TOP STORY OF 2020:Golden Ray Responders

摘要

Among the top ranking stories on our website last year were those covering the response to the capsized car carrier Golden Ray. The 656-foot ship overturned on September 8, 2019, in St. Simons Sound, Ga. The ship was declared a total loss and it was determined that it could not simply be refloated and towed out. Instead, in the ongoing removal operation, the wreck is being divided into eight sections using a chain manipulated by the twin-gantry, twin-barge catamaran heavy lift vessel VB-10000, with the bow being Section One and the stern being Section Eight. The VB-10000 is the largest heavy lift vessel ever built in the United States.