Around 3: 00 a.m. on 27th November, 2017, two bulk carriers collided in the Lingding Waterway of the Pearl River Estuary, one was the bulk carrier “Shun Jin Long” from Pingtan, Fujian, carrying 5,038 tons of steel, and another one was the bulk carrier “Jin Ze” from Nanjing, Jiangsu, carrying 5,000 tons of yellow sand. In this accident, the bulk carrier “Jin Ze” sunk and twelve crew members disappeared.
As soon as receiving the accident report, Guangzhou Salvage had immediately dispatched a rescue and salvage team, which constituted with a total of 62 people, including the emergency rescue and salvage expert Mr. Dai Changgen as chief commander. At the meantime, a fleet of rescue and salvage vessels including “Nan Tian Long”, “De Shun”, “De Sui”, “Nan Tian Zhu” and “De Xin” had been sent to the site for the rescue and salvage operation. With effort of the whole team, seven crew members had been successfully rescued till the afternoon of 28th November.
On 12th December, after 15 days of hard work, the rescue and salvage team of Guangzhou Salvage had successfully cleared away the bulk carried “Jin Ze” from the Lingding Waterway in the Pearl River Estuary, resumed the navigation to Guangzhou Port which had been closed for 15 days.
In this operation, Guangzhou Salvage had put the underwater mud penetrator into use for the first time, which greatly accelerated the salvage progress and achieved a new breakthrough in the underwater wreckage salvage technology.