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The excavation of the sunken tugboat Kuguar is slowly coming to an end. The action has been conducted in the port of Świnoujście since Sunday 8 March 2015. At the moment the wreck is being lifted by the floating crane “Maja”, which was brought in especially for this purpose.
As radioszczecin.pl reports, this is the fourth attempt to lift the wrecked tugboat. This time, however, everything seems to be on the right track and in a few hours the action should end successfully.
Live broadcast of the extraction action
The wreck of the Kuguar was ready to be pulled out already on Tuesday at around 16:00, but further work was postponed until the next day due to the falling dusk. Jarosław Dydo, a representative of Zakład Usług Żeglugowych, which owns the tug, comments on the activities of the recovery group:
” Divers will go down into the water, hook up the floating crane equipment to the ropes that lie under the hull of the tug and within two hours we will be able to start lifting the hull to the surface of the water”
The next step will be to pump out the water from inside the wreck. The Kuguar, suspended at an appropriate height, will be emptied for about 3 hours. The final stage of the entire operation will be transporting the excavated wreck to the Scrap Quay. The last part of the operation will take another 2h, and the tug will be transported on board of the “Maja” crane.
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A considerable difficulty in the whole process of raising the wreck is the cluttered bottom. From the very beginning, concrete blocks, stones and scrap metal hindered the smooth execution of the individual stages of the tug’s extraction (pulling steel cables, attaching the tug to them).
According to TVP Info, at the moment (14:30) almost the whole tug is above the water surface and the action is going on without any unnecessary difficulties.
Source: radioszczecin.pl
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