US Genius Technique to Recover Billions $ Ship in Middle of the Sea

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Жыл бұрын

Welcome back to the Fluctus Channel for a special feature on some of the unique methods the US employs to salvage vessels, their crew, and cargo. In addition to a snapshot of these ships' next life as reefs.
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@HAmatelot Жыл бұрын

If it's US genius how come the Dutch have the biggest and most succesfull salvage company ?????

@---OZ--- 2 ай бұрын

They are brilliant only for surface recoveries....hahaha, the Dutch are the true professionals and unique for deep recoveries

@HUNDREDACREWOOD. 27 күн бұрын

because America isn’t anywhere as great as we were indoctrinated into believing as children…

@remcovanvliet3018 Жыл бұрын

US invented techniques, huh? Smit Internationale and Mammoet would like to have a word. Greetings from the Netherlands.

@nazismomsrhos 9 ай бұрын

Everything usefull you use is pretty much american like cars phones computere the internet nuclear power and advancements the submarine the us creates more daily than the rest of the world combined.

@Mark-hc8ek 2 ай бұрын

F the nothinglands

@bornfree735 2 ай бұрын

@@Mark-hc8ekf the us!

@c.a.mcneil7599 Ай бұрын

Great show us a example

@marthakrumboltz2710 Жыл бұрын

Having engineered ocean tugs on gulf, east coast and north, Central America, I never ceased to be amazed at the stupid things people manage to do with vessels. Picked up a drunk in a zodiac after separating from a sailboat off Yucatán. Didn’t even know he was alone. Never found the sailboat so we just took him along. Good cook though. Bizarre stuff every day.

@rhuttrho88 Жыл бұрын

🫡

@BVonBuescher Жыл бұрын

I hope you had some chocolate chip cookies on hand

@johna.4334 11 ай бұрын

@@BVonBuescher Huh?

@Disinterested1 Жыл бұрын

"The ship flooded after it sank" nah it probably flooded first as that is what sinking is

@cleverusername9369 Жыл бұрын

You want an award or something?

@Disinterested1 Жыл бұрын

@@cleverusername9369 how are the cats?

@purdyboi8078 Жыл бұрын

@@Disinterested1 🤣

@blackhawk7r221 Жыл бұрын

Ballast was off. It was top heavy. Went over sideways then flooded.

@lubecavi Жыл бұрын

No cure, no pay is a London Loyds open form contract. And in salvage procedures the Dutch are the leaders by far.

@mikebrase5161 9 ай бұрын

We used to have a pretty famous salvage boat in my area called the Salvage Chief. A week ago i was talking with a buddy who is an ABS inspector. He was telling me how sad everybody was when he had to fail its final hull inspection.

@mjjvdberg Жыл бұрын

I know that in the USA everything seems bigger and better, but now you are quite wrong. In a small country, the Netherlands, which has 17 million inhabitants, the famous Smit salvage has been established for decades and has a leading role and has established a huge name worldwide.

@mr.clicknail Жыл бұрын

Het is algemeen bekend dat Nederlanders groot gereedschap hebben :P

@TiffMcGiff Жыл бұрын

Tell me more…

@usernotfound904 Жыл бұрын

They’re #2

@mikemurphy5898 Жыл бұрын

'MMMUUUUUUURICA!!

@1BigDaDo Жыл бұрын

Lol there is 30 million people in Texas alone here in the USA..

@gordonormiston3233 Жыл бұрын

The Dutch have been the leaders in ship salvage for hundreds of years!

@Jay92925 Жыл бұрын

You’re wrong, Americans have been the leaders of this for hundreds of years. Or that’s at least what the Americans would say, and they do tend to know everything. Just like how they’re the leaders of everything possible in the world and have been for millennia

@sheikhkhalid5969 Жыл бұрын

Tell it like it is.

@donbrashsux Жыл бұрын

Yes they have done some truely amazing salvages

@Shawn_313 Жыл бұрын

Who cares?

@anthonyxuereb792 9 ай бұрын

True but it was the US that salvaged the Costa Concordia if I'm not mistaken

@markbowen3638 Жыл бұрын

People have been salvaging ships before the good ol US of A was born. As others have stated the Dutch are by far the most experienced in this field and are the go too for seemingly impossible salvage jobs.

@marthakrumboltz2710 Жыл бұрын

Who claimed to be the end all for salvage in the “good ol’ US”?

@montanasnowman3138 Жыл бұрын

No America created God ships, fish in the sea and everything else.

@Matityahu755 Жыл бұрын

Dat klopt.

