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We leave the "BENMACHDUI" for a few weeks, We have to do a job of dispersing the "TROPIC SHORE" for TRINITY HOUSE.This is a rig supply boat that collided with a gas rig (20 mile out from Yarmouth)then sank about 3 mile from the rig. The contract was originally awarded to a Newcastle firm, the diver director came to Hull to see about chartering the "ASHBY"for the job, but we were to expensive (he chartered another boat instead)he was a nice bloke. It was about three weeks later that we heard that he had been killed along with another diver, apparently something had happened with the detonators which in turn had triggered the explosives in the boat,there was a massive explosion and they never found the bodies. It was a week later that a director of the firm rang me up to ask if we would complete the job, we arranged a suitable sum (£76,000)and started gearing the boat up to do the job. |
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After having a short break in Yarmouth, we went back to the wreck
to remove the mooring rope that was still on the wreck, because the
mooring rope may have show up as part of the wreck on Trinity Houses echo
sounder (when they resurveyed the wreck to verify it was dispersed to
their required level)
It was 12 midnight, so we tossed a coin to see who would have to go down to release the mooring rope, I lost so I had to go and release the rope, the sea was starting to rough up a bit (force 5) with a forecast of force 8 coming soon (also the tide was running fast) I asked the helmsman to run the boat up the tide, so that i could jump in and come back on the current to the rope, i struggled to get down in the current holding my torch, I eventually reached the bottom and released the shackle holding the rope , and came back to the surface in pitch black conditions 20 mile out at sea in rough seas, the ASHBY managed keep near the buoy and i climbed back on board. We then headed back to Hull in a force 8 gale at approx 2am. After that dispersal job, Trinity House gave us another job of dispersing the "KATINA BULGARI" (SUNK 1939 4569 TONS)off the mouth of the Humber Estuary,we were paid £36,000.
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