kybluecruiser Posted July 20, 2014 #6776 Share Posted July 20, 2014 Will they be raising her to her previous water line or just to deck 2 or 3? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telken22 Posted July 20, 2014 #6777 Share Posted July 20, 2014 Deck 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kybluecruiser Posted July 20, 2014 #6778 Share Posted July 20, 2014 Deck 3 Shouldn't be much longer then. Sent from my iPhone using Forums mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeBeach Posted July 20, 2014 #6779 Share Posted July 20, 2014 From TPP site. This explains why they were putting down additional absorbing booms. http://www.theparbucklingproject.com/article/98/Refloating_operations_-_press_note I am still looking for fact information because we've pretty much decided that million can't be correct. I would like to read the comments for that one site that stated that but don't want to join the "club" in order to do so. I keep thinking that someone else has questioned that too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeBeach Posted July 20, 2014 #6780 Share Posted July 20, 2014 It's just past 10:30 p.m. in Italy. Looks like about 3 workers are walking around in the bow with flashlights. Around 7ish, there were at least 6-8 workers on top of the forward sponsons on the starboard side. Don't know what it was about but they were concentrating on S2 ship side. Spent about 45 minutes up there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balf Posted July 20, 2014 #6781 Share Posted July 20, 2014 I am still looking for fact information because we've pretty much decided that million can't be correct. Later on the article states that each metre of chain weighs 400 kilos (881 pounds) So if we knew the length of the chains used??? David. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeBeach Posted July 20, 2014 #6782 Share Posted July 20, 2014 Later on the article states that each metre of chain weighs 400 kilos (881 pounds) So if we knew the length of the chains used??? David. As you say, "if." I've given up looking. Now just hoping that somebody will get it and maybe one of us will stumble on the correct answer. I was just at the TPP site. On the page I'm linking here if you scroll down you'll see "Tweets." One tweet says "image of the convoy" and has "show image," click that. If the register box comes up, just close it out. http://www.theparbucklingproject.com/ That's a heck of a lot of vessels! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeBeach Posted July 21, 2014 #6783 Share Posted July 21, 2014 (edited) Interview with lead tug boat Captain: http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/dutch-captain-unfazed-over-role-in-costa-concordia-salvage-1.1872385 Edited July 21, 2014 by SomeBeach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luisrp Posted July 21, 2014 #6784 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Later on the article states that each metre of chain weighs 400 kilos (881 pounds) So if we knew the length of the chains used??? David. 30 million metric tons equals 75,000 km of chain at 400 kilos per meter. You can almost go twice around Earth with that much chain. Definitely a typo in the article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luisrp Posted July 21, 2014 #6785 Share Posted July 21, 2014 (edited) It's just past 10:30 p.m. in Italy. Looks like about 3 workers are walking around in the bow with flashlights. Around 7ish, there were at least 6-8 workers on top of the forward sponsons on the starboard side. Don't know what it was about but they were concentrating on S2 ship side. Spent about 45 minutes up there. They are using a vertical ladder on the side of sponson S2 to get on and off the ship. I have seen a couple of times already people going up and down that ladder into a small boat on the water and then transferring to a bigger board outside the booms. They are probably coming to/from the control room at the very top. You can see them walking on top of S2, then along the front of deck 9 (right above the bridge) all the way to the port side where they disappear, then later reappear outside the control room. That vertical climb is a veeeeery long way from top of the sponson to the water, and increasing. I hope that are tied up to a safety cable on the ladder as they are going up or down. A fall from up there can be fatal. This morning the big letters S2 and S1 were barely visible (only the tops) and now about 10 hours later the big letters are already past the middle. You can already see the middle section of the S above the water. Deck 3 must be almost completely above water now. Can't wait for daylight to come in a few hours. Edited July 21, 2014 by luisrp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidari Posted July 21, 2014 #6786 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Would not normally be up at this time but due to one of the Grand kids being ill and having to wash bedding at this unearthly hour i thought i would look in on the live Giglio cam, it looks in the darkness as though the bow is around 2 to 3 feet above the sea now. Looking at the cam it appears that a bit of a swell is building up unless it is water being pumped out from the Front area of the ship, it will be interesting in a few hours when daybreak comes to see how much higher the ship will be out of the water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luisrp Posted July 21, 2014 #6787 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Amazing! Just one hour ago the big letters in S2 were visible up to the middle. They are almost out of the water right now. They are raising the ship as I type this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USNUZULOOSE Posted July 21, 2014 #6788 Share Posted July 21, 2014 I just got a look at it. I can see the bow better now. This is so amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare