I have been reading about Subsea resources, and I will be keeping an eye on the stock, as their first salvage operation is imminent, and it will be interesting to see what level of sucess they can achieve, measured against their expectations.



SubSea Resources has been formed to salvage cargoes from cargo ships that have been lost in deep water. Only a handful of wrecks have been salvaged in water depths exceeding 1000 metres, whereas hundreds have been worked on in depths down to 300 metres. The barrier to deeper work has been a lack of technology, which is now available mainly due to developments in the offshore oil and gas industry.

Sonar scan of wreck

SubSea Resources has identified at least 70 commercial salvage targets and has identified twenty major target vessels containing cargoes with a gross value of over $450 million (based on recent LME metal prices and contemporary lading records). In the first phase of the companys business plan it aims to raise the cargoes from six of these vessels over the next three years.


In addition, it is anticipated that certain historic cargoes may be integrated with the commercial salvage operations. Some of the historic targets have potential values of many millions of dollars each, bringing the combined value of identified historic and commercial targets to well over $1 billion.




Initial Salvage Targets

SubSea Resources has an initial programme to salvage the cargos of six commercial wrecks in the period to 31 March 2008. The gross value of these six wrecks is estimated at US$180 million.

The wrecks allow for a mix of weather conditions - allowing for both northern summer and winter working conditions. All wrecks are in international waters and all of the cargoes will be recovered through contracts with the legal owners. The water depths range from below 1500 meters to 5000+ meters.




Corporate website : http://www.subsearesources.com/index.php

SUB have started their first recovery apparently.

news could be released anytime, and the price drop yesterday when the whole market tanked gives a decent buy point IMO.

A very interesting share this and a steady gain over the last few weeks.
Also a nice little comment in Shares Magazine yesterday "the shares should start to
jump with a spate of salvage plans on the horizon". Keep a look out on this as the
first 4500 tons of copper is coming up to the surface as I type. Well thats the haul
they hope to get anyway!

archies,

Absolutely, SUB are on the cusp IMO.

Good news again from our undersea miner, now lifting 40 tons of copper per day and hopes to get to 400 tons per day very soon.
Copper assayed at 99.9% pure.
Their salvaging method works well, and they say that future wreck site mining will not be a problem..
Great stuff.
Cheers.

porky,

Good news indeed!

Lovely salvaged bars of cooper - fresh from Davey Jones locker!

"

In today's Daily Telegraph!

SOURCE

Ocean depths yield fortune for Subsea
By Melanie Feisst
(Filed: 02/09/2006)

Salvage operator Subsea Resources has now proved it is no mere "treasure hunter", its chief executive has insisted, after it laid its hands on part of a hoard of 5,500 tonnes of high-quality copper lying on the sea bed.
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Mark Gleave said Subsea, which floated on Aim in a wave of publicity in October 2004, said the company had raised a 12-tonne sample of copper from its first major salvage operation, dubbed Celia.

The company targeted the wreck of Francois Vieljeux, a "very ordinary cargo ship" sunk in a severe storm off the north west coast of Spain in the 1970s.

In its holds, now lying 1,000m below the surface, is copper wire, bars and cathodes worth around $30m (15.7m).

First tests from the sample showed that the copper is 99.9pc pure, Subsea said.

It expects to agree to sell it on to the copper market once 500 tonnes has been recovered.

The company aims to retrieve 80pc of the Celia cargo from the seabed using a giant mechanical grab before the end of September.

It will keep 90pc of the money raised from selling the copper, while the remainder will go to the ship's insurer, Lloyd's of London.

Mr Gleave said: "There were many people, serious investment people, who even quite recently considered the whole thing was a joke. It's not.

"It's a reality that you can take a large vessel and equip it with the right gear and personnel, applying years of engineering knowledge, to recover cargo from great depths."

A pity Melanie could`nt get the share price right.
up .25 to 15.75 I think she got the 15 round the wrong way....
So much for financial journalists.
Cheers.

From the Independent newspaper.
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Copper treasure haul for salvage specialist SubSea
By Michael Jivkov
Published: 02 September 2006

The salvage expert SubSea Resources has begun recovering copper from its first project, a wreck at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of northern Spain.

The AIM-listed group said "Project Celia" had begun removing copper from the Franis Vieljeux, a ship which sunk in a storm in 1979 while on its way from Tanzania to ports in northern Europe. Its cargo included 5,500 tonnes of copper and 700 tonnes of zinc. SubSea expects to be able to recover about 80 per cent of this total, which analysts estimate is worth about 17.3m.

