THE STORY OF THE 'KODIMA'
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- Опубликовано: 18 мар 2014
- On February 2, 2002 in the English Channel, General Cargo Vessel KODIMA suffers and engine breakdown in a force 8 storm. She starts drifting towards the Devon Coast.
SVITZER Salvage tug SYGIN on station at Land's End approaches the injured vessel and seeks to make a towage connection. The heavy swell makes it impossible and the vessel runs aground near Plymouth.
A Salvage Team with specialised equipment is mobilised from the Netherlands. The storm makes boarding only possible by helicopter. With assistance from the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency all equipment and specialists are transferred to the vessel.
Preparation is made and on 16 February the re-float is successfully accomplished. The KODIMA is safely returned to her owners in Falmouth.
This is what a documentary should be. No obnoxious heart-pounding music, no made-up suspense or fake cliffhangers. It's great to see an informative video that respects it's viewers, thank you!
I like this documentary but that's nonsense. Different types of documentary require different post production.
@@elgamerico When they add background 'music', they lost me. I search for documentaries with no background noise.
USA TV/Documentary Shows.
Man: "I had to unscrew the 4 screws so that I could get back into my house, because i locked myself out."
Narrator: "After locking himself out..." *Special effects sound* "Dennis has come up with an elaborate plan to get back in!"
*Suspenseful Music*
Narrator: "Then the unthinkable happened"
Man: "I've managed to undo one screw when i dropped the screw driver."
Ad Break**
Narrator: "After locking himself out..." *Special effects sound* "Dennis has come up with an elaborate plan to get back in, however he has dropped the screw driver.. will he make it?"
Man: "I picked up the screw driver and was able to undo the remaining screws. Managed to get back in, no problems"
*Elated music*
Narrator: "despite all odds against him, and almost losing his screwdriver for good, Dennis pulled threw"
*Epic Hero Music*
I know eh.
@@elgamerico yep, that's right.
If dramatic music is necessary best to watch a Hollywood drama.
What all those guys do to salvage those ships is absolutely incredible. I salute them
Very thoughtful a greasy environment!
Heroic efforts! Their courage is astounding. Mad respect
Well done gentlemen. Hats off to Salvage crews around the world.
Well done nice to see a vessel saved ! No one was killed or injured .
These guys are the true heroes of the sea - they jump into action when everyone else has abandoned ship. Thank you for this very informative and inspiring video !
Good planning on shore and pilots on ship and chopper
Brilliant work guys, There is no better thing than watching someone who knows what the Hell they're doing. Excellent!
It's 1.12.23.
I would like to thank RUclips for suggesting this video that was uploaded 8 years ago.
I want to say to the film crew and all involved that these types of documentarys are priceless.
HollyWeird which I have grown to despise cannot even come close to these types of true docs.
I just totally love these shows.
Thank you all.
Ditto! Everything you said, I agree! 💯
I worked in the marine salvage industry in Alaska for many years. We also did deep water salvage and diving. Brings back memories.
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SO YOU KNOW WHAT REALLY HAPPENED CAUSE I SEE IT PEOPLE JUST DON'T TELL THE TRUTH ANYMORE .
After extended discussion with professional deep water diver during a hitch in my truck, realized that although his pay was superior to my own by a factor of ten, he saved absolutely none of it and was often in poverty, as he hitched from job to job.
Fascinating stories of incidents around the world, sadly told, as he was fast approaching retirement age, with no family.
@@Blogengezer sounds like a risk-seeking personality
Amazing work you guys do. Mad respect! 🌹
You’ve gotta hand it to the people of Holland. A tiny country but an absolute powerhouse in terms of maritime industry.
Thank you haha! It is something we can be proud of/ i am proud of!
The Dutch have their strengths, as does the UK, Denmark, Norway, Greece, Germany, France, etc. Different sectors.
manatee2500 Greece? Really? Lol. They've been useless for a long time.
Kaptainrdean
The Greeks remain relevant wherever happen to sit...as many are in London/NY/ Cyprus etc.
The Dutch, like the Greeks, are doing the best that they can in a much bigger world. There is a still a lot expertise. Btw, whatever happened to Nedlloyd or even PONL?
Svitzer is danish owned by Maersk.
Very nice documentary. No gratuitous drama injected. well done!
Quite an interesting documentary. As a Maltese ex-shipyard worker I enjoyed every minute of it. Congratulations to all the men employed on this massive job!
well said brother enjoyed watching the salvage operation immensely. The end of video said 2002 and what happened to the timber ashore????
+zrieqi58 Salvaged by the local people...
and no doubt built into something wonderful!!! I hope so anyway!!!!
Have their own expertise!
The key mind and body!
👍👍 BRAVO GENTLEMEN!!
This documentary was amazing. The moving of all the heavy equipment by helicopter is something else.
