Salvage of sunken car carrier Tricolor

The 16,000 dwt car carrier Tricolor sank after she collided with a container vessel in the English Channel near France in 2003. SMIT Salvage led the consortium that successfully removed the wreck.

[markma]

I am doing the assignment about salvage and the case is also from SMIT. It is really great.

[Straswa]

Nice vid, very interesting how such a cable can cut through a large ship like the Tricolor.

[garysmedley]

What an amazing salvage job. All the people who worked so hard on this difficult and dangerous site are to be commended for the effort that they gave to help keep our oceans healthy.

[Barnekkid]

The difficulty of the tasks shown here was met with an equal degree of skill and technological prowess.  They did a great job; hats off to all the salvage entities involved.  What bothers me is how two modern vessels, each likely equipped with radar, global positioning technology,  the latest in all forms of navigational hardware, and well trained crews, could collide in a vast ocean.

[MsTweetie]

Wow...this is quite an interesting documentary.  It's amazing how clicking through several links we end up watching something we (or myself in particular) never had a clue about before.

[kurtjakins]

I like the way you handled this good work SMIT.

[cognitivepawn]

Excellent video. Glad the entire crew was rescued and no one was hurt during the salvage operations.

[peteacher]

A superb job done; the logistics are almost as mind-boggling as understanding inter-stellar distances. The experts always make it look deceptively easy and video editing down to a manageable time frame further adds to the "That was nowt of a job" syndrome. Col, NZ.

[Teddy_Bass]

Must have cost an absolute fortune to rectify. But you can see all the hard work and engineering that has gone into it

[KowboyUSA]

Even considering that much of the English Channel is comparatively shallow, it's still amazing for me how modern ships can be so large in size that when sunk they often block the channel. This one actually came to rest with it's side almost coming out of the water at low tide at least.

[icegiant]

What a frickin mess. Such respect for all the people involved in cleaning that up. Hard to be energetic about such hard work in order to clean something up, you aren't even building anything. Uhg!

[panther]

Just rather amazing that the two ships collided. There is such sophisticated vessel tracking  24 hours a day everywhere, radar, did this happen???

[spooksixsix]

Amazing salvage operation, never seen anything quite like it before.

[Wizard__OW]

I would've loved to check out the state of the cars that were underwater.

[stevengrotte]

In 1942 the sunken Battleships at Pearl Harbor were righted and/ or raised from the bottom of Pearl Harbor and there were up to seven of them 74 years ago and they each weighed over 30, 000 tons.

[andrewdurant]

Fascinating, I would'nt have imagined how complex an operation the whole thing was. 

[snnyburnett]

Mind boggling, being able to cut clean all the way through a ship like that, the mother of all saws.

[ralphaverill]

I enjoy these "salvage sagas" on youtube. A piece of information missing on all of them, including this one, is the cost of the operation or the salvage contract value.

[ags]

SMIT ftw, great video, thanks for sharing...

[miquel]

Dutch engineering and salvaging at its best.