Cargo dissolves as salvors focus on sealing fuel tanks on grounded Ultrabulk ship

Pockets of good weather have finally allowed salvage experts to gain access to the wreck of an Ultrabulk-controlled ship that grounded in South Africa during a storm last week.

The South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA) said in its latest update on the casualty published on Tuesday that the waves that battered the 13,800-dwt Ultra Galaxy (built 2008) for nearly a week as it lay on its starboard side off a beach washed away many of the hatches of its cargo holds.