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This Is How You Lift A Sunk Warship Off The Sea [PICS]
Gizmodo ^
| 24 May 2010
| Gizmodo
Posted on 05/24/2010 1:59:13 PM PDT by James C. Bennett
With huge chains and honking cranes, that's how. Example: This Republic of Korea Navy's corvette—half of it, actually—floating over the sea's surface. And before you cry "PHOTOSHOP!", check out the scene from a distance.
It's the Cheonan, a South Korean Pohang-class corvette that broke in two on March 26. According to an international investigation, the cause was a torpedo fired from a North Korean Yeono class miniature submarine, killing 46 crew members. A few weeks later, on April 15, the South Korean Navy recovered the stern part from the bottom of the sea using a giant floating crane. On April 24, the bow was recovered.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: korea; navy; ocean; ship
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To: reagan_fanatic
OH God, please cut the chains.
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posted on
05/24/2010 3:33:59 PM PDT
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
To: UCANSEE2
To: virgil
Well, they are two very different problems of course.
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posted on
05/24/2010 5:00:56 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
To: James C. Bennett
The NKs never thought the SKs would actually be able to salvage that ship (or rather its parts). They must be in full ‘oh sh!t’ mode right now.
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posted on
05/24/2010 5:50:26 PM PDT
by
Moltke
(panem et circenses)
To: Moltke
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posted on
05/24/2010 6:54:29 PM PDT
by
Publius6961
(10% of muslims, the killer murdering radicals, are "only" 140,000,000 of 'em)
To: NCC-1701
I’d think I would use a floating ping pong ball factory to raise an aircraft carrier.
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posted on
05/24/2010 6:56:53 PM PDT
by
bvw
To: reagan_fanatic
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posted on
05/24/2010 7:11:23 PM PDT
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the occupation media.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Courtesy ping -- and you were first!
They are right, though: I was concentrating on hull damage -- and missed noticing the massive size of that crane...
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posted on
05/24/2010 7:49:00 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
To: em2vn
"The second picture is of an intact vessel. The rudders are clearly visible as is the bow. Nothing is missing between them.""Yeah, the pictures we saw a week or so ago showed the two pieces. This doesnt look correct."
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You are both mistaken. The Cheonan was blown into three major parts: bow, stern and stack. Here are the three sections superimposed on a silhouette photo of a complete ship of the same class:
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posted on
05/24/2010 7:57:16 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
To: 1776 Reborn; em2vn
Korean version of my reconstruction. (Lacks correction for foreshortening due to section rotation...)
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posted on
05/24/2010 8:18:41 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
The South Korean computer reconstruction of the "explosion's eye view" really tells the tale of a slightly off-center blast coupled by a bolus of incompressible water:
The converging compression wrinkles on the bow section and the crumpled panels on the stern stabilizer planes speak volumes about the water-coupled overpressure...
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posted on
05/24/2010 8:28:19 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
To: TXnMA
Yes, when I first heard that they were bringing crane ship for salvage operation, I did not realize that they are going to pick up the whole ship with a single crane. It was indeed impressive.
If you go through my earlier postings, you will see photos of salvaging its stern and bow(posted separately.) Do a title search on "salvaged." Many shots of crane can be seen.
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posted on
05/24/2010 8:39:19 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: Moltke
No.
The Norks are in full panic mode because the South Koreans found the torpedo propeller and drive train.
With NK markings on the torpedo controls, and traceable warhead residue in the ship...
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posted on
05/24/2010 9:12:53 PM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: TXnMA
I was wondering if there was a picture that showed the whole crane. This thing must be immense.
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Thanks for the additional info. Didn’t know about the torpedo parts. Just more physical evidence to make the NKs realize they screwed up big this time.
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posted on
05/25/2010 5:14:34 AM PDT
by
Moltke
(panem et circenses)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
I think there is definitely going to be a reprisal soon, out of the sake of national security I won’t speculate in any shape or form of what it could be.
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posted on
05/25/2010 5:29:54 AM PDT
by
Eye of Unk
("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act" G.Orwell)
To: Eyes Unclouded
the NKs have already lost. Their people starve while S. Korea is a developed country.
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posted on
05/25/2010 5:34:47 AM PDT
by
Cronos
(Origen(200AD)"The Church received from theApostles the tradition of giving Baptism even to infants")
To: reagan_fanatic
I thought it was a corvette, not a pig boat
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posted on
05/25/2010 5:38:33 AM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . Ostracize Democrats. There can be no Democrat friends.)
To: Cronos
This is a quite a good remark.
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posted on
06/08/2010 6:24:28 AM PDT
by
Rummenigge
(there are people willing to blow out the light because it casts a shadow)
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