@destroyer6867 Жыл бұрын

Yeah the Dutch were there before, doesn't mean they are the best now

@incognitoalias2808 Жыл бұрын

@@destroyer6867 Didn't Howard Hughes salvage a Russian Submarine and not a Dutch Company......

@askhowiknow5527 Жыл бұрын

The one saving grace is that the cars inside weren't any good.

@johnrudy9404 Жыл бұрын

So much good stuff. Happy for the 4 engineers saved! People working together...sometimes. also always happy to see Reef from disgarded Material.

@johna.4334 Жыл бұрын

"Kia and Hyundai vehicles" No great loss.

@RonnieStanley-tc6vi 9 ай бұрын

When I was a kid we lived on the Intercoastal waterway in Chesapeake VA. My friends and I went fishing and crabbing where several ships were cut up and sitting on the shore. I never knew that they used a cutting chain to get them out of the water though.

Жыл бұрын

Dutch owned SMIT Salvage used this technique long before the the Americans

@anthonyxuereb792 9 ай бұрын

"recks to reef is a euphemism for "dump it in the sea." Call me a sceptic.

@daveneil3963 Жыл бұрын

WOW, the hugeness of that recovery barge is hard to comprehend! Thank you for sharing that with us, I'm hooked now!

@eentest9875 Жыл бұрын

That is a small crane vessel with 6800 ton lifting capacity. Dutch Heerema could offer 20.000 tons of lifting capacity on one ship...

@michaellicavoli3921 Жыл бұрын

First buy a Chinese built rescue ship, and put on an American flag.

@msw7021 Жыл бұрын

@@michaellicavoli3921 Gulf Marine Fabricators Texas

@michaellicavoli3921 Жыл бұрын

@@msw7021 Didn’t expect made in TEXAS,

@Shawn_313 Жыл бұрын

@@eentest9875 who cares

@haroldplante8287 Жыл бұрын

I worked a Lampson 1200T Transalift. The spreader-bar alone was 150T. Super cool job.

@jonahgadoury6421 Жыл бұрын

As long as ships have existed, recovery efforts have been made. Ships have been around much longer than 1,500s . Also, why is it called cargo on a ship, and shipment in cars?

@freedomforever6718 Жыл бұрын

The lifestyles of contemporary human beings require massive infrastructure to maintain. Human ingenuity has yet to find its limit.

@welshpete12 Жыл бұрын

The Dutch are excellent at this sort of operation.

@AgricultureTechUS 14 күн бұрын

Completely mind-blowing! Innovation knows no bounds.

@peteryeung111 Жыл бұрын

You won’t realize how massive this wreckage and crane is, until you see the scale of men walking around.

@mattheweburns Жыл бұрын

Wow, so close to home! Imagine if there had been a hurricane stopping operations, that could have ruined Tybee island

@whodat90 Жыл бұрын

“The ship flooded just after it sank, then it caught fire”. See, this kind of mixup is why order of operations is important.

@bellenvideo5629 Жыл бұрын

4 crew members saved was amazing 🙏 wow 🤩

@mikeyyoyo6464 Жыл бұрын

The expression on the guys face was moving

@frankangermann6460 Жыл бұрын

Still not shure if the „recycling“ of rigs and ships into reefs isn’t just a cheap way to get rid of it…..

@DamienJoldersma Жыл бұрын

Great video, but yeah, my feeling exactly: like ohh! All of a sudden it's like, Let's fix the ocean reef after our trawlers wrecked it!

@mikeyyoyo6464 Жыл бұрын

Poor fish swimming around looking for they’re Hyundais

@siggyincr7447 Жыл бұрын

By all accounts that I've seen they seem to be pretty big successes in terms of increasing biodiversity. In areas that are lacking hard substrates, the wrecks offer places for corals to settle that are otherwise lacking. Once the corals and other sessile invertebrates get established it doesn't take long for fish and other animals to move in. As an added benefit they are often located in no fishing zones and help stop nets from being hauled through the area by destroying them should they be hauled over the wreck.

@hisheroship Жыл бұрын

It is win win.

@johnrogers9481 Ай бұрын

…poor fish looking around for they are Hyundais🙂

@BrunoKarett Жыл бұрын

I am fascinated by working at sea. People can do anything, nothing is a problem. Great

@housemana Жыл бұрын

what... do you mean nothing is a problem?

@Hangover-ry9bo Жыл бұрын

This is regulated with an overload of procedures and approvals. Every step is a process to mitigate risks of what might happens. They don't rock up and start working.

