Refloating Ship
Refloating Ship
Clip: 425363_1_1
Year Shot: 1967
(Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1765
Original Film: 040-081-02
HD: N/A
Location: Greenland
Timecode: 00:02:12 - 00:03:05
A sunken Danish freighter is re-floated by air-filled plastic balls that look like Ping-Pong balls. The spheres are pumped into the ship's hold until their lifting force is enough to raise her. Footage shows a salvage operation in a small, unindustrialized harbor. Distant bluffs are treeless and covered in patchy snow. A worker wades through a large pile of small Styrofoam balls with a bucket. He fills it under a jet tube that is feeding the growing pile. A close-up shows the Styrofoam being pumped through a tube. The emerging wreckage slowly breaks the water's surface. Mongolian-looking man takes still pictures from over friend's shoulder. Small skiffs surround the newly emerged ship.