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Crews provide up-close look at Golden Ray wreck as removal process reaches halfway point There are 3 more cuts to go & 4 more sections to lift from the wreck Updated:  Tags:  BRUNSWICK, Ga. – The demolition of an overturned cargo ship in the St. Simons Sound is halfway done after a fourth section of the Golden Ray was sliced, separated and lifted from the wreck. After the major milestone was reached, News4Jax on Monday went out on a boat with the St. Simons Sound Incident Unified Command to learn more about the removal process up close. Lifejackets were available for every passenger aboar...

April 15, 2021 Crews working to cut up and remove sections of the Golden Ray shipwreck in St. Simons Sound, Georgia have restarted cutting operations on “Section Seven” after the cutting chain broke on two separate occasions over the last week. The St. Simons Sounds Incident Response says joining links in the cutting chain failed on April 7 and again on April 12, but divers and personnel aboard the VB-10000 have now reconnected the chain, allowing the cutting of the section to continue. Responders replaced larger profile joining links with slimmer Kenter joining links which are expected...

Nearly a year after the U.S. Coast Guard and other members of the salvage team expected to complete the removal of the massive capsized car carrier from the shipping channel outside the Port of Brunswick, delays caused by weather, COVID-19 and snafus still plague the project. Environmentalists say they’re not surprised the exhaustive undertaking continues facing obstacles that place the surrounding habitat in danger. Since the early hours of Sept. 8, 2019, the 656-foot-long cargo ship has lodged in the sand off St. Simons Island where it capsized soon after setting sail for Baltimore with m...

Cars tumble out of Golden Ray as ship cut into pieces Coast Guard says teams monitor for environmental damage, collect vehicle parts Updated:  Tags:  BRUNSWICK, Ga. – Salvage operations of the massive Golden Ray ship from St. Simons Sound continue as part of the response team concentrates on the environmental impact. As a massive crane continues to use a massive chain to slice through the solid steel hull of the car carrier that overturned while sailing out of the Port of Brunswick in September 2019, video shared by Incident Response shows responders releasing a rehabilitated laughing gul...

Crews have separated the latest section of the Golden Ray as the operation to cut and remove the wreck stretches into its fifth month. The St. Simons Sound Incident Response reports that Section Two was separated from the wreck on Monday just seven days after cutting began, marking an improvement from the previous three cuts. Section Two will now be lifted onto the Barge JULIE B and moved to facility at Mayors Point Terminal in Brunswick, Georgia. Once secured for ocean transit, the JULIE B will depart Brunswick for a ship recycling facility in Louisiana. “Section Two was cut and separated ...