Ship wreck

Deep Secrets: 140 Year Old Cargo Ship Found Off Alderney Coast

Credit: ITV Channel TV

Deep underwater off the Alderney coast lies a 140 year old cargo vessel. A cargo vessel which went down off the coast of Alderney 140 years ago has been identified as the SS Virago.

The wreck was originally discovered in 2009 two miles from the island, but divers only uncovered its secrets recently.

Buried Deep

A thousand tonnes of machinery, including steam engines and wheels, which lie 45 meters under water has been found. The dangerous waters that surround the remains mean...

https://mfame.guru/deep-secrets-140-year-old-cargo-ship-found-off-alderney-coast/

Seven Marine Disasters That Give The Titanic Tragedy a Run For Its Money

  • The journey through ocean waters has been an arduous one since its very inception.
  • Many unhappening events have occurred from time to time viz the tragic sinking of Titanic in 1912.
  • Can any other marine disasters surpass the Titanic tragedy?

The ocean has long been a place of great danger and mystery throughout the existence of mankind. Even in contemporary times, traveling through deep water and rough seas continues to be an arduous and challenging venture. The tragic sinking of the Titanic...

https://mfame.guru/seven-marine-disasters-that-give-the-titanic-tragedy-a-run-for-its-money/

Watch: 207 Years Old Whaling Ship Known To Go Down In Gulf Of Mexico

207 year old whaling ship

About 15 years before Moby Dick was introduced by Herman Melville, a whaling ship from Massachusetts sank near the mouth of river Mississippi. After 207 years, experts mentioned, it still happens to be the only whaler that has gone down the Gulf of Mexico, where enslavement at Southern ports was a cause of risk for mixed-race and Black seafarers who often formed part of whaling crews.

This image of an anchor was taken from the 1836 shipwreck site of brig Industry in the Gulf of Mexico by the...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/watch-207-years-old-whaling-ship-known-to-go-down-in-gulf-of-mexico/

107 Years Later Ernest Shackleton’s Lost Ship ‘Endurance’ Finally Found

The stern of the Endurance with the name and emblematic polestar.

The wreckage of explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship dubbed Endurance that had been crushed by Antarctic ice and sank about 10,000 feet to the ocean’s floor over a century ago, was found, a team that was searching for it informed on 9 March. The three-masted sailing vessel was reportedly lost in 1915 (November) during Shackleton’s failed trial to make Antarctica’s first land crossing.

Earlier trials undertaken to locate the wooden wreck, the location of which was logged by Captain Frank Worsley,...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/107-years-later-ernest-shackletons-lost-ship-endurance-finally-found/

Swedish Maritime Administration Locates A Conserved 150-Year-Old Ship Wreck

3 D images of the wreck

A well-preserved ship has been discovered outside Umeå by northern Sweden’s Maritime Administration. Between Holmsund and Holmön, outside Umeå, they got a wreck in their measurements. We don’t know yet what a wreck it is. The colleagues at Jacob Hägg have searched old shipping reports but found nothing there that matches the size of this wreck, which is about 74 meters long.

Image Credits: Maritime Agency / sjofartsverket.se

This proved that it was “Annie,” the English cargo ship that had sunk in...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/swedish-maritime-administration-locates-a-conserved-150-year-old-ship-wreck/

NYK Dispatches Support For Area Clean-Up At Wreck Of Wood-Chip Carrier ‘Crimson Polaris’

2 parts of Japanese Woodchip carrier Crimson Polaris from front

In response to the grounding of Crimson Polaris that occurred off the coast of Hachinohe on August 11, 10 NYK employees were dispatched on August 18 to assist in the area clean-up.

Under the guidance of the Maritime Disaster Prevention Center,* the clean-up contractor arranged by the shipowner has continued the clean-up of oil and cargo adrift and on the shoreline.

As the charterer of the vessel, NYK has dispatched company personnel to the site to assist with the clean-up of the cargo and other...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/nyk-dispatches-support-for-area-clean-up-at-wreck-of-wood-chip-carrier-crimson-polaris/

Monsoon Hinders Wreck Removal of Sunken Ship

The removal of the X-Press Pearl’s wreck from the seabed off Colombo, Sri Lanka, will start once the South Westerly Monsoon season ends, reports News First quoting the operator of the ill-fated vessel.

Clean-up after the monsoon

The period in question covers the month of June until September.

“Due to the exposed nature of the anchorage to the prevailing South Westerly Monsoon, it is likely that the wreck removal can only start after the SW monsoon subsides; caretaker services will remain on site...

https://mfame.guru/monsoon-hinders-wreck-removal-of-sunken-ship/

Photos: Section Seven Of The Golden Ray Wreck Removed

The VB-10000 lifts Section Seven of Golden Ray wreck during removal operations on Monday. St. Simons Sound Incident response photo

Tug crews removed Section Seven of the Golden Ray wreck from the Environmental Protection Barrier (EPB) by barge on Tuesday. The section transited to a facility at Mayors Point Terminal for further sea-fastening in preparation for an ocean transit to a recycling facility in Louisiana. Collected data from fixed monitors and hydrographic surveys confirms that the remaining wreck is stable. Wreck removal personnel will shift the VB-10000 and prepare the cutting apparatus for cutting operations to...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/photos-section-seven-of-the-golden-ray-wreck-removed/

Wreck removal approval

Pictured: the containership Rena, wrecked on Astrolabe Reef, New Zealand in 2011. Photo: New Zealand Defence Force.

Shipping Australia is pleased to see that Australia is considering accession to the Nairobi International Convention on the Removal of Wrecks 2007 (Hereafter, “Nairobi Convention”).

The Nairobi Convention sets out a globally consistent legal framework for countries to remove wrecks that have happened beyond their territories on the grounds of safety of life, preservation of the...

https://shippingaustralia.com.au/wreck-removal-approval/

[Watch] Wreck of 200-year-old Ship Found by Archaeologists

  • Underwater archaeologists in Mexico have revealed details of the remains of a sailing ship they have located off the coast of Quintana Roo state.
  • They believe the ship sank more than 200 years ago after hitting a reef.
  • While most of the wood has rotted away, the ship’s cannon and anchor are well preserved.
  • The wreck has been named after Manuel Polanco, the fisherman who first spotted it and reported it to Mexico’s National Archaeological Institute.

A recently published article in BBC...

https://mfame.guru/watch-wreck-of-200-year-old-ship-found-by-archaeologists/

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