ASSISTANCE & SALVAGE

Inshore Offshore

Rescue of a wrecked or disabled ship or its cargo from loss at sea:
Provide a prompt crisis response is our specialty

=> Dial +678 7100230 to contact directly the Master of the Dive Vessel

Based in Vanuatu, our Dive Vessel (Class 1) is catered for Salvage and Towing, operational at any time, ready to get under way and perform in crisis demand situations, such as the salvage of vessels or aircraft due to accident or storm.
For Yachties, we can give assistance to Yacht, such as: by fixing hull (all materials) suffering from damage (underwater patching), engineering (propulsion & hydraulic sytems), towing, etc.

• • Refloating: sunken or grounded vessel, barge, aircraft, car, pipeline, explosive.
  • Emergency Salvage: small or large outside patching*, such as water inlet connection blown from ship's side, or large splinter damage, patching on tank, Ship repair.
    *We use explosively actuated gun which instantaneously drives solid or hollow screwed bolts and punches holes in steel plate, above or below water, which enable salvage divers and officers to carry out in a few hours that work which hitherto occupied days and weeks.
  • Clearance Salvage: consists in a coordinate removal or salvage of numerous vessels in a waterway or harbor (collision, cyclone, tsunami)
  • Rescue Towing to a place of safety.
  • Cargo and Equipment Salvage: Cargo may pose an environmental hazard or may include expensive materials, the main focus is on the rapid removal of goods.
  • Wreck Removal: Consists in removal of hazardous or unsightly wrecks by the cheapest and most practical method possible (hull cutting or vessel refloating and scuttling in deeper waters).
  • Afloat Salvage: Mostly unobtrusive, it involves primarily damage control work (hull welding, stabilization) and structural bracing.

lifting bags "JW automarine" / Research and recovery of vessel's anchor

Rescue towing with DV to a place of safety

ORIGIN of the word SALVAGE: mid 17th cent. (as a noun denoting payment for saving a ship or its cargo): from French, from medieval Latin salvagium, from Latin salvare ‘to save.’ The verb dates from the late 19th cent.