OMGAWD. Seriously people - ZERO New Carissa news for HOW MANY DAYS NOW?????
Thank god for this.

In other Titan news there have been lots of articles from Philippines sites about Titan being contracted to salvage that capsized ferry with all the bodies still inside.
I still think thats gonna be a horrible job.

Labels: salvage, titan

OOH! An update on the New Flame!! I was wondering if the New Flame job had been completed because the last story I saw simply said it was progressing.

Heh - just more Titan related stalkage.

Labels: salvage, titan salvage

New New Carissa salvage pics at the World Link. Colour me HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Labels: new carissa, photos, salvage

Brand me a fangirl because this article made me soooo excited!
There is gonna be a National Geographic series called Salvage Code Red about the salvage industry including stuff about the New Carissa!! WOO!

In other exciting stuff (thanks Google News!) the cable car has been installed and is being tested at the New Carissa worksite.

Why am I so excited about this????????????????

Anyways there are lil news clip videos for both the above links.

Labels: fangirling, new carissa, salvage, titan salvage, WOO

Confession time. You KNOW when I say its not an obsession it usually is. :D
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. :D
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. :D

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.

Labels: new carissa, salvage

I have been pretty damn grouchy lately. Everything seems shithouse and I dont have any motivation for anything. I fucking hate that, but anyways USUALLY when I feel like this it means I shall shortly acquire a new obsession. Still waiting for it to appear.

In the meantime my brain has latched onto that Wired story i linked to in April. I have read it lots of times online and even bought the damn issue (lols). Then I was like 'damn that is interesting i need more info!' so i have checked out almost every page on the Titan website, have looked up their parent companies site and found out some fascinating yet totally useless to me info about what steps to take if you wish to work at sea. I have looked at lots of different sites about shipping and wikipedia has been most helpful in explaining shipping terms I was clueless about.
And hey - did you guys know piracy still happens in this day and age? Seems to be mostly near third world areas that probably need the shipping industry badly to either bring in stuff they need or export whatever commodities these poor countries are able to sell to make some money.
This page has lots of info and I found some other interesting stuff on their site about other salvage jobs and sea accidents (some of the comments on this one cracked me up good! my fave accompanied this picture:

and their comment was "M/V Norwegian Dream At Port of Dover Has Involuntarily Become A Container Vessel"...mwahahahahaaaa. okay it wouldnt be funny if you were on or owned the boats bad daaaamn!)
But dear god the people who run that site - totally need to redo their site design...its PAINFUL and like 10 years out of date!

Anyways my few loyal readers may not care but what the hell - check out the stuff I have been browsing....I DONT KNOW WHY!!!
A page describing MANY of Titans past successs. Some of them have links to pages with pictures but if you wanna skip the history page and gawk at images go straight to the gallery.

In the next few months some guys from Titan are gonna be working at pulling a wreck called the New Carissa off a beach in Oregon using their jack-up barges and I assume some of their Titan pullers and lots of cleverness. Here is a news clip about it. I hope they succeed. Hey people you should have hired these guys in the first place....I mean WHO was the bright spark who said 'hey lets ignite the fuel in the ship to burn it up?' I mean seriously were they on crack?

Anyways, so yeah - do I need a real obsession or WHAT?
I am hoping when it comes along it is not a costly one like my last one. I am trying to save lots of money as quick as I can.

ANYWAYS. If anyone who works in the salvage business drops by (doubtful) feel free to say yo - I totally admire what you guys do....I will try not to geekout at you. :D

Labels: i need a hobby, maritime industry, salvage, titan salvage