Pleasure Ganzo, thx for the comment.

Pleasure Pete, thx for the comment.

Jody broke every mooring she had, then started bashing each side of the wharf in the unprecedented huge swells. The decision would have been a nightmare for the captain stay and destroy, or run for the open sea, not one I'd like to make.

A quick search shows other significant events. No lives were lost here.

I did hear them say, because of the geographical isolation, obtaining specialist vessels was a serious logistical nightmare for them.

No its not. They’re man planted forests that are replanted straight away. Thge biggest problem is the slash that is left after harvest and ends up on the beaches.

Very noticeable, if the so-called 'woody debris' volume today existed back in 1988 with a 917mm rainfall, this would be a different film. I found this info on Wikipedia: "The New Zealand government provided about $80 million (1988 NZD) to the east coast region of the North Island for assisting in cyclone damage. $8 million was used to create an East Coast Forestry Conservation Scheme, which was set to protect forests and prevent erosion." Sadly, with more battering rams poised in the hills ready for future weather events, a catastrophic documentary awaits, I hope I'm not here. Greed is such a dangerous human condition when it promotes short cuts, blinds responsibilities and enables a complete disregard to the future.

So many first-time salvers came up with ideas on a daily basis as you could imagine, ideas you could even see merit with, but for the salvers, slow an steady won the race.

@@Mark-GVP yep and i realise this being an old video, much has changed - or has it - thinking back to the Golden Ray, i was glued to this on Captain Andy's channel, the mind boggles, again the solution was there, but the recovery vehicle needed to be a tad bigger, but then operating in such shallow water, so bigger wider barges with legs like rigs to sit down, pass many straps underneath and slowly rotate the patient back upright, i'm so sure re-floating and shifting internal cargo etc would be so much safer - of course its much about money, but the solution i'd have would contain everything needed - ever watched 'Thunderbirds' i mean its not difficult, you could have three or four dotted about to cover the oceans and main traffic corridors, when all considered that went wrong could have and should have been sorted in a few weeks and not three years, dreadful mess

All your ideas have merit but this isn’t US or Europe where equipment can relatively easierly brought in. They had to do what with what they had. Using the cranes to dump the logs overboard onto a barge was done when a suitable barge was availible and conditions allowed but even that was difficult. As far as using helicopters to lift the logs off, I knew one of the owner/pilots and he said while it looked like they wern’t doing much they could work when swells made it impossible for a barge, if availible, to operate. They actually lifted more off than the barge did. As far as dropping anchor to stop it grounding, where it grounded was a very short distance from the channel and I doubt that doing that would’ve been effective, but I’m not a expert in that field. When it was at is closest to the shore you could almost walk out to it at low tide!

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Greetings and I agree.

There is a reply to read about this from me under @johnmurray9526 above.

It was found to be just as fast and similar cost as using a tug and barge. Sounds stupid but this is the way they did it. It's a private salvage, they will choose the cheapest overall solution.

I knew one of the owner/pilots and he said they shifted alot more than what it looked like, and it certainly made a difference.

Thanks so much kiwi, certainly was memorable.

Thanks for the comment Shane.

Thanks for the comment.

Ha... you may be right. Wish I did get wind of cost, but sadly not, I did hear the word Voluminous mentioned a lot.

Thanks for the comment..

Hadn't thought of that, I bet those swells must have been challenging and the need for sea legs. Thanks for shearing.

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Being relatively new to nautical terms, I thought it sounded unusual. Then again, I reckon it needs an overhaul to reflect modern times, especially speed and distance.

Webster's dictionary permits "salving." New words crop up in all languages, and "salving" would be in the tradition of "haul," "hauling" and "haulage." But the Oxford English Dictionary seems to accept only "salvage" as the verb.

@@the-naked-sailor Thanks for the response..guess slang creeps in everywhere today..👍.You take care now.

A word kicking around at the time was "voluminous". :)

Refloating Pollution Repairs Downtime not working Yep a lot of $$$$$$

Helicopter lifting one log off? 😂 really what a waste of time and fuel. Must be 10000 logs there.. even lifting even 20 off won't make any difference.

Actually there was a method to this seeming madness, I too had the same attitude until I understood the method they employed, every ton was carefully measured. The rough weather made unloading normally far to hazardous until the weather allowed conventional methods back. What most folk didn't realize was that the salvers were getting Jody to dig her own way out. Every ton was carefully calculated, as they needed her to gently sit down at low tide, then let the wave action slowly dig a trench beneath. Weight balance appeared to be key and at high tide they refloated her, made some ground, then rinsed and repeated. Because of the giant 8m hole in her hull the only thing keeping her afloat was compressed air, continual weight calculations were obviously critical to use this method. So many first-time salvers shouted abuse at their ideas and wanted them to try their own salving theories, but they knew what they were doing. They knew if they pulled to hard, she'd rip in two, if she sat down to heavy, she'd break up. The danger and risk involved in any method would be extremely high, just goes to show that experience is the winner under any situation and to be extremely weary of new ideas. This had to be the most professional salvage team to ever grace our shores, the most incredible amount of generational salvage experience at play. The salvage master, David Hancox was a true legend of the sea, I count myself lucky to witness his craft.

As far as I know she was not overloaded, but with unexpected huge swells combined with being loaded created a monster gamble in depth between troughs. This would have been a terrifying situation to be in as a captain I'm sure, keep getting slammed into the wharf on both sides or gamble an exit, what a decision to make.

Unlikely, timber cargo and the load line rules are strictly enforced. Unless standards have slipped since my maritime days.