I was at sea for many years,going to sea in 1952 and I cannot praise the Dutch too highly for the way in which they have salvaged ships which no other people would have attempted.Hats off to these brave,resourceful and determined men!

This company Smit-Tek is absolutely amazing. Some of the ship salvaging they have completed is astounding work. The size of the tasks they perform boggles the mind. Brilliant stuff

It's always a pleasure to gain some insight on how our world functions. Unless it directly involves them, the closest most folks get to this sort of thing is a blurb on the news channel. It's quite impressive to see engineering, ingenuity, and intelligence come together to produce recovery equipment to salvage sunken ships without turning the operation into a ecological nightmare. Good job Dutch MoW, keep up the great work.

Thanks for using a real live voice and for keeping the music volume low. Cheers

Those sheer legs are bloody amazing, as is the size of the pontoons that carried the remains of the ship. Incredible work and engineering.

Truly an unbelievable task. I don't imagine the sea state being so calm for any length of time. Wonderful job by all the crew involved. Good job by the film crew as well.

An excellent, high quality video. Makes ocean salvage look easy! Judging from the condition of the wreck after it was recovered, it looks like it was on the bottom for a year or two.

The Dutch Salvage Companies are the best in that Business, operating world wide. Many thanks!

Way to go Dutch. Wonderful job of protecting our oceans, great seamanship, and very brave divers. My hat is off to you.

Amazing bit of kit. Excellent job to the workers.

@Joshuafree321 The I UGO sunck in a very busy shipping lane in the Dutch coastal waters. Leaving here there was way to dangerous for the other ships. That's why it had to be removed.

Smit ! Bloody amazing what these guys are capable of doing 😮👍👍

@Robcop: I think you missed the parallels. A rescue operation started immediately to save the crew. There was nothing they could do to save the ship from sinking at that time. Obviously, the following salvage operation took a lot of preparation and planning, with the necessary paperwork. You're sarcasm does not do justice to the excellent job done by all people involved to save the crew and the environment.

Very professional work by all. The sea is a better place for your outstanding efforts.

Great job guys, what a task!

Great job!

Great video!

Very good video thanks for posting this. :)

Awesome!

awesome video

Today I learned that mill scale is a commodity and is traded and shipped around the world.

i love these old svitzer videos they are indeed still the best despite leaving their own responce ship fighter to rot in rotterdam harbour not a fitting end for that ship a search on herald of free enterprise vids will show her first on scene. Who does marine salvage now around uk are svitzer still around or are they just called some thing else ?

brilliant!

When things go wrong - 3/4 of the way into the video and you realize it's not the video you thought it was.

Fascinating stuff

Anyone remember the AthenaB that beached in Brighton. We got our mum to drive down and ran around the beach as excited 10 year olds, the anchor still is on the seafront as a memento/plaque .

The Netherlands is the best when it comes to water!

Thank you to the Dutch, for good sea stewardship!

Excellent what a quick response.

THATS AWESOME!

Yet more proof it's bad luck to change the name of a ship.

Cool Engineering Job!!

great job. did not see any thing wrong here

Very clever people doing a great job

Brilliant, The Dutch best in the world at this type of thing, did they ever get the money back? Sounded a little suspicious that the ship was sold just before this problem...?

Sawing a shipwreck into pieces on the sea bottom with a chain is, I must remark, pretty bad-ass. In the 'macho'' sense of the word.

9:23 damn dude had a strong ass flow w that piss, LOL

Five million Euros seems like a bargain given the scale of the recovery operation. Recovering the Costa Concordia cost almost 300 times more - an estimated two BILLION dollars (~1.4 B Euros). Granted, the Costa Concordia was a LOT bigger. But, it sank to a shallower depth, in warmer and less turbulent waters, and aside from oil, did not carry other material such as mill scale that needed to be recovered. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Concordia_disaster

@writerconsidered. I think you missed the brackets around the word toxic... and BTW plasic also contain oil products... In addition there are thousands of other materails considered toxic that have nothing to do with oil. The point is that there was so much material in the ship, toxic and non-toxic, considered a danger for the environment that cutting her up would lead to an environmental disaster of great magnitude and therefore would never be considerd an option. Your opinion about our professional knowledge about (toxic) waste is based on a total lack of knowledge about our company, the work we do and the people that work for us. So before you publish your personal assessment based on zero evidence please inform yourself better first.

Dutch salvors are among the best in the world! Great job. That said, I often wonder at how tense folk are these days over bunker oil, cargo, etc lost at sea when you consider maybe tens of thousands of similar vessels lost in the world wars, with really no effort at salvage, and no permanent damage to the oceans.

Cool

Cool work, not like we leave crashed cars where ever they had their accident..

