Costa Concordia
Discussion
G600 said:
Is there still that one with the bow sticking up near huntingdon still there? I used to go past that years ago.
Don't know that one; I was thinking of the one a few miles south of Ely. The river is still dangerously weedy after 3-4 weeks - the EA are both useless and expensive.Thread resurrection!
I sailed past her last night, stopped in Giglio marina and sailed out and saw her at sunrise this morning too.
It is quite awesome, (not in the Bill and Ted sense), the scale of the ship and operation around it dwarfes the entire town. I did a back-of-fag-packet calculation that the length of the ship is pretty much the same as the length of the town it's right next to, if you parked the ship in front, the village would be completely out of view.
A really quite sobering experience that something so big can make a mistake on that sort of scale.
So, of course, we hid behind out cameras and took pictures to avoid trying to untangle the emotions. Pics to follow.
I sailed past her last night, stopped in Giglio marina and sailed out and saw her at sunrise this morning too.
It is quite awesome, (not in the Bill and Ted sense), the scale of the ship and operation around it dwarfes the entire town. I did a back-of-fag-packet calculation that the length of the ship is pretty much the same as the length of the town it's right next to, if you parked the ship in front, the village would be completely out of view.
A really quite sobering experience that something so big can make a mistake on that sort of scale.
So, of course, we hid behind out cameras and took pictures to avoid trying to untangle the emotions. Pics to follow.
BullyB said:
Sailed past her last night so thought I would share some pictures...
Was getting dark so not great but very interesting to see. They have three cranes/ships around it
You seem to be overly cautious around the coast, I heard if you go really close to the shore you can get a good view of the town. Was getting dark so not great but very interesting to see. They have three cranes/ships around it
It's a shame someone left that huge lump of metal in the way though....
jamiebae said:
I thought it was going to be cut up in-situ and removed rather than re-floated. Will it just be dragged to Alang once it's up?
There's another thread somewhere - I think it is the one that started when news of the sinking broke. There was a lot of discussion about the re-floating operation.Some information here: http://www.theparbucklingproject.com/
aka_kerrly said:
BullyB said:
Sailed past her last night so thought I would share some pictures...
Was getting dark so not great but very interesting to see. They have three cranes/ships around it
You seem to be overly cautious around the coast, I heard if you go really close to the shore you can get a good view of the town. Was getting dark so not great but very interesting to see. They have three cranes/ships around it
It's a shame someone left that huge lump of metal in the way though....
But oddly, the entrance to the port/town (it's so small, they're one and the same thing) goes within the exclusion zone itself, which was a bit confusing when approaching at 10pm! The town is tiny, and like I said, about as big as the ship in terms of size and population.
Looks like the project is ready to start the uprighting phase, apparently next month. Once she's upright, they say it'll be a quick job to get her afloat (more boxes welded to the s/b side), so she's likely to be gone before the year is out.
It casts a huge shadow over the town, you can see it from pretty much every angle.
Glad to be in Elba today, I found the whole thing very strange.
TTOBES said:
Here it is on Google Maps:
Wow - that really does help you appreciate the size!Link here for those too lazy to look:
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Giglio,+Giglio+Ca...
Raising/righting what not on Monday
http://news.sky.com/story/1140821/costa-concordia-...
I do think it's a bit stupid that its taken 21 months or so to sort this
Yes it's a HUGE job, but I think the ship builders & operators should have plans already in place for something like this happening
http://news.sky.com/story/1140821/costa-concordia-...
I do think it's a bit stupid that its taken 21 months or so to sort this
Yes it's a HUGE job, but I think the ship builders & operators should have plans already in place for something like this happening
paulshears said:
Raising/righting what not on Monday
http://news.sky.com/story/1140821/costa-concordia-...
I do think it's a bit stupid that its taken 21 months or so to sort this
Yes it's a HUGE job, but I think the ship builders & operators should have plans already in place for something like this happening
You can't expect contingency plans for every imaginable outcome. For instance, the water is >100m deep only one ship-length from the shore. Only a small difference there would have made a massive difference to the survivability, and salvaging of this 'accident'. http://news.sky.com/story/1140821/costa-concordia-...
I do think it's a bit stupid that its taken 21 months or so to sort this
Yes it's a HUGE job, but I think the ship builders & operators should have plans already in place for something like this happening
LimaDelta said:
You can't expect contingency plans for every imaginable outcome. For instance, the water is >100m deep only one ship-length from the shore. Only a small difference there would have made a massive difference to the survivability, and salvaging of this 'accident'.
But it's happened at least twice before, albeit with smaller ships. Not just the Herald of Free Emterprise off Zeebrugge but the European Gateway which I saw from the Orwell Bridge:http://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/felixstowe_peopl...
But you wouldn't expect the Italians to be able to organise much.
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