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Daily Collection of Maritime Press Clippings 2005 – 176 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2005 – 176 Number 176** COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS ***Sunday 07-08-2005 THIS EDITION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY : VLIERODAM WIRE ROPES Ltd. wire ropes, chains, hooks, shackles, webbing slings, lifting beams, crane blocks, turnbuckles etc. Binnenbaan 36 3161VB RHOON The Netherlands Telephone: (+31)105018000 (+31) 105015440 (a.o.h.) Fax : (+31)105013843 Internet & E-mail www.vlierodam.nl [email protected] The Katwijk KNRM lifeboat DE REDDER seen here been launched from the beach and passing the surf- zone outward bound for a demonstration offshore during Saturday Photo : Piet Sinke © PSi-Daily maritime press clippings Page 1 8/6/2005 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2005 – 176 Save the ELBE Giro rekening No 8145443 Att : Piet Sinke - Stationsweg 21 - 3151 HR Hoek van Holland The score until today : 50.770 Euro WorldWise Marine Brokers BV P.O. Box 197 1970 AD IJmuiden The Netherlands Phone: +31 255 536906 Fax: +31 255 547942 E mail: [email protected] Website: www.worldwisemarine.com EVENTS, INCIDENTS & OPERATIONS Anchors hinder rescue of Russian sub Anchors and antennas are hindering efforts to drag a Russian submarine that is caught in fishing nets to a shallower location. The Russia's Navy is racing against the clock to rescue seven crew members trapped 190 metres below the surface before their air runs out. The mini-submarine, itself a rescue vessel, ran into trouble on Thursday when its propeller got entangled in fishing nets. An antenna also got hooked as the sub participated in a military exercise off the Kamchatka peninsula on Russia's Pacific Coast. Rescuers have tried to drag the AS-28 mini-submarine closer to shallow waters. However, anchors and a large antenna are hindering the plan, more than 48 hours after the submarine snagged. "We moved it 100 metres towards the coast but the speed is not sufficient," Admiral Viktor Fyodorov, commander of the Pacific fleet, said. Admiral Fyodorov says rescuers will now try to cut the antenna and anchors from the submarine. Navy officials say the crew are in a "satisfactory condition" and are trying to conserve oxygen by keeping movement to a minimum. "According to the signal we have received from the crew all is as normal as can be expected on board and the sailors are in a satisfactory condition and are all alive," Rear Admiral Vladimir Pepelyaev said. Rear Admiral Pepelyaev says the crew have at least 24 hours of air left. PSi-Daily maritime press clippings Page 2 8/6/2005 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2005 – 176 As Russia's Navy works to save the crew, teams from Britain and the United States are airlifting submersibles and specialists to the scene. Kursk disaster Though much smaller in scale, the accident has echoes of the disaster involving the Kursk nuclear submarine five years ago. President Vladimir Putin faced criticism for his slow reaction to the Kursk's sinking, which illustrated the post-Soviet decline of Russia's submarine fleet and the failure of top admirals to cope with a crisis. All 118 seamen on the Kursk died in the accident in August 2000 in the Barents Sea that occurred after explosions on board. The Kremlin and naval command were sharply criticised for not revealing full information on the disaster. On Friday, when news of the accident was released, officers addressed the public via state television hourly although varying estimates of the amount of air left for the crew did little to clarify the situation. The cause of the accident was also uncertain. Initially the Navy said the submarine got caught up in fishing nets but later officials told local news agencies that the submarine had also snagged an antenna of some kind. Rescue ships Russia, which says it has 10 ships in the rescue effort, has asked Japan as well as the United States and Britain for help. Japan's Defence Agency says four military vessels have been sent to join the rescue operation. However, it says it would take three to four days for them to reach the site of the accident. Britain, responding to a request from the Russians, is sending a Scorpio remote-controlled underwater vehicle capable of descending 925 metres. The US Navy has dispatched specialists and two unmanned submarines to the Russian Far East to join the operation. Two remote-controlled, deep-diving "Super Scorpio" submersibles have left San Diego for Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka Peninsula. A third Super Scorpio will join the rescue effort along with civilian divers with two special suits to allow dives to extreme depths. DOOR JAM ON NEW £9M FERRY A NEW £9million ferry built by a Polish shipyard at the centre of a political storm has run into trouble after just four weeks on the