Costa Concordia: The Biggest Salvage Operation Of All Time
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The Costa Concordia, the biggest salvage ever.
It was the make or break moment in the career of senior salvage master Nick Sloan.
We had 33,000 tons of steel, 20,000 tons of cement, 15 over 15,000 individual dives.
The ship represented a mortal threat to the livelihood of the islanders.
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This documentary chronicles the most ambitious maritime salvage operation ever attempted: the recovery of the Costa Concordia. After the massive cruise liner capsized off the island of Giglio in 2012, senior salvage master Nick Sloan led a team of 800 specialists to perform the Parbuckling, a high-stakes engineering maneuver to pull the 114,500-ton wreck upright. Subscribe to Spark for more amazing science, tech & engineering videos: https://goo.gl/LIrlur 🚀 Join the Spark Channel Membership to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMV3aTOwUtG5vwfH9_rzb2w/join You can now become a History Hit member right here on YouTube! Join for access to a new exclusive documentary every week, and access to over 160+ of our documentaries presented by world renowned historians like Dan Snow, Eleanor Janega, Tristan Hughes, Mary Beard, Matt Lewis and more. Get an exclusive release every week by signing up here: https://bit.ly/4pyExyn Any queries, please contact us at: owned-enquiries@littledotstudios.com #Spark