Posted on 10/19/2014 11:50:55 AM PDT by artichokegrower
After 57 years of maritime service and another 15 years as something of a San Francisco eyesore, the historic, 4,200-ton Drydock 1 was hoisted onto the deck of a cargo ship bound for a ship recycler in China.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Efforts to secure the body failed and it floated away. As the operation to transfer the dry dock to the Tern continued, teams on San Francisco Police boats searched for the remains in the water off the Port of San Francisco.
Officials speculated that the body might be that of a missing kayaker who capsized in a tugboat’s wake off Pier 80 in 2011. His body was never recovered. Dive teams had searched the dry dock for remains, but had found nothing.
A Halloween season aspect to the story. Haunted drydock.
(To support Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, and ??? else who will now sell and buy the pier space? )
From the original story:
The project to ship the dry dock to China was subsidized by the Department of Defense and cost $6.8 million — $1.5 million less than original estimates, Dunham said.
“We’re finally, in a responsible way, getting rid of our own mothball fleet,” Dunham said. “We’re happy to have found a final resting place for this dry dock.”
"WE" are acting a responsible way? By having the rest of the country pay to ship steel to China because YOU refuse to allow it to be recycled here?
I agree completely.
America is sleeping, about what we are creating, in China.
America start to build up again.
Here. In America.
Yeah, it's crazy to ship it to China. Ironic because a few miles south there used to be half a dozen iron and steel plants in South San Francisco that could have recycled the scrap but are all gone now. America has throttled down our steel industry while Asia throttled up. Japan, then Korea and now China.
Still more taxpayer money will go into the cleanup around that dry dock, contaminated by radioactive waste and other icky stuff. The City of SF ran into that at Treasure Island, where radioactive waste was handled from atomic bomb testing in the Pacific. Now there is low-income housing on that radioactive waste. Soon the same to happen around that dry dock location at Pier 40. I've driven through the Naval shipyard there in the 1960s (my dad was active military) and it was impressive to see all the activity - now long gone.
How is it possible to move a stationary Dry Dock from SF to China??? Must take a lot of digging and a super vessel to move it, if such vessel exist!!!
In my lifetime I probably probably have been in DRY-docks & Floating DRY-docks at least 25+ times!!!
But certainly never seen a DRY dock being moved???
NO,,,,, my problem is with this headlines:”Aging S.F. dry dock will be China-bound”. With NO hyphen like in my own last name.
No surprise that media always rape issues they have no knowledge of!!!
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