The Norwegian authorities are preparing for the operation to raise the frigate Helge Ingstad, crashed 8 November last year as a result of the collision with the tanker. Work hampered by the difficult weather conditions.
Rescuers can not take measures to raise the vessel, if waves reach a height of more than two feet or the wind speed exceeds ten meters per second. You must be at least five or six days to conduct all the work of the rescue team BOA Management and DNV GL companies. Waiting for good weather in the nearby port of two floating crane moored.
Weather in the area Heltefordena, place the ship sinking, constantly changing. Locals say, that within a few hours you can feel the rain alternately, wind, snow and sun. This can prolong the frigate to the lifting Easter, said meteorologist Roar Hansen StormGeo, who conducted the analysis of the statistics of weather in the area over the last 15 years.
Initially, the Norwegian Armed Forces report, that the operation will start in January. At this moment part of the ship and pumped fuel charged portion of the arms. Military hurry to lift his, since the longer the ship is under water, the lower the chances of it returning to the system.
The fourth of the five Norwegian frigate Fridtjof Nansen series was commissioned in 2009 year. 8 November 2018 of the year, vessel, returns after a large-scale exercises of NATO forces "United trident", wrecked during a collision with an oil tanker Sola ST. 127 crew, 8 of them were injured in the accident, They were evacuated. The ship itself has given roll, I took some water and sank.
29 November 2018 , the AIBN has published a preliminary report on the accident. According to the data, set forth herein, disaster caused a chain of successive errors of the crew of the Norwegian warship.
Observers from the bridge "Helge Ingstad" felt lights tanker "Sola" lights coastline. tanker team members repeatedly tried to avoid a collision, including trying to convince a frigate in the erroneous actions of contacting him by radio. However, the lack of professionalism of the Norwegian military has led to, that the Norwegian Navy ship began to leave his course too late, as a result of having received multiple lesions.
5 February the Norwegian government has allocated for the salvation of the frigate in 500 million NOK (it is about 3 billions 980 millions of Russian Rubles). The cost of the frigates is over 500 millions of dollars (33 billion Russian rubles).