Who's up for an easy £5 million?

[Wedg1e]

Hang on lads... I've got an idea. Er...
[/Charlie Croker]

No, really, listen.
What we do is paddle a dinghy out to the wreck and very gently tie a really strong rope (B&Q do a nice orange one that should be easy to see in the water) to the masts.
Then, we bung Elon Musk a couple of hundred quid to tie the other end of the rope to one of his big rockets next time there's a resupply to the ISS (actually, he'll be really busy, maybe we just do it and don't tell him).
By the time the rocket gets to stage 1 separation it'll be travelling at 2000mph and the 2.5G will pop those masts straight off the hull like the wings off a fly, the ship won't even notice they've gone.
Honest

 

[Barking Mat]

I mocked it up out of a cardboard box.

Looks feasible...

 

[roofman]

Everyone must leave there keys in the salvage boats locker as a holding deposit...being a scouser i don't trust anyone and it might dis-courage a free enterprise jumper from the work party

 

[Parm]

Ar53. Me and my big keyboard.

However, first we'd need to get round the table for interminable meetings about what could, might, should, shouldn't, possibly perhaps maybe done while not actually discussing what needs to be done.
Then I'd have to throw together some concept drawings (full 3D, to scale, in colour of course, as that's the minimum acceptable standard these days).
More meetings... more drawings... frankly, either the ship will have dissolved or I'll be retired (and probably both) and we still won't have a workable plan.

Ahh a very experienced and capable project manager. Endless talent and experience you have.

And don't forget this will have to be via Skype, zoom or what ever. Of course this means we need an IT person.

@skotl, your services are required

 

[Cobbler]

I told you, just blow the bloody masts off. .....

 

[Parm]

Hang on lads... I've got an idea. Er...
[/Charlie Croker]

No, really, listen.
What we do is paddle a dinghy out to the wreck and very gently tie a really strong rope (B&Q do a nice orange one that should be easy to see in the water) to the masts.
Then, we bung Elon Musk a couple of hundred quid to tie the other end of the rope to one of his big rockets next time there's a resupply to the ISS (actually, he'll be really busy, maybe we just do it and don't tell him).
By the time the rocket gets to stage 1 separation it'll be travelling at 2000mph and the 2.5G will pop those masts straight off the hull like the wings off a fly, the ship won't even notice they've gone.
Honest

Genius

You win the award for blue sky thinking and the most innovative solution

We really do have some talent on here

 

[Wedg1e]

Obviously the whole project will have to proceed with the utmost caution with innumerable checks and balances... sounds to me like everyone needs to be on a day rate

 

[roofman]

I told you, just blow the bloody masts off. .....

we cant make it look easy..the press could get wind of it and demand an inquiry about wasting public funds

 

[sako243]

 

[Lewis_RX8]

we cant make it look easy..the press could get wind of it and demand an inquiry about wasting public funds

Could do with a PR team for this project.

Twitter , faceache the whole lot. Gotta make sure the public knows we mean business

 

[Parm]

The high voltage, high current expert has just surafced

 

[Parm]

Could do with a PR team for this project.

Twitter , faceache the whole lot. Gotta make sure the public knows we mean business

We had one of them on here a while back, hasn't been seen for ages

 

[Wedg1e]

Genius

You win the award for blue sky thinking and the most innovative solution

We really do have some talent on here

Wait, I've had a rethink!
We tell Trump there are some free-range Mexicans (or other 'persons of alternative ethnicity') lurking near the ship in perilously unsafe small craft.
He'll build a coffer dam (think of it as a 'wall') around the wreck, we pump the seawater out and slip a few of the great unwashed some cider/ganja money to nip into the hull and bring out whatever they can carry... ask around Sunderland, tell them they can keep any brass, lead or copper they find.
Then I split the 5 mill three ways

 

[Parm]

I told you, just blow the bloody masts off. .....

A job for the vark, hes been know to make black powder

 

[Lewis_RX8]

Wait, I've had a rethink!
We tell Trump there are some free-range Mexicans (or 'persons of alternative ethnicity') lurking near the ship in perilously unsafe small craft.
He'll build a coffer dam (think of it as a 'wall') around the wreck, we pump the seawater out and slip a few of the great unwashed some cider/ganja money to nip into the hull and bring out whatever they can carry... ask around Sunderland, tell them they can keep any brass, lead or copper they find.

How about a Gumtree add


Scrap Metal - Collection only

 

[Parm]

Wait, I've had a rethink!
We tell Trump there are some free-range Mexicans (or 'persons of alternative ethnicity') lurking near the ship in perilously unsafe small craft.
He'll build a coffer dam (think of it as a 'wall') around the wreck, we pump the seawater out and slip a few of the great unwashed some cider/ganja money to nip into the hull and bring out whatever they can carry... ask around Sunderland, tell them they can keep any brass, lead or copper they find.

Good idea, but he'll just change his mind then blame some one else

 

[Lewis_RX8]

Got to rea,,,,, Watch up on the subject at hand

 

[Parm]

A moderator will be required

This team is now getting quite big, Good chance there may be a disagreement in proceedings

 

[Wedg1e]

Something puzzles me: do sharks actually have 'heads'? They're really more like a sausage with teeth at one end and a hole at the other.
Dogs, they have heads. Some of them resemble sharks, and they still have the teeth and hole in the relevant locations, but you can point at a dog and say 'look, that's where the head ends and the rest of it begins'. But you'd be hard-pressed to rub your knuckles between a shark's ears while it drools over your trouser leg.

 

[sako243]

Something puzzles me: do sharks actually have 'heads'? They're really more like a sausage with teeth at one end and a hole at the other.
Dogs, they have heads. Some of them resemble sharks, and they still have the teeth and hole in the relevant locations, but you can point at a dog and say 'look, that's where the head ends and the rest of it begins'. But you'd be hard-pressed to rub your knuckles between a shark's ears while it drools over your trouser leg.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/head

the part of the body above the neck where the eyes, nose, mouth, ears, and brain are: