Cargo ship full of cars sinking

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07-27-2006, 09:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Mr.ChronoM,Jul 25 2006, 12:46 PM

Not again ...

To give you guys an idea how it looks when the cars come out of a sunken ship, look at these pics ->
http://www.blognewsnetwork.com/members/000...colorAutos.html

A few years ago a ship with cars sunk in belgium ... well at sea

The had to saw the ship in piece to get it out ...

btw : those were all volvo's ... that was the only good think

Exactly how do you go about sawing a ship in half!?

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07-27-2006, 09:45 AM

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Originally Posted by FormulaRedline,Jul 27 2006, 11:30 AM

Exactly how do you go about sawing a ship in half!?

I'm sure that was a bit of an exageration, but they do have underwater cutting torches.

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07-27-2006, 11:46 AM

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Originally Posted by xviper,Jul 27 2006, 11:45 AM

I'm sure that was a bit of an exageration, but they do have underwater cutting torches.

Actually not an exageration, they used large cable reels pulled through the ship, this cut the ship and everything inbetween in pieces. They where then able to pull the pieces (5+ pieces) up to the surface. If you do a quick search on that boat name there is (or used to be) a whole writeup of how it was done. Quite cool

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07-27-2006, 12:17 PM

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Interesting.

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07-27-2006, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by xviper,Jul 27 2006, 09:45 AM

I'm sure that was a bit of an exageration, but they do have underwater cutting torches.

I was serious about the cutting indead ...

On this link you can find a picture of one of the pieces being pulled out of the water :
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/ex...html?page=1&c=y

And this is the official site of the salvage operation with the methode's used to cut the ship in pieces :
http://www.tricolorsalvage.com/pages/infographic.asp

And the last thing, a video of the cable going true the ship