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Floating Dock Departs Cascade General Grand Bahama Shipyard's Floating Dock No. 2, known as the former Port- land Floating Dock No. 4, left the Cas- cade General Portland Shipyard in Ore- gon on July 6, commencing its five-and- a-half month tow to its new home at the Grand Bahama Shipyard in Freeport, Bahamas. Measuring 984 x 2,296 ft. (300 x 700 m), the floating dock is capable of lifting 87,000 tons and is one of the largest in the western hemisphere able to accom- modate vessels of up to 150,000 grt or 250,000 dwt. Via a marine management contract with Seaspan, the yard has chartered Global Towing Alliance Ocean Going Tug, De Yue. Measuring 299 ft. (91 m) with installed power of 20,800 bhp, De Yue provides a bollard pull of 200 tons from its twin-screw con- figuration. Initially built as a deep-sea USN Confident Of Raising Sunken Fishing Vessel The U.S. Navy was confident that it would successfully raise the Japanese fishing vessel sunk off Hawaii in February by one of its nuclear submarines, and was hopeful of recovering some of the bodies of the nine people killed in the accident. Final prepara- tions were being made at press time. Rear Adm. William Klemm, the officer in charge of the $40 million operation to recover the Ehime Mara, rated the Navy's chances of suc- cessfully raising the ship as high as 80 per- cent. The Navy has hired a civilian ship, Rockwater 2, to gently raise the 190-ft. (58- m) Ehime Mara off the ocean floor 2,000 ft. (610 m) below the surface, carry it in a giant sling 13 n.m. and set it down in shallow 115- ft. (35-m) waters where divers can enter and search for bodies. The Ehime Mara, a trawler used to teach Japanese high school students about the fisheries industry, was about 9 miles (14 km) off Oahu, Hawaii on Feb. 9 when it was rammed by the USS Greeneville during an emergency surfacing drill and sank. Twen- ty-six people survived but nine people, including four teen-age boys, were never found. The Navy promised their relatives that every attempt would be made to recover their bodies, but Klemm said he expected divers to only find five to seven of the missing people. The Ehime Mara will probably be moved in late August and divers will likely attempt to recover bodies in September. More than 45 divers will work from a barge anchored over the ship in shallow waters, and they expect to have to force their way through mangled pas- sageways and watertight doors. The 5,991-ton Rockwater 2 has thrusters to keep it stationary during the recovery operation in which remote submersibles will attach 4-in. (10-cm) thick cables to the Ehime Mara. salvage tug, De Yue is owned by Guangzhou Salvage of China and was selected by Grand Bahama for its high bhp and large bunker capacity. The 20,000 nm tow is expected to take 170 days with an average tow speed of approximately five knots. Arrival in the Bahamas is expected around Christmas 2001. The routing, which is mapped to avoid major weather patterns in each of the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans, allows for stop-offs for bunkering in four locations, currently intended to be Davao or Cebu, Dijbouti or Singapore, Suez or Cape Town, and Gibraltar or Fortaleza. Preparations are currently underway at the shipyard to prepare for the arrival of the dock and this work will be going on in conjunction with a major investment in the rest of the facilities at the yard to cope with the expected increase in work- load that the new dock will generate. Smith Berger Marine, Inc. 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