Storm damage and sunk boat salvage
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- Опубликовано: 28 май 2024
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0:00 Intro
12:03 MY BOAT SUNK - NOW WHAT?
12:30 What Causes Boats to Sink?
13:13 What If the Boat Wasn’t Insured?
14:27 The Boat Has Been Salvaged - What’s Next?
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12:03 MY BOAT SUNK - NOW WHAT?
A sinking boat can happen suddenly and without warning. Whether it’s due to poor maintenance, a major storm, or an accident, sunken ships don’t necessarily mean all is lost. There is an excellent chance that your sunken boat can be salvaged.
Before you hang up your Captain’s hat, here are a few tips you should follow in the event your watercraft sinks to the bottom of the pond, lake, or river. Keep in mind that your priority should be to get everyone on board accounted for and safely to dry land. Only when everyone is safe should you then begin to think about what to do next.
12:30 What Causes Boats to Sink?
Believe it or not, it’s not that hard to sink a recreational boat or fishing vessel. In fact, it’s a little too easy.
Something as small as an under-floor plastic fitting breaking in half (due to years of engine/water vibrations) can cause a sudden influx of sea or lake water into your boat.
Other times major storms such as hurricane Katrina can cut thousand-mile swaths of destruction. When the tide and storm surge come rushing at the docks, nothing is safe.
Call Your Insurance Company
After your boat sinks, the first thing you should do (after ensuring everyone is safe) is to call your insurance company. If your boat was sunk due to a storm, you should be aware that your insurance company will most likely be swamped with insurance claims.
It may take a few weeks for an adjuster to get out to see you. In situations like this, time is money, and the longer you wait to salvage your boat, the more damage can occur.
Give your insurance company as much information (and pictures) as possible. Your policy will most likely require you to do everything in your power to prevent further loss.
14:27 What If the Boat Wasn’t Insured?
Once your boat starts taking on water and sinks to the bottom of the lake or marina, the clock starts ticking. The longer you wait, the higher the chances are of severe damage occurring.
Unless you want to write it off as a total loss, you’re going to want to get the boat salvaged. This is where a professional marine salvage company, like American Underwater Services, can mean the difference between a saved vessel and one left on the bottom of the lake.
Marine salvage companies have the experience and know-how to get your boat off the bottom of the lake or marina and make it float again. Click here for a slideshow of a boat salvage that took place due to a tornado that occurred in January 2017.
14:27 The Boat Has Been Salvaged - What’s Next?
After a marine salvage company like American Underwater Services has successfully salvaged and floated your vessel, you’re going to want to take stock of the damage. Are there electronics that can be removed such as fish finders, GPS, or other nautical navigational tools?
If so, and if you have homeowner’s insurance (but don’t have boat insurance), there is a chance that some or all of the damage might be covered.
Next, you’re going to want to look at the motor and all associated mechanical parts. Instead of trying to let everything “air dry,” it’s best to have the boat towed to the nearest boatyard where the professionals can take a look at the damage and give you a ballpark figure on what it will take to make her seaworthy again.
How to Avoid Problems in The First Place?
It’s not easy to avoid having your boat sink. Sometimes you’re just motoring along and you hit a submerged log that causes the craft to suddenly start taking on water.
The U.S. Coast Guard suggests that in addition to having life vests on your vessel, equipment such as float-actuated bilge pumps should be replaced long before they fail. This equates to about every 2-3 years.
When it comes to boating and keeping your vessel afloat, an ounce of maintenance is worth more than a pound of cure.
Marine Salvage Experts
At American Underwater Services, our expert commercial divers can help you regain possession of your vessel. Our decades of experience allow us to come up with innovative and intelligent solutions that can tackle even the toughest of challenges. Give us a call today at (866) 594-1272 or contact us to learn more about how we can help you. 
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Nice to finnaly see a REAL salvage team on you tube 👍 great job guys
Thank you so much that means a lot to Lee and the Team!
