Divers salvage more from ship?
PA Auckland The company which brought the Soviet cruise liner Mikhail Lermontov to New Zealand is believed to have retrieved equipment from the sunkeen liner with the help of divers. The Deputy Harbourmaster at Picton, Captain Gary Neill, confirmed permission was given by the Marlborough Harbour Board for an Auckland diving tender the Glindberg to enter the area of the wreck in Port Gore last month. He understood C.T.C. Cruises, Ltd, New Zealand wanted to retrieve some
of its own equipment not salvaged last year when divers were sent down by the liner’s Soviet owners, the Baltic Shipping Company. The original dive recovered the ship’s safes and cleared its bond store. Captain Neill said Harbour Board permission was granted last October after clearance was given by Soviet authorities for C.T.C. to make the dive. “I gather they retrieved most of their equipment,” he said. The Mikhail Lermontov sank on February 16 last year after hitting rocks.
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