Costa Concordia Raised!

[SANDRO43]

Last month the Costa cruise ship that on 13 January, 2012 hit a semi-submerged rock while passing too close to Isola del Giglio and foundered, eventually resting precariously on the rock shelf with a list of about 70°, was finally winched upright in a complex "parbuckling" operation:

Quite an engineering feat on this 110,000-ton ship with an overall length of 290.20 m (952 ft). Next year, after the usual Mediterranean winter storms are over, the wreck will be towed to a suitable port for dismantling, maybe carried piggy-back on the special 275m-long Dutch tug Vanguard:

 

[Shadow]

They can not just fix the hole and clean it ?

[SANDRO43]

They can not just fix the hole and clean it ?

Apparently it's not worth the trouble, too much structural damage.

[mendeleyev]

Quite an accomplishment of bringing her up.

[Anotherkiwi]

An amazing engineering feat!  One jarring (and, to me, insensitive) note, however, in the NBC interview - they provided sub-titles for the two interview subjects speaking perfectly clear English!  Is their target demographic so insular that they can't cope with any English other than the American version?

[ML]

If the English is spoken in anything other than the perfect American version, then there is the need for some help for people world wide.