Costa "Bomb" Concordia being raised

Check out the BBC live feed from the wreck site................better than watching paint dry if you have nothing better to do!
Tony

 

Love the way there towing it away to be destroyed
Wow what a waste.

 

lots of money in the scrap metal

 

I know its just it looks complete ,seems such as waste but I guess after a few years under water its a write off

 

And unfortunately it is someone's grave

 

Heard on the radio that it's cost £500 million to raise it so far!! That's a lot if scrap metal...

 

Underwriters will have declared it a total loss...a lengthy immersion in salt water will have pickled anything of immediate value other than scrap. Once salt gets into a material its nearly impossible to remove its effects. Of course there may well be an enterprising soul that would buy up a few fixtures and fittings to sell for their possible curio value.

 

weighs 114000 tonnes scrap metal is £130 a ton

17m yeah sounds like a small loss, maybe they usually restore bays

maybe there are some good bits inside

 

true

 

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I understand that a large portion of the cost to move her is the enviromental one......not many years ago it might have been broken up on the spot once secured and just reduced to maneagable chunks. Creating an apalling mess as anyone has seen Alang Beach style ship breaking would verify.

 

yeah its all about the environment oh and the tourist trade, but there must be money in it as there are lots of ships like this broken for scrap, there is a scrapyard near me that used to regularly have submarines in being cut up

 

When I first saw they were going to refloat it I presumed they were going to refit and mend , your right they should have just cut it up there.

 

Why not clear it out, make safe, clean oil contaminants out sink and make into a divers reef.

 

Yeah it's grounded that's why it didn't completely capsize.

 

I tjink It's on a ledge, think they was concerned about it sliding down deeper.

 

Don't tell Empi. We'll be getting exhausts pre-rusted from them next.

 

shame for the fish , bet they had just started to move in waste .

 

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