Raising the Costa Concordia

13 Replies to “Raising the Costa Concordia”

1. Darn! Canada missed out again. We could have had a submarine that sort of worked!

2. My God it’s coming right at us!!!

3. Why couldn’t the Womans Studies pros get this upright with rainbow power? Must be unicorn shortage.

4. Fitting that Shettetino tipped her over onto gigilo island, oh zoze italians.

5. Are we there yet! Are we there yet!

6. Still better than a Carnival Cruise.

7. I have been checking in a different times of the day. It is an amazing engineering feat which has required alot of planning and preparation. Too bad the captain did not take his job as seriously instead of trying to impress a young dancer.
   I found the damage to the structure on the right side of the ship quite dramatic as it was being slowly raised out of the water. It is quite clear there is a 100-200 ft section of he ship that is 5-6 decks high crushed in 20-30 ft from the ship collapsing onto the rocks when it tipped over. There is second section in similar condition close to the back of the ship. No doubt it will be more apparent in the clarity of the day on Tuesday.
   It was interesting at in a national post article about how much material was on board that is either toxic and/or rotting.
   http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/09/16/costa-concordias-rotting-cargo-includes-5500-lbs-of-cheese-2000-lbs-of-onions-and-815-lbs-of-rabbit-meat/
   The ship is also covered with a fine net on the portion that was submerged to try and keep any contents such as furniture, luggage, etc in or close to the ship once the water starts draining from the previously submerged parts of the ship. When i first saw it, I thought it was rust but as the ship started to come out of the water it was apparent it was a net.
   Also we have to remember that there are still 2 people unaccounted for.

8. I think they should re-name it the costly-Concordia

9. What’s the point of raising it? Wasn’t Obama going to lower the oceans?

10. Gregorio De Falco, Italian Coast Guard, to Francesco Schettino, “Vado a bordo, cazzo!” is now available on T-shirts. My Italian is not very good but I gather that as a colloquialism cazzo it means approximately, “d*ckhead”.
    De Falco’s statement seems to be translated by the MSM as “get back on board Captain for God’s sake”, which is right up there with “the Old Guard dies but does not surrender” as a translation of Cambronne’s “merde” when asked to surrender at Waterloo.

11. $570 million to build.
    $800 plus million to re-float.
    $10 million(tops)recycled.
    This must be another project dreamed up by Dildo McDinky to keep his voters happy.

12. Yeah well, as cleanups seem ta go, the math/cost is not that surprising.
    Yeah from time to time, heavily vetted, experienced, credentialed individuals with great responsibilities do do outrageously careless, cavalier acts…..

13. Exactly.
    I still can’t figure out why the former “captain” on the hotel side was given command of the ship.