GEORGE TOWN: Raising a sunken ship is no easy matter as the state has learned from the incident with the Xin Yi Yi.
This Hong Kong vessel keeled over and has been lying on the seabed half-submerged for close to a year in the shallows off Permatang Damar Laut, south of Penang island.
A Marine Department corporate unit spokesman said the department would call for a salvaging tender in a few weeks. On July 26 last year, Xin Yi Yi’s captain Shek Shing Hei told police after being rescued that he could not see the light of the warning buoy on arriving at 5.30am and crashed his vessel into the remains of a shipwreck nicknamed “Kapal Simen”.
The following month, the owners commissioned a team of salvagers, whose plan was to seal the lower decks, pump the water out and then use gigantic airbags to raise the ship off the seabed and tow it to deeper waters so that she could right herself.Meanwhile, the state government is not happy with the delays and are worried that other small vessels would hit the vessel, especially at night.
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