Clyde. The bow door to the state-ofthe-art MV Bute jammed four weeks after starting on the Wemyss Bay to Rothesay route. PSi-Daily maritime press clippings Page 3 8/6/2005 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2005 – 176 It was made for Caledonian MacBrayne by the Remontowa yard, in Gdansk, which has just been awarded Executive contracts worth £30million. The future of 300 workers at the Ferguson yard in Port Glasgow is at risk after they lost out on the vital contracts. CalMac spokesman Hugh Dan MacLennan said: 'The ball bearings in the door required adjustment which is to be expected in a new ship.' But the GMB union's Jim Moohan said: 'This highlights the incompetence of the Executive Recordroeiers Vopak Victorie vallen Maassluis binnen De Vopak Victorie kwam vrijdagmiddag Maassluis binnen. De oceaanroeiers waren moe, captain Maarten Staarink moest met een elleboogontsteking behandeld worden in het ziekenhuis, en ze wilden met windkracht 7 op zee niet langer buiten blijven. Zaterdagmorgen 09.00 uur vertrokken de Ocean Fours met z'n vieren naar Rotterdam voor een groots onthaal. De aankomst in Rotterdam op zaterdag - Foto : Roger van der Kraan © www.rogervanderkraan.nl Maarten Staarink, Gijs Groeneveld, Robert Hoeve en Jaap Koomen hebben niet het oceaanroeirecord verbeterd, maar wel een prestatie van formaat geleverd. Zaterdag zijn ze in de Rotterdamse Veerhaven officieel verwelkomd door burgemeester Ivo Opstelten, staatssecretaris Melanie Schultz van Verkeer en Waterstaat, VOPAK-directeur Carel van den Driest en voorzitter Carel van Lynden van Sociëteit De Maas. De roeiers deden exact 60 dagen, 16 uur en 19 minuten over de 6350 kilometers (3500 mijl) Atlantische Oceaan tussen New York Manhattan en de Britse Scilly Eilanden. Op 27 juli passeerden ze de finishlijn, om daarna nog door te roeien naar Rotterdam. Ze zijn de eerste Nederlanders die roeiend de oceaan overstaken. In 1896 vestigden Frank Samuelson en George Harbo, twee van oorsprong Noorse vissers van New Jersey, het record in 55 dagen. Na 34 pogingen en (inclusief de prestatie van de Ocean Four) 13 succesvolle oversteken, is het 109 jaar oude record nog steeds ongebroken. De Vopak Victory, waarin de Nederlandse roeiers hun aanval op het record uitvoerden, is 11,10 meter lang en 1,80 meter breed met drie roeiposities en cabines voor en achter. De boot wordt verkocht; de opbrengst gaat naar het Nederlandse Kankerfonds. PSi-Daily maritime press clippings Page 4 8/6/2005 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2005 – 176 SvitzerWijsmuller to salvage logs from Kiperousa The Danish salvage company SvitzerWijsmuller, which is a division of the AP Moller-Maersk Group and which recently opened a division in South Africa, has been awarded a contract to remove the balance of cargo from the grounded bulker Kiperousa. The previous salvage contract with the Greek salvage company Tsavliris involved the unsuccessful refloating of the Kiperousa after the bulker went aground off the South African Eastern Cape coast on 7 June. Apart from attempting to refloat the vessel, the team also undertook to remove the deck cargo of about 1600 hardwood logs loaded in Gabon in an effort to lighten the vessel. These efforts came to an end on 24 July when the vessel was declared a total economic loss and the salvage attempt was abandoned. Approximately 6500 logs remain stowed in the holds of the flooded ship. A new contract has been awarded in favour of SvitzerWijsmuller and the Tsavliris team has departed from the scene. The heavylift Mi26 helicopter that was brought in from Central Africa to help discharge the deck cargo after attempts at using supply tugs has also left. The helicopter has returned to Central Africa where it is believed to have a contract delivering food aid in Sudan. The Tsavliris tug Nicolay Chiker called briefly at East London at the weekend for repairs after receiving damage in the salvage attempt but has since sailed. The team from the South African offices of SvitzerWijsmuller, led by Captain Nic Sloane, is already on site and making preparations to remove the balance of cargo, which had an estimated value in excess of US0m when the ship sailed from Gabon. The attempt is expected to take up to two months. Two barges are being brought to the scene - one from Durban and the other, a larger barge from the Middle East. Arrangements have been made with the National Ports Authority at East London to store the logs at a site in East London harbour. Pirates agree to release food aid vessel Somali pirates who have held 10 hostages for more than a month on a ship chartered by the UN World Food Programme to carry food aid have agreed to release the vessel and free the crew, the WFP said on Saturday. "An agreement has been reached for the release of the ship, crew and food in the next three days," WFP spokeswoman Rene McGuffin said in Nairobi.
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