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Related: About this forumTime Lapse Video of the Raising of Costa Concordia:
The Salvors should be lauded - THAT was a helluva job!!!!!!
Rhiannon12866
(205,073 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)The salvors in this case really nailed it! Kudos to them!!
Rhiannon12866
(205,073 posts)And also pretty cool, actually watching it happen...
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)I think that made it a total of 19 hrs from 70 degrees to 0.
Rhiannon12866
(205,073 posts)What an operation!
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)Helluva job!!!
Rhiannon12866
(205,073 posts)And they did it so quickly! Kudos on a job well done!
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)throughout the operation. Well done, engineers and technicians! There is something so satisfying in seeing a dangerous job carried out so flawlessly.
Cooley!
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)I was VERY skeptical when the Parbuckling Project was first revealed. The project seemed, quite frankly, impossible.
The amazing thing was the last hour. I kept on doing screenshots of the live Reuters feed and comparing it to later shots and, towards the end, you could see her physically moving!
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)hour. It was already 2 a.m. here in Europe when I finally called it quits. I was falling asleep in front of my screen.
The best part happened around 4 a.m. CET.
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)The captain wants to party!
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)another_liberal
(8,821 posts)I used to love it when he would swing by my beach front property and sound the klaxon. What fun!
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)SmittynMo
(3,544 posts)what about the 2 missing people? It's been in this position for months. Did no one go in with scuba gear to find them? They could have been in an air pocket and possibly survived. Now that the ship is in an upright position, and from what I understand they are going to fill it with air to lift it up, when exactly are they going to go find the corpses?
Trajan
(19,089 posts)Are you series?
SmittynMo
(3,544 posts)So where did they go? People just don't vanish in thin air? Perhaps there is a section they didn't search? I woudl not have given up until they were found. Once this boat is a float again, lets see if they can find them.
PS. It's "serious", not series!!!
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Trajan
(19,089 posts)and get series!!!
Ok ok ... I know you're a recent addition here ...
These are a set of recent sayings, malapropisms, from our right wing friends at Free Republic ... They are well known to most DUers who have had the benefit of exposure in here, to learn over time
" THIS IS HUGH!!!!"
" Stop casting asparagus!"
" Get a brain, Morans!"
" ARE YOU SERIES!!!#!!! . !!!"
But hey, thanks for letting me know how to spell serious, because Sister Mary Ellen may come back from the dead and spank my arse in public for such a gross and careless error .... I'm in hiding as I type ...
EDIT: I almost forgot ... There is absolutely no way that anybody can answer your "when" question ... we don't know when ... we presume they will do it when the process is ready and access is available... no reasonable person here would presume to know the date and time of when that would happen
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)They died or floated away loooong ago.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,986 posts)You've seen the photos by time you posted, if you have any interest in this, of the crushed sections of the underwater side.
A moment's thought would have helped you realize that when the ship capsized, it was not in the stable final resting position. That makes the search underwater then very dangerous.
It seems you have little idea just how dangerous and difficult such work is, or you wouldn't have been so cavalier with your remarks.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)It would explain why divers couldn't find them.
SmittynMo
(3,544 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,986 posts)From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Concordia_disaster#Search_for_missing_people (emphasis added):
On 14 January, divers searched the ship until nightfall.[86] Divers and firefighters continued to search for survivors who might have been trapped in the ship, and rescued a Korean newlywed couple trapped in a cabin two decks above the water line,[87] and the ship's purser suffering a broken leg.[88]
On 16 January, violent waters shifted the ship about 1.5 centimetres (0.6 in), interrupting rescue work[89]trap doors were shut and debris fell on rescuers[85]and giving rise to fear that the ship could be pushed into 68-metre (224 ft) deep waters[89] or that the fuel could leak.[90] Operations resumed about three hours later.[89] Throughout the process, rescuers set off explosives to create holes in the ship's hull to reach previously inaccessible areas.[81][91][92][93] On 18 January, rescue efforts were suspended again when the ship shifted, but shortly afterward were resumed.[94]
On 20 January, the ship began shifting by 1.5 centimetres (0.6 in) per hour,[94] but on 24 January, Franco Gabrielli, the Italian Civil Protection Agency head, said the ship was "stable".[95] The same day divers recovered the body of the 16th victim.[96] On 29 January, the operation was suspended because the ship had shifted 3.8 centimetres (1.5 in) in six hours and because of high waves.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,986 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)It looks like she was punched with a huge fist!