Going to try to upright the Costa Concordia tomorrow
 

After almost two years of planning and working on it a complicated salvage operation is about to begin Monday morning .

Trying to upright the Costa Concordia From where it's been resting for the past 20 months.
Quite an engineering feat to say the least.
The operation will be on live webcams but they say could take 8-10 hours if all goes as planned.
Should be something to see.

float it up with ping pong balls.

Never been done before, good luck.

Easy, no problem.

Have Obama blow hot air into it.....

Actually they used the same method to raise some ships (who's names escape me) in Pearl Harbour in WW2. One it worked on and the second slipped into deeper water which is a possibility in this case too.

Once they raise it, what do they do with it? Send it to India to be scrapped?

Insured by USAA, so it'll be off to Carnival as the Phoenix.

First look for the two missing bodies, then scrapped.

Have to watch for time-lapse video.

Yea, that will be a REAL boring real time video. ;)

I am sure Discovery or Nat Geo or maybe PBS will have a doccumentary on the entre operation. That will be interesting.

During the process of righting the ship, at some point does gravity take over or is the entire process controlled by cranes?

I think gravity is always working. Pretty hard to turn it off.

Very funny.

From the looks of it, they appear to be moving, albeit extremely slowly...estimated 12 hour project to right it.

Watch here

Randy

Yep, that is about as exciting as I thought. ;)

It does make it clear they have rotated it some. Time lapse will be more interesting.

Yes they have to rotate it 66 degrees and so far only 3.
The 8-10 hours prediction will certainly be extended as once they start they cannot stop.
I maybe should have posted " Going to try to upright the Costa Concordia this week "

At 30degrees now .All going as planned so far.