OVER 30,000 TONS OF STEEL WAS USED ON THE PROJECT.
The salvaging of the 114,000-ton vessel took 825 days and utilized over 500 workers representing two-dozen nationalities.
12 Plus made with Dyneema® fi ber to hold the vessel in place and prevent it from sliding into deeper waters. T e lines, designed and manufactured by Norwegian specialist OTS [Off shore & Trawl Supply], performed perfectly according to both companies, and saved days of installation, while minimizing much of the physical eff ort required by the divers. Synthetic fi ber ropes are more frequently used in salvage operations, in order to protect the immediate environment.)
Once the ship was secured, the next nine months
were a fl urry of activity. Retaining turrets were installed in preparation for the parbuckling. Strandjacks (each one controlled by computers) were then mounted on the tops of the turrets and attached to wire ropes (two per turret) that passed beneath the hull and were fi xed to the port side of the ship (which was facing the sky). A “false bottom” was installed—which comprised six metal undersea platforms on which the Costa Concordia would rest once
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