"Jolly Rubino" demolition

(From webpage) "This ro-ro vessel caught fire off the east coast of South Africa and subsequently ran aground off Richards Bay, South Africa in severe weather and sea conditions. In addition to the highly challenging salvage operation the grounding site turned out to be a protected UNESCO heritage area. After joint teams from The Netherlands and South Africa had fought to contain the raging fires in abrocious conditions, SMIT's specialists started removing the dangerous cargo. Once the operation had been completed the vessel was prepared for her next phase in life. After a controlled explosion the "Jolly Rubino" was ready to function as an artificial reef."

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• ship
• demolition
• sink
• explosives
• blast
• toxic
• rescue

[bugio22]

there is a lot of debris, it would be very hard to clean up and would be dangerous having bits of shrapnell flying everywhere...

[Armuotas]

I think they didn't even bother to clean up, simply blew up everything that left thats all.

[JulyForToday]

Holy cow! Real life WaterWorld! :D

[Squarerig]

Pieces of rusting,contaminated mild steel on the sea bottom constitute an "artificial reef"? Yeah,right!

[dycarbon1]

if it's already stranded, why blow it up?

[anfobomb]

Chuck Norris just took a sneeze :)

[tupsumato]

@wafi0123, is it? A lot of recyclable material is lost.

[wafi0123]

when ship sracpped some people talking about environmental polution control demolishing is actually very healthy for environment .

[TheFunnySokka]

That ship got raped

[lenidlen]

 не проще на метал было порезать?

[jimmyxx3]

Boom baby BOOM!

[michaelwright999]

where is she ? That was 1 big bang