Happening Now: Engineers attempt to raise sunken Italian cruise ship

[ScriptOhio]

Live picture (feed): http://live.reuters.com/Event/Raising_the_Costa_Concordia

Note: Costa Concordia: Watermark shows lift progress

One of the largest and most daunting salvage operations ever undertaken is under way with an attempt to pull the shipwrecked Costa Concordia upright.

Footage from the scene shows the difference in colour between the newly-exposed part of the ship, and the part that has been exposed since it hit rocks and capsized in January 2012.

The whole operation is expected to take 12 hours.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/69864000/jpg/_69864191_costaconcordia_464.jpg

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[scooter1369]

The Costa Concordia is upright.

 

[matcar]

Man I'd like to take a cruise on that vessel now.

 

[ScriptOhio]

Re: Man I'd like to take a cruise on that vessel now.

That would be the "cruise from hell".

Costa Concordia operation could spew toxic soup of rotting food and chemicals into sea
A toxic soup of rotting food, chemicals and other debris is expected to spew out of the Costa Concordia when the giant cruise ship is hauled upright tomorrow.
There are fears that the operation could pollute the pristine waters of Giglio, the Italian island where the ship capsized last year.

The Costa Concordia was at the start of a week-long cruise in the Mediterranean when it crashed and its larders and freezers were packed to capacity with vast quantities of fresh food, dried goods, drinks and other supplies for its 4,200 passengers and crew.

Trapped inside the upturned hull are more than 24,000 lbs of fish, nearly 5,500 lbs of cheese, 1,500 gallons of ice cream in tubs, 24,000 lbs of pasta, 2,000 lbs of onions, more than 2,000 pots of jam and nearly 17,000 tea bags.

Rotting beneath the waterline are more than 17,000 lbs of raw beef, nearly 11,000 eggs, 2,346 hot dog buns, 815 lbs of rabbit meat and more than 1,000 gallons of milk.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...p-of-rotting-food-and-chemicals-into-sea.html

 

[ScriptOhio]

(Finally) Thar she goes....

Sirens on nearby boats wailed and bells on Giglio tolled just before two tugboats pulled the vessel away.

There is also a video: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28437238