TWENTY-THREE
crewmen and the pilot of the Hyundai Glovis car carrier have all been rescued
after the ship capsized leaving Georgia's Port of Brunswick,
reported American Shipper.
Four crewmen who were trapped inside the capsized
20,995-dwt Marshall Islands-flagged car carrier Golden Ray were
extracted from the ship.
"We have outstanding news to report this
afternoon," said US Coast Guard Capt John Reed after television showed
footage of the third crew member extracted from the ship and taken to hospital.
Two other members able to crawl through a two by three
foot hole that had been cut into the hull near the prop and walk onto a boat.
They too were being transported to a hospital for evaluation. Nineteen crew
members and the ship's pilot had been rescued in the first 10 hours after the
ship had grounded at about 2am on September 8 as it was leaving Brunswick.
Capt Reed said the last remaining crewman had been
located, but was on a different deck in a glass-enclosed engineering control
room. Within a couple of hours, he also had been rescued.
The condition of the four men was "relatively good
for having spent 34 to 35 hours in the conditions they were in," said Capt
Reed. Extreme heat was an issue inside and outside the ship.
Temperatures were as hot as 120 degrees as the sun beat
down on the upturned hull where rescue workers labored to free the men inside.
Donjon-Smit,
a joint venture of Donjon Marine Co. and SMIT Internationale, is
developing a salvage plan for the ship, and is sending vessels to Brunswick.
A UK Marine Accident Investigation Board
looking into the 2015 grounding of the Hoegh Osaka warned that too little
attention was being paid to the issues of stability by operators of roll-on,
roll-off ships, particularly pure car carriers (PCCs) and pure
car-truck carriers (PCTCs).
"What is a fundamental principle of seamanship
appears to have been allowed to drift, giving rise to potential unsafe
practices," that report said.
Source : HKSG.
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