Mammoet Salvage - Wreck removal of a container ship in South Africa

Video of a wreck removal of a container ship stranded on the breakwaters of East London, South Africa on the unpredictable wild coast 2007 using chainpullers

[@___Me_]

I imagine the CEO of Mamoet selecting the music or this infomercial and no-one daring to tell him that their ears are bleeding...

[@Lalfy]

Hoo! Haa! Hoo! Haa! ....

[@RobertPlattBell]

Your videos are great. If I ever wreck a tanker or need a ship hauled into the Amazon, I'll give you a call!

[@MrComputerSaint]

I was thinking of that exact same comment!

[@richadxu7046]

I am good at salvaging sunken ships

[@222ouushzh3]

@@richadxu7046 ME tOO. . ! LOL

[@richadxu7046]

@Firescales 22 kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4KVkpelrahrjNU I did

[@Squarerig]

The achievements of the men of this firm fill me with the utmost admiration!They perform acts which I,in a sea-going career on tramps taking me all over the world and encountering many and varied situations,would never have thought possible.I also worked in deep-sea salvage tugs for a while but nothing I experienced can compare with what these blokes can do.Respect,respect to Mammoet!

[@donnebes9421]

I will have to contact this company to see if I can use their equipment to get my canoe out of the pond this fall.

[@homeview3047]

Highly recommend this guide

[@railrider4745]

very professional!! 👍

[@51WCDodge]

OK I'm impressed! Brains , enginnering, imagination and sheer hard work.

[@ChristiaanKleynhans]

Very interesting! I love the way in which you made this video. You have narrative and commentary and we can see what is going on. Well done!

[@jeffcanyafixiy]

Incredible engineering!! Always designing and adapting to a specific need.

[@waynemorrison5204]

Is that it fme

[@javieratam59dotnet]

some bad ass chain pullers.

[@63256325N]

Thanks for the video.

[@DowntownDeuce2]

The background music, grunts and moans from Sam Cook's "Working on the Chain Gang," was pretty clever. Subtle, but clever.

[@larryslemp9698]

Try listening to the band 'DEVO' do the song..."Working on the Chain Gang"!! Excellent..!!

[@residentenigma7141]

@@larryslemp9698 or "Satisfaction"

[@dahlan1733]

@@larryslemp9698 p xpc ₩s

[@deanarmour6642]

Impossible, can't be done, your crazy, mammoet " hold my beer "

[@raypitts4880]

dont break the jug

[@fredrickburdick5349]

Love every momoet vidio I've seen so far keep up the great hard work you guy's do! Very entertaining and a great learning experience!!!

[@jerryvandyke9216]

Freddy Burdick as an admirer the least you can do is get the spelling of their name right 🇨🇦😎

[@teddbrown4262]

Seem weird not to see the whole thing, did it fail?

[@blackvenom530]

I wonder if some ridiculous engineered contract like this has ever gone like catastrophically wrong for Mammoet and we just never heard about it lol

[@lk6912]

Of course big companies almost always hide that shit

[@ottoskorzeny7984]

the sea looked angry that day- like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli

[@johndo3930]

Around here the sea gets far angrier that was her in a good mood.

[@magnetstoo]

Mammoet Salvage RULES!......Ask them about Fukushima!... How would they recover the cores for the 4 reactors?

[@kevinbyrne4538]

+magnetstoo -- In August 1984, the French freighter Mont Louis, carrying 30 containers of uranium hexafluoride, was headed for Riga, Latvia, where the uranium would be off-loaded for enrichment in the USSR. However, off the Belgian coast, the freighter collided with a ferry carrying 1,000 passengers from the Netherlands to England. No one was hurt, but the freighter sank in shallow waters. The uranium cargo was salvaged by Smit International of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and Union de Remorquage et de Sauvetage of Antwerp, Belgium. There's a video about that salvage on KZbin.

[@magnetstoo]

Kevin Byrne "Smit International of Rotterdam" and "Union de Remorquage et de Sauvetage of Antwerp" and "Mammoet Salvage" rule ! I will try to find that vid.

