The raising of the Costa Concordia...

I couldn't get that live feed to load, but the one on this page is working.

Current reports are that the ship is now free of the rocks.

 

I heard this is the same process to lift a ship from the floor of Pearl Harbor

 

I watched a documentary that talked with the engineeers about how they engineered and designed the equipment needed to raise the vessel. Really amazing!

 

Picture taken 5 hours ago from BBC that is proof it has moved.

 

Hurray !!!!

 

One of the articles mentions the steel chambers welded on one side that were filled with sea water to help tip it over. The plan is to add another pair on the damaged side and use them to 'float' the wreck to a salvage yard sometime next year.

Bob Wilson

 

Yes - the scale of the challenge is enormous. However - in maritime industry one of many big pieces of steel rolled-over back and forth nearly every day Am just being curious of the extremely high costs of entire operation. The shipowner, the insurance companies, the government... Since the estimated cost exceeds the value of the wreckage?

 

The juice is worth the squeeze in this case if for no other reason than to quell the squealing from the environmental weenies....besides, I've worked on a ship that's been only partially flooded for a few days.
You couldn't PAY me enough to go knocking around in a cruise ship that's been half submerged for 20 months!!!
It costs 800 mil because it's WORTH it.

I suspect that the salvage costs will be partially offset by selling the contents of the ship. No....not the food and sewage, but the other stuff. There's going to be a non-trivial amount of goodies in there, and not just the cash and jewelry.
The Andrea Doria---another Italian cruise liner that sank due to cockpit error btw.... sank in 1956 and since then has claimed at least 16 divers trying to get souvenirs to sell.


Besides....we'll be able to do it again when (not if) we have to.

Win-Win.

 

You're probably right, the business is everywhere. Wondering which stuff is still worth more than scrap price. Machinery, cabin equipment, galley's stuff (probably in best condition - stainless steel , navigational and electronics (forget), life saving, fire fighting - yees - I can imagine a lot of. It reminds me of the shops with ship's stuff being removed from hundreds of ships surrounding the area of the scrapyard beach in Bangladesh. Hectares of storage fields packed with thousands of items. Made some shots in 1999

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...and here is a nice timelapse of this great engineering operation:
Reuters TV | TIMELAPSE: The raising of the Costa Concordia

 

I hope Discovery, Science, or Nat Geo do a show on the lift. I saw a note indicating the ship was to be stripped and turned into an artificial reef! Well at least the fish get to enjoy it! Divers too!

 

Sure they will do.

AFAIK it'll go for scrapyard once the weather permits. Besides - I think it's too big and too complex as an artificial reef. Imagine the scuba diver inside - how easy to get lost in numerous decks and hundreds of separate compartments.

 

Time to gut away, what a tragic cruise!

 

The local economy depends on sea tourism that will not recover unless the ship is safely and cleanly removed. There just are not enough tourists like you who go to oil spill sites to have a vacation.

Oh, wait. You do not either, you just have a big mouth.

 

That's another reason for which anybody won't convert the wreckage to amusement park (I hope).

 

looks like she's ready to go, cost: over 2 billion dollars!