Raising and refloating the wrecked Southern Harrier - Cape Town

Wrecked 450 ton fishing trawler. Sunk in the Cape Town Harbour alongsie the quay wall after vandalism and theft of valves caused flooding. Resealed and Raised after 7 years underwater - No Liftbags! GMC, a Cape commercial diving company took 3 months of dredging, sealing and preperation before she came up from her 15m watery grave over a period of approximatley 17 hours of extensive pumping and general attention. The boat was cut up for scrap. I still have the wheel, whickh the vandals didn't find!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Southern
• Harrier
• Salvage
• and
• refloating
• dive
• diving
• shipwreck
• harbour
• mod

[ChicaWolverina]

At 5:20 there's a man shaping some kind of large pin or plug in a vise with a grinder and right after that I think a diver was hammering it into a hole, is it to hold in the air or something?

[weskus01]

@ChicaWolverina - Thats right , to maintain the air pressure inside the vessel

[maxgelein]

how the fuck did this sink

[weskus01]

@maxgelein

vandalism and neglect

[montiers1145]

what did they do with it???

[weskus01]

@montiers1145 scrap

[Dirtboy101]

I liked the video, but it was painfully slow to get to the interesting part.

[weskus01]

@Meboyboyboy

too bad it was inside a harbour hey?

[clockguy2]

I would like to have seen it fully raised.

[jent888]

*muted le video*



[glockeva1]

seams like a lot of work for scrap value

[joesmoe71]

A little spit and polish, and it'll be as good as new!

[Koaslice191]

I hope they caught the ruddy bastards that sunk her.

[Metalguyful]

Raised from the death

[randomplatypus1]

poor fishies

[ChicaWolverina]

@weskus01 Hey put a cork in it!

Thanks!  LOL