October 12, 2008
- Coos Bay / North Bend, Oregon
Final preparations underway for New Carissa removal
By Azenith Smith
COOS BAY - Final preparations are underway for the removal of the New Carissa shipwreck from the North Spit in Coos Bay, now set to occur by the end of the month.
While it may look empty now, a 25-member work crew from Florida-based Titan Marine will be using this area to begin removing 1,200 tons of the stern section of the ship that has been mired in the sand since 1999. As of right now, most of Titan Marine's work can be seen at the Central Dock in Coos Bay, where they're getting the barges, Karlissa A and Karlissa B, ready to go to the removal site. "We've completely overhauled the jacking system, the cranes," says Phil Reed of Titan Marine. "We had to weld the legs back together. All of that activity everybody has seen at Central Dock." They've also built a cable car to carry workers and supplies from the land to the barges and have constructed a tower used to harness it. But Reed adds, the project has not come without some challenges, including getting the barges here from the Dominican Republic and piecing them together. "One of the biggest challenges of the job itself will be actually taking the barges from Empire and getting them jacked up on location," says Reed. "All of that has to do with waiting on the weather." They did come across some good news recently, when they realized the ship does not appear to be buried as much as they originally thought, with 15 percent of it in the sand. They anticipate completing the project by August, which is within the 90 days allotted to them in their contract. |
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