If a cable does fail, a repair ship is dispatched to lift both ends to the surface using grappling hooks and fuse the ends back together a slow, expensive process.

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He got off in Cherbourg to help repair another ship, taking the blueprint with him, and so avoided the 1912 disaster which claimed 1, 500 lives.

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Others include Cosco (Singapore), which mostly does ship repair and conversion and appears to be equally buoyant.

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Among those projects are the supply of manufacturing components, energy-related construction and development work and ship repair.

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With the ship considered beyond economic repair, its final destination is expected to be a dry dock in Sicily, where it will be cut up.

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The service center advised that I could ship the unit to them for repair. (Now, this is a mixer that is heavy with a capital H.) The CSR at the service center also explained that I would be buying the entire assembly.

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The ship is at a Mobile shipyard for repair and won't resume cruises until at least mid-April.

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