{"id":760875,"date":"2026-07-13T18:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/760875\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T18:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:50:13","slug":"crews-preparing-to-move-grounded-baltic-iii-out-of-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/760875\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews Preparing to Move Grounded Baltic III Out of Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/baltic-iii-cedar-cove-canadian-coast-guard-july-6-2026.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Crews Preparing to Move Grounded Baltic III Out of Water\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Baltic III pictured on July 6, 2026 (Canadian Coast Guard)<\/p>\n<p>Crews are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/canadian-coast-guard\/corporate\/live-operations.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">making significant headway <\/a>on the grounded Baltic III, with only four containers remaining on board.<\/p>\n<p>The vessel ran aground almost 18 months ago in a storm that sent the massive cargo ship into the rocks near Cedar Cove.<\/p>\n<p>So far, 468 containers have been removed from the ship, and the Canadian Coast Guard says removing the remaining ones is a \u201cpriority\u201d going forward.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/baltic-iii-cedar-cove-canadian-coast-guard-july-6-2026-2.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-303974\" class=\"size-full wp-image-303974\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/baltic-iii-cedar-cove-canadian-coast-guard-july-6-2026-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-303974\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Equipment on site in Cedar Cove assisting with removal efforts (Canadian Coast Guard)<\/p>\n<p>The salvage company is now preparing to install chains and chain pullers to move the vessel out of the water. Significant work has been done on land to clear a route for the ship, which will be taken to a scrapyard.<\/p>\n<p>Photos of the ship from earlier this week show a massive crack along the side, with a portion of the boat drooping in the water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The Baltic III pictured on July 6, 2026 (Canadian Coast Guard) Crews are making significant headway on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,325699,215206,325696,79,325698,325700,325697,325693,325694,325695],"class_list":["post-760875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-science","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}