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slimjim Super Member
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Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2013 2:14 pm Post subject: Italian Cruise Liner to be Raised |
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www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...ation.html
This is how they plan to do it. It happens this Monday.
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gelandangan Super Member
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Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2013 2:21 pm Post subject: Re: Italian Cruise Liner to be Raised |
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Made sense..
Amazing technique too, elegant..
The hull cost a lot of money still.
The only thing is why do they took so long to even start?
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slimjim Super Member
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Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2013 2:58 pm Post subject: Re: Italian Cruise Liner to be Raised |
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I think this is a massive project. This ship is twice the size of the Titanic. I also think it took them awhile to figure out how to do. Plus there had to be a lot of stabilization work done. The hull sits on a short shelf. Slide a few meters away from shore and its a quick drop to 400 feet of water.
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DallanC Site Admin
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Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2013 5:55 pm Post subject: Re: Italian Cruise Liner to be Raised |
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slimjim wrote: |
I think this is a massive project. This ship is twice the size of the Titanic. I also think it took them awhile to figure out how to do. Plus there had to be a lot of stabilization work done. The hull sits on a short shelf. Slide a few meters away from shore and its a quick drop to 400 feet of water. |
Just start hauling ping pong balls down and sticking them in the rooms. Get enough of them in there it will displace the water causing the ship to float.
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dhc4ever Super Member
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Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2013 7:26 pm Post subject: Re: Italian Cruise Liner to be Raised |
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114,000 gross tons, 50,000 tons displacement. + the water, silt and sand thats entered her over the last 18 months, thats a LOT of ping pong balls.
I think theyll have a better shot with the method they are attempting.
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gelandangan Super Member
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Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2013 8:26 pm Post subject: Re: Italian Cruise Liner to be Raised |
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LOL, when I was living with dad, he got a water front.
We bought a boat, open cabin, and when it rains, it always got swamped and sunk.\
We have to shove old car inner tube in the hull and pump it up.
I guess this cannot be done with a behemoth as the Concordia.
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DallanC Site Admin
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Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2013 9:18 pm Post subject: Re: Italian Cruise Liner to be Raised |
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dhc4ever wrote: |
114,000 gross tons, 50,000 tons displacement. + the water, silt and sand thats entered her over the last 18 months, thats a LOT of ping pong balls.
I think theyll have a better shot with the method they are attempting. |
Haha I didn't say it was effective, but in that shallow of water it would work. Myth-busters did a fun episode on it once and they proved it worked. It would take a crazy amount of them though and time to get them in there.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MOJN07XRYw
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radar Super Member
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Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 3:46 pm Post subject: Re: Italian Cruise Liner to be Raised |
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I like the style of your thinking Dallas, yep it'd take a whole lotta ping pong balls, but it'd be fun doing it.
Actually they should use the Italian Parliament - plenty of hot air there I suspect.
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slimjim Super Member
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Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 7:48 pm Post subject: Re: Italian Cruise Liner to be Raised |
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radar wrote: |
Actually they should use the Italian Parliament - plenty of hot air there I suspect. |
Radar, are you overdue for your sensitivity training? Your a supervisor now, aren't you?
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PaulS Super Member
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Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 8:06 pm Post subject: Re: Italian Cruise Liner to be Raised |
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If he gets any more sensitive he will be calling parliament real bad names.
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slimjim Super Member
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Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 6:01 am Post subject: Re: Italian Cruise Liner to be Raised |
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We will have to check and see if the ship is upright by the evening news.
here are some great pictures getting ready to be raised.
www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...paign=1490
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Bushmaster Super Member
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Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 8:08 am Post subject: Re: Italian Cruise Liner to be Raised |
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This might be fun to watch...
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slimjim Super Member
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Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 8:13 am Post subject: Re: Italian Cruise Liner to be Raised |
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Bushmaster wrote: |
This might be fun to watch... |
paint may dry faster, but then again, your moving pretty slow now days, aren't you gramps!
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slimjim Super Member
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Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 5:47 am Post subject: Re: Italian Cruise Liner to be Raised |
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Well Bushy, did you find a channel to watch the uprighting on? Looks like they were able to accomplish the feat though it looks like its sitting a bit low in the water.
news.yahoo.com/shipwre...27557.html
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slimjim Super Member
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Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 5:50 am Post subject: Re: Italian Cruise Liner to be Raised |
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