Italy's Costa Concordia: Cruise ship to be raised

ROME: -- The wrecked Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia is due to be raised and towed away in one of the biggest maritime salvage operations in history.

Workers will slowly lift the vessel by pumping air into tanks attached to the ship. The refloating operation is expected to take six or seven days.

The ship will then be taken to its home port, Genoa, where it will be scrapped.

The Concordia struck a reef off the Italian island of Giglio in January 2012 and capsized, killing 32 people.

The wreck was hauled upright in September but is still partially submerged, resting on six steel platforms.

Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28288823


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A wonderful but hideously expensive feat of engineering, and for what? Would have been better removing the fuel and other toxics and shoving it into deep water to start a new reef.

Scrap iron. How may tons?

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A wonderful but hideously expensive feat of engineering, and for what? Would have been better removing the fuel and other toxics and shoving it into deep water to start a new reef.

Massive remediation efforts can only be done in dry dock.

She's already afloat....as of late this afternoon... reports say.

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A wonderful but hideously expensive feat of engineering, and for what? Would have been better removing the fuel and other toxics and shoving it into deep water to start a new reef.

Massive remediation efforts can only be done in dry dock.

What is that in plain English.

Scrap iron. How may tons?

Well don't tell me it's a billion euros PLUS.

Thamm, the CEO, called the operation "the most daunting salvage ever attempted on a ship of its size." He added that the cost of the project has already exceeded 1 billion euros -- not including the refloat, the anticipated transport to Genoa or the dismantling.

In fact it's $42 million dollars worth of scrap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5Hjmdz-zxA

What a titanic waste of money (excuse the pun).

A wonderful but hideously expensive feat of engineering, and for what? Would have been better removing the fuel and other toxics and shoving it into deep water to start a new reef.

To do that they would have had to take the very same steps they did until now. At least this way they get a few millions back from scrapping her.

A wonderful but hideously expensive feat of engineering, and for what? Would have been better removing the fuel and other toxics and shoving it into deep water to start a new reef.

To do that they would have had to take the very same steps they did until now. At least this way they get a few millions back from scrapping her.

Of course they wouldn't.

They would have just needed to temporarily anchor the wreck to the seabed, clean it out, detach it and tow it off the shelf.

Nowhere near a Billion euros for that.