MV Ever Given: What's Going on in the Suez Part 4: Nick Sloane joins us thanks to gCaptain.

Associate Professor Sal Mercogliano of Campbell University (www.campbell.edu) and the CEO of gCaptain (gcaptain.com) John Konrad are joined by Master Salvor Nick Sloane of Resolve Marine (resolvemarine.com) to discuss the situation in the Suez regarding the MV Ever Given. Captain Sloane has overseen hundreds of salvage operations including the Costa Concordia, wrecked off Italy in 2012. His knowledge provides great insight into the situation facing the salvors as they attempt to free Ever Given in the Suez Canal.

Not to give anyway the ending: THIS IS BIGGER AND MORE DIFFICULT THAN MOST PEOPLE THINK OR WANT TO ADMIT.

Captain Nicholas Sloane (sloanemarine.co.za) has spent an inordinate amount of man hours studying the intrinsic challenges that Engineers and technicians face in the marine disaster industry. There are few people around the globe more qualified to evaluate the available solution based marine offerings for such extreme and costly conditions as found in the marine salvage industry.

As Vanity Fair noted in a profile of him"one of the greatest seafarers at work today is neither a naval commander nor an oldsalt merchant mariner but a certain marine salvage master with a taste for chaos and a genius for improvisation. He is a burly South African, aged 53, by the name of Captain Nick Sloane. His job is to intervene where other captains have failed, and to make the best of ships that are sinking, burning, breaking apart, or severely aground. Usually those same ships are threatening to leak bunker fuelthe sludge that powers themalong with crude oil or other toxins in quantities that could poison the environment for years to come. Sloane boards the ships with small teamsby helicopter from overhead, or by Zodiac from oceangoing tugsand once he arrives he stays aboard and fights, sometimes for weeks at a stretch."