Costa Concordia salvage: the irony
Who wouldn’t be impressed by the Costa Concordia salvage operation? The ‘parbuckling‘ entailed meticulous preparations and took 19 hours. When the 114,137 grt ship was finally righted on Tuesday, 17th September, the press hailed the process as an ‘engineering feat.’ We wonder, though, what the families of the 32 killed in the January 2012 disaster thought of the whole thing. More than US$800 million to pull upright a ship which had been declared a constructive total loss? (more…)
