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Post by cheesegrater on Jan 16, 2012 20:20:50 GMT
Right then, having seen, listened and read about it several times a day it has got me thinking.
How the fuck are they going to move the bastard thing, my mate at work seems to think they are going to lift it out of the water with a helicopter but i think he may be incorrect, another person reckons they will just leave it there but i disagree as even tho is has a huge gash down the side there is millions of value sat there.
what do we think?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2012 20:27:20 GMT
Cranes
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Post by jonah77 on Jan 16, 2012 20:28:59 GMT
geoff capes will simply get it on his shoulder and carry it ashore.
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Post by DodgyDino on Jan 16, 2012 20:53:56 GMT
your mate reckons they are going to lift it with an Helecopter.......Bloody hell it would have to be one bloody big chopper
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Post by pretzel on Jan 16, 2012 20:54:17 GMT
I phoned Toys'R'us earlier to see if they had an Airfix model of the Italian cruise liner.
Apparently, they only had one left, so I've asked them to put it on one side for me.
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Post by mayf on Jan 16, 2012 20:59:44 GMT
I phoned Toys'R'us earlier to see if they had an Airfix model of the Italian cruise liner. Apparently, they only had one left, so I've asked them to put it on one side for me. ;D |
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Post by robdog on Jan 16, 2012 21:01:19 GMT
Chuck Norris will turn up and as soon as the cruise ship sees him itll shit itself and scarper pretty sharpish
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Post by localloser on Jan 16, 2012 21:03:46 GMT
Apparently that Napoli that ran aground off the south coast of England a while back is still being broken up 18 months later. Heard on the radio that it might take that length of time with this one. Its 950 feet long for fux sake - much longer than a football pitch.
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Post by lawrieleslie on Jan 16, 2012 21:26:28 GMT
It will depend on the extent of the underwater flooded compartments. There is a possibility that, once all oil and ballast tanks have been pumped out and the hole plugged with external cofferdam it could be refloated. However if the ships keel is broken than it will have to be cut up and and possibly refloated in sections. Would think that, as the ship is very modern, the owners would want it salvaged, repaired and back cruising as soon as possibe.
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Post by supersmashinggreat on Jan 16, 2012 21:41:40 GMT
It will depend on the extent of the underwater flooded compartments. There is a possibility that, once all oil and ballast tanks have been pumped out and the hole plugged with external cofferdam it could be refloated. However if the ships keel is broken than it will have to be cut up and and possibly refloated in sections. Would think that, as the ship is very modern, the owners would want it salvaged, repaired and back cruising as soon as possibe. i don't think it will be coming back , the hole is far too big. no one died because of it going aground, more for the fact it tipped, its not a titanic incident, and i think the captain is being stitched up far too soon. far too soon. |
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Post by paulinespens on Jan 16, 2012 22:27:14 GMT
It will depend on the extent of the underwater flooded compartments. There is a possibility that, once all oil and ballast tanks have been pumped out and the hole plugged with external cofferdam it could be refloated. However if the ships keel is broken than it will have to be cut up and and possibly refloated in sections. Would think that, as the ship is very modern, the owners would want it salvaged, repaired and back cruising as soon as possibe. What LL says. it will be refloated |
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Post by oldgit57 on Jan 16, 2012 22:33:25 GMT
your mate reckons they are going to lift it with an Helecopter.......Bloody hell it would have to be one bloody big chopper ;D Big chopper wanted eh! I'm your man ( if only! ) ;D |
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Post by danceswithclams on Jan 16, 2012 23:52:10 GMT
Why do media outlets when reporting on the incident keep saying it was "like a scene from the film Titanic"?
It wasn't like a scene from the FILM Titanic was it? It was like THE TITANIC, y'know the ocean-liner that famously that struck an iceberg and sank on 15 April 1912, resulting in the deaths of 1,517 people.
Has society been dumbed down to the extent that we can only conceptualise this by equating it to an overly long movie featuring a sprout-faced man-child and the ubbs of Winslet?
This country...
[Partridge voice]
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Post by stoneroses on Jan 17, 2012 0:44:34 GMT
abdoulaye faye!