Simply fantastic. Thanks a lot for sharing.
The marine insurers were very happy a replacement ship wasn't the eventual outcome. This salvage operation must have easily run to over £120,000 which is cheaper than replacing the boat.
An interesting insight into the salvage business. I remember some of that timber being washed up on the beach near Hastings. It certainly travelled some distances!
Bravo... Team... Your team forgot... something... Your team also having a Family... Excellent Work...
Thank you for this programme, a warning to all who go to, the sea in ships.
As a sailor and marine artist, painter I know the Cornish coast well and have sailed on St Austell Bay many times.
I've seen for myself some of the unpleasant surprises the Cornish seas can throw up particularly in heavy weather.
Even the best prepared vessels can get into difficulties.
The sea is no place for the unwary, less so for uneducated.
The old hymn, "For those in peril on the sea" is as valid today as when first written.
a lot of work, a lot of problem solving in difficult conditions Well done.
Awesome work, enjoyed the video, thanks for sharing !.
They need new cameras. The jerky movements are disconcerting.
Im still useig this timber today ( I live on the s coast ) Thanks !!!
No you don't
@@Your2TiminEx *NO* !!!
@@frisbe9279 PUSH off !!
@@timwilkinson2797 You'll do as your told. Bottom line.
@@Your2TiminEx what
Excellent job Gentlemen. That’s a tremendous amount of work, in lousy conditions, being done under the watchful eye of environmentalist and other pains in the ass. It would appear you all handled it professionally and got it done right. My hats off to you all. Well done.
Time to change your thinking, Roger.
Climate change is a pain in the ass, not environmentalists.
Environmentalists are the good guys. They’re trying to save your grandchildren’s butts.
You want the Cornish Riviera covered with Heavy Fuel Oil? Nah!
You DGAF about killing seabirds, seals, fish? Of course you do.
And you don’t want to leave those grandkids a virtually uninhabitable world, either, do you?
So do yourself a favour, get with the 21st. century and shift that attitude.
Peace, fellow human.
I guess keeping "the PITA's & environmentalists" away & allowing all that lumber ruin the shoreline & drift into busy shipping lanes to hit yet another ship in a huge wave & piercing it is a big fat nothing too? The diesel, oil & multiple chemicals on that tanker are TOXIC to humans, animals, fish AND wildlife & shorelines. All of their all their offspring are then toxic too-if they even live! You sound old, pigheaded & stubborn & don't seem to know why INSURANCE is required on these vessels or what it covers!
@@q.e.d.9112 A lot of environmentalists are just lobbyists for corporations and NGOs who've invested in renewables. Their constant doom+mongering is just silly and false. I believe the world is moving as fast as possible towards green energy, but it's never enough for the climate alarmists. If we go any faster it will be to the detriment of the economy, there will be energy shortages as renewables simply aren't advanced enough to power the world yet. I notice it's always these wealthy upper class types who shame everyone into change, but it's the poor working class who will feel the effects of rapidly banning cheap fossil fuels.
This is a wonderful story for viewers around the world. Big ships are a big challenge to move around and especially in poor weather!
@Tom_Emard= The average deadweight capacity of the world merchant fleet is now around 20’000 tons: The 6’000 tons of the Kodyma make it a relatively small vessel.
This is not to say that salvage operations are less dangerous, but the size of the tugs (& more generally of the equipment needed) for the salvage is smaller. These tugs are more readily available locally.
For companies like Wijsmuller Salvage or Smit, the salvage of a ship like Kodyma is a relatively routine operation, typical of the tasks and risks involved! Salvage is an enthralling but risky business ; hats off to the salvage crews. -- •
Interestingly enough, the local 'big box' home improvement/hardware stores suffered a mysterious stagnation in lumber sales that lasted the better part of 3 months. Even more mysterious is that while the lumber sales dwindled to near nothing, their sales of nails, screws, hand and power tools, and sundry other construction hardware went through the roof...hitting all time highs! Another business that suffered was the storage shed business. For some reason, their sales dried up to near nothing as well. To this day, no one knows of an explanation for this phenomenon.
Just after the end of ww2 we in Gt.Yarmouth were told there would be no oranges for Christmas but the North Sea decided different a ship was sunk with thousands of boxes of oranges my father filled the bath up with oranges greengrocers couldn't give oranges away happy days
Mystery of Mysteries. I think the best explanation is that the fairies caused it.
"...when the impossible has been eliminated, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth". S. Holmes.
dshmechanic very good
I lived a few years on the German island "Sylt". In storms ships whole deckloads of lumber from lost. Shortly thereafter, there was always a huge building boom on the island to notice. Everywhere were heard saws and hammers. Everywhere there were suddenly new garden sheds, fences and roofs.
