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itor Introduces Multipurpose ipboard Electric Welder

Unitor introduced a compact, lightweight, mul- ipurpose electric welding unit for shipboard use. )eveloped with Lincoln Electric, the UWI-350MP 3 designed to cover all shipboard arc welding and utting requirements — but for operators who inly require conventional coated electrode weld- ng, comes in a basic form with a comprehensive ist of "add-on" features.

The unit can handle all coated electrodes up to 3.3 mm diameter with sufficient output to supply welding current through 400mm, to 70mm2 cable when using 4mm electrodes at 200A current.

The unit can be equipped for Tungsten Inert

Gas (TIG) welding, but does not utilize high frequency current which can cause potentially dangerous radio interference. The UWF-MP wire feeder enables the UWF-350MP to undertake

MIG welding of aluminum and MIG/MAG weld- ing of stainless steels, brasses, bronzes, etc.

The unit can also be used for cutting — conven- tionally and underwater. An oxy-arc torch is used for cutting in the underwater mode, or an air carbon arc torch for normal cutting.

For more information on Unitor

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Wreck Removal Of Sea Transporter

The Sea Transporter aground off Goa, India. (Continued from page 48)

Smit Tak To Remove Bulk Carrier Wreck

Smit Tak has been awarded a major contract to remove the wreck of the bulk carrier Sea

Transporter, which ran aground in heavy weather earlier this year, at a sensitive location on the Indian coast.

The 64,000-dwt Panamax vessel was on a ballast voyage in June when Force 11 monsoon winds pushed her ashore at Fort Aguada, Goa.

The ship broke its back on a rocky shore, adja- cent to an important amenity area and close to a major tourist development.

The Sea Transporter was built in 1972. Fol- lowing the grounding, immediate action was taken to remove the environmental threat posed by the ship's bunkers. However, the condition of the vessel now rules out any refloating at- tempt. The ship has suffered very severe bot- tom damage; all holds in the engine room are flooded.

Smit Tak's contract is with the owner's P&I

Club. Bert Kleywegt, an experienced senior salvage master, heads a 36-man salvage team preparing for the wreck removal. The team includes 12 personnel from a local company,

Samson of Goa. Work is expected to be done by mid-January.

The plan calls for the removal of the casualty's mid-section and the refloating of the forepart and stern sections. A substantial salvage fleet

Phase 1: Refloating fore body & Cutting midship sections

Phase 3: Refloating aftbody

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Fairhaven, MA (508) 993-2631 • New York, NY (718) 855-7200 was mobilized from Singapore, including the sheerlegs crane Smit Cyclone, an anchor-han- dling salvage vessel and other units, including two barges. Resources at the scene include diving, cutting and welding equipment, genera- tors, submersible pumps, compressors and patch- ing materials.

The Smit Cyclone will be used to remove the midsection, which will be loaded onto one of the barges. During the next stage, the accommoda- tion block will be severed from the main body of the stern section and cut in two. Smit Cyclone will lift both onto the barge for the voyage to a scrap yard.

At this stage, final preparations will be made for raising the stern section. A lifting barge will be posi- tioned at the severed end of Hold

No. 7. The sheerlegs will be con- nected to the stern. Smit Tak's plan calls for the stern section of Sea

Transporter to be lifted apprximately three ft. (one meter) clear of the bottom. When refloated, it will also be towed away for scrap.

Elsewhere in the world, Smit Tak salvage teams successfully refloated two casualties on the same day — the 38,000-dwt Turkish vessel

Mustafa Sofuoglu, carrying 3,612 tons of steel coils, and the 38,406- dwt geared bulk carrier

Constantinople, Greek-owned and flying the Maltese flag. 1 1 " I 1 1 - 1 1 1 1 1 ... I ..: 1 :

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