{"id":38994,"date":"2014-06-17T04:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T18:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=38994"},"modified":"2014-06-17T04:00:03","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T18:00:03","slug":"guam-salvage-operation-grounded-ship-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/guam-salvage-operation-grounded-ship-completed\/","title":{"rendered":"Guam salvage operation on grounded ship is completed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>APRA HARBOR, Guam<\/strong>\u2014Salvage operations and cleanup efforts of Daiki Maru 7 have successfully concluded with a final meeting of the unified command on Naval Base Guam on May 23.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Japanese commercial fishing vessel ran aground in outer Apra Harbor Feb. 13, the Navy and its partners have conducted recovery and salvage operations with focus on the protection of the environment.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_38996\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38996\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Salvage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38996\" alt=\"Leaders from the unified command, which is tasked to implement, execute and manage salvage operations for the Daiki Maru 7, pose for a photo following a meeting declaring the operation has been successfully completed May 23. Since Feb. 13, the Navy and it partners have collectively performed recovery and salvage operations of the grounded Japanese vessel while mitigating environmental damage to outer Apra Harbor. (U.S. Navy\/Timothy Wilson)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Salvage-300x143.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leaders from the unified command, which is tasked to implement, execute and manage salvage operations for the Daiki Maru 7, pose for a photo following a meeting declaring the operation has been successfully completed May 23. Since Feb. 13, the Navy and it partners have collectively performed recovery and salvage operations of the grounded Japanese vessel while mitigating environmental damage to outer Apra Harbor. (U.S. Navy\/Timothy Wilson)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis operation was an amazing success,\u201d said Capt. Mike Ward, U.S. Naval Base Guam commanding officer. \u201cThe response occurred in an environmentally safe manner and it is a great testament to the teamwork involved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ward said lessons learned during the recovery and salvage operations will be reviewed to enable the Navy to improve response efforts for possible future events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen incidents like this occur, we always learn from them and the unified command reacted very quickly and collaboratively,\u201d Ward said.<\/p>\n<p>The unified command consists of representatives from Naval Base Guam, U.S. Coast Guard Sector Guam and the responsible party. Other agencies that have been involved in all aspects of planning from the standup include Joint Region Marianas operations department, Naval Facilities Engineering Command Marianas environmental personnel, NOAA, Guam Fish and Wildlife Service, Guam Environmental Protection Agency, Mammoet Salvage and Osroco. <em><strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APRA HARBOR, Guam\u2014Salvage operations and cleanup efforts of Daiki Maru 7 have successfully concluded with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":38996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[883,51,627,223],"class_list":["post-38994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-daiki-maru","tag-guam","tag-noaa","tag-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}