Foreign technicians and divers arrived at the port of Kollam to help in establishing and extraction of oil and other dangerous materials from MSC Elsa 3. Photo: Special arrangement
More than two and a half months after the liberal Liberian container ship Elsa on the coast of Keraly, foreign technicians and divers arrived at the port of Kollam to help in setting up and extraction of oil and other hazardous materials from the ship. Immigration officials sent in Kollam issued cards to technicians who were transported to a place from Kollam port using Offshore support vessels.
Oil harvesters from the ship were again seen on Monday (August 4, 2025), although it was not clear whether the underwater divers began to work from the ship. According to state government officials, the Coast Guard team, who was guarding in this area, saw oil angles. With improved weather conditions over the Arab sea, foreign technicians and divers were pressed to extract oil from a sunken ship.
There were about 640 containers on board when the ship was rolled on the way from Vishinjam to Kochi 24 May. Among the containers, 13 were classified as dangerous and 12 contained calcium carbide. The ship also had 84.44 tons of diesel and 367.1 tonnes of oven, which increased serious environmental concerns.
Now the Kollam port was selected as a logistics center for diving operation because of its proximity, with sufficient pull (7 meters). Kollam is also an ideal place for project coordination and offers efficient turnover times (approximately 4.5 hours on the web) and administrative lightness compared to Kochi because the ship was sunk between Alappuzha and Kollam. The mobilization of the South Nova vessel also meant a critical transition to the next operational phase, which focuses on the extraction of the deep sea fuel from the sunken ship by diving of saturation.
At the beginning of June, the oil neatly from a ship measuring approximately 9.3 km long in the sea with a visible silver/metal reflection was seen by Greenpeace South Asia, although Salvous required a successful limitation of oil leakage. It is estimated that the entire revival of the ship will take approximately four weeks, subject to weather conditions.
The sinking of MSC Elsa 3 24. May 14.6 Miles from the coast of Kochi caused significant environmental concerns, while oil and chemical leaks represented a serious threat to the sea ecosystems along Keraral and Tamil Nadu coast and the government of Kerala was declared a “state disaster”.
Published – August 2025 08:23 IS