@jimjoe9945 Жыл бұрын

God does everything.

@MrCrabbing 9 ай бұрын

Have a look on here for the Minorcan Mullet he did great coverage of the whole thing from grounding until disposal was completed

@GetOutsideYourself Жыл бұрын

Nice editing on this one. The only thing missing is Forest Gump and Sargent Dan battling the storm.

@BubbaVision948 11 ай бұрын

-- Thats Lt. Dan...!

@alexandertsanga Жыл бұрын

Can image being the Person who made a Mistake that Sunk a loaded Ship.

@historical_figures_unveiled Жыл бұрын

got ur video suggestion today and subscribed in 30 min . amazing content

@allthatjazz641 Жыл бұрын

Turn the music up buddy, I could almost hear you.

@antonioguardiola1977 Жыл бұрын

La verdad que da gusto el al pobre hombre salir del barco, eso es lo más importante de toda la película.

@c123bthunderpig Жыл бұрын

Incredible operation, amazing engineering. I wonder if the two year salvage operation paid a profit that's really expensive equipment per hour not to mention paying salaries for expertise, permits. Etc.. Envious of people who are visionaries and can sell an operation like this to investors. Otherwise this would have been navigation danger for at least a 100 years.

@raychambers3646 Жыл бұрын

The Dutch are world leaders in this.

@johnnycrash3270 Жыл бұрын

Ships cook "Did you guys find my Knife set ?"

@dirkvettigeran4628 Жыл бұрын

Pioneering Spirit this ship can take the drilling rig and the legs at the same time and can also lay pipelines at sea and is Dutch

@Michael-0000 Жыл бұрын

Also the biggest vessel in the world. The most impressive installation vessel I’ve ever seen.

@426superbee4 Жыл бұрын

I would love to have some of the good scrap, I beams, and pipe I got many many uses for it.

@sfdntk Жыл бұрын

Like what?

@EntropiaBones Жыл бұрын

The timing between sentences was maddening , making this unwatchable.

@51hankyspanky7 Жыл бұрын

What is so strange is how we go to such great lengths to save someone, yet somewhere else bombs of war are blowing up towns with apartment buildings, killing hundreds. How does this make sense?

@dennisnickoloff1723 Жыл бұрын

It doesn't

@iwaswrongabouteveryhthing Жыл бұрын

profits

@quantumss Жыл бұрын

Would have been much better without the music.

@webstercat Жыл бұрын

That smile on the man’s face ..

@SuperDirk1965 Жыл бұрын

There's no mention of no cure no pay in the Brussels Convention of 1910. That convention is about responsability in case of collision of ships.

@mr.clicknail Жыл бұрын

Word has it the US learned it from the Dutch ;)

@stephenstephen5753 Жыл бұрын

Kinda funny at around 1:30 seeing the aerial footage of the Tangalooma wrecks at Moreton Island. It's an artificial reef, all deliberately scuttled. No one failed to salvage those hulls.

@walsterdoomit Жыл бұрын

Big crane. Big saw. Genius.

@user-js4zx1lr2u 9 ай бұрын

It might be the largest single ship job but I'd say Pearl Harbour or Scapa flow was bigger.

@NathanNostaw Жыл бұрын

What was so amazing? There was a very brief mention of a special saw chain, but that was it. Hardly a video to learn anything from.

@Leo-gt1bx Жыл бұрын

No video of it in operation

@ElCid70 Жыл бұрын

They didn't recover it. They salvaged it.

@cleverusername9369 Жыл бұрын

Ugh. Don't be that guy

@supers0nic77 11 ай бұрын

Savage

@JPRPhotoandVideo Жыл бұрын

Taklift 4 is literally a dutch lifting ship

@tomrogers9467 Жыл бұрын

“The ship flooded just after it sank” 13:38. Yes, I suppose if it sank it would have flooded! 😂

@oxyfee6486 Жыл бұрын

Someone forgot to close the screen door.😃

@dickdaley9059 Жыл бұрын

The salvage of the Golden Ray required ripping the ship into eight sections for the VB10000 to lift. Enhanced metal anchor chains were used, not diamond cutting chains. Sawing action from under the capsized hull through to the decks literally tore through the structural metal parts causing multiple releases of hazardous liquids into St Simons Bay. This pristine ecology will not recover for generations, if ever! It is now recognized as the most costly and involved salvage of a commercial vessel inside territorial water in US history. 🇺🇸⚓️

@garybaris139 Жыл бұрын

They should have used the Dutch to do the salvage because they are the world leaders in the field and actually know how to prevent disasters like this. "US Genius Technique" my ass...😂😂😂😂

