Rena update #231
Rena update #231
Salvage
(Resolve Marine)
1. • This week saw the
first sections cut and removed from the fore section of the
Rena, with the Bell 214 heavy-lift helicopter
completing 14 separate lifts to the barge
Kapua.
2. • The barge made its
first landing in Tauranga yesterday with an estimated 40
tonnes of steel, which included deck equipment and pieces
of winches from the fo’c’sle.
3. • Work is
continuing with the modifications to the helicopter landing
platform, and pre-cutting of upper decks, fo’c’sle deck,
and equipment.
4. • Helicopter-to-barge
transfers will continue next week.
Braemar Howells/Unimar Update
•
Braemar Howells/Unimar teams will be heading out to sea
today to attempt to recover more Rena
containers from the seabed – these at depths greater than
50 metres
• Since last week eight containers
have been recovered. All had been rigged by a Remotely
Operated Vehicle (ROV) and many still carried their
contents, including one container loaded with cans of baked
beans and chocolate rice.
• The recovery of
those eight containers brings the total number of containers
retrieved to 977. (There were 1368 containers on board when
the Rena ran aground in October last year.)
•
Clean-up work continues on beaches, with 14 bags of
predominantly beads, recovered from Matakana Island this
week. Clean-up teams are also working in the Coromandel.
• Debris recovery using a Unimar barge is also
continuing at sea around the Rena where
container flotsam and scrap steel has been collected this
week.
Oil spill response
•
The oil spill response has been reduced from a Tier 3, or
national level, to Tier 2, or regional level, response. Any
queries about the oil spill response should now be directed
to the Bay of Plenty Regional Council.
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