Working around the clock for days, he and the half dozen other people on board the FSO Safer fashioned makeshift iron strips to patch a burst pipe, before divers arrived to install a permanent steel plate to keep seawater from sinking the ship.
Anxiety about the 47-year-old Safer – which has been woefully neglected during Yemen’s ongoing war – eased with the successful transfer recently of its oil to a replacement ship, the Nautica. “Anxiety accompanied us all the time as a result of the worn-down condition of the ship,” said Nasser, an engineer with short greying hair and a dark moustache.
After more than eight years without maintenance, there was no disputing the ship was in awful condition, with rust and fast-spreading fungus streaking its red-and-grey hull, whose thickness had worn away by four millimetres in places. Fixing leaks below deck was fraught given the intense heat and vapours coming off the crude, which can raise the possibility of igniting a blast from something as small as the flick of a cigarette.“They worked through all these flammable gases, worked inside the oil, almost swimming in the oil, so it was very tough.”
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