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Salvage

Titan Maritime Rolls Out The Bunker In Portugal

Titan Maritime recently completed a wreck removal of M/V Coral Bulker in

Viana de Castelo, Portugal. The 28,454- dwt bulker went aground with a cargo of wood chips and timber en route from

Tallinn to Viana de Castelo. Rough seas and high winds forced the vessel to ground next to the port village's break- water on Christmas Morning 2000. As a result, the vessel's double bottoms were breached, which led to the flooding of the engine room. Upon award of the contract, Titan immediately began mobilization of equipment. A total of 25

Titan personnel, including a salvage master, diver/salvors, on-shore coordi- nator and hydraulic engineers were sent to the site. Titan's approach to this wreck removal was different in that they proposed to roll the whole ship onto the breakwater, enabling them to dismantle the vessel while working in the dry.

Rather than using pulling forces to right a vessel, forces were applied to roll the vessel over. Titan proposed a reverse pairbuckling operation, which was accomplished by first emptying the ship of its entire cargo of wood chips and timber. With the cargo holds empty,

Ship Repair And Conversion

Expected To Grow 15%

Ship Repair and Conversion 2001 is cele- brating its 10-year anniversary. Held once again at London's Grand Olympia Hall, the show, which will be held from Novem- ber 28-29, is expected to boast 15 percent more exhibitors than last year's event.

Subsequent to the success of last year's exhibition, more than 360 exhibitors are expected to participate, and according to

Lloyd's List events, visitor attendance is expected to be bolstered as well.

Ship Repair and Conversion 2000 set attendance records in London last Novem- ber with a 10 percent increase on the pre- vious year's best of 2,400 visitors - 10 per- cent of which are at the managing director or chairman level. Approximately 317 exhibitors from 30 countries are expected at this year's venue.

The exhibition also features the Ship

Repair and Conversion 2001 Conference, which will explore all areas of the Ship-

Care industry. Topics that are planned for discussion include: Strategic Review of the Global Shiprepair & Conversion Mar- ket; State of the Industry Debate; New

Business Technologies; and Critical

Industry Issues.

To receive a conference agenda, log on to www.shiprepairex.com or call +44(0) 20 7553 169, for further information.

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Titan began removing the ship's super- structure. Titan then cut the vessel in two by using a 17-ton drop chisel sus- pended and repeatedly dropped from one of the vessel's deck cranes, which was intentionally left for this purpose.

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Training for Ferry Bridge Teams

Medium or High Speed - Safety Still Counts

Two simulator-based training modules have been developed especially for Captains and Mates on ferries. These are: Transition from Conventional to High-Speed Operations and Bridge Resource Management (BRM) for

High Speed Craft (HSC). These five-day courses, for classes of 3-4 officers each, are being conducted at our

Newport, Rhode Island facility.

For more information, or to schedule courses, please call Captain Frank Julian at (800) 341-1353 or Captain Vic Goldberg at (800) 877-5343. www.marinesafety.com

San Diego, CA

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Q 18640 San Francisco to Point Arena • 18700 Point Conception to Point Sur • 26320 Florida and the Bahama Islands • 11460 Cape Canaveral to Key West

New submarine cables are being installed across the

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