Only free surface is outside and it is a problem splashing into it. It is like launching a ship sideways into a canal or a river. Having met a...
You do not need to haul down anything - just ballast the port sponsoon and you land on the platform after the circus performance. But before that...
Hm, the USS Oklahoma was parbuckled towards the shore in 1943. Now, 2013, 70 years later, they will parbuckle M/S Costa Concordia away from the...
You can ask them at http://www.theparbucklingproject.com/aziende.php and ... they will not reply. I have tried. I have a distinct feeling that...
We will see. [IMG] The wreck has a certain mass m, say 60 000 tons, and it rests now in equilibrium on its side on the slooping sea floor on...
I have up-dated http://heiwaco.tripod.com/news8.htm about this topic. Does anybody believe you can parbuckle a halfsunk ship upright as suggested...
http://floodstand.aalto.fi/Info/Files/deliverable_D1.1a_v03.pdf shows the STX cruise ship design with correctly numbered decks from tank top #1...
Yes, I agree. Everybody was seasick or wining/dining too much Mediterranean Costa style ... or just sick ... or crazy. That's what crusing all...
There are only two questions! Why did the Costa Concordia first heel to starboard and then, suddenly (when?), capsize (after being stable/upright...
?? Actually, water on the bottom of any ship reduces stability (free surface effect) and a lot of water may reduce stability, so that vessel...
Thanks for refering to my ropax experience. Ropax vessels are SMALL compared to BIG CC and a different ball game. I operated 20+ ropax 15 years...
As draught d and depth D of the hull of modern cruiseships are small compared to breadth B, you can be sure that the ECR is located on top of the...
Why is it interesting to note a stepped (watertight) bulkhead around something? Does it improve anything? Safety after hull side damage, flooding...
Well, then the ship is incorrectly designed as SOLAS does not allow door openings in the hull (below the bulkhead deck). Doors are only allowed in...
Pls note that vessel floats only on the watertight hull. The door seen in the side of the ship is located in the weathertight superstructure and...
One way to make a ropax or passenger ship virtually unsinkable is to arrange the hull sides B/5 wide with compartments with permeability 0.1 (e.g....
Re the Stockholm Agreement I have written a little about it at http://heiwaco.tripod.com/epunkt321.htm . The result was that you had to fit...
Starbuck1, A cruiseship is not a tanker or bulkcarrier with their problems driving the Master crazy. A cruiseship carries passengers and most of...
Well, smartbight, you don't have to be very smart to see that the survivors photo is shopped as there are no spotlights in Porto Giglio and the...
You are right to assume that I do not understand anything about PSC, but actually you assume wrongly. Re topic of this thread, Costa Concordia,...