@dickdaley9059 Жыл бұрын

“They” are the insurance P&I Club that controlled the checkbook from the UK. All salvage and remediation expenses were authorized based upon competitive cost. The Dutch (Smit) submitted estimates but were way above the others. 🇺🇸⚓️

@sleepyjay2664 Жыл бұрын

@@dickdaley9059 Yes, but the Smit bid was based on institutional knowledge from a company that had done this type of salvage many time previously. The Insurance company went with the low bidder who planned to use unproven techniques/technology to do the job. Given how much of a mess the salvage turned out to be, you can make a good argument that the Smit bid was the more realistic one.

@HesTNTonPMS Жыл бұрын

right a recovery vessel capable of only a lousy 6800 tons might have been great for the 40's but not today , theyre gonna need a bigger boat and a much bigger investment when they're gonna have to deal with 100,000 plus GT crappin the bed

@dickdaley9059 Жыл бұрын

Yes, Smit was the high priced spread to chose at the time. But no salvage history existed for this situation in maritime history. It really was a crap shoot for all the remediation vendors and none were able to state assurances that the work would be completed within contractual terms. Without a contract stating certain assurances would be met to satisfy compliance, the decision was relegated to cost versus performance. Smit was probably happy to walk away…🇺🇸⚓️

@Shipspotting_Vietnam Жыл бұрын

Each ship has its own final destination.

@TheSunseeker007 Жыл бұрын

The Art of Salvage . Real Professionals !!!

@galaxies4415 Жыл бұрын

beautiful video

@geniferteal4178 Жыл бұрын

This was arguably the largest recovery recovered. Curious what the argument was? It would seem easy to determine this was the largest wreck ever recovered.

@JPRPhotoandVideo Жыл бұрын

Hmm, I think the Dutch are the real masters at ship salvage.

@norbertgabler8267 Жыл бұрын

Well ... as we all know the U.S. are like MEN IN BLACK. Always the best of the best of the best, Sir. With honours. 🤣

@markthornton7347 11 ай бұрын

old rigs are good for birds and fish etc. snd should be left despite being a sea hazard for people....im sure there is some way to let ships know of their presence....

@BIBIWCICC Жыл бұрын

This project was 100’s of millions of dollars over urgent due to incompetence of USCG and US salvors. The jones act only allowed antiquated American equipment in US waters. The VB 10000 was already owned by the bank and was destined for the scrap yard! Modern equipment would have allowed for faster recovery, sadly the US hasn’t got any.

@sleepyjay2664 Жыл бұрын

Go away troll. You can't even keep your lies straight

@streamin2605 8 ай бұрын

Vb10k was paid for already. Cheaper for them to buy vs rent it. It was built in 2010. Not that old considering and even by todays standards, it's still a heavyweight in the salvage world!

@edkiely2712 4 ай бұрын

@streamin2605 I was reading where in 2015, preliminary plans were in place to build a bigger VB. Whether those plans have been put on hold or not, I don't know. Also, just because something is "older" doesn't mean it still isn't highly useful. Personally, I find the VB 10000 to be a fascinating engineering marvel!

@oumski6893 Жыл бұрын

Very good thanks from hamou fahem Skikda Algeria

@arturturk5926 9 ай бұрын

Amazing.

@daleburnfart6845 2 ай бұрын

Watching this makes it impossible to really look at the Egyptian pyramids and still be impressed.

@chesslerbooks Жыл бұрын

What happens to the fuel oil? I am sure it can be cleaned up, all the salt water taken out. I am sure every ship at sea has that ability. Its gotta

@dutchsailor6620 Жыл бұрын

Fuel oil is good to reuse, nothing happened with it. The fuel will float on water so if contaminated it is easy to separate the water.

@felicienneicilef18 Жыл бұрын

Quand on parle du déclin de nos amis américains, on se trompe lourdement. Ce grand et magnifique pays, reste le leader incontesté du monde libre, n'en déplaise a ses détracteurs.

@miapdx503 8 ай бұрын

Thank you 🌹

@sunitadwarka347 3 күн бұрын

We can bring more improvement in this technology. Jay bharat.

