ITALY: Costa Concordia salvage crews prepare to start pumping oil.

Record ID: 344119

  • Title: ITALY: Costa Concordia salvage crews prepare to start pumping oil.
  • Date: 13th February 2012
  • Summary: GIGLIO, ITALY (FEBRUARY 12, 2012) (REUTERS) CAPSIZED COSTA CONCORDIA NEAR GIGLIO ISLAND VESSEL AND FLOATING PROTECTIVE BARRIER NEXT TO CONCORDIA BROKEN GLASS PANELS OF CONCORDIA ROOF SALVAGE BARGE IN PORT SALVAGE WORKERS ON DECK OF BARGE SALVAGE VESSEL AND CRANE IN PORT SALVAGE WORKERS ON DECK OF BARGE VARIOUS OF BARGE CARRYING CRANE LEAVING PORT SALVAGE WORKERS IN PORT VESSEL LEAVING PORT / FLOATING PROTECTIVE BARRIER IN WATER COAST GUARD VESSEL LEAVING PORT BARGE WITH CRANE HEADING TO CONCORDIA RESCUE VESSELS IN WATER RESCUE VESSEL NEARING CONCORDIA VARIOUS OF SALVAGE BARGE WITH CRANE NEARING CONCORDIA
  • Embargoed: 28th February 2012 12:00
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  • Location: Italy, Italy
  • Country: Italy
  • Topics: Disasters
  • Reuters ID: LVA5V8YFW5EUYSDRPDCU4D0A7EH2
  • Story Text: Salvage work on the Costa Concordia resumes after days of bad weather delayed operations on the stricken cruise liner.
    Salvage crews on the island of Giglio prepared to resume operations on the capsized Costa Concordia on Sunday (February 12).
    Snowfall and rough seas over the past week brought operations on the cruise liner to a standstill but calmer seas on Sunday offered hopes operations could now resume.
    The barge ship carrying oil pumps that crews hope will remove more than 2,300 tonnes of diesel from the wreck headed out from the port of Giglio Island.
    Operations are expected to take between three weeks and a month once they start but bad weather has delayed progress.
    Experts measuring the movement of the wreck on Saturday (February 11) told Reuters Television the slippage had increased due to the weather conditions this week, but added that the velocity of the movement was not alarming.
    The ship which lies half-submerged just metres from shore on a rock shelf had moved about 10-15 centimetres (4 to 6 inches) in the last two days, professor Filippo Catani of the University of Florence said on Saturday.
    The 290 metre-long ship capsized and foundered close to the Tuscan island of Giglio on January 13 after its struck a rock which tore a large gash in its hull.
    At least 17 people died in the accident and 15 others are still missing.
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