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I've just been reading an article about MV Braer - amazing to think that this was 20 years ago, as I remember it being all over the news at the time it happened. However, I cannot seem to find any reference as to what finally became of the ship in the longer term?
I know that the wreck was declared dangerous initially due to the oils being released, but was it ever salvaged for scrap? Or was it simply left to rot/sink?
More recently, we've had the Costa Concordia - and again, things have gone very quiet indeed. There were mutterings initially that it may be recovered and repaired - - could this be the reason that its gone quiet, so that people forget about the disaster by the time the ship is repaired and brought back into use? I'd imagine that there would be quite a lot of people who would be reluctant to go on a ship knowing that it had been involved in a fatal incident, no matter how well it had been repaired.
Any other interesting histories in the same vein?
I know that the wreck was declared dangerous initially due to the oils being released, but was it ever salvaged for scrap? Or was it simply left to rot/sink?
More recently, we've had the Costa Concordia - and again, things have gone very quiet indeed. There were mutterings initially that it may be recovered and repaired - - could this be the reason that its gone quiet, so that people forget about the disaster by the time the ship is repaired and brought back into use? I'd imagine that there would be quite a lot of people who would be reluctant to go on a ship knowing that it had been involved in a fatal incident, no matter how well it had been repaired.
Any other interesting histories in the same vein?
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Concordia is being salvaged by a British team.
http://news.discovery.com/earth/costa-concordia-salvage-121018.html
Thanks woodbush Makes me wonder what environmental damage is still being done as it rots away quietly off the coast of Shetland - the same can be said of any wreck of course.
I still wonder what will happen to the Concordia once its upright though - nearly everything on it will be knackered after being submerged in sea water, not to mention the fact that the hull is clearly compromised - it can surely be little more than scrap iron?
Weather forecast by the legend Rob Mcelwee for that day - 10th Jan 1993
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11MgMm96GYQ
It reminds me a bit of the SS America, which was beached and left to rot in the Canary Islands.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_America_(1940)
It will be 'recycled' elsewhere. It's being moved to avoid breaking it up in its current location.
It's being refloated so that it can be taken apart for scrap. I think they decided against doing that in situe because of environmental concerns, and also because it's perched on a ledge.
There's an official website by Costa about the Costa Concordia removal here: http://www.theparbucklingproject.com/
I think we'll start seeing the Concordia back in the news once they start uprighting it
What a sin - if there wasn't as much buggering about with it, it would still probably be running.
Thanks for the link I notice that they expect the wreck to be removed by the end of summer 2013, so it looks like we might be seeing more about it before too long
Insurance scam?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/6/newsid_2515000/2515923.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS_General_Slocum
"And why do we do this ( random safety element )?"
"Because of Zeebrugee ..?"
The worst British one the Torrey Canyon in 1967.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/18/newsid_4242000/4242709.stm
Wow - horrific story. Its amazing how the things that we would instantly recognise as being dangerous (the lamp oil and oily rags lying about etc), were apparently seen as being normal.
I remember Zebrugge also - another terrible accident, however thankfully lots was learned from it.
I had a lot of maritime disaster dreams as my grandad had a boat so I spent a lot of time on a boat as a child, and put it down to that. We went about our normal stuff all day and it was only at the next day's six o clock news, I saw the disaster on the news. I had had the dream about 2 am.
I was glad I woke him up and gave him a lot of detail.
Years later, doing family history, discovered I had an ancestor here on the river who was one of only three survivors of an accident, when a boat capsized. I read about the inquest in the 19thC newspapers and what was striking was he survived because a person on the bank... shouted him to hold on to something. He was a calm, rather charismatic middle aged man. just like the one in my dream.
I had another bad maritime dream that came on the news, this time a week afterwards. So I decided never to have them again. And havent.
I still dont think it was anything all that strange, just pure statistical coincidence that as things happen, people are coincidentally dreaming about similar things. But I still feel ill when I think of the xmas lights.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic
Never heard of it. Would make a good film, that.:D