Ardent takes oil recovery to new depths
The salvage industry has up until now normally recovered oil from wrecks located no more than 100 meters below the surface. Now partially Maersk-owned Ardent will recover oil from a Russian wreck located three kilometers below the surface.
BY TOMAS KRISTIANSEN
One of the first operations by newly established salvage company Ardent will be the recovery of oil from a leaking Russian Factory Fishing Trawler south of the Spanish Canary Islands. In itself, capturing the remaining fuel from a sunken vessel is nothing unusual in an industry that deals with cleaning up after accidents at sea all over the world. However, what is extraordinary when it comes to the oil recovery from Oleg Naydenov, is that the operation takes place 2,700 meters below sea level.
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