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Old January 17th, 2012, 04:10 PM posted to rec.travel.cruises
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On Jan 17, 5:47*am, (C M) wrote:
if anybody knows... HOW do they plan to raise that enormous and
extremely heavy ship into an upright position to tow it to port to make
repairs ?, (i think) ? TIA


That's the easy part ...Balloons filled inside the damaged hull will
work ... but the ship is grounded - essentially on the bottom of the
ocean ... but at so shallow a depth you can see half of it ... They
don't just have to right it but raise it some 40 or more feet to
actually have it floating again ... More balloons than I can
imagine ...

Now the Mythbusters raising a wreck with ping pong balls show was
ultimately successful on a much much smaller scale ...