Costa Concordia - wreck removal or salvage for repairs and relaunch ?...

[Ship's Cat]

i read that SMIT are planning on useing "hot tapping" technology to remove the fuel, oils etc from costa concordia--please can someone advice details of "hot tapping" technology

Here's an article on the BBC website about what's possibly next for the ship; scroll down and there's a piece on hot-tapping. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16573312

[Mats]

Video of the reef she grounded on:
http://www.vgtv.no/#!id=48648

[stantheman]

It would appear that the link posted for the video of the reef is not available outside Norway..

[davidships]

Works OK in south east England.
But don't forget to copy the whole URL <http://www.vgtv.no/#!id=48648>

[stantheman]

Worked this morning here in Ontaio Canada but I got the wrong video!

[stantheman]

Just tried again and got the correct video. Works fine.

[Damien McCarthy]

i dont know about you guys but i got a modeling show video not one of costa concordia

[Fergal Clohessy]

lol, I got Ellen Degeneres 

[stantheman]

Same thing happened to me at first. You have to scroll down and look at the available videos. They are all in Norwegian or some other language I cannot understand but the videos are good!

[Jens Boldt]

According to German news today, Pierluigi Foschi, CEO of Costa Crociere, announced in a Senate hearing that Costa Crociere will write the ship off and that the insurance company is also prepared to declare Costa Concordia a total loss.

Other sources claim the removal of the wreck could take as long as 12 months...

[Kai R]

Costa announced yesterday that they have asked 10 salvage companies to submit plans and offers to remove the hull of Costa Concordia. Plans should be submitted by the end of February, then a decision on a company has to be made by the end of march. Removal process could well take a year.

http://www.cruise-community.com/News/News-Headlines/Costa-aims-to-have-Concordia-hull-removal-plan-by-end-March.html

Nobody is thinking to bring the ship back into service.

Regards

Kai

[Captain Ted]

why remove it ?
I should stay there as a monument for company greed and stupidity on top of it

[Derell Licht]

> why remove it ?
> I should stay there as a monument for company greed and stupidity on top of it.

I like it!!  Actually, once they stabilized the ship in place, they could make a "floating restaurant" out of it... build a bridge across to one of the decks, put in stairs to the portion of one of the restaurants which is still above water.  They could rotate the tables so they were level, then have the servers running around in small canoes to serve the tables! 

It would be quite the rage, methinks!!

[kyle pesely]

they should leave her there and have Capt. Schettino serve his prison sentence aboard her, just as she is.

[EniolaCargo.com]

In the Event of Her Demise..... She was misunderstood..