Almost Titanic 2

MadMan-JaMeS said:
For those of you interested there was program broadcast on Discovery in the US called

Inside Raising The Concordia

About how they raised it etc etc i havn't watched all of it yet, but it seems decent.

If you search online i'm sure you can find it easily enough to download, if ya catch my drift ;)
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Thanks for that headsup :)
 
MadMan-JaMeS said:
For those of you interested there was program broadcast on Discovery in the US called

Inside Raising The Concordia

About how they raised it etc etc i havn't watched all of it yet, but it seems decent.

If you search online i'm sure you can find it easily enough to download, if ya catch my drift ;)
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Pretty sure it's on Discovery either tonight or tomorrow in the uk...
 
Trying to watch the cycling through iPlayer and download that is raping my "out in the sticks" internet connection. :o

Plusnet support,
You've now used up your product's broadband usage allowance, we've added some more.
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:o
 
That's my afternoon sorted then..

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Mother, get the kettle on. :D
 
Originally Posted by MadMan-JaMeS View Post
For those of you interested there was program broadcast on Discovery in the US called

Inside Raising The Concordia

About how they raised it etc etc i havn't watched all of it yet, but it seems decent.

If you search online i'm sure you can find it easily enough to download, if ya catch my drift
Many thanks - as you say its very easy to download
 
Nothing in the documentary which seemed new, i am sure i had seen all of the footage before. Still, an interesting subject and worth watching :)
 
I'm more surprised they're managing to re-float it at all.

It's a huge engineering achievement and something that has never been done before on this scale. Wrecks like this are usually just cut up on site but in that location it would be an ecological disaster.
 
Blue160 said:
I'm more surprised they're managing to re-float it at all.

It's a huge engineering achievement and something that has never been done before on this scale. Wrecks like this are usually just cut up on site but in that location it would be an ecological disaster.
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I find it quite sad that, given how much engineering must have gone into a ship of that size, that it couldn't be recovered.

Given that much of the ship must have been (at the time of impact) structurally fine, with a comparatively small amount of damage.

But I guess if it was possible it would have been done.
 
Quite apart from the structural damage from the sinking all of the interior fittings would have been ruined by water damage. It was never going to be economically viable to repair and refit. The instant it hit that rock it was a total loss in insurance terms.
 
FoxEye said:
Just wonder why it took so long from the sinking to the re-floating.

A couple years seems excessive.
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Really?


It's twice the size of the ****ing titanic.
You can't just wrap some balloons round it and expect to tow it away. LOL
It weighs 114,000 tons for christ sake


I wanted it to stay where it was so I could do this...

 
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