To the vast crowd most of whom were seeing a
ship at close quarters for the first time – the salvage operation was
perplexing. The crowd was wondering how
can such a big ship that too struck in the sand, could be pulled out by a
single thread attached to a boat much smaller in size. The concept of salvage,
the physics of pull, bollard, tide
nothing mattered, as they had come to see some action. Some thought that just like a tow on road,
the ship MT Pratibha Cauvery would be pulled before their very eyes and might
disappear.
The camera persons and media persons had a
field day – announcers stood to the background of mammoth ship, spoke of the
ship, of the Tug and of the crowd that had gathered there. For hours together nothing happened. This ship had no cargo and was low on fuel
and hence all that mattered was almost its LDT ‘Light Displacement Tonnage’ which in simple
terms is the weight of water displaced by the ship – the mass of the ship
excluding cargo, fuel,ballast, stores, passengers, crew, but with water in
boilers to steaming level. Displacement is a measurement of mass, and should
not be confused with similarly named measurements of volume or capacity such as
net tonnage, gross tonnage, or deadweight tonnage.
Alas, the salvage operations suffered a blow as
in the afternoon, the rope connecting the ship to Malviya snapped. As reported in TOI, Salvage experts had strategized to wait
for a tide which would add at least one metre to the height of the water, when
the ship could be pulled out of the sand. Around 3.40pm today [8th
Nov 12] the polypropylene rope attached to the bow of the ship snapped. Now the
operation has to restart afresh.
TOI states : "Pratibha Cauvery is in very shallow
waters, which is only about four metres deep. We tied a rope to its bow and used
a barge to take the other end of the rope beyond 400 metres into the sea, where
it was deeper enough for the tug vessel to operate from," said Captain
Ilan Cheran of Accord Marine Surveyors assisting the salvage operations. The
experts were waiting for tides at 6am, 10am and 3pm. "Till 3pm, the
beached vessel refused to budge. Around 3.40pm, the rope snapped," an
official said. Now the experts will have to re-ascertain the strength of the
rope and explore other strategies.There was
to be more trouble for the vessel which had last voyaged from Haldia to
Chennai with oil cargo in the last week of September, when the Madras high
court, hearing a petition from a relative of a dead sailor, ruled that the ship
should not sail l out of its territorial jurisdiction till
Friday, even if it was salvaged.
With regards – S. Sampathkumar.
8th Nov. 2012..
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