Salvage team overcomes challenges to remove Puerto Rico mystery ship

摘要

It was the recipe for a salvage nightmare: a grounded freighter with a compromised hull, thousands of gallons of fuel, tons of oil-soaked cargo, a pair of tropical storms, and endangered coral and sea turdes - all on an uninhabited Caribbean island more than 40 miles from the nearest port. The result? "It was a model job, if you will, given the problems we dealt with," said Todd Duke, project manager for Florida-based Resolve Marine Group, which handled the removal of the 202-foot Jireh from Puerto Rico's Mona Island.