The "General Cleaning" project has been completed in the water areas of the Far East, during which 213 sunken vessels, including trawlers and tugs, were raised and disposed of.
Works were carried out in the bays of Magadan, Sakhalin, Kamchatka, Chukotka, as well as in the Khabarovsk and Primorsky Territories. Most of these ships ended up at the bottom back in the last century. Many shipowners deliberately sank their ships in order not to dispose of them.
The Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of Russia, Alexander Kozlov, stated that the "General Cleaning" project not only solves environmental problems, but also eliminates legislative gaps regarding the responsibility of owners for sunken vessels. The adopted regulations now make the deliberate sinking of ships unprofitable.
The process of raising and disposing of each vessel requires significant effort and time. The fishing vessel "Galichi", which lay at the bottom of Nagaevo Bay for several decades, required complex lifting operations. Divers found that it was pinned down by a tug, which complicated the task. The vessel was raised using water pumps and winches, and then sent for disposal.
The elimination of sunken vessels in the Far Eastern water areas will continue. In the next five years, it is planned to raise and dispose of another 103 objects as part of the federal project "General Cleaning" within the national project "Ecological Well-being".
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