A bad ass story of modern engineering

[Benny Profane]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/su...ip-rescue.html

[char]

This piece about Nick Sloane (the guy in charge of the salvage) came out awhile back. Gets a little into the history of marine insurance, high seas salvage, etc.

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2...cordia-salvage

Crazy line of work.

[Benny Profane]

Bad ass line of work. One wonders about (a) the type of people you hire, and (b) how the fuck to manage a team of people like that.

[Plainview]

...One wonders ...how the fuck to manage a team of people like that.

With a whip and a stool.

[Tippster]

Bad ass line of work. One wonders about (a) the type of people you hire, and (b) how the fuck to manage a team of people like that.

You pay them what they're worth. You don't dick around with Dress codes, Overtime, or paid time off, and you don't make the business about how much money the owners and stockholders can squeeze out of their employees. Support creativity over the manual.

Get the job done in a way that everyone is happy - the client, the employees, and the owner of the business. Harley-Davidson style.

[old goat]

Back in the old days when a mariner fucked up and wrecked his boat he made up some lame story about being lured onto the rocks by an irresistible maiden (see Sirens, Lorelei), and everyone bought the story and turned it into a myth. Too bad the capt of the Costa Concordia couldn't come with a good tale.

[plugboots]

Saw that last night. An unbelievable amount of money to get that thing salvaged.

[Benny Profane]

Saw that last night. An unbelievable amount of money to get that thing salvaged.

Yeah. I assume that the company was extremely embarrassed by the actions of the idiot captain, and went overboard to save the environment. Maybe some of it was insurance money, too. Wonder if the underwater structures were taken away.