The Cellar - January 20, 2012: Italian Cruise Ship

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Pretty creepy.. It's amazing a whole lot more people didn't cash it in.

The captain of the Costa Concordia started his new job today.
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The Costa Concordia is stuck on rocks. The only reason why it has not slipped into a 200 foot undersea canyon. A major rescue operation has been ongoing for almost two years. This should be months or less from righting and floating the Concordia from its crash site.

The ship must be righted and raised from existing rocks without sliding sideways into deeper water. Otherwise the wreck can become an ecological disaster to a sensitive and protected reserve.

This engineering feat is so significant that is should be reported live.

Who is the insurance agent who sold them the policy?

He's dead. He was lost overboard on a subsequent cruise.

I should begin in hours (on Monday).

Washington Post
9/15/13

Shipwrecked Concordia wrested off Italian reef yet operation slowed by delays and cable glitch

Quote:

GIGLIO ISLAND, Italy — Using a vast system of steel cables and pulleys,
maritime engineers on Monday gingerly winched the massive hull of the Costa Concordia
off the reef where the cruise ship capsized near an Italian island in January 2012.
But progress in pulling the heavily listing luxury liner to an upright position
was going much slower than expected. Delays meant the delicate operation
— originally scheduled from dawn to dusk Monday —
was not expected to be completed before Tuesday morning.<snip>

Engineers used remote controls to guide a synchronized system of pulleys,
counterweights and huge chains that were looped under the Concordia’s carcass
to delicately nudge the ship free from its rocky seabed. A few hours into the operation,
four of those cables became slack and threatened to become entangled with other cables,
forcing the winching to halt for an hour while workers fixed the problem,
Costa engineer Franco Porcellacchia said.

Later in the rotation process, a series of tanks on the exposed side
of the hull will be filled with water to help pull it down.
That phase should rotate the ship faster than the winching, Porcellacchia said.

As the hull is moved upright, it will come to rest on an underwater platform:

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(...They hope...)

Yes. Here is the ship NEW and NOW

Looks like some of the 'new' rubbed off.