The deckhouse was cut off from a sunken cargo ship

The upper cabin of the Kaunas dry-cargo ship that sank in St. Petersburg has been cut off and towed to a "safe and convenient place," Interfax reports. This was announced on Monday night by the head of the department of inland waterways of the Ministry of Transport of Russia, the head of the operational headquarters for lifting the dry cargo ship Vladimir Krivoshey. "Kaunas" remains at the bottom, but now it has become three meters lower, and ships can carefully pass over it. It is expected that the fairway will be fully emptied on Monday closer to midnight, when all superstructures will be removed from the deck of the dry cargo ship, and the water column above it will reach 5 m.

The operation to clear the fairway began on Sunday morning. Two tugboats of the North-Western River Shipping Company approached the Foundry Bridge, where the Kaunas sank. Divers under water started and secured steel chains to the wheelhouse of the sunken ship. Divers used a chain saw to remove the felling. It had to be fixed twice - at first the saw could not cope with the reinforced hull and broke off.

After cutting off all the superstructures from the deck of Kaunas, the ship will be unloaded - it had almost 3,000 tons of sheet iron and 35 tons of fuel.