Raising The Cheonan

Salvaging the South Korean corvette “Cheonan” is old news now that the US has a major ecological disaster to contend with, but these AP photos of the bow section being raised are pretty amazing. It’s hard to believe a world that has the technology to grab a sunken battleship off the seafloor after a few days can’t plug an itty bitty mile-deep runaway oil well any faster.

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