The Costa Concordia "Parbuckling" process. 19 hours in a one minute time-lapse;

[A HERETIC I AM]

One of the great engineering and salvage feats in history. Of course, they ain't done yet!

Next is to assemble the sponsons on the starboard side, float her and tow her away.

[Blue_Tires]

1. Engineering = cool

[Skittles]

22. ...

a coworker of mine mentioned in an email to her parents that a noise coming from her dashboard was driving her nuts. Her engineer dad replied with an 11 paragraph detailed explanation of possible causes.....her mum replied, "Turn up the radio".

[A HERETIC I AM]

30. Saw a great cartoon once....

The caption read;

"There comes a time when the marketing department has to shoot the engineer in order to get the product out the door."

[Skittles]

31. LOL

I work with some engineers - I had one of them help fix a double-sided jacket zipper malfunction and had to beg off from hearing exactly how he fixed it

[krispos42]

27. THIS ^^^

:-D

Give an engineer a lever and he'll move the world.

[Octafish]

41. Truth.

[redstatebluegirl]

2. This is why we need to beef up science and math education in the US!

Could not do this without an engineer (ie science and math)...

[A HERETIC I AM]

14. FWIW, the guy in charge......

is South African.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/13/world/costa-concordia-nick-sloane/index.html

[redstatebluegirl]

16. Yes, I saw that but we need to beef up ours here

to be competitive with the world. I had students who would question why they needed Math and Physics (they were Architecture majors by the way)....

[SharonAnn]

23. Or, we could continue to follow the GOP plan and off-shore or in-source (H1-B) the jobs.

That would would be cheaper.

[redstatebluegirl]

24. But stupid!

[MADem]

3. I am suitably IMPRESSED! What a job! nt

[malaise]

4. Brilliant

Amazing

[joeybee12]

5. knr

[oldhippie]

6. Thank you for that .......

I watched some of it yesterday in real time. It was a little slow.

I like your version much better!

[A HERETIC I AM]

13. I only wish I could take credit for the film!

I LOVE time-lapse photography.

I've done a couple myself with my iPad and an app I got for it. I put one up several months ago;

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022759013

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. whoa! it's upright again! after how long?

[A HERETIC I AM]

11. Since January of last year.

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

[SidDithers]

8. DU rec...

Very cool.

Sid

[russspeakeasy]

9. Thanks for the post...

[msanthrope]

10. Cool! nt

[HappyMe]

12. That's pretty cool.

[Bay Boy]

15. Hey, she looks like she's ready for passengers!

Who wants to book a cruise?

[A HERETIC I AM]

17. Would you like those accommodations crushed or non-crushed?

She's not a pretty sight, that's for sure.

[Bay Boy]

18. A little elbow grease...

...and she'll be good to go!

[A HERETIC I AM]

20. LOL...yup.

The ol' "That'll buff out" eh?

[petronius]

26. She'll still be sitting like that in October - looks like a great venue

for a Ghost Ship themed haunted house. (If they do Halloween in Italy, that is.)

Those are pretty surreal pictures: one side looks ready to go, and the other side not so much...

[krispos42]

28. Oh, just drive the ship through the shipwash

n/t

[JimDandy]

33. LOL. n/t

[progressoid]

19. I read that they blew her horn when she was upright.

To the cheers of spectators and workers.

[A HERETIC I AM]

21. At four in the bleedin' morning!

I didn't read they blew her horn, but I read the other vessels involved all let go.

But getting hers to sound would be a fairly simple task. All you need is an air compressor, albeit a big one!

[Bay Boy]

25. I can't imagine it was the Costa Concordia's horn...

that they blew.

[progressoid]

37. That's what The Atlantic said...

The upright -- but still partially submerged -- Costa Concordia, near the harbor of Giglio Porto, on September 17, 2013. The ship's horn sounded for the first time since the January 13, 2012 tragedy, its sound mixing with applause and cheers in the port in a dramatic climax to the massive salvage operation. (Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images)

[Warpy]

29. Pictures elsewhere aren't terribly clear

but people on the salvage crew described the ship as looking like someone had kicked a giant soccer ball into her side.

I'll bet everybody on shore is relieved not to have to stare at that reminder of the human capacity for idiocy every day.

They will be attaching flotation containers onto the wrecked side to get her off the rocks so they can tow her off to dry dock to be repaired or recycled.

[A HERETIC I AM]

32. Flotation containers = Sponsons

From what I understand, they are going to duplicate on the starboard side what they have already attached to the port side.

These;



The contract to build them was awarded to Fincantieri, the same parent firm that built the new Queen Mary.

Utterly fascinating.

Doubtful she will be repaired. I've read several articles that state she will be scrapped.

[Warpy]

35. Containers on the port side are full of water

which was the weight used to pull the ship upright.

If they're tight enough, they can be used as flotation devices, too.

The article I read said the containers on the port side were welded into place, but the ones on the starboard side won't have to be attached that securely. They could be ready to float her off the rocks in a week.

[A HERETIC I AM]

36. Right.

"If they're tight enough, they can be used as flotation devices, too.

They are, and are also referred to as Cassions.

Fill them with water, they sink.

Pump the water out and they float like a cork.

[Warpy]

39. Good, the article was written by somebody who obviously knew little

of what was going on. Somehow I couldn't see them cracking all the welds on the port side to change containers.

However, it was the source of the soccer ball comment.

[Glassunion]

34. Wow, it only took 19 hours to get it up!

*Insert tasteless joke here*

[longship]

38. Parbuckling! I love the nomenclature.

R&K

Damned thing was twice the mass of the Titanic!

[A HERETIC I AM]

40. Link to the website of the Italian firm Fincantieri Marine Group, a major contract holder;

http://www.theparbucklingproject.com/article/11/form_media.php

[Scurrilous]

42. K & R