[@riparianlife97701]

You're pulling my chain!

[@jamesbenedict7206]

You wished your chain was that big!

[@as48507]

Again, impressive... all around. I can only imagine that on a job like this when things go wrong, it’s really bad..

[@milesmouse72]

they bring them up onto the shore and then they chop them up for salvage right? Getting the units out of the waves is the priority.

[@bertboxem2484]

Hollands glorie

[@orfeous]

Are there any longer videos of this kind of job anywere on youtube someone please can link me to?

[@alanscott5942]

Love anything like this, problem solving workable solutions wished I'd had more self confidence when I was younger as it's a career I'd like to have been involved in 👍👍

[@nuclearbum9858]

this salvage company gits er done

[@larryslemp9698]

Maybe I missed it, but I'm wondering 'what' is holding the chain-pullers in place??

[@markbryant4641]

tent pegs

[@realtalk5931]

Larry Slemp masking tape

[@raypitts4880]

na gorila tape.

[@nevilledarman8n21]

Thank you good watching 👌😍😍😍🇦🇺

[@mroo8796]

What happen if i was to build on top of something like this ?

[@OK2BCK]

impossible job at the sea? call Holland...

[@dennisbacker5554]

OK2BCK *Called

[@KeeNick]

call

[@chrissmith2921]

Not to good at protecting yourselves in the past though.lol

[@jerryvandyke9216]

Chris Smith .?? Explain please Chris 🇨🇦

[@SDeww]

looks too much liek a mammoet adverticement than a wreck removal.. show the wreck beign removed and on dry land and being cut up!.

[@bigredc222]

It looks like a commercial because that's what it is.

[@GTAGta-vi5vc]

Wouldn't it be easier to find an existing inlet, float the ship in, sandbag the inlet entry, add water, throw rocks under the ship to support the higher elevation, and pump out the water?

[@markcarey8426]

Excellent. So did they build that slipway or did it just happen to be there?

[@thetessellater9163]

to be or not to be, that is the question .........

[@terrytytula]

Why didn't you use your airbag rollers under the two sections instead of just dragging it ashore?

[@frankvandendool882]

Maybe the sharp rocks you can see in the video are a hint?

Bạn làm hay quá sáng tạo hay mình thích xem chúc bạn vui lòng thaks

[@davejones5640]

Why are they standing next to the chain with all that tension on it. It only takes once.

[@ElmerJFudd-oi9kj]

because they can, the chain they said can hold 600 tons, the pulling force on each chain was 300 tons.

[@thetessellater9163]

The Dutch are necessarily very good at big engineering - they have to be - one third of the country is below sea level!

[@ottoskorzeny7984]

"ok- sorry, I don't speak freaky-deaky Dutch"- Austin Powers

[@bigredc222]

I'm curious what the round things are they anchored the pullers to, I imagine large quantities of concrete dumped into a bored hole.

[@taunteratwill1787]

The dutch always find a way to overcome watery shit. I believe it's pronounced like "Mammoth". Great company and well know all over the world.

[@ElmerJFudd-oi9kj]

Actually it's pronounced "mammoot"

[@OnixMarket]

Love this video! What camera did you use?

[@Lex5576]

The men in charge of these salvage operations must be under enormous pressure......but you can be rest assured that they know their shit. They're serious as hell about their work, and scrutinize every single detail time and time again before even the first man or piece of equipment arrives on site. Scores of safety assessments have to be made before the job is bid on.....nobody wants to get a bunch of men killed because the wrong plan was taken to complete the salvage. But when the job is safely finished, everyone makes a load of money, as they rightfully should.

[@befrank4099]

anyone that has been in the industry long enough will quickly correct you that the main plan is not the salvage of the vessel or goods but rather dragging the process out in order to maximize the $$$$$ incured........... if that entails the actuall salvage being successful - that be a byproduct of the actual goal . ....as they say always follow the cash .

[@dae8053]

Just get 30 of the biggest bulldozers in the world.

[@TheMachineAnthem]

no cure no pay policies.. hope they have been compensated accordingly..

