One of my favorite Wired articles ever was back in '08, "High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas"[1] which is about the Titan Salvage crew saving a massive sinking cargo vessel off the coast of Alaska. Titan Salvage is one of the lead teams on the Costa salvage operation today. It's a really thrilling read, with some great insight into the technical aspects of ship salvage.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-03/ff_seacowboys?currentPage=all" rel="nofollow">http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-03/ff_s...</a>
60 Minutes did a piece on the salvage effort a while ago. You can find the video here: <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50137223n" rel="nofollow">http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50137223n</a>
20 min interview with the "captain", recorded a month ago: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bodv2P19Vc" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bodv2P19Vc</a>
For anyone that hasn't seen it, the Google Maps view of the situation is quite impressive: <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!q=costa+concordia&data=!1m4!1m3!1d4103!2d10.919649!3d42.3634487!2m1!1e3!4m11!1m10!4m8!1m3!1d26081603!2d-95.677068!3d37.0625!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!17b1&fid=7" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!q=costa+concordia&data=...</a>