From GIZMODO
http://gizmodo.com/5546091/this-is-how-you-lift-a-sunk-war-ship-off-the-sea#comments
With huge chains and honking cranes, that's how. Example: This Republic of Korea Navy's corvette—half of it, actually—floating over the sea's surface. And before you cry "PHOTOSHOP!", check out the scene from a distance.
It's the Cheonan, a South Korean Pohang-class corvette that broke in two on March 26.
According to an international investigation, the cause was a torpedo fired from a North Korean Yeono class miniature submarine, killing 46 crew members.
A few weeks later, on April 15, the South Korean Navy recovered the stern part from the bottom of the sea using a giant floating crane.
On April 24, the bow was recovered. [Wikipedia]
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Just blow up every boat N.Korea has.
"If they blow up a church, I'll blow up ten churches!"
The Left Coast Lifter is the largest floating crane, capable of lifting 2,000 tons. It is currently being used to lift huge sections of the new Bay Bridge.
I bet it took a bit for the water to run out
Should the US do this too? Let's drop a few nukes on Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan.
Then play it off like an Italian mobster... YOU TALKING TO ME!
it's off the chain!
*looks at first picture*
Hmm. Pretty big ship. Nice chains.
*scrolls down to second picture*
Wha
Only I had a lot more boats...
And I was making engine / crane sounds with my mouth...
I am j/k, but Japan probably will get the most benefit from the war. Japan's post world war II economy was saved by the Korean war.
And a gigantic megaman crane is cheaper?
Normally, I'd go with the ping pong balls, but perhaps they happen to have the crane lying around and it created a good photo-op...
Ping pong balls aren't going to make it fly.
If I remember correctly, the largest shipyard in the world is in South Korea, and Hyundai, which runs it, has quite a few of these things 'just lying around' for other mega projects, yes.
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It looks like a toy. Amazing.
They already have one of the largest militaries on the planet; not to mention China's continued support.
P.S. - They both have nuclear weapons.
1. They have nuclear weapons. Kim Jong Il is crazy enough to use them too. If he gets attacked, he may just decide to blow up S. Korea and Japan to spite the world.
2. China still supports N. Korea. If we were to begin a conflict with N. Korea, China may just jump in, and then we'd likely have world war 3. America would probably win against China, but it would cripple us.
/sarcasm
In other words, going to war with them is not a very good idea if a clean, quick campaign is your goal. It would be a meat grinder and the public would not have any stomach for it.
Second, it's no small undertaking to go to war with North Korea. Their army may not be as advanced as that of the South Koreans or the United States, but by all accounts they do have 1.2 million troops. The South may be more advanced and have more troops, but I wouldn't think that there would be enough support for an invasion at this point, and even if there were it wouldn't be a cake walk.
The problem with ideological wars is that its hard to keep troop moral and really identify when the war has been won. Wars designed to win territory for keeps is much easier (relatively).
Vietnam helped save the Cambodians from the khmer rouge, but they were just perceived to be another invading force, even if they did help out.
nuff said.
Someone needs to push Kim Jong il down a flight of stairs.
Your move, 이명박.
How in the hell do you get chains that HUGE under a boat sitting on the ocean floor?! And don't say divers cause each of those links is the size of a diver.
Now you got me wondering. I have an old friend who's a diver and I've seen pics associated with him that had 4-inch chain links holding up rig legs or something. That's 4-inches in diameter - not long.
I'll have to look him up.