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MARITIME ENGINEERING & SALVAGE Business of being prepared Crew being trained with tug Gabo Contrary to popular belief, the salvage market doesn’t simply rest on its laurels when maritime casualties are not occurring, writes Marianne Welzel from Ardent Oceania Ardent Oceania, being responsible for the Oceania region’s maritime preparedness and salvage operations, has successfully undertaken several high profile emergency response and wreck removal projects since it began operations. In the 2000’s, casualties such as Rena, Pasha Bulker and Shen Neng 1 will be remembered by many, and were assisted by Svitzer Salvage Australasia as Ardent was formerly known. Most recently, Ardent was engaged by the owners of a bulk carrier and its P&I Club to assist it after an internal fire. Ardent was contracted to remove approximately 600 cubic metres of heavy fuel oil, 8,200 metric tons of contaminated fire water and over 300 cubic metres of sludge waste from within the ship to prepare the vessel for recycling. Ardent pumped out the HFO from within the cargo discharging spaces, the contaminated wastewater and sludge. All fluids were handled and disposed of in certified facilities under the orders of the local EPA. After the cleaning was concluded and the necessary sign-offs received, including Basel Convention permissions, the vessel was prepared and towed on her last voyage to the chosen recycling facility. The project required nine months of full-time presence in Port Kembla, by up to 25 full-time salvage engineers, related subcontractors and labourers at any one time. PREPARED FOR ANYTHING Based out of its large 10,800-square-foot warehouse in Ingleburn, Ardent undertakes a host of activities that enable it to be a trusted maritime partner, including training and preventative consultancy. This is in addition to the constant work of replacing, maintaining and ensuring compliance of all existing equipment. This equipment ranges from one extreme of the engineering spectrum to the other, including oil spill response, electrical, pumping, rigging, carpentry, welding, diving operations, cutting, cargo handling, towing, communications, vessel safety and of course general workshop and tool requirements. The crew also needs to keep up-to-date with safety courses and certification. For instance the crew are fully HUET certified and have confined spaces clearance just to name a few of the many ongoing clearances the salvage crew need to maintain to ensure a constant state of readiness. This also includes having an army of able and fully trained contractors; equipment and logistics providers on stand-by at all times. Ardent maintains ongoing consultancy agreements with organisations such as the Pilbara Ports Authority and Teekay Shipping in addition to being the Contract Manager and training partner for AMSA’s ongoing Emergency Towage Capability (Level 2) Contract with Svitzer. The latter necessitates regular training drills on selected tugs, in order to maintain the high skill levels of crew onboard to prepare them for any sudden emergency situations. The in-house training program developed by Ardent for tug masters and crew has been awarded Lloyds Accreditation. Extensive advisory and purchasing assistance is also provided to tug masters when replacing onboard equipment on the many tugs around Australia. Less hands-on training and preventative consultancy occurs in the shape of the Salvage Academy being offered by Ardent, as well as senior salvage master Captain Drew Shannon presenting at conferences around Australia on preventing and preparing for casualties. Maritime preparedness The maritime preparedness education of the industry revolves around the important aspects of: contingency planning in case a vessel is adrift; • support in providing emergency towage assessments whereby support is provided to the Captain onboard; • consultancy in the event of a grounding, issuing of salvage plans and negotiations with authorities; • how a shipowner representative needs to respond in certain monopoly areas such as Egypt, China etc; and • modelling and naval advice. As well as training onsite crew and support staff how to assess their preparedness for a marine casualty and identify resources and gaps in preparedness. Ardent Oceania 52 October 2019 thedcn.com.au
TMC’s Captain Roger King When disaster comes from afar management plan which was prepared by PacTow and then jointly presented to the Port Moresby Harbour Master and Papua New Guinea National Maritime Safety Authority. This included a request for the provision of a place of refuge, risk assessment, measures for protection of the environment, casualty security, provision of safe anchorage and a depollution and salvage plan for the dredge. TMC MARINE Captain Roger C.King, director of TMC Marine and member of Lloyds Panel of SCRs, discusses several notable marine casualties that TMC Marine’s Australian office has attended recently In February, TMC attended the Solomon Trader casualty, which had grounded on Rennell Island in the Solomon Group. Rennell Island is geographically unique as the largest raised coral atoll in the world. The island’s steep-to coastline is surrounded by a narrow lagoon bounded by a coral reef with the two main ports being located in Kanggava Bay. These “ports” consist of rock bulldozed out to the reef edge from which barges are loaded with bauxite or logs for transhipment to vessels anchored offshore. Access to the island is via bush airstrip however supply and logistics is via landing craft or supply boat. Whilst not a particularly technical salvage, Resolve Salvage applied proven methodologies, hard work and engineering ingenuity, while enduring difficult circumstances including ransacking of the casualty by locals prior to TMC’s arrival as first responder. Ultimately the Solomon Trader was de-polluted and successfully refloated thus avoiding ongoing reef damage through wreck degradation. As the salvage team worked on the “steamer” (motor ships are not in the local vernacular), a Resolve oil spill response team cleaned the shoreline of the bay. Ironically, it was on the salvage tug Redcliffe that I attended the same vessel in 2002, then named Dorik Chariot, when she grounded on Piper Reef, Queensland. THE WOMBAT TMC also attended the dredger Wombat which capsized in the Coral Sea, east of the Great Barrier Reef whilst on tow from Port Moresby to Cairns. Appointed salvor PacTow and TMC set sail from Port Moresby to inspect the Wombat at sea. The dredge was inverted but stable and not emitting hydrocarbons. A casualty risk assessment, including potential passage planning through the reef, was conducted. The decision was made to resupply the towing vessel Vulcan and return the casualty to Port Moresby. TMC approved a casualty ONSHORE ADVICE Not all work requiring maritime expertise happens at sea. TMC engineer consultant Mike Wilson acted as marine adviser for an insurance company when a barge sank on a mining pond at a remote mine site in Victoria. Situated almost 500km from the nearest coastline, floating resources were few and far between. Recovery and repair of the barge required pumping the water from the pond to a higher level reservoir, which took place over several weeks due to the large volume of water. Once the pond was empty, earthmoving machines built a level platform adjacent to the barge and docking blocks were installed. Then, with flotation attached to the barge, the pond was re-filled and the barge re-floated. The supported barge was moved over blocks and the pond was again pumped out. The barge was landed on the docking blocks where repairs were completed before the pond was again filled and the mining barge resumed operations. THE KEA TRADER TMC also continues as insurer and owner representative for the Kea Trader wreck removal off New Caledonia. Since the loss of the ship in 2017, TMC has maintained an active presence in Noumea liaising onsite with contractors Ardent and Shanghai Salvage, the French and New Caledonian authorities as well as the community. The Kea Trader project is currently awaiting the arrival from Shanghai of SSC’s vessel Ca Li, a 132-metre, 800-tonne crane barge designed specifically for wreck removal in the open ocean conditions encountered at Recif Durand. LIQUEFACTION EXPERTISE TMC Marine’s Australian office recently expanded with the appointment of consultant master mariner, Captain John Silberberg to help with the increased regional demand for experienced maritime experts. Liquefaction has sadly once again become topical with the total loss of the Nur Allya with all hands. Loaded with nickel ore, she was reported missing in Indonesian waters in August. Captain Silberberg recently assisted as owners and P&I representative for a bulk carrier loading a concentrate cargo with concerns around liquefaction. He helped develop a revised cargo sampling and testing plan for cargo already loaded and that remaining in the stockpile. The vessel successfully completed loading and sailed without further incident. thedcn.com.au October 2019 53
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