ITALY: Experts detonate explosives to access more submerged areas in the wreck of the capsised Costa Concordia cruise ship off the Italian island of Giglio

Record ID: 543766

  • Title: ITALY: Experts detonate explosives to access more submerged areas in the wreck of the capsised Costa Concordia cruise ship off the Italian island of Giglio
  • Date: 22nd January 2012
  • Summary: GIGLIO, ITALY (JANUARY 21, 2012) (REUTERS) VARIOUS CAPSISED COSTA CONCORDIA SHIP EXPLOSION ON FRONT OF SHIP MORE OF FRONT OF SHIP DIVERS NEAR EXPLOSION SITE MORE CAPSIZED COSTA CONCORDIA SHIP RESCUERS ON DOCK VARIOUS BOATS IN HARBOUR VARIOUS RESCUERS GETTING OFF FERRY VARIOUS POLICE AND DIVERS ON DOCK OXYGEN TANKS MORE RESCUERS ON DOCK GIGLIO HARBOUR/COSTA CONC
  • Embargoed: 6th February 2012 12:00
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  • Location: Italy, Italy
  • Country: Italy
  • Topics: Disasters
  • Reuters ID: LVABNWXSY9PJSET1A2UAEUTS8D8C
  • Story Text: More than a week after the Costa Concordia cruise ship capsized off the small Italian island of Giglio, rescue teams continued their search for the missing. On Saturday (January 21) experts used explosives on the vessel's wreck to gain access to new parts of the ship which were previously unreachable.
    Eleven people are known to have died out of more than 4,200 passengers and crew aboard when the ship struck a rock just metres from the shoreline, tearing a large gash in the side of the hull. Twenty-one are still unaccounted for.
    Rescue workers are still looking for a missing five-year-old girl and her father.
    Eight days after the 114,500-tonne ship ran aground and capsized off the Tuscan coast, hopes of finding anyone alive have all but disappeared and the cold waters around the vessel have become rougher, with worse weather expected over the coming days.
    Attention is now turning to how to remove some 2,400 tonnes of fuel from the vessel, which lies on its side on a rocky shelf in about 20 metres of water off the little island of Giglio and which could slide off its resting place.
    Salvage crews are waiting until the search for survivors and bodies is called off before they can begin pumping the fuel out of the wreck, a process expected to take at least two weeks.
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