Soldato
It's finally being towed away now. Live feed on the BBC website. Unbelievably good job by the salvage guys.
Almost Titanic 2
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When the MV Tricolor sank in the English channel they simply cut it into pieces, equally as impressive. http://imgur.com/a/1AolA
What a fascinating picture. Agreed, an ingenious feat of engineering.
I cant help feeling a certain irony over "Progress"
Titanic was sunk by damage that Brunel's Great Eastern (nearly 60 years earlier) would have laughed at! (When Great Eastern struck the "Great Eastern" rock the damage was more extensive than the Titanic's and the ship didn't even stop!)
Concorida was sunk by damage that the Titanic (100 or so years earlier) would likely have survived! (At least for a bit longer)
Ho Humm!
Titanic was sunk by damage that Brunel's Great Eastern (nearly 60 years earlier) would have laughed at! (When Great Eastern struck the "Great Eastern" rock the damage was more extensive than the Titanic's and the ship didn't even stop!)
Concorida was sunk by damage that the Titanic (100 or so years earlier) would likely have survived! (At least for a bit longer)
Ho Humm!
Just to add to that, the newly-built Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier weighs in at 65,000 tons, or just over half of the Costa Concordia.
The Japanese super-battleships Yamato and Musashi weighed around 72,000 tons, and were at the time the biggest ships ever floated.
It's mind-boggling to try and get your head around how big and heavy the thing is, and it's fantastic to see that it's been safely recovered, and hopefully it can make it to Genoa and be dismantled properly.
114,000 tons in motion scraping against a hard rock face and then laying on it is not going to end well for any ship tbh.
Soldato
Not that I'm a ship designer but couldn't they come up with kinda inverted chobham armour for ships, if the hull is penetrated liquid CO2 is instantly applied to that area, freezing the water and plugging the whole 
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When the MV Tricolor sank in the English channel they simply cut it into pieces, equally as impressive. http://imgur.com/a/1AolA
Man that is pretty cool. It's like they've just taken a lightsabre and chopped it. The mangled cars and everything are still there inside.
Soldato
Those are amazing pictures!
Caporegime
Not that I'm a ship designer but couldn't they come up with kinda inverted chobham armour for ships, if the hull is penetrated liquid CO2 is instantly applied to that area, freezing the water and plugging the whole
No. Big hole. Big hull. Lots of co2. Where do you store it? What about the hazards of storing it? What about the hazards of using it?
Terrible idea.
Soldato
Not that I'm a ship designer but couldn't they come up with kinda inverted chobham armour for ships, if the hull is penetrated liquid CO2 is instantly applied to that area, freezing the water and plugging the whole
Doesn't help it was a cruise ship, not an Ocean liner like the Queen Mary 2.
Cruise liners tend to stay close to ports so they can make a dash in the event or weather or damage. An ocean liner may have been able to stay afloat longer and find a place to beach with the more stringent requirements on water tight compartments.
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that doesn't make sense as most cruise ships leave port to ride storms out?
MV Cougar Ace. This beast nearly went down in the Pacific after a dodgy ballast water cycle. At first sight it looks unsalvageable but they managed it, the ship is in fact in service today.
How they did it ... http://archive.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-03/ff_seacowboys?currentPage=all (well worth the read)
You can just make out the crew in red dry suits who all made it off alive.
How they did it ... http://archive.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-03/ff_seacowboys?currentPage=all (well worth the read)
You can just make out the crew in red dry suits who all made it off alive.
Caporegime
Norm, I watched something on that a while ago...didn't one of the salvage crew die though?
Yeah unfortunately so, abseiling back off the ship slipped and fell.
It's unreal seeing the size of that and thinking, how can a Captain be so reckless with a city on water.
http://news.yahoo.com/video/drone-video-shows-final-voyage-180103746.html
Don't like big (*) ships, don't like big aircraft even more so!
When it comes to the crunch, the uncrashable aircraft and the unsinkable ship will never be built!
Machines that carry thousands of people into dangerous environments (Sky, Ocean!) are ultimately machines that can (And will from time to time) Carry thousands of people to their deaths!
the people on the Concordia were unbelievably lucky!
Had the ship been 50-100 yards further out to sea when she foundered we would have been looking at thousands of dead rather than dozens!
As I have said before, this wasn't really a "disaster," as such! It was a bloody miracle!
(* In terms of passenger carrying capacity. However the idea of vast ships carrying thousands of containers containing billions of pounds worth of goods which, at the same time, have only one engine and only one screw is also a pretty scary concept!
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