Photographs: Sahil Salvi
Efforts to salvage ship stranded near Mumbai fails
Photographs: Sahil Salvi
Efforts to salvage ship stranded near Mumbai fails
Photographs: Sahil Salvi
He refuted media reports that the rope had snapped causing the salvage operators to abandon the mission.
"Such an exercise (of connecting the stranded ship to the tow vessel) can be undertaken just once a day and that too during high tide. We will try to resume efforts to pull the ship back into the sea on Saturday," he said.
Efforts to salvage ship stranded near Mumbai fails
Photographs: Sahil Salvi
Steps to salvage the ship, which ran aground at Juhu beach on June 11, began on Thursday with Indian Navy helicopters joining in the rescue operations.
The ship was being tugged to the Alang ship breaking yard in Gujarat from Colombo when the cable to its tow boat snapped, causing the vessel to go adrift.
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