Confession time. You KNOW when I say its not an obsession it usually is. 😀
Because i got sick of doing the search on Google News for updates on the New Carissa I decided to get Google Alerts to let me know when there was a new story mentioning Titan Salvage.
Because of this it showed me an ad for SVITZERs (another maritime company) Salvage Academy. I went and had a look…..you know… ’cause I’m not obsessed. 😀
I also had a look around SVITZERs site. On their links page was International Salvage Union. Their overview page has some good info about the salvage industry overall if anyone else but me is interested. 😀
Anyways on my news scavenger hunt a few days back I found this article from 2000 about another salvage job by Titan in ’96 that was really fricking dangerous.
Its about a ship called the Igloo Moon that ran aground near Biscayne National Park in Florida with a very dangerous and explosive chemical on board. The salvage operation which was aleady dangerous was made even worse because two different storm systems combined to create huge wind and waves that put the ship and everyone working on it in even more danger. ARGH!!!!!!!!!!
ANYWAYS. If anyone else is interested in keeping an eye on the New Carissa salvage job The World Link, which is a newspaper for Coos Bay, Oregon, is probably the best for consistent coverage. I usually check them every day or so. They now have a gallery of all their recent photos which I was excited about because I wanted to see some decent shots of Titans jack-up barges. I had read about them and I had seen some pics but most of the time its hard to get a sense of scale because the things they are near are also pretty huge – but these pics let you see just how big they are!
I am hanging out for when they move the Karlissa B (the second barge for those not in the know) out there as well.
Damn I wish I lived in Oregon so I could be a tool and rock down to the beach and watch the guys work for a day. Haha….I am such a loser.
I am maintaining a small modicum of sensibleness. I have random questions about stuff that I wanna pester SOMEONE to get the answers so I can forget about it……like when they use the Titan pullers – how do they attach the chains to the thing they are pulling??
I COULD be a totally annoying FREAK and pester one of the email contacts on Titans site but that would be dodgy! So see – I AM being retrained. Please congratulate me on this. You dont KNOW the willpower required to NOT act.
Remember kids – 90% of Rebeccas obsessions are short term. I should be over this one soon. Till then you are probably gonna be stuck with more posts about this.
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