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Topics => General Board => Topic started by: Pandora on September 17, 2013, 03:17:23 AM
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Up-righting ship called "parbuckling" (http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/16/us-italy-ship-idUSBRE98F02T20130916)
... The so-called "parbuckling" operation has seen the 114,500-ton vessel slowly rotated towards an upright position using a series of huge jacks and cables prior to being towed away and broken up for scrap, probably next spring.
A multinational team of 500 salvage engineers has been on Giglio for most of the past year, stabilizing the wreck and preparing for the lifting operation, which has never been attempted on such a large vessel in such conditions.
"We have done parbuckling before but never on a location like this," Nick Sloane, the South African engineer coordinating the recovery for contractor Titan Salvage, told Reuters.
H/T Gateway Pundit
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I hear they want to rename the ship "Obama's America" and the rocky point to shich it smashed into...Reality Point. ::hysterical::
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Heh, good one Warp!
As for the contractors, tough work but an interesting process, amazing what people can do with the right equipment and right people! ::thumbsup::
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Wow, the photos of it are something, huh? I guess ships don't take kindly to resting on their side at the bottom of the ocean.
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It's why we refer to them as "she", they can be....umm...tempermental?!
::exitstageleft::
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It's why we refer to them as "she", they can be....umm...tempermental?!
::exitstageleft::
Prepare to feel the wrath of Pan. ::hysterical::
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It's why we refer to them as "she", they can be....umm...tempermental?!
::exitstageleft::
Prepare to feel the wrath of Pan. ::hysterical::
Why do you think I ran a way...I might be crazy but I ain't stupid! ;D
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It's why we refer to them as "she", they can be....umm...tempermental?!
::exitstageleft::
Prepare to feel the wrath of Pan. ::hysterical::
Said out loud, that sounds suspiciously like "the wrath of Kahn", dunnit?
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It's why we refer to them as "she", they can be....umm...tempermental?!
::exitstageleft::
Prepare to feel the wrath of Pan. ::hysterical::
Said out loud, that sounds suspiciously like "the wrath of Kahn", dunnit?
KHAAAAAAN! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRnSnfiUI54#)
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Large scale engineering and salvage operations are just mind blowing. I remember when they brought the USS Cole back to the US. The salvage ship, I think it was a Dutch ship, flooded its ballast tanks and submerged under the Cole, then pumped out its ballast tanks and lifted back up, with the Cole now on its deck.
It's just crazy to look at, knowing the ship riding on the back of another ship is a destroyer -- hardly a tiny vessel in its own right.
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This explains how it's done.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/flo-flo.htm (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/flo-flo.htm)
(http://i1176.photobucket.com/albums/x331/LadyVirginiaUSA/USSColesalvaged_zpse6078cb8.jpg) (http://s1176.photobucket.com/user/LadyVirginiaUSA/media/USSColesalvaged_zpse6078cb8.jpg.html)