The biggest and most expensive marine salvage in history

Hi All

As most of you know, the Costa Concordia hit a reef on the Island of Giglio in Italy on January 13 2012.

Today, the appointed Titan and Microperi teams of Salvage people have almost Parbuckled the ship.... Live Feed here: **broken link removed**

They have to work through the night if necessary to complete the Parbuckling.

If you don't what Parbuckling is please search on Google. You might just learn something about real Engineering at it's very best...

Regards,
tvtech

More here with some interesting comments below

http://live.reuters.com/Event/Raising_the_Costa_Concordia

That is an amazing feat. 114,ooo tons!

My family has ties to the USS Oklahoma that was similarly parbuckled after it was sunk at Pearl Harbor (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pi...fter-the-Japanese-attack-on-Pearl-Harbor.html ). It was only 31,000 tons. The USS Enterpirse (nuclear carrier) is 95,000 tons. That gives some perspective of the immense size of these cruise ships.

John

Parbuckling completed by the 500 strong team lead by a South African...

Nick Sloane was very well known in the salvage industry...but unheard of anywhere else.

Now the whole World knows just how massive this task was. And Nick is a hero in Italy....A useless Captain sank the ship...and an expert Captain raised it.

Regards,
tvtech

Bah.. I'm from the farm in rural North Dakota. Me and bus load of Mexicans could have had that thing up and floating in a weekend.

That's funny.