A plan to blast free a grounded bulker in Mauritius has been scrapped.
Defi Media said the original salvage plan was to use explosives to shatter a basalt rock that has pierced the hull of Unit Maritime’s 44,000-dwt Benita (built 1998).
But authorities have indicated they do not favour the idea.
Salvors Five Oceans Salvage and DEMEX International had carried out a series of tests at a local basalt quarry.
They
