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Originally Posted by james
DB, can you provide some more details? Where is the ship? Pictures? The information in the story doesn't really jive for me. It's too broad a region, and I would think the ship wouldn't have enough draught to affect Tortuga (16+ m) but if it did, then it wouldn't make it to Barry or Sabalos.
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Two days ago the Cembay was sitting smack atop Sábalos, its position was actually lining up longitudinally with the Barracuda and Sábalos buoys, if you see what I mean. And, it was lying between those buoys, significantly closer to Sábalos'.
The keel must be resting lower than usual since two days ago they already had two oceanic tugs pulling and pushing, respectively and the freighter wasn't even budging; I'm no expert but I would have thought that the tugs would have made some kind of headway if the Cembay didn't already have it's buoyancy somewhat impaired.
The whole area has been closed to navigation other than salvage, Navy and governmental agencies vessels; as diving goes, we can still reach Islote and southwards, or from Jardínes northwards.
Marco tells me they have started unloading some of the freighter's cargo onto the barge but it seems they will have to drag the Cembay over Tortuga to get it free.
Here's some links
News
Ship's dimensions
It seems draught is less than 9m (as you know, more than the depth at the top of Sábalos, i.e. around 7/8m) but should the ship have been taking water buoyancy could have been compromised and it will drag deeper than usual. The inner strip of Tortuga lies at around 14,5/15 m, these days.
Here's hoping for the best.