Anyone know what's happeneed to it ?
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11 years ago
Anyone know what's happeneed to it ?
Still aground
Presumably it is too difficult to weld a patch on the side, pump most of the water out and give it a pull in the appropriate direction with a BIG tug.
I assume that most of the cost in building a liner is the fitting out, none of which is salvageable. So, this one is now just worth however many tons of scrap metal at £100-200 a ton, less the cost of floating her, and less the cost of getting rid of all the junk on board like acres of ruined carpets.
AFAIK it's perched on the edge of a steep drop (The Med is very deep) and is or was rather unstable. Add all the usual nonsense about 'environmental impacts' etc and it's probably not as easy as it looks.
Isostasy they call it.
The extra weight of the Costa Concordia is pushing down off Italy. Which is causing pressure to build up right across Europe - and at the moment it is spewing a volcano of Costa coffee shops and machines across the UK.
In time, I guess it will stabilise. But if they salvage the CC, maybe the Costas will sink back down into the mire?
I thought that was essentially what they are going to do. Patch the holes, put some big strops around it, attaching it to the land (to stop it slipping off the ledge) and out to a BFO whinch off shore and pull.
Once refloated I also thought they intended to refit it rather than scrap it.
There was a bit on the news the other day about the Arc Royal being scrapped - and I was surprised just how little it was worth.
Well, they took otu all the good stuff...!
It should be easy enough to fill with polystyrene foam.
Probably worth a lot more if towed to a beach in Pakistan where there are no costs for removing tons of asbestos or other environmentally unfriendly products. Much of the original cost will have been equipment which is now obsolete or has been removed.
Also Norway have had accidents. Our biggest accident is BELLONA. BELLONA make a living by fighting becquerels all over the world. They have a special interest in becquerels from Russia.
The relocation of "Murmansk" has now lasted 18 years:
We're just back from Paphos and were rather surprised by what turned out to be this:
If we're having an 'interesting wreck' or 'my wreck is better than your wreck" contest....!
This is a contender:
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I am more interested in BELLONA.
Becquerels ??
I read a salvage agreement had been signed but nothing since.
Brian
This is the argument about old oil platforms of course. At the moment they will take them apart due to pollution issues, but the cheapest way is to just sink them in deep water. At the end of the day whatever you have to sell is only worth what somone will pay for it, so if its less than the cost of salvagge then salvage it, if not chop it up.
Brian
1 nucleus decay per second.
The Iodine 123 I was recently injected with had an activity of around 185 MBq. None radioactive iodine tablets to block the thyroid before, another set of iodine tablets 24hrs later and a warning to keep away from young children for 48hrs...
I'd a liked to have a gieger counter to see how active I was and watch the level decay.
Sure - but it was an odd way of putting it.
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