Last voyage for Costa Concordia cruise ship

Wow, the last bit went real fast. You could sort of see it moving.

 

hi guys just woken up and having my coffee AND SHE IS UPRIGHT

Any links to videos of how she came up???
the live feed cant rewind

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...time-lapse-footage-shows-raising-of-ship.html

 

Manie,

She came up right side up .... and very slowly!



wayne

 

BBC Costa Concordia salvage Time lapse on youtube

 

Hey Tug that's cool

 

http://www.towingline.com/archives/2057#more-2057

 

Have they made any progress since they righted her?

 

Preparing for winter and surveying the starboard side to define repairs needed to attach sponsons. http://gcaptain.com/salvage-crews-commence-winterization-of-costa-concordia-shipwreck/

Interview with managing director of Titan on current state of salvage industry with some comments on Costa Concordia including:

Was there any doubt in your mind of the outcome of the Parbuckling Operation?

We were very confident. When you spend that much money and study that hard, there was very little doubt. A failure of a particular component of the project could have delayed us, but with the amount of safety margin built in to the project, I didn’t have much doubt about its success. To get the Costa Concordia moving, it required 6,800 tons of pull, but we did have excess capacity to pull harder.​

 

gCaptain article on use of Dockwise Vanguard to move Costa Concordia: http://gcaptain.com/dockwise-vanguard-to-lift-costa-concordia-from-giglio/

 

Thanks DC for that info. Awesome!!!

 

And it looks like the used my upside down catamaran idea .....

PURE geniuses they ARE.

 

Video of sequence of how the Costa Concordia will be loaded onto the Dockwise Vanguard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcmMhZ3NthA#t=12

Bottom of this page has photos of Dockwise Vanguard carrying other cargos: http://gcaptain.com/video-animation-shows-costa-concordia-float-on-dockwise-vanguard/

 

Pure genius!