A Dramatic By A Salvage Team

摘要

With an emergency helicopter grounded and a daring cliff-top rescue halted by blinding spray and hurricane-force winds, all Jim Conroy could do was wait as waves pounded the cargo ship Fedra against the rocks at Gibraltar's Europa Point. Eleven men were still on board, exposed to the full fury of the storm as they huddled on the bow of the vessel, which had broken in two.rnConroy, salvage master for Titan Maritime LLC of Pompano Beach, Fla., was working on a nearby wreck with other company personnel when the storm blew in. Their resourcefulness and experience in vessel salvage would be put to a different mission: saving the lives of Fedra's 31 crewmembers, including the 11 left stranded in the darkness.rn"We just hoped they could hold on long enough for the wind to subside," Conroy said. "To have to sit for six hours was a very difficult decision, but we worried about the risk of hurting them and our endeavors. In the end it all worked out unbelievably."