Salvage Code Red

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Salvage Code Red
Written byStavros Stavrides[1]
Directed bySydney Suissa[2]
Creative directorStavros Stavrides[1]
Theme music composerDavid Krain[3]
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons2[4]
No. of episodes11[4]
Production
Executive producersCharles Thompson, John Vandervelde[3]
ProducerColin Campbell[2]
Camera setupguy linton[5]
Production companiesSalvage Productions, Steadfast Television[3]
Release
Original releaseNational geographic Channel UK and Discovery Channel[4][6]

Salvage Code Red is a National Geographic Channel TV series that charts the work of rival groups of marine salvage experts.

Background[]

Emergency marine salvage is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. There are over 500 serious ship wreck incidents reported annually - from explosions and fires on oil tankers, to ships wrecked by storms, to head-on collisions between ships. Of these around 250-300 result in major salvage operations every year.

The Show[]

The show highlights the work of two marine salvage companies, Smit and Titan.

The Salvors[]

Smit, which is one of the salvage companies featured in National Geographic’s ‘Salvage Code Red,’ is one of the oldest salvage rescue companies in the world, with more than 165 years of service in the maritime sector. Over the years it has worked all over the globe on many sizes of vessels. But while the company may be best known for its part in salvaging the MS Riverdance ferry in Blackpool in 2008, featured in an upcoming episode of Salvage Code Red, Smit also responds to smaller, but no less dangerous and technically complicated, salvage operations every month.

Titan, along with Rotterdam-based Smit, which also features in Salvage Code Red, is today one of the biggest marine salvage companies in the world, but started out back in the 1980s as a one-tug towing firm. It was only after working on a successful salvage operation in the Caribbean in 1982 that the company quickly expanded to take on additional barges, tugs and cranes and focus on marine salvage operations. Today, Titan is the US Coast Guard’s main salvage contractor in Mississippi and much of the Gulf of Mexico and in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, successfully re-floated no less than 65 vessels.

References[]

  1. ^ a b "The Antarctica Challenge Website" Archived November 29, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ a b "Colin Campbell's page on PBS Showfolio"
  3. ^ a b c Page on the program
  4. ^ a b c "Nate Geo UK Website about the program
  5. ^ "Guy Linton's Page Archived 2012-03-01 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "Discovery Channel website on the serial"

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