cgolf1 Posted July 21, 2014 #6789 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Before the feed went kaput, it looked like they were really pumping the air in, the water was really stirred up by the two front sponsons. Now that the feed is back it has died down. The bow has seemed to rise a lot in the last two hours, this is really exciting:) Sent from my iPad using Forums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USNUZULOOSE Posted July 21, 2014 #6790 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Would not normally be up at this time but due to one of the Grand kids being ill and having to wash bedding at this unearthly hour i thought i would look in on the live Giglio cam, it looks in the darkness as though the bow is around 2 to 3 feet above the sea now. Looking at the cam it appears that a bit of a swell is building up unless it is water being pumped out from the Front area of the ship, it will be interesting in a few hours when daybreak comes to see how much higher the ship will be out of the water. I hope your grandkids feel better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorganMars Posted July 21, 2014 #6791 Share Posted July 21, 2014 OMG!!! How utterly amazing to come home after a long day and see the bow out of the water!! Thanks, so much for all the links! As a sailor, I really enjoyed the picture of the convoy that included the sailboat that will be used for monitoring the marine mammals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luisrp Posted July 21, 2014 #6792 Share Posted July 21, 2014 With the bow now out of the water it finally looks like a ship with flotation tanks on her sides. Prior to this it just looked like some sort of floating structure that did not look at all like a ship. Still would need to rise five more decks to get up to the normal flotation line but we know this is not going to happen. The ship is at or near the most it will be refloated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeBeach Posted July 21, 2014 #6793 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Well duh! I didn't realize that if I clicked on a pix it would enlarge the convoy pix. https://twitter.com/InfoParbuckling/status/490874281346486272/photo/1 Sid, hope the grands are feeling better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telken22 Posted July 21, 2014 #6794 Share Posted July 21, 2014 According to news reports, the oil spill from the other night was engine fuel and sulphuric acid H25, but was minimal and has been contained. Some more pictures from inside the ship: The bridge: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTH Posted July 21, 2014 #6795 Share Posted July 21, 2014 http://www.vesselfinder.com/news/2222-Costa-Concordia-Update-Final-trip-expected-to-start-tomorrow A couple of details about the tow tomorrow morning, including size of tow chains etc being used by Blizzard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike.Minh Posted July 21, 2014 #6796 Share Posted July 21, 2014 As you say, "if." I've given up looking. One tweet says "image of the convoy" and has "show image," click that. http://www.theparbucklingproject.com/ That's a heck of a lot of vessels! Direct link to the large version of the fleet photo here https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bs_vjpBIQAAU78e.jpg:large I wonder what the role of the sailing yacht KIDAN is in this convoy. Does anybody know? How practical is a sailing vessel in such a convoy? As for the mystery about 30 million tons: Somebody probably read an original Italian press release where it said mille which is Italian for thousand. Anybody with even just residual knowledge of Latin from school would recognise this, but maybe jourrnalists aren't anymore what they used to be. I bet we're talking about 3,000 tons, because even 30,000 tons doesn't sound plausible, doesn't it? Divide by 400 kg per meter of chain, 3,000 tons give us 7,500 mtrs of chains. (For those who still use imperial units :D: 24,000 feet) On another note, I find it quite funny that the team on the YouReporter video Live feed http://www.youreporter.it/live/Rigalleggiamento_Concordia_diretta_live_streaming are blissfully unaware about the live audio transmission: voices, washing up of plates etc etc are all audible. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telken22 Posted July 21, 2014 #6797 Share Posted July 21, 2014 I laugh at the amount of times I get asked by friends whether the ship is going to be refurbished, some genuinely believe they are just going to wash it and start using it again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balf Posted July 21, 2014 #6798 Share Posted July 21, 2014 I laugh at the amount of times I get asked by friends whether the ship is going to be refurbished, some genuinely believe they are just going to wash it and start using it again! Away back in this fascinating thread ony guy was convinced it would be converted into a cattle carrier. Come to think of it though, the damage doesn't look too bad, a good body shop could nock that out easy. David. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luisrp Posted July 21, 2014 #6799 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Ok, so it looks like deck 3 is fully out of the water. The holes for the mooring lines are visible in the bow and those are in deck 3. I am guessing this is the final refloat level. Would be interesting to look at the main lobby now. This is the lowest level of the atrium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balf Posted July 21, 2014 #6800 Share Posted July 21, 2014 I wonder what the role of the sailing yacht KIDAN is in this convoy. Does anybody know? How practical is a sailing vessel in such a convoy? D Could it be for the media? David. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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