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Asgard not to be raised

  • 08-02-2009 10:57am
    #1
    timmywex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭


    The national sail training vessel Asgard II is to remain in its watery grave in the Bay of Biscay off the coast of France after it sank mysteriously last September.

    The brigantine will not now be salvaged, and instead efforts are likely to focus on identifying a replacement vessel. Sources close to the vessel's management committee, Coiste An Asgard, have told the Sunday Independent that the committee decided unanimously to make a recommendation to Defence Minister Willie O'Dea not to raise the vessel, mainly on grounds of the cost involved.

    However, it is understood that Mr O'Dea has not yet received the report.

    The news will come as a blow to the many seafaring interests who had called for the ship to be salvaged and rebuilt. However, although the vessel was insured for €3.8m with salvage costs around €2m, the cost of rebuilding the vessel with the craftsmanship skills and labour involved was thought to be prohibitive.

    It's also thought that the long period in which she lay underwater during the winter may have contributed substantially to the cost of rebuilding the Asgard II.

    The ship was on a cruise from Falmouth in the UK to La Rochelle in France when it sank 20 miles off the French coast. There were five crew members and 20 trainees on board at the time but they were all safely evacuated.

    The decision to abandon the vessel and take to the liferafts was taken by ship's captain Colm Newport, who was praised for his actions. The crew and trainees were taken by the French Coastguard to a nearby island.

    An underwater inspection of the ship took place in October which indicated that the ship was upright and largely intact.

    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/cost-issues-condemn-asgard-ii-to-remain-in-its-watery-grave-1632516.html


    A sad day, she was a great ship, unfortunately id rfekon the chances of a new one being brought are slim in the current situation


Comments

  • #2
    diverdriver
    Closed Accounts Posts: 987 ✭✭✭diverdriver


    You're right, there's slim chance of it ever being replaced. To be honest considering the way it went down it probably needed a refit anyway. Raising it would simply have been a waste of money.


  • #3
    goldie fish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,195 ✭✭✭goldie fish


    diverdriver wrote: »
    You're right, there's slim chance of it ever being replaced. To be honest considering the way it went down it probably needed a refit anyway. Raising it would simply have been a waste of money.
    How did it go down?


  • #4
    cyrusdvirus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,752 ✭✭✭cyrusdvirus


    goldie fish wrote: »
    How did it go down?


    vertically.... :p


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