The winning projects of the New Concordia Island Contest have been unveiled this past weekend. The international ideas competition aims to rethink the disaster of the wrecked cruise ship Costa Concordia as exceptional opportunity to imagine the future of the wreck and that of the Italian island of Giglio which has become the ship's new, permanent destination. — bustler.net
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y'all see 60 minutes last night? -> http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50137223n
it's crazy what they have to do to remove the ship!
Here is our competition entry [honorable mention] if you want to take a look:
http://dprbcn.wordpress.com/2012/12/16/hotel-concordia/
Our proposal “Hotel Concordia. Don’t Let Your Dreams Sink“, was developed together with Eva Papamargariti [Larissa, Greece] and Vassiliki Maria Plavou [Volos, Greece]
Three of the four diagrams on the page linked above (middle of the page, scroll down) reflect what is being done to refloat the ship (as seen in the 60 Minutes piece). In the last stage, the welded-on sponson boxes are filled with air, raising the ship from the underwater platform, and the ship (with its "training wheels") is towed away.
The platform has 8' dia. legs, fitted to holes drilled in the underwater "mountain" of stone. More steel is used in this operation than is present in the Eiffel Tower -- three times as much ! An unbelievable salvage scenario. The fear is that the ship will slide off its underwater perch before the operation is completed . . .
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