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The rectification of the property left at death one of Costa Concordia is carried to term with success
The operation has lasted 19 hours. Now the cruise ship rests on the underwater platforms which placed to 30 meters of depth
September 17, 2013
After 19 business hours the operation of parbuckling has been capacity to term with happen to hours 4,00 of this morning of Costa Concordia, that is the rectification of the property left at death one of the cruise ship been shipwrecked at the beginning of 2012 to Isola del Giglio. The ship - they have announced the Civil Protection and the Consortium Titan Micoperi guided from salvage the Nick Sloane master - is brought back in vertical after a spin of 65 degrees and now the hull rests on the six underwater steel platforms that purposely are placed to about 30 meters of depth in order creating a stable base for the property left at death one.
The Civil Protection has emphasized that it has been be a matter of an extraordinary operation, because for the first time a ship of great dimensions is straightened and put on an artificially constructed backdrop, and that the entire project of spin is characterized by a grip collaboration between the private part, that has guaranteed the technical capability, and that public one, that has validated and authorized all the phases of the project.
The Department of the Civil Protection has remembered that after the remittance in axis a verification of the conditions of property left at death and the location of the eventual technical participations will be necessary for making, in particular on the remained flank submergeeed. The spin of the ship - it has found the delegated commissioner for the emergency, Franco Gabrielli - represents, however, "a decisive point for the removal of the ship from waters of the Lily".
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After 19 business hours the operation of parbuckling has been capacity to term with happen to hours 4,00 of this morning of Costa Concordia, that is the rectification of the property left at death one of the cruise ship been shipwrecked at the beginning of 2012 to Isola del Giglio. The ship - they have announced the Civil Protection and the Consortium Titan Micoperi guided from salvage the Nick Sloane master - is brought back in vertical after a spin of 65 degrees and now the hull rests on the six underwater steel platforms that purposely are placed to about 30 meters of depth in order creating a stable base for the property left at death one.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