Heeh that's the music from Ron Pratt his canal
Nice work guys, and good illustration
Thank you always looking for good music!
@@americanunderwaterservices you succeeded 👌
I love to watched videos like this 😍 please upload more 😍
Working on some more! let us know if there are anything you would like us to cover.
The water is not colder than above water. Coldest temperature in the water (0 degrees C.) Above water could be colder.
We kept telling the divers that, but they claimed it was colder in the water.
@@americanunderwaterservices Yeah, divers can be such a bunch of wusses. especially when diving under ice. Diving is incredible, I try to limit my diving to warm waters now like the Red Sea.
@@briantrueman8924 I'm neurodiverse. Does that count?
As a fan of ships, it's sad but also unnerving seeing shipwrecks.
Y'all are frekn Amazing just wow!! What a crazy cold job... Burrrrr✌🏻💗😊❣️
Thank you Donna you rock!
Boats, like cars that are recovered from a lake, will have electrical problems until they are crushed. The inevitable corrosion is slower than if it came out of salt water, but corrode it will.
With editing and narrating like this how do you only have 300 subscribers? So many recovery videos are lacking in both areas. Also looks like you guys are well organized too.
We are building our audience slowly. Let us know if you have any pointers. Please like and subscribe
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All the workmen wearing hard hats on a floating pontoon, good to see their safety conscious but no life jackets
I believe they are worn under the coats but you make a great point. All jackets are onboard all vessels.
There bouyancy hats, on contact with water they inflate into a lifeboat. They saved 6 builders at my local swimming baths the over day. Great invention.
@@brentcrane6632🫂
It’s true, a lot of stuff will be fine, especially in a lake. If an engine is running when it fills with water it is normally ruined, but switched off ones do okay. After all, fuel has hydrogen in it and sulphur, so engines are used to small amounts of water and acid inside them. (We gave petrol and diesel engines a lot of abuse off-roading:o) )
Wow that’s cool !!
ZZ Top has a day job
Well dressed man 👊 Now only if we had their money HAHA! Thanks for the comment.
I was working in a port in Italy . Recovering the usual sunken vessel. (As commercial diver). But you using the superlite Kirby Morgan set up seems to me a bit over the top here......Is the as we slall say , extra to dress up??????🤑✉💰💰💰💰💰???????
Doubt if the divers agree with this person about the cold
Swoths ? I think you mean swathes !
The water is not colder than the ice
@@ryanthomas2472 also water skiing in cold water when you are out of the water you get cold from evaporation than back in the water it feels warm
Tell that to the two divers ha ha
ZZ Top seems like a loud mouth micromanager.
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I don't understand, if you guys are professional hard hat divers, then why aren't you using the Commercial Diving Helmet communication system? And why are you guys cold? That wouldn't be a problem with dry suits and argon gas with the correct ring seal gloves that allow for dexterity and warmth. Perhaps the lift beg would not have been damaged if they had pushed the boat just a little way from the slip. Sorry, this isn't what I call a professional operation.
We’re you a fan of the show Sea hunt? Our communication systems are online professional desco com lines and we do have dry suits and hot water systems available. We appreciate your input, have a nice day.
Great tips, however I think a life jacket would be more lifesaving than a hard hat, to which is useless. Come on get it together and practice what you preach !
I hear you. The dock structure wasn't sound so we needed the protection. Please tell us more about the jackets. Do you mean non divers?
@@americanunderwaterservices In cold weather in the mineral exploration business we wear Mustang floater jackets with beavertails when we are working from boats or around water.
It his choice he is a grown adult not your child. Am sure he already has a dad and mom lol 😂
EVER HEARD OF VIKING DRY SUITS
OR ARE YOU TOOO TOUGH!!
Here in Texas we don’t get too much calls for winter time fun so we never budget it in. But will look into it. Do you like those suits have you tried them?