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To: Eye of Unk

Those giant overhead tracking railway cranes are only available in shipyards, they can’t be built over the Concordia. No barge cranes are big enough to take her on in one piece, so the only thing left is to wrap the cutting chain around her and saw her into chunks smaller still than the one in your picture above.


101 posted on 01/21/2012 9:44:46 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

The bigger they are the bigger the mess. You know I saw a heavy lift crane that raised that s Korean patrol boat from the ocean, the one that was sunk by a controversial enemy action. The scale of it was unreal.

I was going to post an image of some of those Japanese heavy lift floating cranes, but even those I think are just not big enough.

Would be a good time for someone to invent an anti-grav lift plate. It would sure be one for the record books if somebody like Titan was able to right it. Wait and see, wait and see if it shifts deeper, breaks up or gets cut up.

The cleanest way I would say would be to build a cofferdam around it, jack it up and just leave it there as a permanent resort, get some shore side connections, electrical water sewage etc, build a conveyor peoplemover or a tramway to it and keep the party going.

Turn it into an Italian version of the Queen Mary, of which I have toured.


102 posted on 01/21/2012 12:23:42 PM PST by Eye of Unk (Liberals need not reply.)
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