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Post by Northy on Jan 17, 2012 7:55:36 GMT
It will depend on the extent of the underwater flooded compartments. There is a possibility that, once all oil and ballast tanks have been pumped out and the hole plugged with external cofferdam it could be refloated. However if the ships keel is broken than it will have to be cut up and and possibly refloated in sections. Would think that, as the ship is very modern, the owners would want it salvaged, repaired and back cruising as soon as possibe. they could even weld up new plates over most of the gash, pump air into it to force the water out, whilst pumping in concrete into the other side of the hole that is left (the type we used to seal up the holes with on the Rothesay) then put those huge inflatable fenders under the submerged side and slowly inflate them to right the ship back up .......... simples  |
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Post by junglestokie on Jan 17, 2012 9:20:39 GMT
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Post by elsidibe on Jan 17, 2012 11:29:47 GMT
It will depend on the extent of the underwater flooded compartments. There is a possibility that, once all oil and ballast tanks have been pumped out and the hole plugged with external cofferdam it could be refloated. However if the ships keel is broken than it will have to be cut up and and possibly refloated in sections. Would think that, as the ship is very modern, the owners would want it salvaged, repaired and back cruising as soon as possibe. i don't think it will be coming back , the hole is far too big. no one died because of it going aground, more for the fact it tipped, its not a titanic incident, and i think the captain is being stitched up far too soon. far too soon. To be fair I think the Captain sort of stitched himself up, for instance by piloting the boat 4 miles off a well-known course on a calm sea, and then telling coastguards he'd abandoned ship before evacuation was complete. He's hardly the new Magellan is he? |
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Post by lawrieleslie on Jan 17, 2012 16:53:40 GMT
It will depend on the extent of the underwater flooded compartments. There is a possibility that, once all oil and ballast tanks have been pumped out and the hole plugged with external cofferdam it could be refloated. However if the ships keel is broken than it will have to be cut up and and possibly refloated in sections. Would think that, as the ship is very modern, the owners would want it salvaged, repaired and back cruising as soon as possibe. they could even weld up new plates over most of the gash, pump air into it to force the water out, whilst pumping in concrete into the other side of the hole that is left (the type we used to seal up the holes with on the Rothesay) then put those huge inflatable fenders under the submerged side and slowly inflate them to right the ship back up .......... simples Wasn't Rothesay's hull completely concrete NS? ;D ;D My MEO on Sheffield had been MEO on Rothesay and told us all the stories about shares in Readymix concrete. I was in Falklands on Leeds castle when Endurance hit iceberg and put large hole in side. NP2010 did a marvelous job building a cofferdam around the hole, pumping out the water and welding steel plate from outside. Ship was able to sail to Montevideo for proper repair. |
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Post by redstriper on Jan 17, 2012 17:04:24 GMT
I don't see the problem, my ex had a huge gash and yet still floated happlily in the hotel pool |
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Post by eddyclamp on Jan 17, 2012 18:36:47 GMT
Lionel Richie was suposed to be singing on that boat but he didn`t fancy dancing on the ceiling.
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Post by euanstokie123 on Jan 17, 2012 19:26:30 GMT
Bloody hell it would have to be one bloody big chopper |
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Post by darksideofthemoon on Jan 18, 2012 3:38:34 GMT
It will depend on the extent of the underwater flooded compartments. There is a possibility that, once all oil and ballast tanks have been pumped out and the hole plugged with external cofferdam it could be refloated. However if the ships keel is broken than it will have to be cut up and and possibly refloated in sections. Would think that, as the ship is very modern, the owners would want it salvaged, repaired and back cruising as soon as possibe. i don't think it will be coming back , the hole is far too big. no one died because of it going aground, more for the fact it tipped, its not a titanic incident, and i think the captain is being stitched up far too soon. far too soon. I'm not so sure about that - I listened to the call between the skipper of the Coast Guard and the ship's captain this morning......the Coast Guard was ordering him to get back on the ship to provide them with a staus report, but the chicken-shit would have none of that!!  F*ckin' typical eyetie!!  |
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Post by Arthurdollar on Jan 18, 2012 8:44:14 GMT
Easy weld that little hole up re-float it, it will be back cruising next week, no problem, easy peasy.
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Post by basingstokie on Jan 18, 2012 12:39:06 GMT
Easy weld that little hole up re-float it, it will be back cruising next week, no problem, easy peasy. Gaffer tape What they actually do depends on severity of hole, but before they do ow't they have to pump all fuel out. Ideally they patch it up, pump water out and sail to the closest dry dock for full on repairs More expensive is to put it on back of another ship and take it to dry dock Either way, it's a bugger of a job, but I expect Mario Ballotelli will give them a hand |
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Post by cheesegrater on May 19, 2012 7:18:51 GMT
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