Wreck removal Baltic Ace - Smit Salvage
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ต.ค. 2024
- Extended version with voice over.
On 5 December 2012, the car carrier Baltic Ace sank with more than 1,400 cars on board after a collision with a container ship near the entrance of the main shipping lane leading to Rotterdam port. Rijkswaterstaat contracted Boskalis and its partner Mammoet Salvage for the wreck removal operation.
Fascinating how far we've come to salvage such large vessels. Thank you for sharing.
Absolutely fascinating.
Wow. Bet those divers are paid VERY well (as they should be!)
Great story
THANK YOU for removing this wreck from the ocean and stopping further damage to our environment and our precious wildlife.
Very informative, well made video. Amazing what can be accomplished these days.
Those cars will be for sale as ''faulty wiring'' :D
in memory of the sailors who gave lives
Professionalism
+Andre Tripoli hell yeah, 2 months before deadline too
Nice job! Must be great to be involved with projects like this...Maybe in my next life..
What a wonderfully descriptive video. Fascinating and so very clever. Well done all.
You're my new favorite channel on TH-cam. Please make more of these amazing videos! It's great publicity and they're incredibly interesting. Please don't be the George R.R. Martin of TH-cam and leave us all hanging in the wind for months, or years, waiting for more salvage videos.
Absolutely ridiculous that two ships with today's modern technology can collide .
It really is incredible what humans are actually capable of
Wow, that was amazing. I am so impressed, I want to work in this field it is just so cool!
Simply unfathomable with all todays modern technology that these two ships can collide
Great respects for the skill and professionalism in this job. I can't help wondering about the environmental effects of WW II. The USA lost more than 1,500 vessels during the war, and Great Britain more than 2,400 under the Red Ensign. The Norwegian merchant fleet lost nearly 700 vessels. These ships, in addition to crew and passengers, carried nearly every conceivable product, from vehicles, armaments, and raw metal stocks to of course huge amounts of oil and petrol. I know there have been major studies of the environmental effects of recent wars. Does anyone recommend similar works on WW II?
what an operation, accurate, well planned. Professionals.
WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT CUTTING DEVICE!?
I must know..
+OhNegative The one that cut the ship up? It's a wire cutter, I don't know the correct name for it but while complicated, the idea is quite simple. A wire with diamond sleeves is laid over, or underneath the wreck and tension is applied. The wire tightens and is pulled back and forth, creating a saw like effect. Once the section of the ship has been cut through, the wire is moved onto the next section. They used the method I think (for the first time) I think on the Russian submarine, Kursk. There's a video of it here on youtube, just search for 'Kursk submarine salvage'.
+OhNegative I would guess something similar to a diamond impregnated steel braided line, pulled slowly back and forth.
A fantastic salvage job carried out with great precision. All those new cars destroyed. Technology has come a long way.
What would the world do without European engineering...
incredible salvage operation ,dutch prove their power in salvage operations
Fascinating to see the salvage. But why make the background music louder than the narrator.....
Its a pleasure watching work like this.
Fantastic work, most impressive!
Fantastic work overall ,,but great job by divers on site Well done team
Must say, excellent job guys.
Excellent! Way to look out for Mother Earth! (And they got their shipping lanes back which is good too)
Impressive! Well done.
Great work, kudos to the salvagers.
Goed accent die heeft die man zeg, ik hoorde pas dat hij nederlands was toen hij Rijkswaterstaat uitsprak.
Awesome operation, very similar to the Tricolor salvage.
Great Job!
It's truly amazing what man can and will achieve for the enviroment.
Good job!
the Dutch are Awesome, Greetings from the U.K.
It's Hard to watch for all the car guys.
zo sad for al those brand new cars :(
That was vary interesting, I enjoyed watching that.
Wow that is awesome great to see.
Damn... Such... A hard work... Bow
awesome job guys!!!
Well done video. Thanks for sharing.
impressive, well done
Fantastic! The US government should be cleaning up the seafloor of war detritus as well.
That's not the point, 'pack it in, pack it out'. Leaving the detritus of war of war around is very bad form.
That heave compensation system sure looks a lot like riser tensioners for deep sea drilling. Don't think they developed anything, rather adapted it to their application.
Faith in humanity restored
Good work team!
Impressive Engineering
good on them for cleaning there mess up
Incredible!
Good Job ! impressed
Fantastic
Now this is what we call engineering!!!!!!!!
BRAVO !!!!!!
Woa that is really impressive work. The music is just a bit overly dramatic.
what about the people that went down with the ship?
very interesting thanks for sharing
Job well done.
awesome job i love
This would have been a great dive spot.
Pretty cool, m8.
They could raise the titanic but sadly because 12,000 feet way too deep.
Dit is echt niet normaal! wat een stelletje bazen!
Awesome!
very good.
Interesting video.
Wow.......just wow!
clever stuff. well done
very cool.
cool vidoe
What music is that from 2:24 to the end?
nice to see that you are awesome
how much did this operation cost and who paid for it ??
Stupid question -- In the U.S. (specifically, in the Gulf of Mexico), the sea floor is an almost featureless plain of mud and sand. There are almost no places for the fish to hide and breed safely. So people deliberately sink old ships (even aircraft carriers) or dump pipes or cinder blocks into the Gulf. Soon these heaps of debris become artificial reefs, swarming with sea life. They become rich fishing grounds. Are such things ever done in the North Sea?
Name of the musics please ?
why so much oil on a car carrier? how did the oil solidify?
very interesting video, and mesmerized background melody! anybody knows name of this track?
is this voiced over by stephen toast?
From what I understand they must also find and document the VIN. of every car it was carrying.... sorting threw 500 wrecked and cut up cars has got to be huge amount of work just in that.
When SMIT salvaged the Tricolor from the English channel it was agreed with the insurance companies that because of the damage caused by storms to the ship and it's contents that they would weigh the scrap and, using an agreed nominal weight, base the complete salvage on the weight of scrap brought to shore. The big driver here is the total removal of wreckage from the marine environment, not recovering the value of the cars. The environmental fines make the value of both the ship and cargo look like small change.
Not for the scrap value, but car VIN numbers can be very valuable to car thieves
Awesome
1400 cars? i am sorry how can so many cars fit inside a 50m long ferry?
Cut the ship? wasn't it easier to lift it with baloons and floating devices?
Why take it from there? isnt't the sea big enough? not enough room to pass?
Good Job. :)
Sounded like he said 2040.
The Dutch have their shit together.
Song name?
+Marco Sousa i tried shazam, no luck...posting here in case of an answer
They should raise the titanic sister "brittanic" because not very deep lol
Dutch Pride
wow!
Music?
and then a new ship sank on the exact same place
what is the song on the video?
Da Rude - Sandstorm
Music too loud.
Did anybody catch at what depth this was?
According to Wikipedia, she lay in shallow waters where the seabed was only 35 M below the waterline. Given that the Baltic Ace was 25 M wide (laying on her side), there wasn't sufficient clearance for vessels to safely pass above while she lay there.
Song?
What types of cars were onboard?
All mitsubishi, from the chepeast to the most expensive ones
TheSithisGod
Ah, ok, thanks :)
Mitsubishi
Wow!!!
good god does ANYONE know the name of the song?
is he saying 2050 or 2015
Why they didnt do it right after it happend?!
To be honest, nothing down there was worth salvaging (except for scrap value). It was going to cost more to salvage it than it was worth, so the operation would have to be forced by Governments to be performed, as the owner wouldn't voluntarily fork out that kind of money unless there was motivation (from an outside source). This salvage was likely paid for by a third party, and that third party would go after the owners and insurers afterward to get the compensation.
nice! docu
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