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In the middle parts of the ship it is probably not grounded, so you might have ropes below the hull with large inflatable balloons on both sides below water lev
by rapnie 6y ago
In the middle parts of the ship it is probably not grounded, so you might have ropes below the hull with large inflatable balloons on both sides below water level, to give the ship extra lift. Then on a high tide, with oil & water removed, maybe some dredging on the sides where it needs to rotate to, and.. go!
- wongarsu 6y agoMaybe something like those air/water tanks they attached to the side of the Costa Concordia to float it [1]. But you would have to take great care to prevent it from rolling over, so you probably can't lift it up too far. 1: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28288823 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28288823
- OldHand2018 6y agoJust so everyone is clear: The company that handled the salvaging of the Costa Concordia is the company that is handling the salvaging of this ship. Same exact people! You can bet that they are going to be doing the best thing that can be done.
- pasttense01 6y agoYes, but remember how long the Costa Concordia salvage took: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Concordia_disaster#Salvage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Concordia_disaster#Salva...
- D2187645 6y agowow 15 months
- fallingknife 6y agoAnd if you want to know more about the Costa Concordia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh9KBwqGxTI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh9KBwqGxTI
- achow 6y agoUsing the same Concordia techniques maybe SMIT Salvage would float Evergreen to 'loosen' it a bit out of sand, loosen further by dredging, and then when high tide comes [1], Evergreen would be able to turn around with help of tug boats. [1] https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/best-shot-at-unblocking-suez https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/best-shot-at-unblocking-suez...
- achow 6y ago[1] https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/best-shot-at-unblocking-suez-canal-may-not-come-until-monday-2398579 https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/best-shot-at-unblocking-suez...
- lizzard 6y agoI totally came here to suggest huge balloons!
- EpicOne4223 6y agoSomeone get the old man and that little boy scout from Up on the phone, stat!
- VBprogrammer 6y agoAs the proud father of a toddler my first thought was "somebody call the paw patrol"
- jeffrallen 6y ago"Zuma, I'm going to need your boat, and Sky, I'm going to need you to unload containers onto Zuma. Paw Patrol, let's go!"
- christophilus 6y agoI went to Bob the Builder. That dude can fix it.
- asmithmd1 6y agoLets say they cabled a Goodyear blimp to each side of the ship One Goodyear blimp is about 5,000 m^3 and a meter^3 of seawater is about a ton, so that gives us 10,000 tones of lifting force!. The ship weighs 220,000 so it will be riding about 4.5% higher in the water. The main channel is very narrow. Its bow is buried about 20m deep and 100m into the shallow bottom outside of the channel. They are not going to lift it out.
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoNow I want a giant sci-fi blimp to swoop in and lift it up.