FACTS & FIGURES
The wreck
•
 
300 meters length
•
 
over 114,000 gross tonnage
The installments
Over 30,000 tons of steel
have been used in the construction/fabrication of all componentsused for the parbuckling and refloating plans. That means they are equivalent to
4 times theweight of the Eiffel Tower
The
platforms
 
6 platforms:
the 3 large platforms measure 35 x 40 meters each; the 3 small platformsmeasure 15 x 5 meters each. If placed end to end they are
1 ½ football fields long
 
The 6 platforms are supported by
21 pillars with diameter of 1,6 meters
each andplunged for
 
an average of 9 meters in the granite seabedThe chains
 
56 chains in total of which 22 chains
are installed in the portside and go under thewreck to the hold back towers
 
Each chain is 58 meters long and weights about 26 tons
The artificial seabed
 
It is made up of 
1,180 individual grout bags
with a volume of over
12,000 cubic metersand over 16,000 tons in weight
The sponsons
 
11 steel sponsons
are installed on the portside of the wreck: 2 long horizontalsponsons; 2 long vertical sponsons and 7 short vertical sponsons
 
each short vertical sponson has the height of a 7-storey building; measures 21.8 x 11.5x 10.5 meters; has a weight of about 400 tons; provides about 2,400 cubic meters of buoyancy
 
each long vertical sponson has the height of an 11-storey building; measures 33 x 11.5x 10.5 meters; has a weight of about 523 tons; provides about 3,600 cubic meters of buoyancy
 
each long horizontal sponson has the height of a 11-storey building; measures 33 x11.5 x 10.5 meters; has a weight of about 540 tons; provides 3,600 cubic meters of buoyancy.
The blister tanks
 
2 steel blister tanks
are connected together and installed at the wreck’s bow
 
They measure
23 meters in length, 20 meters in height
each and have
a total breadthof about 36 meters
 
The whole structure
(the two blister tanks, the tubular frame and the three anchorpipes)
weights about 1,700 tons.
That means they are equivalent to
7 ½ times theweight of the Statue of Liberty
 
They provide a net buoyancy of 4,500 tons to the bow section
 
Marine operations
 
22 vessels and 8 barges
involved in the project activities
 
The 2 biggest are the Lone and the Micoperi30:
 –
 
The M30 measures
122 meters
in length, almost the same length of the
NotreDame Cathedral
 –
 
The Lone measures
160.5 meters
in length, almost the same length of the shortestroute of 
the
Coliseum

 
over 28,000 hours of underwater shooting of operations by ROV
(Remote Operated Vehicle)
 
over 15,000
individual
dives
The people
 
over 500 people
work on the project:
 –
 
about 120 divers
 –
 
about 70 welders/carpenters/fitters
 –
 
about 60 technicians/grouters/pilots and ROV technicians
 –
 
about 60 coordinators/salvage officers/security-safety and health officers
 –
 
about 50 engineers
 –
 
about 140 crew members
 –
 
about 10 biologists from Università La Sapienza - Roma, Università di Genova,Oceanomare-Delphis
 
26
nationalities
The parbuckling
 
from the current position,
the wreck will be rotated of 65°
to acquire a vertical position
 
During the parbuckling
the whole system will provide a force of about 23,800 tons
tolet the wreck rotate
View on Scribd
Back to document