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Costa Concordia keel part of new Costa Venezia?


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I did search every where for a mention of Concordia's keel to be used on the new Costa Venezia. Zit, nada, rien, nothing at all...

It clearly shows in the video that the sunken ship keel was kept intact and towed for something. Why keeping this last portion of the ship? Either to do a memorial with it or refurbish and use it on another ship. Every remaining part of the ship was scraped at the dry dock except that mysterious keel. But why there is absolutely nothing to be found on the net about it. I've never been a conspiracy freak but it just doesn't make sense. Someone can give me a logic and real explanation?

Please find below the link to the Costa Venezia's first keel portion inauguration. (Is it Concordia's...?)

 

https://worldmaritimenews.com/archives/233957/costa-cruises-holds-coin-ceremony-for-costa-venezia/

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Bit of a ridiculous story considering the original size of the Concordia and this new ship, not only that in great navy traditions they will never use any part of a sunken ship let alone the hull, to built a new one it is considered bad luck.

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Sunken ships to build new ones, yes. But part of the new U.S.S. New York is from the destroyed WTC. 7.5 short tons (6.8 t) of the steel used in the ship's construction came from the rubble of the World Trade Center. The steel was melted down at Amite Foundry and Machine in Amite, Louisiana, to cast the ship's bow section. It was poured into the molds on 9 September 2003, with 7 short tons (6.4 t) cast to form the ship's "stem bar"—part of the ship's bow. The foundry workers reportedly treated it with "reverence usually accorded to religious relics," gently touching it as they walked by. One worker delayed his retirement after 40 years of working to be part of the project.

 

And the U.S. Navy repaired a number of sunken ships at Pearl Harbor after December 7, 1941: https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/Decoder/2012/1207/Pearl-Harbor-resurrection-the-warships-that-rose-to-fight-again

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