Re: Costa Concordia Salvage - Live feed
The amount of money spent in recovery is indicative of the value of the boat as it sits. There's some amazing dollar figures on someone's desk.
Cool link, thanks SF.
The cost of the vessel is salvage vale as it is being scrapped. The insurance companies will already have settled the ship insured value. But you cannot just leave a huge hulk like that there as there are environmental issues, etc. It will cost, what it costs to salvage the ship, move it and clean up the area. The salvage companies will make a handsome profit, but someone, somewhere is picking up a big tab for the cost of all this.
The engineering aspects of this are fascinating. Nothing has ever been attempted like this so close to shore.
One of the first pics after the ship was tilted slightly was of a red suitcase. Guess today, the owner got a call saying 'hey, good news, we found your luggage and we'll deliver it next week. Guess the clothes inside will need a wash. LOL
