Hum Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 GIGLIO ISLAND, Italy (AP) ? The crippled Costa Concordia cruise ship was pulled completely upright early Tuesday during a complicated, 19-hour operation to wrench it from its side where it capsized last year off Tuscany, with officials declaring it a "perfect" end to a daring and unprecedented engineering feat.Shortly after 4 a.m., a foghorn wailed on Giglio Island and the head of Italy's Civil Protection agency, Franco Gabrielli, announced that the ship had reached vertical and that the operation to rotate it ? known in nautical terms as parbuckling ? was complete."We completed the parbuckling operation a few minutes ago the way we thought it would happen and the way we hoped it would happen," said Franco Porcellacchia, project manager for the Concordia's owner, Costa Crociere SpA."A perfect operation, I must say," with no environmental spill detected so far, he said.more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draconian Guppy Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 woot, engineering ftw KingCracker 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hum Posted September 17, 2013 Author Share Posted September 17, 2013 I would think the underwater parts would stink to high heaven. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neufuse Veteran Posted September 17, 2013 Veteran Share Posted September 17, 2013 wow look at the dents on the side of that thing from it's weight pushing it down onto the rocks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacer Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 Those images were really interesting. Seeing the damage and the stark contrast of the water line was really cool. It's pretty amazing they were able to right a ship of that size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dot Matrix Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 Haunting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoffrey B. Veteran Posted September 17, 2013 Veteran Share Posted September 17, 2013 that would have been an awesome site to see happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaP Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 Nice image Hum, webeagle12 and ozgeek 3 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger H. Veteran Posted September 17, 2013 Veteran Share Posted September 17, 2013 Pretty sweet, waiting for Discovery Channel or National Geographic show about this. Extreme Engineering or Megastructures or that Engineering Challenges or Big Fixes or something. One of them must have this! oliver182 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neufuse Veteran Posted September 17, 2013 Veteran Share Posted September 17, 2013 Pretty sweet, waiting for Discovery Channel or National Geographic show about this. Extreme Engineering or Megastructures or that Engineering Challenges or Big Fixes or something. One of them must have this! Discovery has one about this on sept 20th, a special show about the raising Roger H. and oliver182 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Growled Member Posted September 17, 2013 Member Share Posted September 17, 2013 Amazing feat. I really didn't think they could do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FloatingFatMan Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 Shortly after 4 a.m., a foghorn wailed on Giglio Island The great achievement aside, if I lived there, I would be annoyed at getting woken up at 4am! Noisy buggers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neufuse Veteran Posted September 17, 2013 Veteran Share Posted September 17, 2013 http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/raising-Concordia Discovery Channel special, Friday Sept 20th 10PM EST Roger H. 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_dandy_ Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 that would have been an awesome site to see happen. It was streaming live all day yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaP Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/raising-Concordia Discovery Channel special, Friday Sept 20th 10PM EST It's not on discovery canada :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hum Posted September 18, 2013 Author Share Posted September 18, 2013 It's not on discovery canada :( ^ Probably will be posted on YouTube, or some other place on the internet -- be patient. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Growled Member Posted September 18, 2013 Member Share Posted September 18, 2013 The great achievement aside, if I lived there, I would be annoyed at getting woken up at 4am! Noisy buggers! I haven't thought about it, but you are right. I'd be annoyed as hell. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hum Posted September 18, 2013 Author Share Posted September 18, 2013 They coulda used a couple of Goodyear blimps, to raise the ship silently. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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