Shipwreck in C China's Wuhan lifted out of Yangtze River for navigation safety

STORY: Shipwreck in C China's Wuhan lifted out of Yangtze River for navigation safety DATELINE: Oct. 26, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:16 LOCATION: WUHAN, China CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of a salvage team lifting a shipwreck from the middle reaches of the Yangtze River 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): HE LE, Deputy director of Wuhan Water Emergency Rescue Base STORYLINE: A salvage team from the Yangtze River waterway administration managed to lift a shipwreck from the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in Wuhan on Tuesday. According to the administration, this was the first salvage operation that's part of a project aimed to clear out the passage in the main stream of the Yangtze River. The submerged ship, named Erhang 9566, sank to the bottom of the river 4 years ago. Its large-sized wreck with residual fuel oil had negatively affected local ecological environment and navigation safety. In early September, the salvage team dispatched a 1,000-tonne crane ship and other vessels and equipment to the site. The