Still reckon my replacement 330d was on it..... :-(
Well, that wasn't a great place to park, was it?;-)
(sorry, couldn't resist)
Fascinating pictures through. Enormous machines, and a huge ship chopped up like a sausage. But I was surprised to one car which appeared to have been burnt out: www.havenarbeiders.be/SitePics/TC/wno1.jpg -- I thought that the ship had sunk in some very wet water
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I don't know how these things work but I'm guessing they have petrol in. The ship would have sank and parts of it would be sealed - cars would have been flung about everywhere and I can't imagine a spark would have needed much persuasion to appear.
Result - one nasty V70.
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Adam
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Fascinating pictures through. Enormous machines, and a huge ship chopped up like a sausage.
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The diagrams are good too. Only seven slices needed by the special hawser.
The picture of the hawser does not indicate its diameter.
Does anyone have any info on its material or actual size?
Are the cars etc going to a local breakers yard?
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Are the cars etc going to a local breakers yard?
eBay :-)
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Are the cars etc going to a local breakers yard? eBay :-)
"Special shipment, slight water damage, delivery miles only" ...
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"Special shipment, slight water damage, delivery miles only" ...
Didn't we discuss a shipment of Alfas on ebay that were meant to have been rescued from a similar predicament?
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NW, to answer your question from above, there would have been plenty of air pockets trapped in the cargo area when the ship sank, therefore you get ignition (spark), fuel (anything flammable) and oxygen - thus completing the combustion triangle.
I see some of the cars appear to been ripped in half. What on earth did they use to cut the ship into sections?
PU, I can't see your 330 on there yet:)
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Click on the little blue diagram one down from the top to see the details of the method of recovery.
The close up photo about half way down the main sequence is, I believe, the sawing cable. It looks a bit like silver rod with black bands around it.
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Thanks Henry, I can see it all now. The problem with dial up is that it takes about 30 mins for all the pictures to load up. It still hasn't finished since my last post!
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I believe they used a (very expensive) diamond cutting cable to do the business ...
Steve
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Pretty amazing - the scale of the project must be gigantic. It looks as if hugely solid structures were sawn through.....including that burnt out Volvo. Incredible engineering by any measure.
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The more I read of this the more it awes me....2867 vehicles....seems the Dutch have trouble with their possesive articles as well (Volvo's Saab's BMW's etc)
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Try this for more information on the Tricolor salvage and the methods used.
www.tricolorsalvage.com/pages/home.asp
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Hugo, thanks for the explanation -- that hadn't occurred to me, but it makes good sense.
I thought it would have been like Titanic: all gushing water, as a Volvo cried over a Yaris while the subtitles said "you could love it too much" and the audience grabbed handfuls of kleenex to a Celine Dion soundtrack.
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