Intresting wreck mitigation in Northern BC

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Interesting WWII wreck that brought attention upon itself when she started leaking oil about ten years ago. Nothing like doing salvage work on a wreck with munitions sitting on a ledge at 130' ready to slide off into seriously deep water. I certainly enjoyed the day I spent heading south down Grenville channel, now I know even more about what was below me.

Mammoet, Global Diving remove oil from U.S. Army ship that wrecked in 1946 off British Columbia coast

Apr 2, 2014 02:59 PM
BY MICHEL DROUIN
Salvage contractors successfully completed the recovery of oil from a U.S. Army transport vessel that sank on British Columbia’s North Coast on Sept. 26, 1946.

The Canadian government’s two-month, C$50 million operation safely extracted approximately 11,623 gallons of heavy bunker C oil and 84,391 gallons of oily water from the wreck. Customary “hot tapping” methods could not be used because of the poor condition of the vessel’s tanks.