[@ExploringCabinsandMines]

Wow! impressive!

[@winstonviceroy6125]

I saw no wreck removal, only chains hooked up to various parts of a ship. Felt like watching an infomercial and getting that greasy feeling you are being scammed.

[@tveirken1]

Imagine Mammoet and Sarens combining forces... :p

[@jerryvandyke9216]

tveirken1 you too 🇨🇦😎

[@madisonelectronic]

just call chuck norris

[@kenmark4403]

madisonelectronic

[@polop2897]

not ideal. he would've pulled the whole ocean with it.

[@bonegrubber]

Objective: drag the ship onto shore: Every ship breaker in India...Does it by hand and barefoot.

[@oceanapps3994]

Me and boys in summer vacations

[@minecraftsiminel4016]

Can be easier with spider man .😂

[@samboslc]

Possibly air bags between the jacks and keel to minimize drag for a faster recovery, along with plates to prevent damage to the bags. Possible?

[@kentbrochman4150]

Sammy Campbell Maybe some helicopters and hover boats, or better yet Superman. P.S. Why not Superwoman? She is always unreliable one week out of the month.

[@HMSHOOD1920]

What’s the music in the background? Such as at 1:20?

[@DowntownDeuce2]

The grunts and moans are from Sam Cooke's "working on the Chain Gang." I'm sure now you get the connection, they didn't choose that song randomly

[@nuclearbum9858]

those chain pullers on amazon prime 2 day delivery

[@andrewash8043]

Gonna get some of those

[@rverro8478]

This explain why these men has a better pay than women. As a matter of fact, I haven't seen a single woman working in those elements.

[@pforce9]

R Verro Check out my salvage videos if you want to see women.

[@jthepickle7]

The Egyptians used palm trees, as rollers, for big jobs like that.

[@ElmerJFudd-oi9kj]

they were on hollyday

[@austins.3313]

Id really like to work at a salvage company that would be awesome

[@pforce9]

radiobot Most of the work is carrying heavy stuff for about eight hours and then standing around watching all that stuff you carried be put to work, at which point someone will drive by, see you standing there and make a comment about how all you guys are standing around and doing nothing.

[@raypitts4880]

nother one watch rail company's lay new track.

[@brucebroussard5144]

Every one in the video had small eyes

[@ElmerJFudd-oi9kj]

Probably because the wind blew strong

[@raypitts4880]

are they Japanese or Chinese

[@scottfirman]

Why would any one allow a wreck like this to come near their shores in the first place? I thought the Coast guard had licencing on container ships. It was clear that wreck should have been in the breakers long before it ended up beached like that. They should have never allowed that wreck on open waters. Now it will cost tax payers hundreds of thousands to get that wreck hauled away. I think world wide regulations should be stronger concerning ships registration and her owners as well as past owners made to clean up the mess. Like a car, they should be inspected and tagged every year.

[@ElmerJFudd-oi9kj]

Do'nt wreck your brain about it.

[@johndo3930]

probable some mamoet dollars as well...

[@wiserguyer]

Why worry about it , test the Ocean for Radiation .

[@vroomoon]

What language are they even speaking? It sounds like broken English mixed with incorrect German.

[@tyrstone3539]

Probably afrikaans which is like dutch

[@vloev]

It's dutch

[@tom33sl41]

Waste of money. 17000 tonnes full of water and sand , you will not pull that anywere. It needs to be cutted in small parts first with thermal rood cutter.

[@dpeter6396]

????? They DID it!!

[@ค.ช.ศุภวิชญ์ครุธฒนา]

holland glorie

[@spukduk5632]

is this in london or is it in south africa?

[@stanpatterson5033]

Says at the beginning of the video... East London, South Africa

[@raypitts4880]

some people ask a question and the answer is in the video.

[@ingohiller3415]

I didn't see nothing no details

[@maspaijo1763]

u need superman....

[@siredhorselangmalakas6331]

thats goona end up in scrapyard. that no salvage.

