Ken711

Photo showing the piling going in for the underwater platform.

Ken, great find on the pix.

We've seen prior pix/video of the seabed under the ship that were showing cracks with Concordia just sitting on the ledge. I could believe with the work going on they are seeing more areas of concern.

Your welcome. From that Giglio News article it appears that the stabilization will be completed in time before winter weather brings rough seas. I imagine it will be a challenge to work around the ship during the winter season.

Compared to the end of the safety of the Concordia - originally scheduled for August 31, 2012 - the engineers estimated to complete the work by the end of October, barring further unforeseen. This delay compared to crono initial program was due to several factors: adverse weather conditions in recent weeks, the presence of strong irregularities of the surface layers of the granite of the seabed and cracks in the underlying rock, the unexpected amount of rock to level for able to position the bases. Until now, the constants surveys conducted Department of Earth Sciences, University of Florence, however, have not reported any anomalies in the movements of the wreck.

 

The stabilization project, designed to prevent slipping of the wreck during the winter season, provides for ' installation of a restraint system consists of four bases anchored to the bottom side of the floor (two of which should be completed in the next few days), these are hooked a total of 16 bundles of steel cables, connected to the strengths welded on the emerged part of the wreck, retired with hydraulic jacks.

 

Hearings Meanwhile, the activities for the completion of the tensioning system that will allow the vertical reorganization of Concord, those for the construction of the false bottom and six underwater platforms on which will rest the wreck, and the production of boxes from which depend on the waterline.

 

remains, however, the commitment of the Consortium Micoperi-Titan, shared with Costa Cruises, and the Advisory Committee, to pursue all appropriate solution to reduce the time, while maintaining the security of the works, environmental protection and the socio-economic life of the island.

Hi Micki

theres rather a lot there seems to be 3 weeks progress reports and a little bit more.

http://www.giglionews.it/2012100259073/news/isola-del-giglio/rimozione-concordia-lo-stato-dei-lavori.html

 

best of luck and thanks

I think that PDF shows the eventual underwater platform that will be built to hold the ship as it's rolled upright. It also shows the anchor columns for the stabilization cables.

Der Spiegel is a German weekly news magazine has an excellent article on the salvage operation of the Costa Concordia, about Nicholas Sloane who is the senior salvage master for the salvage operation.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/how-the-costa-concordia-will-be-salvaged-a-857683.html

Ken ... you could be right about the cables that can be seen in the pictures, they could along with the metal ribs also be part of the parbuckling system looking at the holes at either end of the metal ribs that will be used to help winch the ship to the upright position.

That's correct they do go under the ship and are part of the stabilization of the ship.

I've been searching for information on the construction of the underwater platform, but haven't found any photos or news on it yet.

This is a photo of one of the caissions in the shipyard.

http://genova.repubblica.it/cronaca/2012/09/14/foto/concordia_cassoni-42538912/1/?ref=fbpr

Nice find Clive and Anne. You get a sense from those photos how large they are.

Micoperi 30 is heading north to the nearby port of Piombino, no idea why though:confused:

Could be it's not needed for the next phase which should be the drilling to support the underwater platform.

Hi Ken

On the "I opposed the Titan Micoperi project, amonst other things of late is this article http://www.ogginotizie.it/168627-costa-concordia-nuova-micoperi-e-progetto-recupero-qualcosa-non-quadra/#.UFAmAVSlfgV

 

Best Wishes

Clive

Thanks Clive. The best I could understand the translation of that article it mainly revolves around the financial stability of the Micoperi company. Not much substance regarding the salvage operation itself.

It now looks like the Micoperi is possibly sailing away.

There seems to be a lot of talk about the future of the salvage on Giglio news although its difficult tonderstand the translation I get on my laptop. Does anyone get a clear translation or do we all get the same one.

Microperi 30 platform is not in camera view as of 1:36 EST US time.

Clive and Anne: Where are you seeing the discussion on the salvage in Giglio News, I couldn't find any new articles?

The Micoperi 30 platform has been moved away from the ship again.

Lookin at the cam' date=' seems they are rigging more of the holdback cables under the hull.

 

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I was watching that today also. :)

After a few days of bad weather that slowed operations for the removal of the Costa Concordia, continued yesterday in the yard of Cala del Lazzaretto island of Giglio stages of laying of cables that will ensure the safety of the wreck of the risk slipping . As you can see from the photos below, the large crane positioned on the operating platform Micoperi 30 has dropped in the sea cable that was passed by divers beneath the ship. One end of the cable, constituted by a hydraulic jack, was fixed to the brackets welded in recent days on the bulkhead on the left of Concord. The other end is attached to one of the four towers that Trevi, piling company in charge of internal, being prepared by drilling between the wreck and the cliffs of Gabbianara. This first and fundamental step restraint must be completed by September 19 while middle of the month will begin operations simultaneously piling outer aimed at laying the underwater platforms intended to constitute the so-called "false bottom" on which the ship should rest in the delicate phase of rotation. Precisely these platforms are currently under construction and expected to arrive on the island towards the end of September. In the coming days and weeks we will keep you updated on the progress of operations.

Illness for a sub Australian vacation on the island of Giglio in the early afternoon yesterday. The man was IMMEDIATELY relief thanks to the presence on the island of a hyperbaric chamber supplied with the Titan Micoperi, a consortium that is working on the removal of the wreck of the Costa Concordia.

 

The man had made ​​three dives to 37, 45 and 51 meters without decompression and arrived at the pier unconscious.

From a story in GiglioNews about the rescue of the Australian diver on vacation. Here's a picture of the hyperbaric chamber on the pier.

I was watching the smaller crane barge working near the funnel, and they were actively working today. Probably ongoing working for the stabliization.

 

Tonka is correct. I believe the area in the second picture is where the stabilizer was located.

Thanks. I assumed the patch in the hull was the gash from the rocks, but you're right, they removed the stabilizer and that is the steel patch seen in the photos. I wish someone like Giglio News at least provide a few photos such these each week. :)

Thanks for the photos Ken. Did they give any idea when they were taken?

It looks like the rusty plates we can see lower down will be covering up holes which it may follow that the main hole caused by the rock may now be sealed up just as Tonka predicted.

Photos were taken earlier this week.

Sorry should have used the term sponsons instead of caissons with the photos I posted above.

Finally some photos of the work being performed on the port side. You can see that the hull has been patched where the rock pierced it. Looks like all the preliminary work going on welding supports to the hull from which the caissons will be attached.

sponsons

Or caissons.

http://cruiseradio.net/popular-shipbuilder-to-construct-elements-to-float-costa-concordia/

Giglio web cam is not working.

Back working now. :)

Giglio web cam is not working.

Ken, your 1:28 point in the video in a picture.

http://framework.latimes.com/2012/01/14/cruise-ship-runs-aground-off-italy/#/8

Thanks Micki. Photo 22 of 64 from that set sure shows the hull deformation from resting on the rocks.

Not directly related to the salvage but here's video of the final dive made before the search for bodies was ended. Toward the end of the video from the 1:28 on you can see some of the damage to the ship from hitting the rocks as it capsized on it's side.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xsyrhj_costa-concordia-video-of-final-dive-before-ship-search-called-off_news