Posted on 09/16/2013 2:37:31 PM PDT by illiac
"At this point we're around half way through the first phase," Franco Porcellacchia, leader of Costa Cruise's technical team, told reporters. "It's all happening very slowly but very carefully and safely."
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Impressive engineering and execution I’d say
Well done.
Very Cool! Looks pretty much completely level now!!
They are not towing it for a few months.
Yes, I saw it appearing to move a bit and mis-spoke. The Reuters person working the thread, Ms. Noriega, added some additional info about flotation devices that will be attached to the hull to assist with buoyancy.
There is going to be a lot of work needed prior to moving it out.
Yes it is very wrinkled up on the starboard side.
I took some Queen Mary trans-Atlantic cruises a few years ago. On those cruises, there are a lot of people who are fascinated by cruising, and the co-captains hold information and discussion sessions. The QM2 is supposed to be very sturdy, and they were fond of saying that they doubted that the newer mega-cruise ships were sturdy enough for ocean travel. Another point that came up was cruisers' concerns that there is no common language that every employee must speak, so communication wouldn't be stellar in a real emergency. Yet another point was that these huge cruise ships can't be evacuated without deaths...they know that.
On that cruise, in the Med the ship got too close to Majorca, so we could wave at the people on the island. A fellow cruiser actually said..."My God, the ocean bottom is rocky here. Are they crazy?"
Summary....I wonder if they've learned anything from actually managing to have a disaster so close to shore.
No sense either way--showing off, ignoring crew reports of water until too late, or jumping off the ship to catch an early lifeboat. He's never captaining anything bigger than a rowboat after he gets out of the legal system.
Yeah not a trivia task.
SIGH. I wonder what that does to the cost of everyone else’s insurance?
Ships are surprisingly fragile.
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