[@rossbryan6102]

A GREAT JOB WITH UNUSAL UNIQUE EQUIPMENT!! YOU GUYS KICK BUTT!!👍👍

[@linhgio6383]

yeah

[@georgewbushcenterforintell147]

How do people get jobs like this?

[@brucebroussard5144]

I imagine how they would’ve pulled out the shit Hull around here. A bunch of durmaxes and some tug boat rope

[@Thebutteredsausage]

Hydraulics are very impressive.. makes the impossible possible..

[@thetessellater9163]

It could be done with cables and pulleys, but hydraulics are so much easier.

[@tomburcher5237]

If the Queen Mary needs her keel worked on, will she be raised on large rubber pontoons?

[@ElmerJFudd-oi9kj]

@@tomburcher5237 they pull the plug and deflate it.

[@JohannesKotze]

I would think they would be speaking Afrikaans?

[@Zeroczar]

Sounds like they are.

[@Mesdriver]

Zeroczar No they speak Dutch. Mammoet is a Dutch company. The Dutch are to be found worldwide if it comes to massive salvation actions, building sea barriers, lifting heavy marine loads and all that.

[@hiddejoustra4538]

where is mammoet from?

[@OmmerSyssel]

Hidde Joustra A Dutch firm. .. Their language is heard in the video. German spoken with a potato in the mouth ;)

[@raypitts4880]

try poldar land

[@anaislim4864]

I live in South Africa

[@oldog2]

who cares

[@hiddejoustra4538]

no one cares

[@burymedeep-be7dm]

You're cute

[@aaryjan]

Pumps as those showing at 3:55 is, what fire brigades & fire fighters around the world including in the United States and even countries like our own are in need of!

[@DowntownDeuce2]

Those are low pressure, high volume rotary vane pumps. FD need higher pressure centrifugal pumps

[@lupavolante]

And the water fills with foam, the sky with fumes, leprosy chemistry destroys life in rivers, birds that hardly fly dead, the cold interest in life has barred the doors. A whole island has found a grave in the sea, false progress wanted to try a bomb, then rain, which takes away the thirst for the earth, which is life, instead it brings death because it is radioactive. Yet the wind is still blowing, sprinkle water to ships on the bow and whispers songs among the leaves, kisses the flowers, kisses them and does not catch them. One day money discovered the world war, gave his putrid sign to the bestial instinct, he killed, burned, destroyed in a sad rosary and the whole earth was wrapped in a black shroud. And soon the hidden key to new secrets: so they will cover even the planets with mud, they will want to pollute the stars, the war between the suns: crimes against life call them errors. Yet the wind is still blowing, sprinkle water to ships on the bow and whispers songs among the leaves, kisses the flowers, kisses them and does not catch them. ( Writer(s): pierangelo bertoli)

[@ElmerJFudd-oi9kj]

get a life

[@theravedaddy]

@@ElmerJFudd-oi9kj oh hes got 1.....but its very weird.

[@Gamesemgeral787]

essa mamut e foda ela q tirou o submarino kurk do fundo do mar

[@josephastier7421]

Short attention span theater.

[@jrdeckard3317]

1:34 Man stands with foot directly below the load.

[@raypitts4880]

just testing those boots someone has to do it

[@bigbob1699]

GET A LOT OF DUTCH MEN !

[@fattyz1]

I saw the vids of them doing this in India with old junk equipment and no safety standards at all. The companies don't care how many of the workers die.

[@theokingshango]

Some Conan shit

[@AirCrash1]

This is kids stuff, I used to have a 700,000kg hydraulic puller/presser in my garage, I modified a hydraulic press from a Toyota factory that I found in a scrap yard. You have to see to believe what the force can do, gases become like a liquid and lots of other freaky stuff.

[@ElmerJFudd-oi9kj]

You sir, must be a happy man.

[@benterrell9139]

Incredible bad music

[@Wings_of_foam]

How old are you? This is some old footage.

[@tuongle8443]

😏😏😏😏😏😎😎😎😏😏

[@wareen6563]

can pull 300 tons??? my FIAT can do better..