[Closed] That Italian ship...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16573312

Thanks for that druidh i can get that problem off my mind. Looks like it will be one of the biggest jobs of its type. Will be a good time to have a b&b on that island.

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(may need a bigger can)

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there was a guy on the news last night and he reckons it will have to be 'chopped up' at site then the bits taken away, due to the size and the type of damager... Hmmmmm

ooooh about 10 years ago a couple of ships pranged in the English Channel and a transporter ferry full of new high end cars turned on its side and sank. They used big wire saws to cut it into segments and then lifted each piece out with a hoofing big barge crane. You only really appreciated the scale of it all when you saw the cross section of the ship and all these cars stacked in there. Those ships are HUGE! Quite impressive if you can find some photos of it.

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(iDave- 😆 )

there was a guy on the news last night and he reckons it will have to be 'chopped up' at site then the bits taken away, due to the size and the type of damager... Hmmmmm

Are you suggesting this is just a big insurance write-off scam?

Potentially the biggest insurance claim in maritime history, certainly since the Exxon Valdez.

http://jalopnik.com/5584840/how-to-salvage-a-sunken-car-freighter

Love the picture of the engine bay. Middle engine has the flywheel and turbocharger sliced in half. End engine they are slice clean off.

Looks like a Landrover and tractor got sliced up too.

They will get the Discovery channel to film it for 'Salvage - Code Red'

They can recover anything.

andyl - Member
Looks like a Landrover got sliced up too.

the humanity. 🙁

those 'slice' photos are ace 🙂

They will get the Discovery channel to film it for 'Salvage - Code Red'

or a bizarre 'Inside Natures Giants'!

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I'm no expert on marine salvage, but I do work in the Submarine/Navy Ship building industry...

I did some work in a Dutch Engineering Research Lab a couple of years back, they had a section of the wire saw they had developed to cut up the Kursk submarine, to salvage it off the sea bed.
It had 'teeth' about the size of a 2.5L paintcan threaded onto a 2" diameter steel cable, like giant beads.
The 'saw' would be threaded under the object you want to cut up and two 'nodding donkeys' mounted on a ship above would rock up and down to saw through the ship/submarine.

There is a good chance they could move that cruise ship in one piece, as compared with modern bulk carriers and tankers it isn't that big, however if it isn't repairable there would be no point and it would be easier (and cheaper) to cut it up in-situ.

The big issue right now is to try and stabilise it to stop it sustaining any further damage, and do their best to stop anything nasty leaking into the sea..
aside from diesel fuel you've got thousands of litres of hydraulic fluids, lubricants, engine oil, sewage, waste food and a few tonnes of refrigerant gas to try and contain..

There must be salvage companies falling over each other to get involved with this job...

this is well worth a gander:

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