Costa Concordia webcam link--watch the raising in real time...

[Surya Gayatri]

http://www.giglionews.it/2010022440919/webcam/isola-del-giglio/webcam-giglio-porto-panoramica.html
?1379347452504

She's only 12 or 15° rolled back up to verticle for the moment. It's dusk in Italy, so the floodlights should come on soon.

Thanks to Cooley Hurd for this great link. (The site is in Italian).

[jberryhill]

1. Your post would be greatly improved by the inclusion of a link

[onehandle]

2. Here's one...

http://live.reuters.com/Event/Raising_the_Costa_Concordia

[Roland99]

3. +1

[Surya Gayatri]

4. Right on it, jberryhill. Thanks for the heads-up.

[gopiscrap]

5. Cool

[Cooley Hurd]

6. She's rolling upright - I can see the water level marks on the down-side of her!

I really hope this works - I feel bad for the people of Giglio to have had to put up with the eyesore for almost 2 years.

She looks to be at a 45 degree angle now - shortly, I think she's reach a point in which her own weight will do the work and the restraining cables on the starboard side will then hold her back from rolling uncontrollably onto the underwater platforms.

[Surya Gayatri]

7. Yeah, how depressing to look out at the beautiful Mediterranean and see that in front of your face..

She's rolling--slowly, but surely. They have to roll her centimeter by centimeter or she could start to break up.

[Cooley Hurd]

9. She's just about at the point where the restraining cables on the starboard side...

...will come into play. This is an amazing engineering feat. Just to put it into perspective, the USS Lafayette (formerly SS Normandie), which was only 2/3 the tonnage of Costa Concordia, took over two months to right her. The fact that they're doing this in 12 hrs is amazing!!!

[Surya Gayatri]

11. Proud descendants of the Roman Army Engineering Corps at work!

Impossible isn't a word they use!

[msongs]

15. say, whatever happened to the proud descendant of the roman navy who grounded her lol nt

[Surya Gayatri]

16. Just spoke to my Italian friend who lives on Isola La Maddalena, a few

miles across the Tyrrhenian Sea from Isola Giglio.
They call the craven captain a "cazzo". Enough said...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_profanity

cazzo (pl. cazzi) [ˈkattso]: literally penis, can be used as an exclamation or for emphasis; there are countless expressions using this word in a variety of contexts, as detailed in the entries below;

[2naSalit]

8. Wow

Thanks for posting.



On Edited: They have divers looking for remains of those still missing too. What a gruesome task. I grew up on the North Atlantic coast and heard many tales of shipwrecks, famous and forgotten... this is epic.

[Surya Gayatri]

13. I wondered if there might still be some "remains" to be

dealt with...After two years in seawater, what would be left?

[2naSalit]

14. In shalows of that type

bones, metal/stone - like watches and jewelry... and polyester. Maybe some hair. Sad to imagine and I wouldn't want to be one of those divers. I don't recall how many they said were still missing but I can also imagine they may have been crushed underneath... in that case, might not be the bones part recoverable.

Eerie mind fluff...

...

[petronius]

10. Very cool - hope it goes well.

There was a nice drawing of the process at the Reuters link:


http://live.reuters.com/Event/Raising_the_Costa_Concordia/89481541

[Surya Gayatri]

12. Yeah, really interesting. I saw this on the BBC site as well. Thanks for posting.