Cargo ship salvage pics / wayne's new motors?

[91C2wrencher]

This is a link to the salvaging of the car carrier ship that recently sunk full of bimmers and volvos and apperently one john deere tractor. This must be where they use the big engines that was a thread in the 911 forum just last week

http://www.tricolorsalvage.com/pages/home.asp

click on photos....

[arcsine]

Blows me away that they are using cheese-slicer technology to cut something like this up. Must make an ungodly sound.

[ronin]

that's just absloutely amazing. looks like the skin was pretty thin too.

[BGCarrera32]

What I would really like to see is hull pictures of the nuclear sub the Kursk which sank in the Barents Sea on excercise in 2001.

A deep sea diver from Haliburton was able to get on board during the retrieval excercise, the only American ever to board a Russian sub (that we know of anyway).

[ronin]

hmm, wasn't that back in 2000?

[Adam]

Awesome website!



Look at that shaft! That'd be hard to cut...

[91C2wrencher]

I was thinking maybe I could "just" squeeze one of those turbos under the lid of my C2. Whadya think? 10,000 HP at full boost?

[JavaBrewer]

Originally posted by BGCarrera32
What I would really like to see is hull pictures of the nuclear sub the Kursk which sank in the Barents Sea on excercise in 2001.

A deep sea diver from Haliburton was able to get on board during the retrieval excercise, the only American ever to board a Russian sub (that we know of anyway).

About a year ago I spent the better part of a day browsing the net and found a site that had some really frightening pictures of the Kursk in drydock - full frontal. The boat has since been scrapped. The site was located somewhere in Russia and obviously the text was not English. I had a feeling that I stumbled upon something that was not supposed to be freely available. They used the same method to saw off the damaged nose of the sub before raising it. I believe the nose section is still on the ocean bottom. Needless to say the outer skin of the sub was substantially thicker than the ship on this thread!

[Drago]

Originally posted by ronin
that's just absloutely amazing. looks like the skin was pretty thin too.

You should see how thin commercial aircraft skin is....in some areas at least

[widebody911]

http://www.mammoet.com/kursk/photos/index.htm

Originally posted by dmoolenaar
About a year ago I spent the better part of a day browsing the net and found a site that had some really frightening pictures of the Kursk in drydock - full frontal. The boat has since been scrapped. The site was located somewhere in Russia and obviously the text was not English. I had a feeling that I stumbled upon something that was not supposed to be freely available. They used the same method to saw off the damaged nose of the sub before raising it. I believe the nose section is still on the ocean bottom. Needless to say the outer skin of the sub was substantially thicker than the ship on this thread!

[JavaBrewer]

Yeah Thom, I've seen those too, but the ones I was referring to were high res. shots of the boat in dry dock from the front and top. You could actually make out the different decks and componentry looking in at the missing nose section. Don't know if those are still available but they gave me the creeps.

[Adam]

Oscar-class (I, II, III) SSGN subs, are double-hulled boats. You probably saw the massive pressure hull, then the inner hulls. In between, they normally put ballast tanks and batteries etc.

It'd be a repugnant job draining and inspecting the Kursk.

btw, anyone read Sherry Sontag & Christopher Drew's "Blind Man's Bluff"?

[ronin]

Originally posted by Drago
You should see how thin commercial aircraft skin is....in some areas at least

oh I hear ya! (2024t4 and all) but if someone did a skin-thickness-to-vessel-weight ratio (wow - a whole new unit of measure ) comparison between the two, I think the ship's skin would actually be much thinner comparatively. could be a pretty interesting exercise.