Costa Concordia Salvage Operation

[BP]

The insurance company will sell it for scrap but that won't stop the Chinese or Russians from buying it and rebuilding. Assuming the watertight doors were closed before it went down the engines might be okay still. At least a couple of them should be fine.

[Craizie]

The insurance company will sell it for scrap but that won't stop the Chinese or Russians from buying it and rebuilding. Assuming the watertight doors were closed before it went down the engines might be okay still. At least a couple of them should be fine.

I read another article that said the hull was massively deformed.

I guess they might be able to repair it, but I'm not sure it would be cheaper than a new one.

[Binky]

[silverranger]

^^^ haha

[tkblkcobra]

They never found two people.

[Sean88gt]

Did they balance it on the floor, or is it floating?


Needs hydraulic outriggers.

[8mpg]

Did they balance it on the floor, or is it floating?


Needs hydraulic outriggers.

Should be floating. THere are giant ballast tanks welded to the side that were filled with water and now should be air to float the ship

[jason07]

Did they balance it on the floor, or is it floating?


Needs hydraulic outriggers.

Its sitting on temporary "plates" on the bottom of the sea floor. They will be installing identical sponons on the starboard side of the ship in order to make the ship float and tow it away.

[jason07]

It'll be back in operation in a year. Kind of reminds me of a roller coaster ride that came in and a seat was covered in puke. The staff paper toweled the area and then sent it on its way without any people in it, came back in and they loaded it up as if no one would know they were sitting in a seat that was covered in throw up just a few minutes earlier.

Please.....tell me how that's physically or financially possible??

[Rreemo]

Please.....tell me how that's physically or financially possible??

It's not...they've been saying their plans are just to get it stable enough to be towed out away from the island so that it can be scrapped for salvage.

[jason07]

It's not...they've been saying their plans are just to get it stable enough to be towed out away from the island so that it can be scrapped for salvage.

I know, I just wanted to show the OP the pics of what it looks like.

[Big A]

That'll buff out, no problem.

[Sean88gt]

That is tremendously impressive.

[ram57ta]

Its 2013. Please explain to me why I would want to board an overcrowded boat with small rooms and overpriced drinks to go float around in the ocean with 3000 other people who are crammed into the same small sardine can with me when I can do so many other things with the same amount of money and wont have to drown, get some strange illness from being crammed into the thing, and can see three or four times the number of places in the same amount of time?

[SS Junk]

Its 2013. Please explain to me why I would want to board an overcrowded boat with small rooms and overpriced drinks to go float around in the ocean with 3000 other people who are crammed into the same small sardine can with me when I can do so many other things with the same amount of money and wont have to drown, get some strange illness from being crammed into the thing, and can see three or four times the number of places in the same amount of time?

Nope. Pass. Cruise ships are nothing but floating sewer containers chock full of petri dish filth.