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Cooley Hurd

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1. To the salvors...

Reply to Cooley Hurd (Original post)

Sun Jul 27, 2014, 09:43 AM

Jul 2014

You ROCK! As a maritime historian, knowing what it took to right the SS Normandie in 1943, or the USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor in 1944, the Costa Concordia salvors performed a freaking MIRACLE! I'm reasonably sure the citizens of Giglio feel the same way.

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Her journey ends. Costa Concordia arrives at Genoa for scrapping [View all] Cooley Hurd Jul 2014 OP

To the salvors... Cooley Hurd Jul 2014 #1

Thanks for the tip gristy Jul 2014 #4

Thanks for the update(s)! That really was a remarkable achievement... petronius Jul 2014 #2

Here's hoping it gets scrapped without further environmental damage Cirque du So-What Jul 2014 #3

So very cool and unprecedented. Kudos to the salvage crew. Amazing! nt riderinthestorm Jul 2014 #5