You may recall that the ship was righted and is now resting on a platform that was built on the side of the sloping sea floor. Plans were to weld floatation pontoons to the starboard side (they were affixed to the port side before they righted her), float her and tow her away.
Now it seems that the salvagers will pick up the ship with a massive self-propelled floating drydock and thus carry the ship to the scrappers.
A slightly smaller salvage ship, the Blue Marlin, transported the USS Cole to the Pascagoula shipyards for rebuilding after the Cole was attacked in Aden.
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All this is a simultaneously too high tech and too wimpy for me.
I was perfectly happy when Bogart towed the African Queen out of the mud by jumping into the fetid river and hauling it with a rope, all by his ownself, and Hepburn then helped him get the blood-bloated leeches off his shins by pouring salt on them.
Very crankily yours,
The New York Crank
Yeah, but that didn't work until it rained upstream...;-)
The ship is roughly the displacement of a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier. I kind of think it'd take a million or so Bogarts to tow that thing.
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