Salvage crews start last cut of Georgia shipwreck demolition
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. – Salvage crews Monday began cutting apart the final two sections that remain of a cargo ship the overturned along the coast of Georgia nearly two years ago.
Demolition of the South Korean freighter Golden Ray has been underway since November, when workers began using a towering crane straddling the shipwreck to cut it into eight giant sections – using anchor chain to tear through the hull like a blunt-edged saw.
The sixth mammoth piece was loaded onto a barge and removed less the two weeks ago, following days of delay when the newly severed segment began