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What To Do With a 1,000 Foot Wrecked Cruise Ship?
Hugh Pickens writes "What do you do with a 1,000-foot wreck that's full of fuel and half-submerged on a rocky ledge in the middle of an Italian marine sanctuary? Remove it. Very carefully. Stuck on a rocky shoal off the Tuscan island of Giglio, leaving the wreck where it is probably isn't an option but removing a massive ship that's run hard aground and incurred major damage to the hull involves logistical and environmental issues that are just as large. First there's the fuel. A half a million gallons of fuel could wreak havoc on the marine ecosystem — the ship is smack in the middle of the Pelagos Sanctuary for Mediterranean Marine Mammals. Engineers may need to go in from the side using a special drill to cut through the fuel tanks in a process called hot tapping. 'You fasten a flange with a valve on it, you drill through, access the tank, pull the drill back out, close the valve, and then attach a pumping apparatus to that,' says Tim Beaver, president of the American Salvage Association. 'It's a difficult task, but it's doable.' Then if it's determined that the Costa Concordia can be saved, engineers could try to refloat the ship and tug it back to dry dock for refurbishing. The job will likely require 'a combination of barges equipped with winches and cranes' to pull the cruise liner off its side then once the Concordia is off the rocks, 'they are going to have to fight to keep it afloat, just like you would a battle-damaged ship.' Another alternative is to cut the vessel into smaller, manageable parts using a giant cutting wire coated with a material as hard as diamonds called a cheese wire in a method was used to dismember the 55,000-ton Norwegian-flagged MV Tricolor. Regardless of how the Concordia is removed, it's going to be a difficult, expensive and drawn-out process. 'I don't see it taking much less than a year, and I think it could take longer,' says Bob Umbdenstock, director of planning at Resolve Marine Group."
It's the only way to be sure.
And you can go on the ride where you pretend to be the captain who was thrown from the ship which lands in the water unharmed.
Life takes interesting turns, but the most interest is when you're off the beaten path.
"What do you do with a 1,000-foot wreck that's full of fuel and half-submerged on a rocky ledge in the middle of an Italian marine sanctuary?" I do like these hypothetical questions, but we never get to see if they actually work in real life, so I've stop thinking about them.
These comments are my personal opinions and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the other voices in my head.
Turn it into a water-cooled data center.
He says he tripped and fell into a lifeboat
Somewhere out there, Silvio Berlusconi is slapping himself for not coming up with that excuse. "I tripped and fell, lost my trousers in the process and landed in bed with a beautiful naked girl."
No matter what's planned the end result is a tiny boost to Italy's GDP - and they need it.
Is this the broken cruise ship fallacy?
sigs are hazardous to your health
That was Cartmans excuse: 'I tripped and fell and my penis landed in Butters mouth. I was OK so I gave the thumbs up. Then Kyle took a picture.'
Let me be the first to say 'Southpark did it.'
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
You know what bothers me about that? It's not that people died there. It's that they're profit from those deaths.
if that bothers you.. just wait until you find out how much the funerary industry profits off of death..
I hope you have Amazon Prime so that the shipping is free on that.
German sailors drink beer, French sailors drink wine, British sailors drink rum, but Italian sailors should stick to port.
we can all agree that Americans need to be taken down a notch.
Your insecurity is very obvious.
This guy even ordered a meal at one of the restaurants on the ship after he drove his ship against the wall.
The cooks got suspicious when he ordered it to-go.
Everybody knows cruise ships lose half their value when you drive them off the lot.
Planning to be moderated ± 1: Bad Pun.