Bridge of boats of the damaged Russian timber freighter Tyumen-2 "is retrieved
Albersdorf - After the fatal boat accident on the Kiel Canal (NOK) is torn down on Saturday at the bridge of the wrecked Russian freighter "Tyumen-2" has been recovered under difficult conditions. "It's surprisingly went very well," said Patrick Head salvage Jera dpa. After about six hours of the battered severely, 13 meters wide helm was safe on a pontoon. He was brought to Nobiskrug shipyard in Rendsburg, where the voyage data recorder - a kind of black box - can be salvaged. At first he could not be removed for analysis because it is attached to the roof of the bridge, which was upside down on the pontoon.
The helm was torn off on impact with the container vessel "OOCL Finland" near the Green Bridge coins amounting Albersdorf (Dithmarschen). The most serious accident on the NOC for years, on Thursday morning two people were killed and two others sustained serious injuries.
have about seven clock in the morning, the divers set up, "said Jere. In the second dive it was then succeeded to recover the wreck. Quite simply, the action was not. The bridge had no Befstigungspunkte for attaching the chains, described the rescue expert from Brunsbüttel. The divers had broken windows to put the chains in order to get support. As was the barrel of gravity on the surface, it had to be additionally secured again before it could be unloaded at noon on the pontoon.
"The dive was not very dangerous," said Jere. Everywhere had been very sharp-edged plate, where one is - can quickly cut - rather like a tin can. Moreover, the underwater visibility is very poor. "You look down there next to nothing." Otherwise, the weather had been good but that there had hardly blown in and the sun was shining. Fortunately, for "in fog, we had not even started," said Jere.
"Everything's great run," was also the spokesman for the Water and Shipping Authority (WSA) Brunsbüttel, Thomas Fischer. Experts of the ESC have after recovery, the crash site again scanned and then released the busiest artificial waterway in the world for shipping again. While the rescue was going by the sister ship of the wrecked freighter, the "Tyumen-1". "I can imagine that the crew had a queasy feeling at the sight," said Fischer.
Investigators examine the ship collision with two deaths technical or human error as the cause. For this will be helpful, that the data recorder was saved. This draws on such conversations on board and on radio and sensor data.
been killed - the accident is a 57-year-old pilot and a 42-year-old channel controllers - specialized on driving in the channel. The Russian Captain (45) and a sailor candidates (23) were seriously injured. A wounded Russian engineer came to pass because of ankle pain until later in the hospital. In the accident dense fog lay over the channel.