02:28 Narrator : The ship contains 383974 tons of Heavy Fuel. Dire Straits : say that again please ?

brilliant idea cutting the ship with anchor chains with heavy lift crane....cool

The vessel's original name was "Lugoj" - a city in Romania. Should we abide by the timeless seamen's superstition of not changing a ship's name?

How do they get the chain under it initially before they cut it up?

Not much you could do if the cargo was hazardous. If you are familiar with the industry you can see how things have changed with the times.

What is the value of mill scale? I thought it was an unwanted trash by-product of steel production and processing.

@marcos palomino - there is way too much (toxic) waste in the Costa Concordia; there are tonnes of rotten food inside, all the stuff that people left behind (most of their belongings), including plastics, rubber, oil containing products, cosmetics, etc. etc. And of course all the chairs, tables, cabinets, beds, TVs and other electronics.... When they would cut the Concordia, all would get out, leding to a huge environmental disaster.

this ship was a romanian ship named ' Lugoj '

well,,, it is a yugo. what did they think would happen?

Interesting

A bit too hyped by the tone of the announcer but, nevertheless, encouraging that there are systems in place to deal with potentially destructive situations.

Knowing little about sea salvage, and less about the Dutch involvement in it, I had a strong feeling, by the first few minutes of video, that these people live in the real world. There’s IQ and depth of consciousness behind this operation. IQ alone wouldn't get you this far.

Man... This is an old documentary. I know the ship because i was conceived on one of her sisters. The name is not I UGO... It's IUGO but the company that took the ship from ROMLINE 6 years before were so cheap they just painted over the base of the L and over the J of the old name LUGOJ . You can imagine how cheaply she was run... Edit... Yeah they actually showed that 😂

That'd be some shit. Realize you have the wrong ship when you pull up the bow section

sure they are.

How can a wreck 30 meters down be a "shipping hazard"?

These waves makes the ships die.

Narrator sounds like a leftover from 1940's newsreels.

Let's see...scrap metal is $197.00 a ton, and a container ship weighing 100,000 tons...$19,700,000.00

Real men's work there... Diving, cutting up and removing oil and cargo from a ship so far below

sold that boat just in time.

EU SENPRE DIGO, TEM MUITO LIXO DE NÁUFRÁGIOS ABAIXO E OS NAVIOS BATE NO LIXO, TEMOS QUE LIMPAR TODO O MAR ,O FUNDO TAMB´´EM, TEM MILHARES DE NAVIOS AVIÕES E DESTOÇOS NO LEITO MARINHO!

WHy was that ship sold and renamed from the start I believe, it was a wreck ( what we call pateau poubelle) Many lies in most of those commercials , about pollutions for instance. Reassuring comments

This could be serious if she sinks it could damage the environment..... what about the freaking crew?

Why is nothing being done about the vast quantities of nuclear waste that the English government dumped in the channel during the mid eightys. It seems heavy oil and diesel are far more of an environmental problem!! or perhaps its just the little man that cleans up.

A sad pointer? The UK, a once great maritime power, seems no longer to have any interest in the seas and any industry connected with them!

the netherland rocks

Nothing personal... All okay, but whay people on deck during operation without lifejackets? Safety first!!! 😊

If it's in a 100 feet of water, how could that impact shipping vessels? How deep is the draft on the average tanker or cruise ship? 30 feet at the most I would guess. The only real danger to boats is the buoy they stuck on it. Once the cargo and environmentally harmful stuff was removed, why couldn't they leave the ship down there?

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isnt it better to leave ship wrecks as they make coral reefs and attract wide varieties of fish?

Could have just been marked with a buoy so other boats could steer around it if needed..

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You should have titled it "When Money Is No Object" ........Good luck getting your money.

Accidents do NOT occur. They are caused!!!!!

Buy a boat, rename and pay all taxes... Then 5+ million euros in the accident. That was a great investment :(

That's what you get for buying a yugo.

Let's name our Ship after the worst car ever made, that should be good luck!

Bloated bureaucracy followed by Great engineering,

Nice commercial for the North Sea directorate...Sounds like a bunch of tyrants...

the government red tape fiddling while the ship sinks

I drink Hydo-carbonated water all the time,.. no harm

why dont they fill it up with ping pong balls

Pesky flying coastguard.. Honest Guv it's soap..😂😂😂

and the hundreds of tankers sunk in WW 2 had no effect,,,,, the environment by itself consumed the stuff nature can deal with these things

I prefer "Netherlanders"

scrap metal

Despite what Poloticians keep carpping and squabbaling about. When life is at danger at sea, all who can help start in.

The Ugo was the worst car ever inflicted on mankind !!

Narrator says they used cables "..as thick as a man's wrist...." How utterly sexist, eh?

Is the threat to the environment more important than that to human life?

There is no "fuck"... During the job..... This is a difference between mascaw /Europe.....mascaw is stone age.. Bribes talking & money swindling.....

too much fucking drama