Costa Concordia Salvage- ship being righted

I know this is quite a bit bigger than a normal GRM project, but after a long time, the Costa Concordia is being righted today. Or more correctly trying to be righted today.

Live shots are here on a reuters site- http://live.reuters.com/Event/Raising_the_Costa_Concordia

You can see it's making progress as of 9am EST, but they have a long way to go.

Thanks for posting. There was a story on 60 minutes a while back. Amazing the engineering and effort that is going into floating that to the scrapper. I'll me watching that feed....

interesting to watch. Amazing how close to the shore that thing is.

Watch the $2013 Classifieds later today if they are able to get it righted.

NO "there's having trouble getting it up" comments? Especially that close to Gigolo island?!?!?

In reply to pinchvalve:

So far it does not appear to be having troubles getting her up. To her port, there's a MASSIVE platform that she'll likely sit on when righted. The big risk is if the reef holds onto her at this point, and tears the structure apart- apparently nobody knows if that will happen or not.

But once up, the holes will be patched up, water drained (enough), and she'll be tugged somewhere.

The camera shot from the top of the cliff looks like the ship and equipment are made of Legos.

press conference now- apparently they are free from the rocks.

But there's still a loooong way to go- they are expecting to be up by midnight local- another 7 and a half hours or so.

They should have hired Red Adair, or some old retired US Navy guys from Pearl.

Screen shot from video feed at 10:49 EST

Approx 2 3/4 hours later at 1:35pm EST. Looks cool with the sun setting

alfadriver wrote: But once up, the holes will be patched up, water drained (enough), and she'll be tugged somewhere.

IIRC, they have to tow it all the way around Italy to the breakers yard. That's gonna be a big tow bill.

DrBoost wrote: IIRC, they have to tow it all the way around Italy to the breakers yard. That's gonna be a big tow bill.

Compared to the rest of the operation, the tow bill isn't even on the radar. I'd bet they've spent more in any two days of the prep work than they will on the whole tow.

I repeat, GIGOLO ISLAND and GETTING IT UP. There's a joke in there somewhere people!

Let us know when you find it.

Mezzanine wrote:

DrBoost wrote: IIRC, they have to tow it all the way around Italy to the breakers yard. That's gonna be a big tow bill.

Compared to the rest of the operation, the tow bill isn't even on the radar. I'd bet they've spent more in any two days of the prep work than they will on the whole tow.

I agree. I think they were expecting this whole thing to come in at just under a billion

it's a good thing that the Med is a "low growth area" if the Concordia had been sitting off of the NJ coast, it would have been completely barnacle coated after 20 months

btw.. imagine the smell after sitting on the bottom for 20 months

You can see the water line on the super structure to judge how much it has moved.

mad_machine wrote: it's a good thing that the Med is a "low growth area" if the Concordia had been sitting off of the NJ coast, it would have been completely barnacle coated after 20 months

Its also a good thing that med has very little tidal action.

this is true. It's measured in CM.. and not very many of them. If the med had tides like the east coast of the US or anything like the UK.. The Concordia would have long since slipped down that slope into the depths, never to be seen again

Hmm, she's sitting upright now, from what it looks like!

yes, they were just celebrating. Now comes the repairs and addition of flotation cassions to the Starboard side and they can refloat her for the final voyage

DrBoost wrote:

Mezzanine wrote:

DrBoost wrote: IIRC, they have to tow it all the way around Italy to the breakers yard. That's gonna be a big tow bill.

Compared to the rest of the operation, the tow bill isn't even on the radar. I'd bet they've spent more in any two days of the prep work than they will on the whole tow.

I agree. I think they were expecting this whole thing to come in at just under a billion

Holy cow. How is that hulk worth over 1 billion in scrap? Who's paying for this operation?

In reply to Mezzanine:

It's not worth that much. But getting it off the island and cleaning up the mess is.

The cost is probably being shared by the Italian govenment and Carnival.

It kind of sucks for them that cleaning up this mess is more than making a new ship to replace it.