Lightweight rope makes deep sea recovery

Dynex Warp rope was used over several months on the MV Seabed Worker in a salvage operation to rescue valuable cargo from a sunken ship.

A salvage operation on a shipwreck 3,200m below the surface of the South Atlantic has been successfully carried out using lightweight ropes made with Dyneema ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene fibre.

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