Costa Concordia

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Macroscien said..
Missed opportunity IMO.

For this small island ship wrack could mean indefinite gold mine.

All was needed just push a wreck few meters down, to hide under water completely.

Marine life also like such habitat and we have examples of ships being sunken for this purpose and as a diving attraction same time.

Not possible as the is tonns of rotting food and chemicals still in it.

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Macroscien said..
For that 800 mln $ spent on reflating some cleaning cold be made.

To remove 1.5 tones of frozen chicken and barrels with paint.

Technically cleaning shouldn't be more challenging the re floating.

I guess such option wasn't desired by island inhabitant or government.

Pity because the spot is fabulous for diving, crystal clear and warm water. shallow water mean everybody could dive without the need for special equipment.

Close distant to shore, whole future generations could live and profit of this event.

Ok macro you get in there and do it. I know that I wouldnt

I think they have made the correct decision imo.

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WA71 said..

Ok macro you get in there and do it..

I would love to ( dive there) even remove this buckets with paint on voluntary basic if that could help

I hada feeling that you would be keen to dive on it.

I think this would smell -

Trapped inside the upturned hull are more than 24,000 lbs of fish, nearly 5,500 lbs of cheese, 1,500 gallons of ice cream in tubs, 24,000 lbs of pasta, 2,000 lbs of onions, more than 2,000 pots of jam and nearly 17,000 tea bags. Rotting beneath the waterline are more than 17,000 lbs of raw beef, nearly 11,000 eggs, 2,346 hot dog buns, 815 lbs of rabbit meat and more than 1,000 gallons of milk.

That is only tasty organic food to millions of bacteria and plankton to eat it in no time
The problem is that many poor countries around the world dump all their plastic rubbish and not only, raw sewage straight into oceans.
Why ? Because they are poor.
Mediterranean countries are not very rich either. The amount of the rubbish I saw along the roads in Greece is unbelievable.
Next reason for diving in artificial structure instead of our Reef Island. Any diver touching anything on our reefs is constantly damaging and effecting our fragile ecosystem. If people are happy to dive this wrecks, artificial structures ? Lets them do it, saving our underwater world,

The next big idea, Not all people are able or willing to dive. Specifically such complicated as Condordia labyrinth.
Whole herd of very small, micro Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicles could be invented, built and then operated by internet to investigate such underwater worlds like Concordia.
Now everybody anywhere in the world could buy 1 hour to operate by internet alone this micro ROV. Stream of money to wreck owners and guardians, technician to run the fleet of ROV , millions of happy virtual tourists around the world.




http://www.videoray.com/homepage/economy-configurations/videoray-scout.html

the bottom drops away very steeply over there. If they took it out any further it would very quickly be undiveable. Also it's massive. There would be thousands of litres of hydralic fluid, chemicals, fuels, toxins from paints, sewerage etc etc. Shxt would be constantly bubbling up and washing ashore. Relitives would like their loved one's bodies back. Also it's worth money as scrap. As an idea it's right up there with your electric boat mate

WA, how come the vid don't work ?
The AFP involved ?

I heard they renamed it from Costa Concodia to Costa Lotta!!!

the ship cost about 450mil to build, 850mill+ to salvage.
its stuck on a pristine marine reserve
now sitting on metal plates and is not yet floated.