I think it used to be earlier in the 18th and 19th century on all coasts that ships with false fire beacons was shown the wrong way to loot the wrecks. I think that would cause problems today ;-) But even today, is flotsam free, if the owner waives. No shipping company, no customer and no insurance ever has apply for ownership rights. Winning back wood on 100 km of beach is probably more expensive than the value of the wood. That's why they prefer to pay it and the "beach pirates" are happy.
That was common on the east coast of the US.
Great job .
Thank you for the upload.
Much respect to you all.
Atlanta Georgia USA 12.13.2020
It's amazing what goes on to salvage a single ship...
That beach full of wood, reminds me of the summer I worked as a junior ranger on Lake Superior. Mile and a half long beach, jammed full of pulp logs from two broken booms that spring. Gotta say, I had muscles on my muscles after humping the logs to the road, then stacking them and finally cutting them up for firewood. It was a pretty place after we got done clearing it all.
I like that you told the story a bit more in this video, please go in to a bit more detail about the causes in future videos, and/or link us the accident investigation report.
I have read the MAIB report of this case and it was very interesting, the engineering crews efforts certainly deserve to be known.
I was planning on doing domestic stuff this morning. Instead I too have read the MAIB report and a very interesting read it is. As a retired seafarer I sometimes wonder how I would have managed such a situation. It's good to know that there was no loss of life or risk pollution from the incident, well done Svitzer.
and everyone on the cornish coast got new fences and sheds cheap...
Asking: goods washed up are free? Even if owner is identifiable?
@@bacilluscereus1299 not smugglers, wreckers get it right from a reincarnated wrecker
@@richardhuber6447 yeah that's right thats what us wreckers do. Once wrecker always wrecker. From a reincarnated wrecker
@@richardhuber6447 Legally the come under the Receiver of wreck, to whom you are supposed to report any items found.
yep my workshop benefited from a trip to the coast......the timber hasn't lasted well , most it ending up as firewood.......
Looks like such a difficult job..but nobody can deny how beautiful the scene, water, sky and land is
It's stunning, in beauty and how amazing the sea is...
These guys seriously know what they are doing!
AAHKLEE well I don’t know if you can hire incapable people to do this task.
Do you know how seriously, its life or death
Some helicopter pilots just amaze the heck outta me how they can maneuver those choppers around the way they do.
Just hovering a helicopter in zero wind is one of the most technically challenging things a human could do. Requires dexterity to have hands and feet working each in of the 3 dimentions independently. I gained a true appreciation watching people trying to explain and teach the controls absolutely nuts.
Most, if not all of those helicopter pilots are ex military, so will have had the best training money can buy.
Thanks for the video.
No drama, just the facts! LOVE this channel.
Everyone is banging on about what a fine documentary this is but it's not a documentary, it's a marketing video that the salvage company sends out to potential future clients. And their tug, stationed off the stern, wasn't there for the good of mankind it was there to stop other people boarding the vessel and laying claim to it.
I was the captain of that ship and I'm happy to read all the kind words in this thread.
I went on to make over 200 appearances for Swindon Town before becoming a woman.
That's nice, did you have your first child yet?
A Russian seafarer turned into football player turned into (some sort of) woman… nice fantasy you got there buddy!
What’s next for you, be the first person on Mars while writing classical musicals?
There are too many ships scrapped instead of salvaged, great job!
Heartly congradulation for salvage team of koodima ship came to level position sir thanku very much have a nice day god bless u the team iam alex india goa
That's fantastic how they pretty much made that look easy and saved a ship!
Very Interesting, Thank You!
This is the story of the "funky cold kodima" NOT to be confused with the "Funky Cold Medina"
It seems like Brupeg is getting its soul now as the crew comes together. Awesome to see the new blood of Carlos to add to the project. Damo, may I say you have a beautiful singing voice, may I also say it has an equally torturous path out. My friend you area pakeha, not Māori so you are not born with the same level of natural talent….lmao
Fantastic job!!!
WOW ! This us incredible footage and hard work by the recovery crew and all involved . MY HATS IFF TO ALL🤝🤝👍
this is better than netflix
I've been involved in a few salvage operations. They're all different and very seldom easy.
how much would the technicians and other staff make on a job like Kodima?
Thanks for sharing. Fantastic
Nothing can resist the power of nature...
Really, have you ever seen a vagina?
Wow i have photos of this ship! On the visit, I saw a RN helicopter and some tug boats around the vessel. I left to return home and wondered why the traffic was so slow. It turned out that someone had already started the clean up operation with a truck full of wood!
Spent many happy years as mate aboard the Battle-axe under her previous name "Lyrie"
love that name Battleaxe, especially for a tug
fantastic work lads
Excellent video and valuable information for public.
Truly awesome job!
