I don’t know about you, but this is one of the most awesome engineering efforts I’ve ever seen!
Engineers in Italy have succeeded in setting the cruise ship Costa Concordia upright, 20 months after it capsized off the island of Giglio, reports the BBC.
In the complicated, 19-hour operation to wrench the ship from its side – which took all of Monday and most of the night – engineers used cables and metal water tanks to roll the ship onto a platform, said the BBC. The ship was declared completely upright at 4 a.m. local time on Tuesday.
– Time.com
The Plan…
The Execution…
And The Incredible Images…
Images from Costa Concordia: Capsized Ship Is Pulled Upright
Images from Costa Concordia: Time-lapse video reveals impressive 19-hour effort to wrench ship from its side
Images from Concordia Pulled Upright: Photos
Humungous “Props” to the engineering crew that pulled off this amazing feat!
Related: NOVA | Why Ships Sink, airing September 18, 2013 at 9 pm on PBS
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Amazing thing they did
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It really was. Thanks Harry! 😀
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I’ve kept an eye on this story myself. Pretty amazing stuff. (However, the captain who ran her aground and killed all those people should have been lynched by now.)
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That really was amazing PT, and I couldn’t agree with you more about that captain. Speaking of people being lunched, I just watched the Under The Dome season finale and, after Sunday’s Breaking Bad episode, I was really rooting for Dean Norris to get head-shot twice in the same week! 🙄
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When people work together amazing and heartening things happen. If all the humans could work together to avoid the huge disaster of climate change, the human race (and all the other living things) might not have to suffer an almost complete die off . I know, I know; I should try and be more cheerful. When the CO2 is down to 350 parts I will start smiling again.
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As much as I’d like to believe things like this represent what we’re about, I know it just doesn’t Phillip. In fact, The War Ratio has become even more unbalanced than when I wrote about it 4 1/2 years ago, so a new stone-age is probably just around the corner… 😐
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IzaakMak; you do a splendid job!
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Thanks my friend. Though my stats make me wonder why sometimes, I do work really hard at this… 🙂
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Was not that the coolest thing?
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Gotta love it when a plan comes together! 😀
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what else but wow
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Wow certainly works for me Jo! 😀
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