Apparently the submerged side has "major deformation".
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Apparently the submerged side has "major deformation".
Man of Honour
As fast paced as a snail race 
Was a flurry of activity with small boats racing about everywhere.
No eveen the lifeboat man has his head in his hands.
No eveen the lifeboat man has his head in his hands.
Soldato
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where's some paint I can watch dry?
Man of Honour
I think that's because he's just realized he turned up 6 months late to this ship.
Two hours worth of uprighting....
Soldato
Should make a good time lapse when they finally get some progress!
Soldato
just turn the motors up = good fun
Man of Honour
Soldato
Though it is going slow its amazing how they can do something like this.
Still a lot of work to be done after its upright, hopefully once its all done there will be a big documentary or something of how they did it etc etc
Still a lot of work to be done after its upright, hopefully once its all done there will be a big documentary or something of how they did it etc etc
It won't be physically moving anywhere until next year. Raising it is one thing, moving it is a whole other ball game.
They say that this is the largest operation of it's kind, but wasn't the Mazda boat bigger? Maybe largest passenger righting?
Estimated at Thursday morning for full upright now...eek!
They say that this is the largest operation of it's kind, but wasn't the Mazda boat bigger? Maybe largest passenger righting?
Estimated at Thursday morning for full upright now...eek!
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Associate
The submerged side sure doesn't look pretty...
Man of Honour
Just read about that, man.. what a waste of motors. Potentially nothing wrong with them at all, too.
Surely they will referb/remove parts that can be, it can not be a case of "ALL SCRAP"
Soldato
Probably not financially worth the time/effort to strip parts, and I expect insurance has already covered the cost.
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why dont they just bomb it.
Soldato
I think the salvage company will remove anything that isn't damaged and has value for profit, but the boat owners certainly won't like already said, it just isn't financially worth it.
wasn't 65% of the ship submerged ? including the whole lower decks engine rooms etc etc so anything of value being any is kinda slim anyway !
I guess because they dont want to litter the area with exploded ship parts. Not very good for the local ecology.
The med is a warm salty sespool of floating bits of plastic anyway, a natural reef they can't trawl would be good.