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Costa Concordia (Cruise Ship) Sinks

tsywake said:
If those still inside can access water/drinks they can last quite a while. They'll probably go stircrazy in the dark, but as long as they can drink liquids they can survive for quite some time.
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I would be holed up in the casino, drinking the bar dry and grabbing all the Euros I could find. Wait, I would find the wine cellar first.
 
cookoutdeac said:
I was hoping they'd get Titan Salvage to save this bad boy, those guys are bad asses. They'll probably go with some expensive dutch salvage team though.

This is a long read, but well worth it, on one of the salvages they did:

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-03/ff_seacowboys?currentPage=all
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Seriously love this article!

Just got to this line:

The Cougar Ace lies on its side, its enormous red belly exposed to the smaller boats around it. The propeller floats eerily out of the water, the rudder flopped hard to port in the air.http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-03/ff_seacowboys_journal#July29
"Holy fuck," Trepte mutters.
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Habib unloads coils of rope from his backpack. Descending into the sharply tilted ship will require mountaineering skills. Fortunately, Habib knows what he's doing: He once scaled a 2,300-foot frozen waterfall and recalls with fondness summiting a notoriously difficult peak in the Canadian Rockies. On the way down, he was attacked by a wolf. The faded scar makes him chuckle. Maybe the mountain adventures put things in perspective. After all, this is just a giant sideways ship floating loose in the Pacific, not a deranged wolf on his back.
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Wow. This has to make the average guy feel like such a vj.
 
doubledeac said:
Repost: http://www.giglionews.it/2010022440919/webcam/isola-del-giglio/webcam-giglio-porto-panoramica.html

Will be interesting the next few weeks.
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CNN has had several good articles the past few days. They think there are still 2 bodies in the wreckage and that is one of their recovery goals. They also mentioned that there are a lot of hazardous contaminants on the boat so they are trying to prevent those from escaping. They will also be sending all of the cargo items back to those that were on the boat, no matter how soggy the items may be.

There was also an article about the post master there. Typically he knows who is on the island, etc but since this wreck their population has multiplied and he doesn't. The interesting part is that on a weekly basis they receive letters addressed just to the island. These are often from the survivors, family of the survivors, or the general public thanking those that live on the island for what they did. He delivers these to either the mayor (I think) or the local priest.
 
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