Captain Nick Sloan
Freelance salvage-master extraordinaire
DATE: Thursday 23 October 2014
TIME: 07h00 for 07h30
VENUE: Country Club Johannesburg, Woodmead (
see map here)
COST: R3500 plus VAT for a table of 10 for yor company and guests or R350 plus VAT per person
For every table of 10 booked, one FREE pull-up banner can be placed in the breakfast venue.The
ADEC Business Breakfast Briefing enables you to network with friends, colleagues and business associates in a cordial environment, and is an ideal opportunity to entertain professional guests, customers and staff at minimal cost.
The
ADEC Executive Breakfast Briefing is sponsored and supported by
EE Publishers' magazine, EngineerIT, and
DataWeek.SYNOPSIS AND RESUME OF CAPTAIN NICK SLOAN(Extracted from an the article: "Nick Sloane: SA's master at sea", City Press, 11 May 2014) About 130 m from the idyllic Italian coastline of Isola del Giglio lies the 115000 ton rotting carcass of the Costa Concordia, three football fields long and twice the size of the Titanic.
The now not-so-luxurious cruise liner ran aground in January 2012, killing 32 people. Two bodies were never found, turning the ship into a veritable graveyard and ruling out any possibility of a standard salvage tactic - to blow it up.
The only alternative was to roll it upright in a dramatic, costly and risky procedure known as parbuckling. The possibility of failure was enormous.
There was every chance the 290m-long ship would buckle and break apart under its own weight, contaminating the water; the support platforms built on the sea floor might slip away; and torrential rainstorms, high winds and rough seas could sabotage operations.
Enter
Nick Sloane (52), the freelance salvage master hired by the US-Italian team of Titan Salvage and Micoperi. Sloane's impressive resume of catastrophes involved vessels on fire, crippled cargo ships and leaking oil freighters.
In an extraordinary feat of engineering, the operation, involving 500 salvage workers including divers, welders and engineers operating 24-hours a day at a staggering cost of R8,4-billion, was an unmitigated success. How this was done would be of interest to any technically minded person, and Nick will be presenting a 50 minute graphical presentation on the operation at the ADEC Business Breakfast Briefiuing.
Sloane received a hero's welcome back on the island, was lauded by international media as a marine engineer rock star, and described by a CNN journalist as "a cross between Prince Harry and Russell Crowe".
With a master mariner certificate that allows him to sail any ship of any size anywhere in the world, Sloane was the de facto captain when the Costa Concordia embarked on its final voyage for dismantling.
RSVP AND BOOKINGSTo facilitate seating and catering, please RSVP by email to the
ADEC Secretary, Jenny Gooding, Email:
adec@icon.co.za indicating the number of seats you would like to book, company name, contact details and contact person.
For any further queries or information, please contact Jenny Gooding on Tel: 011 462 3256, Cell: 082 899 4143 or Email:
adec@icon.co.za
