Marine salvage in Dubai and surrounding waters is a speciality of Dexter Offshore. Our experts have the required knowledge and skills to raise sunken ships, recover cargo, and more, and our reputation of being a trustworthy and skilled partner has been hard-earned.
If you require marine salvage of any type, please don’t hesitate to get in touch and speak with a member of our team today.
Dexter Offshore has been built on a platform of excellence, excelling in marine salvage and other emergency response services. Our highly skilled team members are backed by modern crafts and machinery, ensuring we can complete almost any boat salvage operation we’re assigned.
Our list of clients is long and distinguished and includes names such as ADNIC, Aqualis Braemar LOC, Al Dhafra Insurance and Ship Owners’ P&I. Alongside our marine recovery services, clients also use us for jobs such as ocean towage, lay-up management, and more. In short, we offer a complete range of services for an international range of companies engaged in maritime operations.
We’ll continue to work hard to ensure we keep offering the most effective maritime salvage service in the Middle East and aim to significantly increase our presence in the area as our reputation grows.
We offer a broad range of marine salvage services, ensuring we can facilitate the salvaging of most boats and cargo. Regardless of the marine salvage service you require, you can be sure we’ll work quickly and diligently to complete the process in the fastest time possible, while always ensuring the process is completely safe.
We provide international salvage services to vessel owners and other parties, including insurance companies, always ensuring we remain in compliance with maritime salvage law. Please contact us to find out how we can help you.
When most think about maritime salvage, they’re thinking about raising shipwrecks from the ocean floor. While this task is generally a lower priority for clients – unless, of course, the shipwreck is causing a dangerous obstruction or causing damage to the coastal environment – it’s a service we regularly offer. This allows owners to recover parts of their vessels, along with some cargo, plus it makes identifying the reason for sinking that much simpler.
Before attempting the recovery of a sunken vessel, we will of course carry out significant planning, to ensure the operation is as effective, safe, and cost-efficient as possible. Through proper planning, we also ensure your vessel is raised in the shortest time possible.
There are several ways to raise sunken ships from the seabed, but the most common method uses flotation devices to bring the shipwreck to the surface. The client can then decide what to do with the wreck: they can either recover it for further examination, or the boat can be taken to deeper waters and scuttled, providing it’s safe to do so.
Unfortunately, cargo is regularly lost from vessels. Cargo needing to be recovered usually comes in the form of shipping containers, but we can also salvage other items if required, including heavy machinery and other pieces of potentially expensive equipment.
We are also highly competent in the recovery of hazardous cargo, which poses an immediate threat to the marine environment. Speed is often vital in this type of recovery operation, and we have a robust system already in place to recover potentially hazardous cargo. This allows us to recover cargo before harmful substances are released into the ocean.
Clients also often contact us to salvage vessel components that have survived intact, which can include engines and turbines. This is generally completed by deconstructing or destroying the hull around the equipment, before then utilising specialist salvage equipment to bring the component to the surface. We can then safely deliver the component back to the owner.
Every year, many vessels become grounded or stranded. Getting them back afloat is an often-complex process that requires significant planning and expertise, as well as specialist machinery. It is generally the case that a grounded boat is suitable to be refloated, and if this is the case, we can offer ocean towage services to the desired port.
It’s also sometimes the case that repairs need to be made before a stranded or grounded boat can be salvaged. We’re able to carry out tasks such as rebalancing ballast tanks, hull welding, and bracing if there’s a requirement for it.
Our team of maritime salvage experts will be able to speak at length with you before beginning the process of salvaging the vessel, to best plan the entire process.
Sometimes a boat requiring salvaging is ablaze. If this is the case, the priority is clearly to put out the fire before the salvage process can be assessed and carried out. We have several types of tugboats, including tugboats with firefighting capabilities, allowing us to deal with fires in a timely and efficient manner.
Once the fire has been extinguished, we can work with you to decide whether the boat or any components are salvageable, or whether the vessel instead needs to be scuttled in deeper water. We can facilitate both options.
The final major service we offer relating to marine salvage is emergency towing. There are many reasons why a vessel might get into difficulties and require emergency towing. We can be on the scene quickly with all required equipment needed to provide emergency towing to ships of all shapes and sizes.
Before commencing with emergency towing, we will ensure that the entire vessel is ready, looking at factors such as seaworthiness, stability, and more, as well as the conditions in which the tow will be carried out. Only once we are satisfied that towing is necessary, feasible, and safe will we commence with boat salvage operations.
At Dexter Offshore, we boast a large range of experts in marine salvage, plus we have contacts throughout the industry. This ensures we can plan and execute maritime salvage operations legally, safely, and effectively. What’s more, we constantly ensure our team members are up to date with training, to ensure they remain the best and most educated in the marine salvage industry.
Some of the highly skilled team members we have at Dexter Offshore include salvage engineers, logistics managers, shore coordinators, riggers, and more. We also work with outside experts on a freelance basis – individuals who have earned the title of salvage master due to their experience and expertise in the industry.
Dexter Offshore is an all-purpose salvage company. We have worked with several international salvage companies to retrieve many sunken or stranded vessels, as well as significant amounts of lost cargo and expensive equipment.
But we don’t only work on the large projects: we’re also committed to offering a local service, tackling smaller projects within Dubai’s waters. This commitment to marine salvage of all types sets us apart from the competition, who often choose to only work on the higher-profile, lucrative marine salvage operations.
Without our assistance, many vessels would still be underwater or stranded, often posing a danger to other boats, as well as the coastal environment.
Whether you need marine salvage services now or simply want to put contingency plans in place, we’d love to hear from you. You can contact a team member by calling +971 04 430 8455 or by sending us an email via our contact form.
If you’re interested in learning about other aspects of our industry, please take a look through some of our blog posts, such as those on what dredgers are used for and the types of barges you could find on the seas around Dubai.
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Tel: +971 04 430 8455