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This is a satellite pic of the Italian Cruise Ship that capsized recently. Take a look at the full pic here to get a sense of scale.

Looks like you can almost step right across to the rocks without getting your feet wet.

(Goes for the obvious)
Shopped.

Nice pic. That sucker is huge. Maybe scale it down a bit the next time.

Look at the tiny hull.
New cruise ships are like the man who built his house on sand.

A wanton act of aggression on the part of that rock!

Will those Somalians stop at nothing?

When I first saw that picture I thought it was a giant shark with a rock in its mouth.

Go look again.

Quote:

During an interview on Triple M radio in Adelaide this morning, Mr Abbott [Leader of the Federal opposition, who has repeatedly campaigned on a paranoid STOP THE BOATS!!! anti-refugee platform; ZG] made light of the situation.

"This is a bit from left field mate, the captain of the Costa Concordia wants to know if you need any help with your boat policy?" the Triple M announcer said.

"Well, that was one boat that did get stopped, wasn't it," Mr Abbot replied, to laughter.

Unless you have as much bread as Bill Gates and such, you cannot shop this ship

Ship Facts

Lenght: 290 .00 m
Beam: 36.00 m
Draft: 8.00 m
Gross Tonnage : 114,500 m.t.
Passengers: 3,700
Crew: 1,100
Decks: 17
Engine: Wartsila, 12-cylinder
Power: 12,000 kW
Speed: 23.0 kn
Built: 2006
Shipyard: Fincantieri Yards
Price: 600 millions USD

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Originally Posted by GunMaster357

Unless you have as much bread as Bill Gates and such, you cannot shop this ship

Ship Facts

Length: 290 .00 m
~~Beam~~ height: 36.00 m
Draft: ~~8.00 m~~ more than we thought
Gross Tonnage : 114,500 m.t.
Passengers: ~~3,700~~ Don't go there
Crew: ~~1,100~~ Ditto
~~Decks~~ canyons: 17
Engine: Wartsila, 12-cylinder
Power: ~~12,000 kW~~ Not a lot
Speed: ~~23.0 kn~~ Even less
Built: 2006
Shipyard: Fincantieri Yards
Price: 600 millions USD

Thanks Zen, I just woke everyone up with my laughing

height
more than we thought

"There are three things I like about being on an Italian cruise ship. First, their cuisine is unsurpassed. Second, their service is superb. And then, in time of emergency, there is none of this nonsense about women and children first."

� Winston Churchill

Probably an urban legend, but two people in my choir say that the music playing on the cruise ship when it hit the rock was "My Heart Will Go On".

Ironic if true, but probably not.

Nah. For one thing, a ship that big has got several clubs and/or ballrooms per deck, which would each have different music playing.

What they meant to say was they wished Celine Dion had been steering, as she'd have no doubt done a better job.

The Costa Concordia is stuck on rocks. The only reason why it has not slipped into a 200 foot undersea canyon. A major rescue operation has been ongoing for almost two years. This should be months or less from righting and floating the Concordia from its crash site.

The ship must be righted and raised from existing rocks without sliding sideways into deeper water. Otherwise the wreck can become an ecological disaster to a sensitive and protected reserve.

This engineering feat is so significant that is should be reported live.

Who is the insurance agent who sold them the policy?

Washington Post
9/15/13

Shipwrecked Concordia wrested off Italian reef yet operation slowed by delays and cable glitch

Quote:

GIGLIO ISLAND, Italy � Using a vast system of steel cables and pulleys,
maritime engineers on Monday gingerly winched the massive hull of the Costa Concordia
off the reef where the cruise ship capsized near an Italian island in January 2012.
But progress in pulling the heavily listing luxury liner to an upright position
was going much slower than expected. Delays meant the delicate operation
� originally scheduled from dawn to dusk Monday �
was not expected to be completed before Tuesday morning.<snip>

Engineers used remote controls to guide a synchronized system of pulleys,
counterweights and huge chains that were looped under the Concordia�s carcass
to delicately nudge the ship free from its rocky seabed. A few hours into the operation,
four of those cables became slack and threatened to become entangled with other cables,
forcing the winching to halt for an hour while workers fixed the problem,
Costa engineer Franco Porcellacchia said.

Later in the rotation process, a series of tanks on the exposed side
of the hull will be filled with water to help pull it down.
That phase should rotate the ship faster than the winching, Porcellacchia said.