Costa Concordia What will happen to it now?

[XJSJohn]

this time laps is rather cool!!!

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28299455

[3xpendable]

Surprised you petrolheads haven't said more on this. But then again the mainstream news has moved on now the ship has been parbuckled, towed to Genoa and the Captain found guilty, but there's still a lot to do to fully dismantle the ship. Information can be found here:

http://shiprecycling.it/la-concordia-assetto-attua...

If you click the blue 'Concordia' tab on that page, you have various photos and information fact sheets and other snippets.

And the stages of dismantling are explained here

http://gcaptain.com/the-four-phases-of-the-costa-c...

Finally, the latest photos of dismantling can be found here, deck 6 has been stripped, they are onto deck 7 now

https://picasaweb.google.com/103283834238370355731...











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[Parabola]

3xpendable said:

Surprised you petrolheads haven't said more on this. But then again the mainstream news has moved on now the ship has been parbuckled, towed to Genoa and the Captain found guilty, but there's still a lot to do to fully dismantle the ship. Information can be found here:

http://shiprecycling.it/la-concordia-assetto-attua...

If you click the blue 'Concordia' tab on that page, you have various photos and information fact sheets and other snippets.

And the stages of dismantling are explained here

http://gcaptain.com/the-four-phases-of-the-costa-c...

Finally, the latest photos of dismantling can be found here, deck 6 has been stripped, they are onto deck 7 now

https://picasaweb.google.com/103283834238370355731...











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Fantastic post. Thanks for sharing.

[Parabola]

3xpendable said:

Surprised you petrolheads haven't said more on this. But then again the mainstream news has moved on now the ship has been parbuckled, towed to Genoa and the Captain found guilty, but there's still a lot to do to fully dismantle the ship. Information can be found here:

http://shiprecycling.it/la-concordia-assetto-attua...

If you click the blue 'Concordia' tab on that page, you have various photos and information fact sheets and other snippets.

And the stages of dismantling are explained here

http://gcaptain.com/the-four-phases-of-the-costa-c...

Finally, the latest photos of dismantling can be found here, deck 6 has been stripped, they are onto deck 7 now

https://picasaweb.google.com/103283834238370355731...











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Fantastic post. Thanks for sharing.

[oobster]

Indeed, thanks for sharing, for me the dismantling and recycling of the ship is just as interesting as the parbuckling and refloating.

[ph1l5]

What happens to all the passengers personal items ?
Is there a process for people to get things back ?

[Andy Zarse]

Welcome to the layer cake, son.

[sirtyro]

article link said:

The Concordia is afloat by means of a system consisting of 30 sponsons fitted to the sides of the wreck to provide buoyancy needed for refloating.

Mclaren can't even get one 'sponsor' yet a ship thats being dismantled has 30!

[3xpendable]

ph1l5 said:

What happens to all the passengers personal items ?
Is there a process for people to get things back ?

No worries

Valuables from the safes etc have been where possible returned to the owners. But for general things like suitcases full of clothes etc, they will be destroyed as the onwers have been compensated for that.

[Hooli]

Great pics, thanks for the update.

[dvs_dave]

Very interesting. Especially the video although I don't seem able to post a link to it on my phone.

I'm suprised clearing of the food storage areas hasn't been done yet. Presuming they must still be flooded what with then being on deck Zero? That will be a hideous task. Tons of 3 year old rotten food. What will it be like?

[onyx39]

dvs_dave said:

Very interesting. Especially the video although I don't seem able to post a link to it on my phone.

I'm suprised clearing of the food storage areas hasn't been done yet. Presuming they must still be flooded what with then being on deck Zero? That will be a hideous task. Tons of 3 year old rotten food. What will it be like?

Presumably a liquid mush that will mostly be "pumped" out?
The rest will be in tins, so fine.

[3xpendable]

dvs_dave said:

Very interesting. Especially the video although I don't seem able to post a link to it on my phone.

I'm suprised clearing of the food storage areas hasn't been done yet. Presuming they must still be flooded what with then being on deck Zero? That will be a hideous task. Tons of 3 year old rotten food. What will it be like?

Yes it's on deck zero, but it;s mainly the fridges and freezers so I would assume they are to an extent water tight?

