The Hindu
Mangalore, Jul 5: The salvage operations on the capsized Eritrean freighter m.v. Denden off the Thaneerbavi coast near here has been delayed due to bad weather. The operations, which require about three days, will begin as soon as the weather allows.
A meeting attended by a team of salvagers, port authorities, district officials, Karnataka State Pollution Control Board officials, protection and indemnity club members and maritime engineers at the New Mangalore Port on Wednesday decided to wait for better weather.
It was decided that the fuel tanks of the ship should be emptied first in a shore-based ‘hot tap’ operation, which calls for pumping out marine diesel and furnace oil. Deputy Conservator of the New Mangalore Port K.V. Vaswani said the hot tap process involves fixing of a tap to the hull of the capsized ship and draining out the fuel using high-power pumps that will be kept on the shore.
According to sources in Svitzer Wijsmuller, a salvage company based in the Netherlands, the basic objective is to pump out the fuel without causing environmental damage.
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