EMPIRE — The New Carissa has left the ocean. So has Titan Salvage, the company hired to remove the wreck from the North Spit.

Now they’re both in Empire.

Everything is over but the scrapping — almost.

On Sunday, Titan Salvage crews jacked down the salvage company’s two barges that for the past few months towered over the surf at the New Carissa wreck site.

They got a head start on the Karlissa B on Saturday, easing the barge down about halfway before the workday was done, Titan Engineering Director Phil Reed said Sunday.

Reed spent most of Sunday out on a boat in the water helping transfer lines to get the barges towed into Empire. The B came easy, he said. His crew started taking the barge down the rest of the way at 6 a.m. Sunday — the guys had to get up an hour earlier — and had the job done before 10 a.m.

Taking down the Karlissa A was a little more challenging. It turns out the New Carissa wasn’t the only hulking piece of steel to get pulled out of shape.

“They pulled so much, some of the legs had a slight slant to the south,” Reed said.

Some of the six legs took a few attempts to get around the bend and by the time the barge was in the water, the crew was stuck at low tide, waiting for high tide to lift the barge before it could be towed in.

While waiting for the Karlissa B’s other half to arrive, Titan salvors used the Karlissa B’s Big Red crane to clear off the floating scrap barge in Empire. They knocked off work at about 6:15 p.m., but the Karlissa A didn’t slide in until long after dark.

All the pieces of the Carissa will be left in Empire. Scrappers from Pacific Recycling in Eugene are cutting up the mangled pieces of metal and trucking them north. The promised propeller will be detached from the hulking 100-ton piece of steel keel it’s attached to and left in Empire for the Coos Historical & Maritime Museum to pick up, Reed said.

This morning, salvors moved around the barges, organizing, fixing things and doing routine maintenance. It was a lot different from the sometimes rocking and rolling, spray-permeated environment in the surf at the North Spit. The water was calm. The barges hardly moved.

Titan’s beach compound site on the North Spit also is being taken away piece by piece. The crew disconnected the cable car from the Karlissa A on Sunday morning and hauled out all non-essential equipment. This week, crews will work on dismantling the cable car tower and clearing out the rest of the compound.

Some of the crewmen have left and more will be shipping out in the next few days. Titan has other jobs at which divers and salvors are badly needed, officials said.

Titan will leave something behind — at least temporarily. The Karlissas will remain for work being done at Sause Bros. before they ship out again.

“They will stay here until we get the next job,” Reed said.