One of Europe’s strongest floating cranes to recover Mike Lynch’s sunken superyacht
The team will use the 5,695-gross-tonne floating crane Hebo Lift 10, which departed Rotterdam on April 19th and is expected to arrive off the coast of Porticello within days.
The crane, said to be among the most powerful of its kind in Europe, has a lifting height of 83.2m.
I noticed a few days ago that it was doing ~10kts approaching Gib - now at only ~5kts passing Algeria with 400 to go.
15-20kt headwind with LOT of windage sure slows it down.
HEBO-LIFT 10, Crane Ship - Details and current position - IMO 8010506 - VesselFinder
sailing at a speed of 5.6 knots and expected to arrive there on May 3, 07:00 .
Hebo Lift 2 (the smaller crane barge) appears to be settling into position above the wreck. I wonder how many moorings they will use.
Hebo Lift 2 seems to have no own propulsion, all the way to Sicily from the Adriatic Sea, Ravenna, and even now, she was towed by the tug ‘Capo Santelia’.
The really Big Crane, ‘Hebo Lift 10, came from Rotterdam alone at 4 to 5 knots…, now docked at the nearby ‘real’ port of ‘Termini Imerese’.
A-frame down for ocean passage:
Updated picture of Hebo Lift 10 on departure R’dam:
Now we just need this hotel to rotate/pan its webcam about 45° to the right!
The report by Super yacht news on some of the thoughts of the Italian authorities opens a can of worms. What size of vessel needs a qualified crew to stand an anchor watch?
Meh!
That latest vid, quoting a NewYorkPost report, regurgitates the Italian authorities statements (unchanged since first reported in August!) that those 3 crew are “suspects… under investigation” with the associated waffle about qualifications.
Same talking points going around and around, nothing new here.
I think they heard me 
Live coverage!
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Both crane barges in shot now. Visibility is good - Alicudi & Filicudi in background at ~50nm.
FYI, local press giving lots of updates..
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I hate to say this but @Heiwa said this would happen.
I suppose the divers were wearing secret service T shirts like the blokes outside Mar a largo.
Sadly the latest news was that there’s been an incident resulting in the death of one of the commercial divers during the initial stages of the salvage effort.
Local news says operations stopped…
“After the death of the Dutch diver… Public Prosecutor’s Office has ordered the seizure of the area”.
Another report from the AP:
A sad turn of events.
People involved with Bayesian cannot catch a break.
But . . . Raising the vessel must go forward.
