Satellite photo of Costa Concordia shipwreck

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From DigitalGlobe, this striking satellite image of the Costa Concordia shipwreck off Giglio, Italy.

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It is difficult to parse this image. It looks like you could jump from the edge of the smokestack onto that isthmus to the left.

The ship is so goddamned big that I want to see it as a huge vessel in the foreground, floating above the clouds, maybe on its way to an orbital space hotel.
- andygates
  
  Every time I see it, and the harbour photos with the ship all crazy-angled behind reporters and other human-scale stuff, I think it’s a crashed spaceship. Someone with mad remix skills needs to swap in a downed Enterprise or something…
- Lobster
  
  It’s so easy to forget how incredibly massive these ships are. 4,200 passengers, with luxury accomodations.
  - Antinous / Moderator
    
    Actually, about 1,000 passengers. The rest are crew.
    - Chris MAD Dahl
      
      you got that mixed up,
      its 4200 total, of which are 1000 crew
      - Antinous / Moderator
        
        That makes more sense. Would you mind telling the BBC?
rattypilgrim

Jena Luc Goddard’s “Film Socialisme” was on our Netflix watch instantly que for a couple of weeks. We watched it tonight. The first third of the film takes place on a Mediterranean cruise ship. Goddard did a good job of contrasting the gawdy, Vegas-like interior of the ship with the cleaner wind and water swept outside decks.
The ship makes a landing and as the passengers disembark the name of the ship is spelled in large letters along the gang plank. The name of the ship was the Costa Concordia. I think the film was made (or released in 2010).
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  There’s a promo film for the ship floating around in some news stories that shows the interior. It looks so cheesy.
  - vonskippy
    
    Oh “promo” film – nevermind then.
- silkox
  
  Something (actually, it was the effect of the list on lifeboats) about all the news about Costa Concordia made me spend too much time reading about the Andrea Doria, the most luxurious ship of her day (the 1950′s). Here’s a picture of her first-class bar: http://www.andreadoria.org/TheShips/First_Class_Bar.jpg.
  - Bad Juju
    
    Man, I dont know what the rest of you are going to drink during this cruise, but I’m calling dibs on those 15 bottles
Matisse Enzer

The Costa Concordia is far from the largest ocean liner around these days. For example: http://didyouknow.org/liners/
“ Oasis of the Seas ” can carry over 6,000 passengers.
Scruff

That is a seriously fake-looking picture.

I keep expecting to see Thunderbird 1 in the foreground somewhere
caipirina

From 6 years experience I know that Italians are terrible drivers. I did not know that also applies to ships.
noah django

heh heh heh
- habbi1974
  
  I’m lazy, otherwise I would send a pic to the venerable http://oopslist.com/.
  Specially for the “LostMyJobToday” section.
http://twitter.com/debweb207 DebW

Odd. . the scale seems out of whack and the bow is floating over the clouds
SomeDude

Yes, the wreck of the Concordia is probably as fake as the moon landing.
urbanspaceman

The Titanic, so named because it was one of the biggest ships of its day, sank 100 years ago this April. Modern cruise liners make ships like the Titanic look almost like a dinghy!

And yes, the first thing I thought of when I heard the news about the Concordia was the Andrea Doria.
starfish and coffee

My colleagues and I were discussing it yesterday. How do you remove this thing? Piece by piece? Manually climbing on top of it with removing bits with hand tools and welding equipment or are there other, bigger gadgets? What companies would take such a job, there must be huge risks involved for the staff. How long will it take?

Anyone know?
- http://vincenzoravina.tumblr.com/ Vincenzo Ravina
  
  Last I heard, the plan is to patch up the hole and use airbags to get it upright and tow it out and fix it up.
  
  Update: Actually, looks like they’re not decided. But I’d imagine that a $600 million cruise ship is going to be towed out and fixed up if it’s possible to do. http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/01/19/f-costa-concordia.html
- obeyken
  
  Sky hooks
edinblack

The large dark shape below the ship to the left immediately struck me as an image of South America.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FKHDCIS27XPE6ZFY6MWMN5UYRQ grima

Too big to sail
http://twitter.com/nonofyrpenguins NoneofYourPenguins

Here is a graphic showing some of the largest ships in the world:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bateaux_comparaison2.svg As a merchant seaman, I’ve seen the Anna Maersk, and she is visually impressive when topped out with containers. The ship I was on at the time was 902 ft (275 M), and even at a distance of maybe 4 miles, the Anna looked insanely huge.

Point is: Ships be more huge than you think. Landlubbers.
pigeon

And if anyone cares how a rescue operation should be performed in situations similar to this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTS_Oceanos

‘n boer maak a plan.
DevinC

My first reaction was “What a lucky satellite, to finally get to see what the side of something looks like.”

I wish I could blame recreational pharmaceuticals.
Bucket

For some reason this is making me think of the cruise ship from the Fifth Element.

Anybody know where Korben Dallas was at the time of the collision?
jneilnyc

I’m not the first to say it, but it’s worth repeating: If your fuckup can be see FROM SPACE, you win…
askain

Que barbaridad…que irresponsabilidad…
loroferoz

That is no port, artificial or natural, right? I suppose the ship did not move after running aground, right? What right has a ship that size and carrying passengers to be that close to the shoreline?