Titan continues taking big chunks out of New Carissa

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Story Published: Jul 14, 2008 at 6:47 PM PDT

By Tim Novotny

NORTH BEND, Ore. - The wreckage of the New Carissa is gradually disappearing from view, with about a third of the remaining ship now cut away. Titan Maritime says they are ahead of schedule, thanks to good weather and another barge.

In the matter of just a few weeks, the New Carissa wreckage has become a hollowed-out shell of its former self.

About one-third of the remains have now been cleared away, thanks to some good weather and the addition of that third barge, which carries away the scrap off the jacked-up barges in bigger pieces.

One of the biggest challenges is still ahead however, as Titan Maritime will, at some point, have to hoist a 200-ton-plus piece of ship out of the sand basin.

Some will also remember that the salvagers had managed to successfully transfer a seagull nest, with eggs, from the New Carissa to one of the barges.

Those seagulls are now a mini-family and are still living alongside all of the heavy destruction work going on next to their previous home.

Aside from the gulls, there are 17 workers on the barges, working 13 hours a day to get the Carissa safely off the Oregon coast by October, if not sooner.

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