Mumbai, Jun 17 (PTI): Efforts to salvage cargo ship MV Wisdom, stranded on the Juhu beach after running aground last week, failed today as it could not be connected to the tug vessel that would have hauled it back into the waters, apparently due to rough sea.
"The salvage operation was suspended today as the messenger rope that would have joined MV Wisdom to the tug could not be connected. The operation will resume during the high tide tomorrow," Director General of Shipping S B Agnihotri told PTI.
He refuted media reports that the rope had snapped causing the salvage operators to abandon the mission.
"Such an exercise (of connecting the stranded ship to the tow vessel) can be undertaken just once a day and that too during high tide. We will try to resume efforts to pull the ship back into the sea tomorrow," he said.
Steps to salvage the ship, which ran aground at Juhu beach on June 11, began yesterday with Indian Navy helicopters joining in the rescue operations. The ship was being tugged to the Alang shipbreaking yard in Gujarat from Colombo
Source: 17 June 2011
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