch Heerema could offer 20.000 tons of lifting capacity on one ship...

@topixfromthetropix1674 Год назад

Mammoet can do anything.

@jeanhawken4482 11 дней назад

With all the science we have to advise on conditions, humans still manage to stuff things up.

@felicienneicilef18 Год назад

Quand on parle du déclin de nos amis américains, on se trompe lourdement. Ce grand et magnifique pays, reste le leader incontesté du monde libre, n'en déplaise a ses détracteurs.

@miapdx503 7 месяцев назад

Thank you 🌹

@simbayoung4757 Год назад

2YEARS!!! These men are determined

@geniferteal4178 Год назад

This was arguably the largest recovery recovered. Curious what the argument was? It would seem easy to determine this was the largest wreck ever recovered.

@dickdaley9059 Год назад

The salvage of the Golden Ray required ripping the ship into eight sections for the VB10000 to lift. Enhanced metal anchor chains were used, not diamond cutting chains. Sawing action from under the capsized hull through to the decks literally tore through the structural metal parts causing multiple releases of hazardous liquids into St Simons Bay. This pristine ecology will not recover for generations, if ever! It is now recognized as the most costly and involved salvage of a commercial vessel inside territorial water in US history. 🇺🇸⚓️

@garybaris139 Год назад

They should have used the Dutch to do the salvage because they are the world leaders in the field and actually know how to prevent disasters like this. "US Genius Technique" my ass...😂😂😂😂

@dickdaley9059 Год назад

“They” are the insurance P&I Club that controlled the checkbook from the UK. All salvage and remediation expenses were authorized based upon competitive cost. The Dutch (Smit) submitted estimates but were way above the others. 🇺🇸⚓️

@sleepyjay2664 Год назад

@@dickdaley9059 Yes, but the Smit bid was based on institutional knowledge from a company that had done this type of salvage many time previously. The Insurance company went with the low bidder who planned to use unproven techniques/technology to do the job. Given how much of a mess the salvage turned out to be, you can make a good argument that the Smit bid was the more realistic one.

@HesTNTonPMS Год назад

right a recovery vessel capable of only a lousy 6800 tons might have been great for the 40's but not today , theyre gonna need a bigger boat and a much bigger investment when they're gonna have to deal with 100,000 plus GT crappin the bed

@dickdaley9059 Год назад

Yes, Smit was the high priced spread to chose at the time. But no salvage history existed for this situation in maritime history. It really was a crap shoot for all the remediation vendors and none were able to state assurances that the work would be completed within contractual terms. Without a contract stating certain assurances would be met to satisfy compliance, the decision was relegated to cost versus performance. Smit was probably happy to walk away…🇺🇸⚓️

@EntropiaBones Год назад

The timing between sentences was maddening , making this unwatchable.

@tomthompson7400 Год назад

very impressive.

@janfieten2449 4 месяца назад

When things get difficult, the most genius tactic is to call the Dutch to solve the problem ;-)

@richardcosse2493 11 месяцев назад

"...the ship flooded right after it sank".

@elrondhubbard7059 Год назад

Since those sunken cargo ships that were turned into reefs would have had crew quarters, you've now got some fish living in a bedroom formerly occupied by humans.

@harrickvharrick3957 2 месяца назад

Intro: 'vessel rescuing had been around since the 15th century' (shows wrecks of capsized ships that were NOT -rescued- salvaged)

@oumski6893 Год назад

Very good thanks from hamou fahem Skikda Algeria

@sunslowlyrises Год назад

That would be fun to climb on the ship that's beached

@MZ-bl6wg Год назад

Dumb question I’m sure but how on earth do the 2 barges not sink with the MASSIVE yellow crane structure PLUS whatever massive ship it’s lifting??? Is the hull massive under the water?

@siggyincr7447 Год назад

I think you answered your own question there.

@norml.hugh-mann Год назад

Every country with a shore has salvage company and experts....the bigger countries might have bigger companies but we are not talking classified here, they all work together

@MagnumTechnicalAcademy Год назад

Just a physics question ⁉️ Am wondering why a heavy load lifting machine like this one, doesn't even sink, even though its still carry and lift other savaged ship to it's load. I am thinking, these lift machines, stretches out some iron to the sea foot, to add to it's weight. I understand Archimedes principle of floating body, but it amazes me how these lift carrier works.

@phoe8523 Год назад

Huge floating chambers and (on normal swim cranes) ballast tanks keep these swimming cranes afloat and in balance.

@MagnumTechnicalAcademy Год назад

@@phoe8523 thanks so much

@Tarheelsrule 9 месяцев назад

If you can cut it up it can be salvaged I mean after all it was put together so it will come apart

@analytics8055 Год назад

How can these kinds of accidents even occur. All is computerized, weights, calculations.. Are people getting dumber and dumber??

@chuckaddison5134 Год назад

There is an old computer adage, garbage in = garbage out.

@seanwalsh4142 Год назад

Well, American presidents sure are.

@shadowrevive83 Год назад

Engineering at best!

@JungleYT Год назад

*Bet each and every one of these guyz makes 6 figures - EASILY?!!*

@tocando_em_frente Год назад

great video !! Thks

@Club-Dreamiverse 3 месяца назад

You could create a mission to get stuff sunken underwater, like sunken ships or subs or cars, so that fish and marine life are free to thrive.

@PhilORourke Год назад

These guys are what you call proper men!

@stewatparkpark2933 Год назад

Pansies need not apply .

@PhilORourke Год назад

@@stewatparkpark2933 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@DJthecoolone Год назад

Please use metric (or both metric and imperial) measurements.

@snorttroll4379 4 месяца назад

would big magnets to climb ships be a market?

@Halil.Kantarci 11 месяцев назад

Nice rescue :)

@426superbee4 Год назад

I often wonder if they used ship chains, to left things a well. You never see it being used! YES.. There is a lot of ship chains on the bottom of the oceans. Just waiting to be used again, or melted down again

@analytics8055 Год назад

How can a ship flood just after it sank? Is this narration awake?

@Preciouspink Год назад

Thinking.. if the ship is laying on its side to the horizon. We could use other terms colloquially..but “their ship is sunk”suffices

@c123bthunderpig Год назад

Ship flooded after rolling over maybe better way to describe. Balancing these container ships is crazy for sure., scares the you know what out of me.

@bobthebuilder201 Год назад

This is freaking awesome

@healthytalk666 Год назад

Small problem, big problem, no problem....😁

@topixfromthetropix1674 Год назад

Should have called Mammoet, they were geniuses thirty years ago.

@paulharrison6417 Год назад

strange how the dutch are the best at it thow!

@Joseph-fw6xx Год назад

I wonder if those cars are totally destroyed after being in the water

@blackhawk7r221 Год назад

Yes. The saltwater will corrode wiring, bodies, modules, etc. for the low cost of $70,000 in parts, you can repair a $38,000 car.

@bobmiller7502 Год назад

thats some impressive rig at 7.25

@LingkupMerapi Год назад

Apakah itu evakuasi kapal yang lama tenggelam ?

@aadvanderburg2347 Год назад

Sawing through a ship with a chain or cable is not new! Smit Salvage in the Netherlands already did this 45 years ago! They also used this technique trpuwens when raising the Kursk!!! So nothing new!