Extremely carsogenic down in that engine room with the heavy fuel oil 🤢😷🤕🤮
Errrr, Plymouth is in DEVON!
Tregantle Fort is in Cornwall!
We remember this incident. Thanks to looters, the Police reckoned there would be a number of deckings appearing in gardens that didn't previously have them. Wood in salt water, not a very good decking material it was said!
Excellent story. Excellent job well done!
Guy's, this stuff is great, I didn't know, I would enjoy this so much. The people that work on these things are very professional. It is really interesting. I enjoy the water. Thank you , keep them coming.
Great job Guys.👍
Well done guys. Well done!
I missed my calling! Great video.
Bravo! for Brits' nicely organized professional work.
Amazing she didn’t break up in all that rough weather. Great job and dam good luck! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Was thinking the same through out the whole video.
Love the background music!
Amazing work gentlemen
I'd recommend reading Farley Mowat's, The Grey Seas Under (1958). I first read it in 1977 and many times throughout the years. The book is a profile in the courage of the men who served aboard an ocean-going salvage tug, Foundation Franklin, circa 1930-1948. A real hair-raiser and an enthralling story which will have you feeling the ocean spray.
And Farley also wrote Never Cry Wolf.
it is a great book
I read that book!
@@raymondleggs5508 It was quite an experience for me. Me, I get seasick in a rowboat 🚣♂️ fishing for flounder in the bay. What lives those crewmembers of the Foundation Franklin led!
@@johnleach7879 I read that many years ago and saw the movie once. I'd like to revisit both.
Amazing!
Good video, real drama no BS.
O wow thanks for shearing good job.
this is excellent work
Fantastic work everyone
all these people deserve a pay raise and a thank you. They are smart as fuck, I could never do something like that. Thank yall from the USA for what you do.
Brilliant video...
the dutch in action as they are thge best for this kind work on high sea
@Frank Heuvelman The US is the best at everything, including making fun of the Dutch.
@Frank Heuvelman We have everything, and if we wanted your shit hole we would have it. The earth is round not flat and religion, all of it is fucking bullshit.
@@TheSoloAsylum clearly not the best at not rioting ;)
Wow i saw this...4 years ago..the wood drifting out of the red hold...kewl beans
Certainly much more informative and less time-wasting then that salvage code red show...
TV producers sure can screw up a good premise, I like watching people work on things, cars motorcycles whatever, there's not one of those shows on TV I can sit through.
It's not a salvage operation until the Sanford & son theme song is played.
awesome work
Am a captain /coxswain,,, I love this video
gr8 work .. very good video..
Muy bonito video de como lograron recuperar este barco me agrada ver todo lo relacionado con las navieras buen éxito para esta embarcación
Great Job!😌
Bloody good work.
Yep remember this and all the wood that turned up on the beaches. I'm going to hazard a guess that there are many pieces of furniture in many homes from this event! :D
Looks like Swedish lumber from AB Forssjö Bruk® in Katrineholm 10:38 . Hope they named the slightly warped furniture after the vessel :)
Wab
They got wood ;)
Salute.. All of this.. Legend 💕👈
Well done to all parties involved
What about the Communist party?
Well done men!
I worked on H-3's with HC-2 while I was in the navy. Good birds.
Brilliant what these Lads did 👍
It really is 🌹
Nice video thanks
Oddly enough, when a ship carrying bananas went down just under Fort Bovisand, the opposite side of Plymouth Sound, there wasn't a sudden slump in banana sales in Plymouth. However there was a smell of putrid bananas over the area for several days!
Good work
if folks were so worried about the beaches, why not get out and help clear the area and get some lumber for use while at it.
We did ! The local farms & fields had 100's tons piled up in them.
Every other post on this vid is somebody commenting on how the locals benefited from all the free lumber that washed ashore.
She was repaired,took new names as Readstone,Timberstone,Aldan until 2016.Then she beached at Alang for scrap...
Really?
an envious job there... I could be tempted to do that... big machines, peril, helicopters,big engines.... sorted
doubt you would last for 5 minutes
nice work
amazing
TECNICOS DE TRABABAJOS TITANICOS,¡¡,SON SUPER PROFESIONALES QUE APROVECHAN AL TODA LA TECNOLOGIA Y EL DINERO QUE ASUME EL COSTO PARA LA LABOR,,LO MAXIMO¡¡
I'm very surprised that the public is not down there gathering all that lumber I would have cleaned it all up for the wood that's a lot of boards now you could have built a house with what I seen laying there
I'd be interested to know what the total cost of the salvage operation was.
I have a question, I understand the seas were heavy but why didn't the drop both anchors to prevent grounding or at least keep her pointed out to sea if they dragged.
Chance it would have sunk in the heavy seas if it didn't ground
Driftwood- Literally!
Cool Documentary. Thanks for making it.