Comments on: Satellite photo of Costa Concordia shipwreck

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:32:00 +0000

That makes more sense. Would you mind telling the BBC?

By: Chris MAD Dahl

Chris MAD Dahl — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:49:00 +0000

you got that mixed up,
its 4200 total, of which are 1000 crew

By: loroferoz

loroferoz — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:57:00 +0000

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?

By: askain

askain — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:30:00 +0000

Que barbaridad…que irresponsabilidad…

By: jneilnyc

jneilnyc — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:58:00 +0000

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

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:42:00 +0000

Actually, about 1,000 passengers. The rest are crew.

By: Lobster

Lobster — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:51:00 +0000

It’s so easy to forget how incredibly massive these ships are. 4,200 passengers, with luxury accomodations.

By: Bucket

Bucket — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:08:00 +0000

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?

By: DevinC

DevinC — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:30:00 +0000

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.

By: pigeon

pigeon — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:21:00 +0000

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.

By: NoneofYourPenguins

NoneofYourPenguins — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:48:00 +0000

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.

By: grima

grima — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:47:00 +0000

Too big to sail

By: edinblack

edinblack — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:09:00 +0000

The large dark shape below the ship to the left immediately struck me as an image of South America.

By: obeyken

obeyken — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:25:00 +0000

Sky hooks

By: Vincenzo Ravina

Vincenzo Ravina — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:15:00 +0000

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

By: starfish and coffee

starfish and coffee — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:59:00 +0000

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?

By: urbanspaceman

urbanspaceman — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:07:00 +0000

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.

By: SomeDude

SomeDude — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:09:00 +0000

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

By: DebW

DebW — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 11:57:00 +0000

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

By: habbi1974

habbi1974 — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 11:04:00 +0000

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

By: andygates

andygates — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:22:00 +0000

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…

By: noah django

noah django — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:55:00 +0000

heh heh heh

By: Bad Juju

Bad Juju — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 08:26:00 +0000

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

By: vonskippy

vonskippy — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 08:14:00 +0000

Oh “promo” film – nevermind then.

By: caipirina

caipirina — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 08:14:00 +0000

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

By: Scruff

Scruff — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 07:38:00 +0000

That is a seriously fake-looking picture.

I keep expecting to see Thunderbird 1 in the foreground somewhere

By: Matisse Enzer

Matisse Enzer — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 07:21:00 +0000

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.

By: silkox

silkox — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 06:55:00 +0000

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.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 06:46:00 +0000

There’s a promo film for the ship floating around in some news stories that shows the interior. It looks so cheesy.

By: rattypilgrim

rattypilgrim — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 06:39:00 +0000

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).