rare! Shipwreck in the South Pacific, The Chinese Salvage Team Intervened

It is understood that the salvage is a salvage project of the "Parrot" merchant ship. The Parrot is a Maltese container ship with a maximum load of 21,000 tons and can carry more than 2,000 standard containers. In July 2017, it ran aground in an island reef area near New Caledonia in the South Pacific.

Because the shipwreck will release a large amount of rust, the fleshy algae, blue-green algae pads, and black mushroom corals grow rapidly, thus seizing the ecological niche of hard corals, resulting in a reduction in the area of healthy hard corals. The broken shipwreck poses a huge threat to the ecological environment in the surrounding seas. In 2018, the Shanghai Salvage Bureau of the Ministry of Transport was authorized by the shipowner to salvage the vessel, which is also the largest international salvage project in the South Pacific sea in China so far.

In September last year, after careful analysis and preparation by the on-site project team, the operation ship team successfully completed the first wreckage salvage operation test. In the following year, after 14 voyages of unremitting efforts, more than 10,000 tons of merchant ship wreckage were salvaged. In early September this year, after a final environmental impact assessment, the Government of New Caledonia confirmed the successful salvage of the Parrot merchant ship.

Under extremely harsh sea conditions and meteorological conditions, the salvage engineering team of the "Parrot" merchant ship of the Shanghai Salvage Bureau successfully completed the salvage task with exquisite salvage technology, and made positive contributions to effectively cleaning the marine environment and protecting the marine ecology of the South Pacific.

Column Editor-in-Chief: Qin Hong Text Editor: Yang Rong Title Image Source: Figureworm Creative (Concept Image) Picture Editor: Zi Xi

Source: Author: CCTV News