Raising the Costa Concordia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR7rIHOVi_M

Very interesting

What could possibly go wrong?

I know nothing of maritime salvage. What will they do with the ship once it is towed somewhere? Dismantle it? Refurbish it and use it again?

In reply to dyintorace:

One or the other. Ship hulls take a loooooooooong time to build. If it can be refurbed for a good price, it will be. Otherwise, they go to the breakers. We are a very good society at recycling everything off of a ship.

dyintorace wrote: I know nothing of maritime salvage. What will they do with the ship once it is towed somewhere? Dismantle it? Refurbish it and use it again?

from the youtube video description: "Workers will attempt to stabilize the wreck before floating it and towing it to a port for dismantling."

In reply to dyintorace:

Scrap it- for a lot more info, there was a 60 Minutes article about it in December- http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50137223n

Too much damage to repair.

wow - that's a pretty serious engineering exersize.

Its essentially the same process they used to right the USS Oklahoma in Pearl Harbor. Just opposite therefore having to build the platform underwater.