Salvage of Diving Support Vessel
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A fire broke out in the engine room of a Diving Support Vessel, located approximately 70 km from the Baku coastline, near Azerbaijan. The casualty was towed to a safe location where she was grounded, mainly on her own bow thruster and heavily listing to port site.
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emergency response
August 18, 2024 — Marine Masters subsequently arrived on site, acting as main salvage contractor, with a salvage team consisting out of fire experts, local dive team, salvors, a naval architect and salvage master.
After fire was extinguished the salvage team decided to sandwich the casualty between a tanker vessel and DSV to keep the casualty in a stable position. Subsequently all contaminated water and fuel was pumped from the casualty to the tanker while in the mean time the damaged seals of the bow thruster were patched by divers to avoid new seawater coming into the engine room of the casualty.
Lastly the damaged bow thruster was retracted with a chain hoist system suspended in the engine room of the casualty, before she was towed in safe floating condition to Baku port.
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