# Any chance they can get the grounded Italian ship back upright? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 14, 2012, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-they-can-get-the-grounded-italian-ship-back-upright/609541 "2012-01-14T23:02:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2015, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-they-can-get-the-grounded-italian-ship-back-upright/609541/221 "2015-06-29T14:56:27Z")
Bumped. On July 22, PBS’s \*NOVA \*is re-airing a special on salvaging the wreck - check local listings: [Sunken Ship Rescue | NOVA | PBS](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/sunken-ship-rescue.html) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2016, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-they-can-get-the-grounded-italian-ship-back-upright/609541/222 "2016-02-02T05:22:28Z")
A German freelance photographer got aboard the wreck and took pictures: [http://www.foxnews.com/travel/slideshow/2016/01/29/eerie-images-downed-costa-concordia/#/slide/costac1](http://www.foxnews.com/travel/slideshow/2016/01/29/eerie-images-downed-costa-concordia/#/slide/costac1) ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2016, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-they-can-get-the-grounded-italian-ship-back-upright/609541/223 "2016-02-02T05:27:12Z")
Titanic much? But then, how many stylistic differences can there be between luxury cruise ships. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2016, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-they-can-get-the-grounded-italian-ship-back-upright/609541/224 "2016-02-02T16:38:26Z")
I’d missed the news that Capt. Schettino was convicted by an Italian court and sentenced to 16 years in prison: [Francesco Schettino - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Schettino#Court_of_Grosseto_trial). The case is now on appeal. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2016, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-they-can-get-the-grounded-italian-ship-back-upright/609541/225 "2016-02-11T00:09:15Z")
Not sure if there are more images here than in **Elendil** ’s cite above, from the same photographer. Probably one of the last photos of the inside of the Concordia before its scuttling: > **[Extraordinary Images Of The Costa Concordia Cruise Ship By Jonathan Danko...](https://designyoutrust.com/2016/01/extraordinary-images-of-the-costa-concordia-cruise-ship-by-jonathan-danko-kielkowski/)** > > Photo by Jonathan Danko Kielkowski Extraordinary images of the cruise ship by Jonathan Danko Kielkowski from his book Concordia, published by White Press. The G Certainly the most stunning. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2016, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-they-can-get-the-grounded-italian-ship-back-upright/609541/226 "2016-02-11T00:43:05Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > Pumping the water out however… > Unlike a navy ship or a freighter this ship has about 1 gazillion windows which are now under water and probably broken. You have to get the water out faster than it can flow back in. Good luck with that. You dont pump it out per se, you lift with a bunch of things like this > **[Salvage Tube](https://carterbag.com/products/salvage-tubes)** > > Salvage Tubes are highly versatile in the number of ways in which they can be deployed. They can be used as pontoons for supporting docks and other floating structures. They are also excellent for pipe-laying and other underwater construction... You can also place and inflate them at strategic locations inside the ship, creating both lifting force as well as displacing water. If there are compartments that can be sealed that flooded due to watertight doors being left open and such you can seal them and pump them out a bunch of those below decks can be very helpful. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2016, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-they-can-get-the-grounded-italian-ship-back-upright/609541/227 "2016-02-11T12:31:21Z")
@ **drachillix** Rick’s comment was from 4 years ago. The ship was floated with external flotation tanks then towed away a year and a half ago. It’s presently being chopped up for scrap in a mainland shipyard. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-they-can-get-the-grounded-italian-ship-back-upright/609541.md?page=11)