Mark Gleave, the group's managing director, said: "The fact that the method we have developed is now proven to work is fantastic for SubSea going forwards. With proven technology and ability in place, the company is confident the recovery procedure can be repeated".

SubSea shares fell 1p to 41p yesterday, valuing the group at 45m, as investors locked in profits from the stock's recent strong rise.

The shipwrecks SubSea targets are usually owned by the financial companies that had insured them. The group either buys the rights to the booty on board or cuts a deal with the insurer for a percentage of the sale value.

Over the past 20 years, it has built a database of more than 12,000 wrecks. Prime targets are identified according to cargo and ease of salvage operation.
After the area of the wreck is surveyed and the ship located, the recovery is undertaken by the Geomaster, a 117-metre vessel capable of holding its position over the target area even in force seven winds. A remotely operated grab is then used to recover the cargo from within the shipwreck. The Geomaster can haul a maximum of 400 tonnes a day in optimum conditions.

SubSea's technology enables it to go after wrecks lying up to 6,000 metres below the sea surface, which is far deeper than the traditional cut-off point.

Project Celia is scheduled to be completed by the end of the month. The group's focus will then shift to Project Ella, a mail ship with an estimated 20,000 ounces of gold on board worth 5m. In the new year, SubSea plans to move into projects Vanilla and Miranda.

Vanilla has an estimated cargo of 9,500 tonnes of copper, while Miranda 4,500 tonnes of nickel.

Analysts have suggested the group's pipeline of projects could be worth more than 90m.

Got to say I am very interested here, however I will see if the sp drops a tad Monday, if not I will probably buy anyway as it seems a fun stock to hold.

Well done Andy, I see you have been in a while, you are darn good at finding this sort of thing.

Are you still in Sterling or have you reduced orr moved on?

SWW,

Thanks, I agree, SUB look an interesting stock to hold, lowish market cap, plenty of potential, and the excitement of finding buried treasure!

Still in SEY, not one share sold.

Subsea Resources FY pretax loss widens to 3.1 mln stg vs 239,644 stg
AFX


LONDON (AFX) - SubSea Resources PLC, which recovers high value non-ferrous metals and other valuable cargoes from deep water ship-wrecks, said its full-year losses widened on administrative and operating expenses incurred in preparing for offshore operations.

'My comments on the group's expected performance in the period after 31 March 2005 anticipated that the group would by now have reached profitability. This has not proved to be the case due to the difficulty in finding a suitable recovery vessel,' said non-executive chairman Christopher Rowe.

Pretax losses for the year to end March widened to 3.1 mln stg from 239,644 stg the previous year. Its salvage operations did not start until after the year end, so there was no turnover for the year.

Its Ella project was delayed due to refurbishment of the John Lethbridge taking longer than expected.

However, Rowe said in recent months that the company has been put in a very strong position and he is confident that his March 31 2007 chairman's report will see the company entering its next phase and producing revenue.

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i agree this is a fun stock to watch, but imo, not one to buy ...... for sure the prospect of finding the modern equivalent pieces of eight always has appeal to "boys' mentality" but take good note that the company has not delivered as promised ...... all too frequently a bad sign of things to come.

further ..... have just returned home from NL and seen very bullish article in Shares Mag stating categorically that SUB has recovered +/-5kt high grade copper from the Celia project worth 20/25m ...... this does not tally at all with yesterday's RNS and update on Celia project nor with the market's sp reaction

......and then there are storms and huge waves.

Who would have a ship?

I'll stick to the car, then there are storms and huge jams!

Hum hum.........

Fun it is, fun it will stay, I weas going to buy in below 40p, but I stioll haven't.

I'm still not stalking you cynic, but we do seem to hit a fair few of the same stock threads.

aren't i pretty enough to stalk then?

I can't answer that here, someone may be watching.

Psst! .... e-mail me a pic then

I'm shy!

So SWW and Cynic - choose between drilling for oil using 2D and 3D seismic to guess where and how much (if any!) versus diving for sunken bullion clearly registered as to location and value at Lloyds? Why do we assume SUB is a higher risk than, say, SEY? Discuss . . .

sd

no need to ...... i currently hold neither thought used to be in SEY and was tempted by the sirens at SUB