After rescuing a burning ship from pirate-infested waters off Yemen and a sinking oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, South African salvage master Nick Sloane faces his biggest test off an idyllic Mediterranean island.
The 52-year-old says the attempt to raise the Costa Concordia cruise ship from its watery grave, due to begin on Monday, is his "most challenging" yet in a career that has taken him to six continents and two warzones.
The Zambia-born Sloane was flown to the Italian island of Giglio last year from New Zealand, where he was working on a spill from the MV Rena oil tanker, for the biggest ever salvage operation of a passenger ship.
He has led an international operation with 500 salvage workers including divers, welders and engineers operating 24 hours a day around the rusting 290-metre (951-foot) hulk, which is bigger than the Titanic.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/09/14/globe-trotting-south-african-behind-italy-ship-salvage/#ixzz2esPHKQLY
Id like to watch this. This is kind of cool to get these huge crashed ships back upwards and floating.
Here is a 60 minutes story about this ship.
The 52-year-old says the attempt to raise the Costa Concordia cruise ship from its watery grave, due to begin on Monday, is his "most challenging" yet in a career that has taken him to six continents and two warzones.
The Zambia-born Sloane was flown to the Italian island of Giglio last year from New Zealand, where he was working on a spill from the MV Rena oil tanker, for the biggest ever salvage operation of a passenger ship.
He has led an international operation with 500 salvage workers including divers, welders and engineers operating 24 hours a day around the rusting 290-metre (951-foot) hulk, which is bigger than the Titanic.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/09/14/globe-trotting-south-african-behind-italy-ship-salvage/#ixzz2esPHKQLY
Id like to watch this. This is kind of cool to get these huge crashed ships back upwards and floating.
Here is a 60 minutes story about this ship.