Posted on 09/17/2013 7:59:38 AM PDT by BenLurkin
One can get glimpse of just what it's like in and under the Concordia by the vast array of mesmerizing underwater videos released by Italy's coast guard and the Titan Micoperi salvage team tasked with removing the rusting hulk.
The seabed is still littered with sun deck chairs that floated from the ship's balconies and upper deck when it finally came to a rest in January 2012. Fish swim around the sunbed legs and seaweed has grown through some of the mesh seating. The beds are spread out in a surreal scene that looks like a set from an underwater science fiction film. Shoes, mattresses, dinner plates and thousands of pieces of cutlery shimmer in the divers' lights on a bed of sea grass
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Aren’t there still a few missing dead? At some point some remains might be found.
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Story updated - http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/15/world/europe/italy-costa-concordia-salvage/index.html?iid=article_sidebar
I would imagine by now that the fish and crabs have eaten whatever remained of the two people.
Examining this wreck will be like a time capsule, a look into the past.
I was alive when this ship sank, and in those days man had never sent a device out of the Solar System, the Lone Ranger was a popular American hero, homosexual GIs couldn’t marry and twerking was unknown to most Americans.
No Comment...I often get confused myself these days.
{Jacques Cousteau voice}Eend what a strange and colorful world eet must have been. What more oddities and frail creetures weel we find thair? {Jacques Cousteau voice off}
Well done, by the way.
Are you thinking of the Adria Dori (sp) that went down in 1956?
Adria=Andrea. still (sp)
A joke is a terrible thing to waste....
I don't think he was. Twerking was well known among the Italians, but then forgotten during the massive drinking era of the Rat Pack.
Much is made of how the ship is being raised as if it had never been done before. If anyone can get the photos of the righting of the USS OKLAHOMA, at Pearl Harbor, back in 1942 you will see virtually the same thing.
I have a book showing the righting of the Oklahoma. All that work, then it was to be towed back to the US for rebuilding. It sank on the way.
Happens to the best of us.
I imagine a bunch of fish and other sea creatures liked their new home.
I see what you did there...
Wheres a Helen Thomas photo when you need one
I don’t think it is rust. I think it is algae and crustaceans.
She was being towed back to be scrapped, not repaired. But it was still an impressive salvage effort.
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