"THEY MADE ME GRAY" (autovox-is-the-one)
09/16/2013 at 06:34 • Filed to: SHIPLOPNIK
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"THEY MADE ME GRAY" (autovox-is-the-one)
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...delay due to bad weather conditions. But THE SHIP IS RISING, and the skilfulness of the Italian workers and the amazing Italian technologies now used to perform this miracle are astounding the world. Almost all the connected webcam sites have crashed, due to the humongous number of contacts.
To rotate the Costa Concordia are used 56 chains, which pass beneath the excavation and are fixed to the left side of the wreck. Each chain measures 58 meters and weighs 26 tonnes, only one ring 205 kilograms. Twenty-two are centered on eleven towers firmly anchored to the seabed and will be stretched by hydraulic jacks. Thirty-six jacks are also found in nine of the eleven boxes mounted on the left side. To facilitate the rotation will be exerted a force equal to 23,800 tons.
Too bad that many Jalopnik commentors who said that it should have been done since longtime, or that we would never have succeeded are not there to contribute with their indispensably helpful expertise. But we cannot have everything, can't we?
This (Safe Link) picture shows the marks of the water on the previously submerged section of the ship that's being raised: !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
Here is a (hopefully) working webcam: !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
Tentacle, Dutchman, drives French
> THEY MADE ME GRAY
09/16/2013 at 06:53 |
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Reuters has a live feed too (might be the same one, haven't checked)
http://live.reuters.com/Event/Raising_…
f86sabre
> THEY MADE ME GRAY
09/16/2013 at 08:15 |
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It is an impressive operation. There are a lot of factors involved beyond simply just getting the ship vertical. A thoughtful approach is really the only way to do something like this.