Comment on What happens to sea containers and lifeboats when a ship sinks?
Toes@ani.social 10 months ago
There are salvage crews that are either hired by the freight company or groups that claim abandoned property. Depends a lot on what it is and where it is.
The newer lifeboats like the one in your picture have a special satellite beacon that signals for rescue when it’s deployed. Depending on the nature of the emergency the crew will hopefully let the rescue team know if they need to deploy people into the wreck to search for survivors or not.
CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 10 months ago
But would they recover the lifeboat? I imagine ships designed for search and rescue might be able to recover the lifeboat but I don’t know if a commercial ship for example that helped out would be cable of doing that
Toes@ani.social 10 months ago
So emergency crews would arrange a boat to fetch the crew on the life boat and a helicopter to grab anyone in dire need. Depending on your proximity to land and your region. You’re looking at either the military or coast guard doing this.
If people need rescued on the sinked ship they dispatch people trained to go into it and search. They use various tools to help narrow it down.
After a few days there’s special groups that specialize in body recovery that go in looking for the dead. Assuming it’s safe, at a certain depth they are considered lost at sea and left there.
CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 10 months ago
I know about the people I’m talking about the lifeboat itself. In movies and TV they usually pick them up and you don’t see the lifeboat again. I’m wondering what happens with the lifeboat
Toes@ani.social 10 months ago
Oh sorry, I thought I covered that. The boat is as much a part of the ship as the cargo. The freight company typically recovers it along with the rest of their stuff if they choose too. Otherwise it goes to the salvage people or left abandoned.
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Those things aren’t cheap. Someone will salvage it.