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Author:  l3v1ck [ Sun Sep 15, 2013 7:41 pm ]
Post subject:  Costa Concordia to be raised tomorrow
I can't wait to see to see if it works.

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Author:  Amnesia10 [ Sun Sep 15, 2013 11:40 pm ]
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Raising ships is a straight forward procedure even if it is complex. They will seal it and then start to pump out the water and gradually it will float. I suspect that the police will be all over it once it is raised.
Author:  jonbwfc [ Mon Sep 16, 2013 10:31 am ]
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Amnesia10 wrote:
Raising ships is a straight forward procedure even if it is complex. They will seal it and then start to pump out the water and gradually it will float. I suspect that the police will be all over it once it is raised.

I don't think they've been able to do that in this case. One of the salvage operators was on the news this morning, and he said the water was adding something like 10,000 tons to the effective weight of the vessel as they are trying to right it. That suggests there's a fair amount of captive water still in the vessel.

As to the police, yeah, you'd expect so. There are still two passengers that remain unaccounted for, for one thing.
Author:  l3v1ck [ Mon Sep 16, 2013 11:06 am ]
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10,000 tons won't be too hard to diaplace with those huge tanks they're thinking of fitting to both sides.
They could always add giant airbags inside the hull to displace water out. The more they displace out, the less weight that has to be lifted.
Author:  hifidelity2 [ Mon Sep 16, 2013 12:32 pm ]
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The issue is that its still stuck on the rocks so they have to pull it off the reef 1st
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Mon Sep 16, 2013 3:21 pm ]
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l3v1ck wrote:
10,000 tons won't be too hard to diaplace with those huge tanks they're thinking of fitting to both sides.
They could always add giant airbags inside the hull to displace water out. The more they displace out, the less weight that has to be lifted.

It could be done, though you might need to patch the original hole to make pumping air in an option. Mythbusters did something similar with ping pong balls.
Author:  l3v1ck [ Mon Sep 16, 2013 4:32 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Costa Concordia to be raised tomorrow
BBC news confuses me.
It says they've successfully lifted it free of the rocks onto the platform, but the live footage show it's still at an angle, though much less than before.
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Mon Sep 16, 2013 5:15 pm ]
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l3v1ck wrote:
BBC news confuses me.
It says they've successfully lifted it free of the rocks onto the platform, but the live footage show it's still at an angle, though much less than before.

They will be rotating it slowly. They have to allow for the water to resettle and that will impact what they can do.
Author:  l3v1ck [ Mon Sep 16, 2013 5:41 pm ]
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I agree, which according to the BBC's own diagrams, means it's not on the platform yet. :roll:
Author:  HeatherKay [ Mon Sep 16, 2013 6:17 pm ]
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l3v1ck wrote:
I agree, which according to the BBC's own diagrams, means it's not on the platform yet. :roll:


Wait, what? Major news channel doesn't know its a*se from its elbow shocker! ;)
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Mon Sep 16, 2013 8:06 pm ]
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HeatherKay wrote:
l3v1ck wrote:
I agree, which according to the BBC's own diagrams, means it's not on the platform yet. :roll:


Wait, what? Major news channel doesn't know its a*se from its elbow shocker! ;)

I think most news channels do have that problem. ;)
Author:  l3v1ck [ Tue Sep 17, 2013 6:24 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Costa Concordia to be raised tomorrow
Well they've got it upright.
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That's really impressive engineering.

EDIT

Wow, there's a stand by vessel with a cloaking device in front of it. ;) :lol:
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Tue Sep 17, 2013 7:21 am ]
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Officials now plan to fully inspect the vessel and begin to prepare the next stage - the effort to repair and refloat it and eventually tow it away to be destroyed.

I wonder if once they have found the remaining bodies whether they will make it into a reef or because of the amount metal they will send it to India for scrapping?
Author:  HeatherKay [ Tue Sep 17, 2013 7:54 am ]
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More "facts" from BBC News today: the Costa Concordia, apparently, is now afloat.

:? :roll:

At least the web site tends to have some more considered reporting.
Author:  l3v1ck [ Tue Sep 17, 2013 8:16 am ]
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Amnesia10 wrote:
I wonder if once they have found the remaining bodies whether they will make it into a reef or because of the amount metal they will send it to India for scrapping?

It's planned to be scrapped.
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