Hello Everyone
IM a Master at Seaspan,the company that owns the survivor.This type of barge is specific to this country,this coast and work.The seaspan forester was the largest self loading self dumping log barge in the world.its now out of service due to its size,and a extensive amount of money to repair.these barges are going to be out of service including the survivor soon.last year seaspan log barge division after paying all expenses made $250,000.00 the first repair this year to a log barge used all of that.This is a piece of equipment that is specialized and expensive to operate,has periods of time during the year that don't work,due to weather.Too Much snow-cant cut trees down,too hot- cutting trees may cause fires.the seaspan survivor used to be 1 of only 2 in the world self load self dump self propelled log barges previously owned by kingcome navigation.This type of equipment like others in the world are disappearing,administration think back about something,someone you knew and wonder what happened to that ship,tug,barge or that person.These barges are going to disappear,its a part of west coast Canadian history that needs to be archived.Shipspotting is the forum for this. My 2 cents worth,for what its worth.
Paul