@dustinshuey1477 Жыл бұрын

Usmm train on USS Ironwood I've always been interested in Salvage I'm a little AK River Rat but I do like the Salvage part of the industry a lot it interests me a lot

@IvesMarcelin Жыл бұрын

would be possible to depollute the red sea because there ae the bottom in These waters warships with tons of materials from the time of the first war ...and it would be realy good to rénover retrieve These objets for the museum in England ...some wwi era shipwrecks are filled with motocycles and ..war vehicles and period ammunition and weapons. // Recovering on the French Coast the 1300 wrecks dating from the second war would also be good with the help of the French and English and American Companies

@eentest9875 Жыл бұрын

That is a small cranw vessel with 6800 ton lifting capacity. Dutch Heerema could offer 20.000 tons of lifting capacity on one ship...

@topixfromthetropix1674 Жыл бұрын

Mammoet can do anything.

@simbayoung4757 Жыл бұрын

2YEARS!!! These men are determined

@Leo-gt1bx Жыл бұрын

Rigs to reefs is about money not saving the sea

@elrondhubbard7059 Жыл бұрын

Since those sunken cargo ships that were turned into reefs would have had crew quarters, you've now got some fish living in a bedroom formerly occupied by humans.

@richardcosse2493 11 ай бұрын

"...the ship flooded right after it sank".

@paulharrison6417 Жыл бұрын

strange how the dutch are the best at it thow!

@reggierico Жыл бұрын

I don't think too many gen Z types will be interested in this type of work...

@janfieten2449 4 ай бұрын

When things get difficult, the most genius tactic is to call the Dutch to solve the problem ;-)

@Club-Dreamiverse 3 ай бұрын

You could create a mission to get stuff sunken underwater, like sunken ships or subs or cars, so that fish and marine life are free to thrive.

@brt-jn7kg Жыл бұрын

Others might have been doing it longer some may do it better but every single one of them are doing it because they got money from the US of A! Every single country would be in a feudal system still if it wasn't for American so just say thank you!!

@willemhaifetz-chen1588 8 ай бұрын

TAKLIFT 4 for the win

@tjokertora3087 Жыл бұрын

pro1; calculated,precission,perfect

@harrickvharrick3957 2 ай бұрын

Intro: 'vessel rescuing had been around since the 15th century' (shows wrecks of capsized ships that were NOT -rescued- salvaged)

@Davidsavage8008 3 ай бұрын

Best part of life is working as a maritime employee.

@Tarheelsrule 9 ай бұрын

If you can cut it up it can be salvaged I mean after all it was put together so it will come apart

@jiyushugi1085 8 ай бұрын

So, you don't need to know how to properly load ship to get a captain's license.

@jeanhawken4482 15 күн бұрын

With all the science we have to advise on conditions, humans still manage to stuff things up.

@sunslowlyrises Жыл бұрын

That would be fun to climb on the ship that's beached

@mattheweburns Жыл бұрын

6800 tons doesn’t sound like very much when you’re talking about large ships

@splintedvibesvibes1591 3 ай бұрын

Shipbreakers brought me here.

@tomthompson7400 Жыл бұрын

very impressive.

@bobthebuilder201 Жыл бұрын

This is freaking awesome

@shadowrevive83 Жыл бұрын

Engineering at best!

@norml.hugh-mann Жыл бұрын

Every country with a shore has salvage company and experts....the bigger countries might have bigger companies but we are not talking classified here, they all work together

@426superbee4 Жыл бұрын

I often wonder if they used ship chains, to left things a well. You never see it being used! YES.. There is a lot of ship chains on the bottom of the oceans. Just waiting to be used again, or melted down again

@PhilORourke Жыл бұрын

These guys are what you call proper men!

@stewatparkpark2933 Жыл бұрын

Pansies need not apply .

@PhilORourke Жыл бұрын

@@stewatparkpark2933 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@rizdalegend Жыл бұрын

Sometimes you forget why gas is expensive

@bernhardjanssen9284 Жыл бұрын

An other big grane from the company from The Netherlands Heerema the Dutch are everywhere 😉

@MagnumTechnicalAcademy Жыл бұрын

Just a physics question ⁉️ Am wondering why a heavy load lifting machine like this one, doesn't even sink, even though its still carry and lift other savaged ship to it's load. I am thinking, these lift machines, stretches out some iron to the sea foot, to add to it's weight. I understand Archimedes principle of floating body, but it amazes me how these lift carrier works.

@phoe8523 Жыл бұрын

Huge floating chambers and (on normal swim cranes) ballast tanks keep these swimming cranes afloat and in balance.

@MagnumTechnicalAcademy Жыл бұрын

@@phoe8523 thanks so much

@jakertheelaborater2573 5 ай бұрын

I think all of these ships should be scrapped so we can usemore metal instead of plastic and it would be cool to recover them from the bottom of the ocean