The Coast Guard today established a safety zone around the Bonnie G, the cargo vessel that grounded Wednesday just south of the airport in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. All 12 persons aboard the vessel were rescued, and no injuries were reported to the Coast Guard.
The safety zone will extend one quarter mile around the Bonnie G for the duration of the response. Commercial and recreational vessels are advised to remain clear of this area for their safety and the safety of response crews...
A Coast Guard boat crew rescued 12 people, Wednesday morning, after they were forced to abandon the grounded cargo vessel M/V Bonnie G which was taking on water and had run aground just south of the airport in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.
All 12 persons aboard the Bonnie G, a 195-foot Vanuatu-flagged RO/RO cargo vessel, are safe and no injuries have been reported to the Coast Guard.
According to the Equasis data base, the Bonnie G was originally built in 1981 as an offshore service vessel and...
https://www.marinelog.com/legal/safety-and-security/uscg-rescues-12-from-grounded-cargo-vessel/
In a reminder that those who sign up for “adventure cruises” don’t always get the sort of adventures they expect, the 104-meter long, ice class PC6, expedition cruise ship Ocean Explorer today remained grounded in a Greenland fjord 660 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle. There are 206 people on board. All are reported safe.
The vessel grounded Monday afternoon on what Danish Defense describes as sand and mud. Since then the vessel has made several unsuccessful attempts to free itself. The...
Every flight leaving the US was halted due to an IT disaster, which affected thousands of passengers, as reported by The Telegraph.
Aeroplanes can’t take offDue to a problem with the Federal Aviation Administration’s computer system, aeroplanes cannot take off in America.
The FAA declared in a statement that it is “continuing to work to fully restore the Notice to Air Missions system after an outage.”
It added: “The FAA has ordered airlines to pause all domestic departures...
After being stuck in the mud in Chesapeake Bay since it grounded March 13, the 1,095 feet long, 12,118 TEU Evergreen Marine containership Ever Forward was finally refloated at around 7.00 a.m. local time, Sunday April 17.
Success followed after multiple earlier efforts had failed and came after the removal of hundreds of containers from the vessel and further dredging.
According to the Baltimore Sun, “two pulling barges and five mighty tug boats shimmied the massive ship backward and sideways...
https://www.marinelog.com/legal-safety/environment/salvage/video-ever-forward-finally-refloated/
Removal of cargo containers from the grounded containership Ever Forward got underway this past Saturday. The 1,095 feet long,12,118 TEU Evergreen Marine vessel has been bogged down in mud in Chesapeake Bay since March 13 and the boxes are being taken off in an attempt to lighten the vessel before a further attempt to refloat it is made. Three earlier attempts to refloat it using a combination of dredging and tugboat power failed.
Container removal began Saturday for #EverForward refloat...
Following the failure of three attempts to move the grounded containership Ever Forward using tugs and barges, the unified command in charge of the refloat operation has developed a new strategy.
This comes after salvage experts determined they would not be able to overcome the ground force of the Ever Forward in its current loaded condition. They say the new strategy offers the best chance of successfully refloating the Ever Forward from its current position in Chesapeake Bay.
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VIKING’s ferry was evacuated after it ran aground off the island of Aland in the Baltic Sea, to avoid sinking, reports Maritime Bulletin.
What happened?VIKING LINE ro-pax ferry, is 169 metres long and does daily trips between Stockholm in Sweden and Turku in Finland.
The ship, while en route from Turku to Stockholm, contacted bottom at around 0940 UTC Sep 20 in Aland islands waters, west of Turku, Finland.
Normally it carries between 1,800 and 2,000 passengers but due to the pandemic the number...
Resolve Marine, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., successfully re-floated the grounded cargo vessel KAAMI completing response operations with her tow to a drydock in Loch Kishorn, Scotland.
Resolve salvage teams and equipment, mobilized from bases in Europe, Africa, and the U.S. Resolve Marine photo
What began in the early morning of March 23, 2020, with the grounding of the vessel carrying eight crew and 1,900 tons of SRF pellets evolved into a comprehensive response operation requiring patching of...
https://www.workboat.com/news/bluewater/resolve-marine-recovers-grounded-vessel-and-hazardous-cargo/
The ill-fated bulker Solomon Trader has been refloated in the Solomon Islands.
https://worldmaritimenews.com/archives/276771/solomon-trader-refloated-destined-for-scrapyard/