Nate57 - When a ship runs aground, its bottom touches the sea floor, the double bottom may be damaged/up flooded but due to the presence of sea...
Pls do not quote me 50%. Evidently physically handicapped people needing wheelchairs and similar to move around aboard are welcome on most...
If you run aground when the tide is out, you may refloat and continue the voyage, when the tide is in, if you haven't lost too much buoyancy....
Landlubbers know little about what happens at sea and when media says that running aground or up on submerged land below water means sinking, they...
If you once slip off the grounding point, you are evidently not aground anymore. But it is difficult to slip off any grounding point. Maybe your...
If I understand the Costa Concordia’s last voyage correctly the Master thought that the planned 58° change of heading starboard at Isola del...
Definitions In order to assist visitors (and journalists?) to my web pages about M/S Costa Concordia, her shipowner and Master at...
Yes, the blister stabilized the bow during parbuckling! No doubt about that. But now the bow and blister is moving so another system is being...
TV Discovery Channel! Expert on wreck salvage? :D:p As you apparently have visited my popular web site, you should know by now, that I consider...
I try to keep my comments to the topic - last voyage for CC cruise ship. In boat and ship building it is a good idea to avoid guessing. If you...
Before up righting CC was resting on its side and the bow didn't move. When CC was rotated up right away from shore on to some platforms,...
Nobody died on CC Friday 13 January 2012. Then about 3 900 persons aboard abandoned the damaged but floating ship using the lifeboats but about...
Did you have a bad week, fight in office or with wife? Anyway. Topic is last voyage of CC where the Master at 15.5 knots tried to turn 44° or 58°...
Sorry, I have always just maintained that rolling a not very strong wreck like CC down a rocky slope you will damage the wreck in contact with the...
Sounds like a conspiracy! Are you one of those? There are no grout bags below the flipping bow and the grout bags are just cement bags that you...
Not at all. I am just curious what kind of hold-back system 450 salvage workers are fitting 24/7 to avoid movements of the 8 000 tons heavy bow...
If I understand about the few parbucklings having been done in the past (1 in 67 years?), then the ships had capsized away from shore/quays and...
CC is owned by Costa cruise lines, Genoa that is owned by Carnival Corp., Miami. It is Costa that appointed T/M to salvage the ship in 10 months...
Legal issues? Anybody can dive at Isola del Giglio and film the wreck. Copy right? OK, sell your photos for a fee. A book will be written? By...
The salvage company T/M has a web page but do not reply to emails. Interestingly there are no photos, videos, survey reports, etc, available about...
