The Transocean Winner drilling rig was stranded on the beach of Dalmore, on Lewis
The salvage master who successfully refloated a grounded 17,600 tonne oil rig off rocks in the Western Isles was also involved with the operation to move the doomed Italian liner the Costa Concordia.
Sylvia Tervoort, a salvage operations manager with Dutch company, SMIT, will hold a talk to explain to islanders how she used a combination of pressurised air and water ballasting in different tanks to prise the Transocean Winner off the shore at Dalmore on the west coast of Lewis.
The operation was complicated as the salvage team were in the dark over the scale of damage to 25 tanks which ruptured when the rig broke its towline and blew ashore in a summer storm on 8 August.
