The Concordia.

BOYLES LAW? ARCHEMEDES PRINCIPLE? CHARLES LAW? DEVELOPMENT OF THE AQUALUNG , Kirby Morgan dive lids and dry suits, THEN THE DECOMPRESSION CHAMBER, mechanical advantage, concrete that sets under water, aquatic setting plastic sealants, underwater welding, thermic lance , sea bed radar to determine the depth and type of bedrock side scan sonar, marsh marine bulkheald penetration for waterproof underwater electronics. the R.O.V , geostationary satalites that allows the drilling rig thrusters to maintain static positioning to.005 of a metre to allow the use of closed chamber drilling preventing drill debris from causing pollution , rotary diamond cutting heads if you are at sea and you deploy pullers they surely pull the tug towards the object being pulled against because the pull was toward seaward not landward, so vertical pull has to be used and converted to lateral pull so thrust has to be applied downward/upward to overcome the force of gravity, the weight of water inside the vessel , and the cable tensioners that can be loaded individually by 10lb pull increments up to 6000 tons per cable to name just a few .. YES I would have to say technology facilitated lifting a vessel twice the weight of the Titanic . the decision to use the weight of water acting as a downward force to push one side of the ship down at the same time as the pulling force was acting on it was really clever , but then this company has years of experience . bet they will be on some big bonuses for that job. funnily once the ship is floating 1 metre off the sea bed and is stable the salvage contract terminates and someone else takes over ....... they might yet fuck it up and sink it in transit !

 

its still amazing..why are they going to leave it they until next year and why not float it now ?
can you imagine being able to walk around it...must be real eary...hope they do some inside footage

 

Salvage has been going on for many years before all the above, most of which will be elf and safety requirements and to reduce the risk of failure. The fact that it is such a large vessel just means that you need bigger equipment.
Righting ships in World War 2 didn't involve all the above, but they managed with brute force and the knowledge of experienced salvage men who knew how, where, when and why. They also knew how to use a leverage and counterbalance to full effect.

Most of the above is old technology that has been available for many years, what they have done is good but when it comes to technology most of it has been around for a long time it is just how it is all brought together.

What I'm saying is that it is an amazing achievement but technological, no, the technology they have used to assist the operation is top notch but still could not guarantee that the ship would not break in half as they pulled it over, that was a chance they took.

 

Notthwestbikers.net aka P&O cruises

 

Was talking to a chap today about this and how it's going to be scrapped. He was an ex seaman and we got talking about this place.



It's a bit long but a good watch. HSE would me creaming their pants at this.

 

Yes, the Riverdance. I went to see it.

 

i went to see that they were dismantling while i was there

 

When was this??

 

The clues in post 67

 

Ahh i was about 16 at this time and oblivious to the world haha

 

thats a great vid that ..thanks for posting..how strange was it to see the ship coming up on the sand

 

Is the concordia all gone now??

 

It was a big attraction at the time, rightly so as there's fuck all else to go to Blackpool for. Don't like seeing ships like that but being a ship geek I went and had a look!
The MSC Napoli was a good one in 2007 off the Cornish coast. Containers washed ashore and people going down to the beach and going home with TV's, washers even motorbikes! haha

 

Nope, still in the same place, just upright.