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Keynvor MorLift Ltd (KML) has successfully completed the salvage of the cargo vessel MV Sea Breeze off the coast of Cornwall UK.

The casualty was anchored in St Austell Bay, supported by KML’s tug, landing craft and guard vessels

The salvage operation began on 9 March after the Sea Breeze sent a mayday call at 07:00 reporting to be sinking via a flooded engine room.

The KML salvage team responded quickly, agreeing deployment with the ship’s Ukrainian owners and proceeding rapidly from its Falmouth base. The team boarded the 87m long casualty about 10 miles off the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall, after its crew had been safely taken off the stricken vessel by the RNLI.

After boarding the abandoned vessel from KML tug Tennaherdhya, KML’s salvage engineering team connected the tow and, liaising with the UK Government’s marine casualty authority, SOSREP, slowly and gently towed the vessel towards safer refuge whilst using salvage pumps to dewater the vessel. KML’s dive partners Seawide Services applied external patches to stem the flooding, and the situation was rapidly and efficiently contained.

The casualty vessel was anchored in St Austell Bay and, supported by KML’s tug, landing craft, guard vessels, and dive teams from Seawide Services, further stabilised and dewatered without pollution or incident. A temporary exclusion zone was established around the casualty by SOSREP. Efforts to keep the Sea Breeze, which was carrying nearly 3,000 tonnes of limestone and 65 tonnes of fuel and oil, safe and to prevent any further damage continued until 19 March when the casualty was towed into Fowey Harbour for safe refuge and repair.

KML Director Diccon Rogers said: “We are proud of what we have achieved. After mobilising all the necessary vessels, equipment and personnel rapidly, we operated efficiently and managed to contain and then improve a deteriorating situation. Although the Sea Breeze was in an unfortunate position and at severe risk of total loss via sinking, with attendant oil pollution, we managed to save her. This is the best result possible given the situation the Sea Breeze was in when we found her, and the risk of oil pollution and wreckage on the Cornish Coast.”