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Golden Ray: Barge preparations continue

Modifications are made to barge to prepare it to receive section of Golden Ray wreck

Though the giant heavy lift ship VB 10000 has made its final cut through the hull of the capsized car carrier Golden Ray, the last two of the wreck’s original eight sections remain in St. Simons Sound, Ga., with responders making the preparations needed to get them on their way to recycling.

The latest update is that the response engineering team is continuing to refit a dry-dock barge at the Mayor’s Point Terminal in Brunswick, Ga., to receive section five of the Golden Ray wreck. Once the team...

https://www.marinelog.com/shipping/salvage/golden-ray-barge-preparations-continue/

Oil clean-up efforts slow Golden Ray wreck removal efforts

Responders in St. Simons Sound, Ga., are continuing to deal with discharges of oil that began following separation of Section Six of the wreck of the car carrier Golden Ray. Yesterday, response vessels were continuing recover oil while shoreline teams continued to mitigate shoreline impacts.

Wreck removal personnel partially raised Section Six on Wednesday morning. The salvage master paused the lifting operation to allow oil recovery personnel to recover an oil discharge that began to pool...

https://www.marinelog.com/news/oil-clean-up-efforts-slow-golden-ray-wreck-removal-efforts/

Golden Ray responders deal with impact of wreck fire

Following the recent fire in the interior of the Golden Ray wreck, St. Simons Sound Incident Response engineers have been continuing damage assessments of both the wreck itself and the equipment being used to cut it into sections and remove it.

Naval architects and response engineers are assessing the structure of the remaining wreck and the custom-fabricated lifting structures welded to its top. Meantime, wreck removal personnel continue to assess, repair and replace equipment on the VB-10000...

https://www.marinelog.com/shipping/salvage/golden-ray-responders-deal-with-impact-of-wreck-fire/

VIDEO: Golden Ray responders well into second cut

The St. Simons Sound Incident response team is now well into the cut that will separate the stern section of the capsized car carrier Golden Ray. Meantime, the bow section of the wreck, which was successfully lifted off the vessel at the end of November, was yesterday reported as nearing a Louisiana recycling facility aboard the barge Julie B.

The wreck is being cut into eight sections, using a chain manipulated by the giant catamaran heavy lift vessel VB-10000. The now removed bow was...

https://www.marinelog.com/shipping/salvage/video-golden-ray-responders-well-into-second-cut/

Golden Ray salvage ops move ahead

With the giant twin-gantry, twin-barge catamaran VB-10,000 now on-site in St. Simons Sound, Ga., responders have been taking the final preparatory steps needed as it starts cutting into the capsized car carrier Golden Ray.

The Unified Command supervising the salvage operation has been installing gates in the one -mile long Environmental Protection Barrier (EPB) around the wreck site. The EPB is custom designed barrier made of high density polyethylene pipe, 5-foot square mesh debris netting and...

https://www.marinelog.com/shipping/salvage/golden-ray-salvage-ops-move-ahead/

Golden Ray salvage faces delay of “several weeks”

The St. Simons Sound Incident Unified Command working on the salvage of the capsized car carrier Golden Ray says that cutting and lifting operations on the wreck will be delayed for several weeks.

The delay has been caused by the need for engineers to modify the mooring system for the the twin-gantry, twin-barge heavy lift catamaran VB-10,000 at the wreck-site.

Engineers with the response designed an array of five anchors that accounted for multiple challenging variables such as extreme currents...

https://www.marinelog.com/shipping/salvage/golden-ray-salvage-faces-delay-of-several-weeks/