Coast Guard announces successful removal of bulk oil from the MV Schiedyk shipwreck in British Columbia benzinga.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from benzinga.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Florida-based Resolve Marine Group, which has worked on multiple wrecks and cleanups including the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico was called in earlier this year to assess the MV Schiedyk and will now start pumping out its fuel tanks.
Resolve Marine will use a technique called hot tapping to reduce the volume of fuel in the tanks.
The company plans to drill a hole in the fuel tank from the outside, attach a drainage valve and then pump the fuel out of the tank through a hose attached to the valve.
The assessment of the MV Schiedyk found two tanks containing heavy fuel oil one with marine diesel oil and the other containing mixed oil products.
Oil from vessel that sank in 1968 on Vancouver Island to be removed: Fisheries Dept - BC News castanet.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from castanet.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.