DinghyRacer

CC has come full circle from the port where she was built to the port where she will be taken apart. Kind of sad in a way. :(

 

Sad for the ship, tragic for the people who died and their families. All for the vainity and stupidity of one man.

 

Various CC stories on the Daily Mail website including the Captain at a posh party while his ship was being taken away to the breakers yard:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?sel=site&searchPhrase=costa+concordia

 

So hope the final remains are found.

Giglio is 1 hour in front of London it is 8.26 there now.

I have lost the live feed though has anybody else?

 

And London is current one hour ahead of UTC as we are on BST not GMT.

A previous parbuckle:

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/10312647/USS-Oklahoma-parbuckled-in-1943-after-the-Japanese-attack-on-Pearl-Harbor.html

A previous parbuckle:

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/10312647/USS-Oklahoma-parbuckled-in-1943-after-the-Japanese-attack-on-Pearl-Harbor.html

Congratulations to Titan and everyone involved in the work of getting Concordia upright, here is a link with some great pictures.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2421734/Costa-Concordia-Cruise-liner-winched-upright-lengthy-500m-operation-raise-stricken-liner-coast-Italy.html

 

Thanks, great photos and I'm very impressed with how well the basic structure of the ship has survived. As someone posted a few pages back, it looks like balconies and walkways which are crushed - the lines of the doors and windows look fairly continuous.

 

I hope the designers and builders are proud of their work which sadly took one stupid man a few seconds to destroy.

 

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Giglio will be a very quiet place once she has finally been towed away.

Cant believe how quick it got dark. Not used to that in Scotland

 

I suspect the cameras are turning up their light sensitivity until all of a sudden they can't turn it up any more, hence the very sudden darkness.

[quote name='Mike.Minh']I understand there is only some 30 cm tidal difference at Giglio? Couldn't quickly find any proper source to confirm, though. But if true it will be difficult to see such a small difference on the slowly moving CC.[/quote]

That seems to be the maximum at Livorno:

[URL]http://easytide.ukho.gov.uk/easytide/easytide/ShowPrediction.aspx?PortID=1852&PredictionLength=7[/URL]