hi guys welcome back to the channel so i thought i'd do a little bit of a different backdrop today
and do it from inside my conservatory -it makes a little bit of change and at least i won't get
any comments about needing some photos in my frames which i still don't have by the way
so i wanted to cover a couple of things today - i wanted to do
an update on the heavy lifting vessel that was got into trouble in off the coast of Norway recently
just to update that the vessel was recovered and it was towed by a Salvage Team, Schmidt Salvage
you might remember them from Suez canal and it was towed into a port which
whose name i cannot pronounce i'll put it up on the screen so it was saved
and so that's a good end to the story -all the crew was saved and the vessel was saved too
there was some damage to some of the vessels that were on board as they got banged about
the green vessel that fell off -that vessel was also recovered by a Salvage Team
that brings me on to another point - in the first video i made about this subject i mentioned
what is a yacht transporter and i talked about a semi-submersible yacht transport i wasn't
trying to say that the vessel that got into trouble was that type of vessel although it
did it did seem to come across that way in the video i was just talking about that particular
transporter because it led me on to the story of the one that got into trouble in Palmer so the one
that was actually in trouble was a heavy lifting vessel i did try to correct it in the comments
but it didn't stop 100 people from correcting it as well by telling me that it was a heavy lifting
vessel so yeah i just wanted to clarify that that fact another thing that a lot of comments
were was why didn't they use the lifeboat so it's very difficult to sort of say exactly
what happened and why but one of the things that i noticed is first of all they're on the vessel the
vessel got into trouble they've contacted search and rescue system rescue said we've dispatched
helicopters right so i don't know we don't know none of us know except for the people on board
know what the time frame was between that happening now when they were told that they
were going to be airlifted the best place to do that is on an open space on the vessel
and so they went to the stern of the ship and they waited to be rescued now after they after
the winch man rescued the first person he probably deemed it was quite dangerous because of the way
the ship was moving around as you can see in the video it was absolutely horrendous weather and
the winchman stands a chance of getting banged against the vessel or if he's got somebody if
he's if he's tied on to somebody else they both stand the chance of being banged around so they
probably made the decision on the fly to tell the rest of the of the crew to jump in the water
one by one and they'd be pulled out of the water because it's more safe to do so in the water so
if the water suddenly raises or if you know if the helicopter moves and and they and they get and the
winchman's going to get banged around at least it's going to get banged around in the water and
not against the steel hull of a vessel uh why why they never abandon ship at the beginning i would
say that they were probably safer where they were than in that little boat in those high seas also
you have to remember that if they if the vessel did sink and they hadn't abandoned ship in that
lifeboat that when the ship sank the lifeboat would be freed from the vessel and it would pop up
to the surface so if they were able to they could still get inside of it but at that point in time
they probably deemed that it was safer to do to be airlifted from the vessel now this leads me on to
the actual title of this video which is if the vessel's abandoned are you entitled
to keep that vessel if you rescue it if you salvage it from the sea and you tow it into port
well every country has its own rules on this but there is an international rule and they're
all generally follow the International rule which is and it says here that the law of salvage is a
principle of marine law whereby any person who helps recover another person's ship or cargo
in peril at sea is entitled to award commensurate with the value of the property salvaged okay then
it goes on to say that the vessel must be in peril either immediate or forthcoming the salva the
person that's doing the salvage must be acting voluntarily and under no pre-existing contract
and the salva must be successful in their efforts though payment for partial success may be granted
if the environment is protected so basically what that means is is if i abandon my ship my ship is
now open to salvage so if a salvage vessel is close by and they sail up and they know they've
got no contract with anybody and they salvage that vessel they are entitled to either keep the vessel
or the company that owns the vessel will pay them a value commensurate in other words in the same
ballpark as what that vessel is worth in this in the case of schmidt i i believe but i'm not sure
of anybody who knows put it in the comments i believe that schmidt were hired by the owner
of the vessel to go and salvage it so in that circumstance they're under contract so they're not
entitled to that contract for the vessel so they will be paid by the the company that hired them
to salvage the vessel so basically when you when once that vessel is abandoned by the master it
has to be masters because the only person who can declare abandon ship is the master of the vessel
if master of the vessel declared abandoned ship and the ship has been abandoned then providing
you're not under contract to do so by by the company that owns it you can salvage that vessel
and claim money to the value of the vessel so very interesting it does change based on different laws
but generally they all follow that um maritime law so yeah so that's it very interesting that's why
you have these companies out there that do that do this kind of salvage all right guys i hope this
has answered any questions that you may have had and um also i wanted to say that the vessel did
i say at the beginning the vessel was recovered and it was and it was towed into port and you can
still see it in these photos um in port and still listing over to one side so obviously there is um
cargo inside the vessel that is pushed the vessel over that's what at the way it looks to me that
the vessel is still listing even though it's in port which suggests that which is the reason why
they abandoned in the first place because the cargo moved and um caused the vessel to
lift over and the fact that the boats fell off and it's still listing says that it wasn't the
boats that caused it- alright guys thanks very much for watching and i'll see you next time