KOOLE Contractors - Salvage of 6,000 ton drydock

The floating dry dock, 165 x 35 meter in dimension, broke loose from its mooring at the southern quay of Oresund DryDocks premises in Landskrona Sweden on the 27th of November 2011. The dock drifted in an eastern direction towards bay of Lundåkra, due to the high sea water level occurring at that day it passed over the very shallow waters and stranded approximately 3 kilometres from its original position. The floating dock then came to a stop in a sensitive Natura 2000 area. Unconventional method Because of the very shallow water depth of 0.5 meter and the protected nature area, Koole Maritiem developed an unconventional method for re-floating. With a little help from an old friend called Archimedes, thinking out-of-the-box, actually resulted into thinking inside-the-basin.