Put that way, it sounds more like a rocket RUD, which is usually a lot more rapid and complete.
Oh, you'd be surprised what can be repaired and put back in service. One of my clients just replaced a substantial part of the bottom plating under the engine room.
A bit more like the demise of the Titan last June.
As I tell my clients, you can do anything if you have enough time, money, and steel.
Or beach it Pakistan, cut it up and melt it for cars and bridges.
Brownsville, TX is more likely, if only because of shorter travel distance.Or beach it Pakistan, cut it up and melt it for cars and bridges.
There would be some effort in cleaning out all of the oil and crud from 70+ years of service, but it's certainly possible.
You'd weld closing bars on the hatches and doors before scuttling it. In theory, someone could cut those off. In practice it seem unlikely.
The opposite actually. You remove the hatches, doors, windows, and cargo doors, and scrap them.
You need to lower the pilot house and remove the self-loader to take it down river.
The self-unloader would probably be pulled anyway for parts. The pilot house is easily managed. Nothing a torch can’t handle.
I believe the bigger draw for the Fitzgerald is the mystery around it, and the fact that the crew is still there.
Good point for mixed gassed divers. Those on compressed air might be getting narcosis depending on their resistance for it,
They're dead and decomposed likely. Buttttt, the cold water might have kept the remains somewhat intact. Eventually they'll decompose even in the cold water. Might take a "thousand" years but they'll be gone. I reference the dive to the sunken Bismarck battleship and they showed some Nazi uniforms but said on camera there were no human remains to be seen, Or maybe they just didn't want to show them. The E.F. likely the remains might be intact if one wants to venture deep inside the sunken ship.
Splash Zone is magical stuff, though not what they used in this particular case. The bandaid is just to get the ship to a shipyard where they can do real repairs. If the crack is really only 1/4" wide, it will be straightforward to weld back up again.
I grew up in Duluth and often swam in the Lake at Park Point when I was a kid. When I was swimming with some friends a body washed up onshore about a 1/2 block from where we were. They finally identified the guy and he had been missing for around 90 years!
I swam in Lake Superior once, on the Southern tip, at Whitefish Point in the beginning of August. While it was over 100 degrees at home in Northern Indiana, it was in the 60s there. The guy at the lighthouse said the water might be 40 there. It was cold enough your muscles just tensed up as soon as you enter the water. It was a one and done experience, now I just need to swim in Lake Ontario.
Last thing I saw about it was about 10 years ago, and they mentioned the bodies were still fully intact. Bloated, but intact. The bottom of Superior is very cold, and it's fresh water, not salt water.
