Was 4700 Mazdas, now pics of the Tricolor

[open.seas at verizon.net (Chris)]

(I just blew through an hour and a half going through the site.) My 
thoughts:

- Fantastic chronicle of the removal.
- Could the Bahamian flagged ship's crew have been drinking some 
Bahamian rum before it hit the Tricolor?

- Scene 1: Insurance company learns that the ship sank. "Oh, sh*t!"
- Scene 2: Insurance company learns that the a German ship has struck 
the wreck of the Tricolor. "Oh, sh*t2!"
- Scene 3: Insurance company learns that the ship has to be removed. 
"Oh, sh*t3!"
- Scene 4: Insurance company learns that the a Turkish ship has struck 
the wreck of the Tricolor. "Oh, sh*t4!"

- What a huge job.
- What massive equipment used to remove the ship
- 14 ships/boats/barges or other pieces of ultra heavy equipment
- My G*d, look at the size of the links in that chain
- What the heck do they do with those monstrous cranes when they aren't 
being used to lift sections of ships?
- I wonder what the rent is per day for those cranes
- The cutting wire is incredible. Great idea.
- Cutting through the hull would seem to be hard enough. Cutting through 
the propeller shaft seems almost impossible
- Some parts of the hull look like sheet metal (thin) ("They don't make 
them the way they used to.")
- It looks like one section of the ship is tall enough to tip the barge 
over
- The propeller looks like it is in good shape. (The ship is not a total 
loss!) (Like Dr. Z says in the commercial "It's a 'choke'.")
- What are the chances that your new BMW or Volvo will get hit and 
totaled when it is 55 miles from the nearest road?
- Meeting of Board of Directors for insurance company: "Maybe we should 
just insure a bunch of over exuberant Scirocco drivers."
- Can you imagine a member of the Tricolor's crew asking the salvage 
guys "Hey, did any of you guys see a gold watch anywhere?"
- That can of beans you just opened could have been made out of scrap 
metal from the Tricolor.
- The job took two years. Here's the bill.
- When the Dutch crew finished the job do you think they said "It's 
Heineken time"?

Great fine Nate.

Chris


Nate Mellom wrote:
> No problem, I followed this when it happened.  Amazing thing, they used 
> a giant cable as a saw blade to cut the ship into pieces for salvage. 
> There's little video on the salvage website, just like a coping saw 
> cutting through a ship.
> 
> http://www.tricolorsalvage.com/pages/home.asp
> 
> Nate
> 
> Marc Getty wrote:
>> Thanks for posting this! I spent most of 2002 in an alcoholic haze and 
>> did
>> not catch everything!
>>
>> -Marc
>>  
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Nate Mellom [mailto:doubt@inwave.com] Sent: Monday, July 31, 
>> 2006 9:45 PM
>> To: Marc Getty
>> Cc: 'Chris'; scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>> Subject: Was 4700 Mazdas, now pics of the Tricolor
>>
>> http://www.blognewsnetwork.com/members/0000001/mpg/tricolorAutos/tricolorAut 
>>
>> os.html
>>
>> Big news back when it happened.
>>
>> Nate
>>
>>
>> Marc Getty wrote:
>>
>>> Here is a better link: <http://blogs.edmunds.com/Straightline/1291> 
>>> to that article.
>>>
>>> This happens more then you might think. See:
>>> <http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9804E6DF163DF936A25751
>>> C1A964
>>> 9C8B63> for an article from back in 2002. What the article does not 
>>> 9C8B63> mention
>>> is that the ship sunk with the bow on the bottom and the stern just a 
>>> few feet below the surface at low tide. A number of other ships hit the
>>
>> "sunken"
>>
>>> car ship as it stood almost straight up. BMW, Volvo, Saab, etc. only 
>>> had ~$10k of maritime insurance on each car too. Pity. I wonder if 
>>> any folks doing European delivery were impacted.....
>>>
>>> Scirocco content: I drove mine for almost 2 hours today. It sure felt
>>
>> nice.
>>
>>> Boy I sure do need a clutch! ;-)
>>>
>>> -Marc
>>>
>>> '83 VW Scirocco California Edition
>>> '84 VW Rabbit GTI Pickup Truck
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Chris [mailto:open.seas@verizon.net]
>>> Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 9:13 PM
>>> To: scirocco.org
>>> Subject: OT How do you stack 4700 Mazdas on their sides?
>>>
>>> Go to the bottom of the page.
>>>
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