[Ganglandboss]

3xpendable said:

dvs_dave said:

Very interesting. Especially the video although I don't seem able to post a link to it on my phone.

I'm suprised clearing of the food storage areas hasn't been done yet. Presuming they must still be flooded what with then being on deck Zero? That will be a hideous task. Tons of 3 year old rotten food. What will it be like?

Yes it's on deck zero, but it;s mainly the fridges and freezers so I would assume they are to an extent water tight?

Air tight more or less, but I doubt they would have kept water out. For every 10m of water, the ambient pressure increases by 1 bar. The fridges would have been at around 1 bar, which is the average atmospheric pressure at sea level, so if they had dropped 10m underwater (ambient pressure 2 bar), there would be twice as much pressure on the outside. The seals are only designed to keep warm air out, so they probably won't keep water out. They would probably slow the flow of water after the initial sinking, but given the time it was submerged, I imagine they are full of water by now. Also, I imagine there would have been some movement in the hull as she came to rest, and also during the parbuckling operation, that would cause some deformation of the seals.

[3xpendable]

Interesting point, thanks.

[mph1977]

Ganglandboss said:

Air tight more or less, but I doubt they would have kept water out. For every 10m of water, the ambient pressure increases by 1 bar. The fridges would have been at around 1 bar, which is the average atmospheric pressure at sea level, so if they had dropped 10m underwater (ambient pressure 2 bar), there would be twice as much pressure on the outside. The seals are only designed to keep warm air out, so they probably won't keep water out. They would probably slow the flow of water after the initial sinking, but given the time it was submerged, I imagine they are full of water by now. Also, I imagine there would have been some movement in the hull as she came to rest, and also during the parbuckling operation, that would cause some deformation of the seals.

however i'd also expect them to have some element of physical locking - after all domestic fridges did in the old days before the death toll of kids and small people put in fridges for fun / by accident and then locked in got too much ...

[Krikkit]

Even so I'd imagine the seals will have blown out with the water pressure anyway. That's to say nothing about the air ventilation etc that will be in there too.

[Ganglandboss]

mph1977 said:

Ganglandboss said:

Air tight more or less, but I doubt they would have kept water out. For every 10m of water, the ambient pressure increases by 1 bar. The fridges would have been at around 1 bar, which is the average atmospheric pressure at sea level, so if they had dropped 10m underwater (ambient pressure 2 bar), there would be twice as much pressure on the outside. The seals are only designed to keep warm air out, so they probably won't keep water out. They would probably slow the flow of water after the initial sinking, but given the time it was submerged, I imagine they are full of water by now. Also, I imagine there would have been some movement in the hull as she came to rest, and also during the parbuckling operation, that would cause some deformation of the seals.

however i'd also expect them to have some element of physical locking - after all domestic fridges did in the old days before the death toll of kids and small people put in fridges for fun / by accident and then locked in got too much ...

They would; I'd expect they are no different from any typical commercial cold store, but the locks will only secure the door against opening - they won't compress the seal all the way around.

[MOTORVATOR]

Ganglandboss said:

mph1977 said:

Ganglandboss said:

Air tight more or less, but I doubt they would have kept water out. For every 10m of water, the ambient pressure increases by 1 bar. The fridges would have been at around 1 bar, which is the average atmospheric pressure at sea level, so if they had dropped 10m underwater (ambient pressure 2 bar), there would be twice as much pressure on the outside. The seals are only designed to keep warm air out, so they probably won't keep water out. They would probably slow the flow of water after the initial sinking, but given the time it was submerged, I imagine they are full of water by now. Also, I imagine there would have been some movement in the hull as she came to rest, and also during the parbuckling operation, that would cause some deformation of the seals.

however i'd also expect them to have some element of physical locking - after all domestic fridges did in the old days before the death toll of kids and small people put in fridges for fun / by accident and then locked in got too much ...

They would; I'd expect they are no different from any typical commercial cold store, but the locks will only secure the door against opening - they won't compress the seal all the way around.

Wouldn't the water pressure against the door be compressing the seal?

[3xpendable]

This get's better and better, now there are rumours there was a Cocaine shipment from the mob on board!

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-10144558.h...