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Title: Tsunami 'ghost ship' sunk after year adrift
Post by: KhornateMonkey on April 06, 2012, 11:55:14 pm: A JAPANESE 'ghost ship' cast adrift in the country's devastating tsunami last year has finally been sunk.[Read more (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4242570/Tsunami-ghost-ship-sunk-after-year-adrift.html)]
Title: Re: Tsunami 'ghost ship' sunk after year adrift
Post by: JayL on April 07, 2012, 12:30:06 am: Couldn't they tow and salvage it instead?
Title: Re: Tsunami 'ghost ship' sunk after year adrift
Post by: Daniel_Bradford on April 07, 2012, 12:42:31 am: Good question. It looks like its faster and cheaper to sink it then towing it into a port .. What about the gas there was in the tanks ?
Title: Re: Tsunami 'ghost ship' sunk after year adrift
Post by: EliteTerm on April 07, 2012, 03:34:54 am: A Canadian salvage company tried to lay claims on it, and the Coast Guard let them have it but later decided to sink it because the salvage company's ship couldn't tow it.
Title: Re: Tsunami 'ghost ship' sunk after year adrift
Post by: JDC on April 08, 2012, 01:41:45 pm: Quote from: EliteTerm on April 07, 2012, 03:34:54 am
tried to lay claims on it
Quote from: EliteTerm on April 07, 2012, 03:34:54 am
couldn't tow it.

Defies logic. :trust:

But in all honesty, that's a huge waste of metal.
Title: Re: Tsunami 'ghost ship' sunk after year adrift
Post by: Mikro on April 08, 2012, 02:06:04 pm: Quote from: JDCdesigns on April 08, 2012, 01:41:45 pm
Defies logic. :trust:

But in all honesty, that's a huge waste of metal.

Maybe the resources and power needed to get this ship to the docks and make the metal ready for reuse would cost more resources and power then finding and making new metal? Not saying it is good to dump metal that could be reused, but maybe it was a more logical descision.
Title: Re: Tsunami 'ghost ship' sunk after year adrift
Post by: Mikal on April 08, 2012, 02:50:50 pm: What a waste! US Coastguard sinks it instead of saving all that metal, you just broke some tree huggers heart America! :wow: