How to rescue the world's biggest cargo ships

On the subject of ship salvage, WIRED ran a dramatic long-form article awhile back that makes for a very gripping read if you have the time, telling the story of the team that does this for a living and flies halfway around the world following a 4am phone call:

"High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the Cougar Ace"

https://www.wired.com/2008/02/the-race-to-save-the-cougar-ac...

https://archive.ph/lGHpn

No disrespect to OP, this BBC article is good as well but fewer chilling details : )

Wow, that picture down near the end of the story is something to see! "After the fire was extinguished on board the Maersk Honam, the debris was removed by diggers and eventually the entire bow section was cut off and replaced"

Not sure if this was intentional, but I liked the mid-article promotional link:

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I was onboard the USS Mount Whitney during a dry dock fire while in Croatia and even that was terrifying. I can’t imagine being at sea and having something like that happen.