The property left at death one of Costa Concordia is slowly straightening



From hours 9,00 this morning, when it is begun the complex and delicate operation of rectification of the property left at death one of the Costa Concordia been shipwrecked at the beginning last year to the Island of the Gigio, the new line of immersion traced cross-sectionally along the cruise ship from the surface of the sea in the course of the twenty months in which the hull it has remained put to the reef has begun progressively and constantly to change to inclination right there of the hundreds of technicians and journalists and of the million people that they are following on the place or in front of the video the development of the procedure of parbuckling, that is of upset of the ship with the aid of the shooting of fixed steel wire ropes to the top of the central large chests and to the platforms on which it will go to put the property left at death one after its rectification.

The head of the Department of the Civil Protection and delegated commissioner for the emergency Concord, Franco Gabrielli, and in charge of the project for the society Micoperi, Sergio Girotto, they have confirmed that the operations are second proceeding how much previewed from the project and that, around noon, the hull of the ship has been floated from cliffs.

In order to straighten completely the hull the cables will have to be pulled of about 21 meters, 3,5 meters for every hour, with a constant action. Once completed the spin of the ship will be verified the conditions of the property left at death one and characterized the eventual technical participations to make, in particular on the side straight (such flank - in fact it has specified Gabrielli - begins to show remarkable signs of damaging). After this appraisal - it has specified the Civil Protection - it will only be possible to delineate the times of the next phases of rigalleggiamento and transport.

The Civil Protection has announced that during the operations an iridescence around the property left at death one has been marked from the Harbour office, but the verifications completed from the Arpat - regional Agency for the environmental protection of the Tuscany has led back it to the soot generated from the means presence around the ship. The Department has remembered that in order to mitigate the effects of the waters that will exit from the property left at death one during the spin are however operating a plan of limitation of the eventual sversamenti. Between the first measures of protection, the double positioning of an extended one of absorbent creams that the yard encircles; in port, moreover, they are available of means in order to take part on the sversamenti and to reduce lessened the times of contamination.

Commenting with satisfaction the start of the phase of removal of the property left at death one from Isola del Giglio and evidencing that, once completed the rectification of the ship, "will be necessary to more close carry the property left at death one in the port and safety", the president of the Tuscany Region has thrown again the proposal to carry Costa Concordia in the port of Piombino to the aim of its dismantling: "we have been first - Enrico Rossi has remembered - to have a premonition that we had to be equipped and that the property left at death one did not have to end in some place of the Third world. The absolute priority - it has specified - remains to carry it via from the Lily, but we are working also because digestion of what it is a refusal makes to Piombino, where we exist also a iron and steel system that could close the row. They are sure that the two objectives at the end will coincide". "The Tuscany Region - it has emphasized the governor - has put in field an important series of investments in order to answer to the problems put in field from this tragedy, beginning from the potenziamento of the net marine surveillance radar. We have asked then sure rules the ministries interested for the protection for the atmosphere, and has been thanks to our job if Europe has decided to emanate regulations, that it is law, on digestion of property left at death the naval ones in safe havens. Moreover we ask Europe to extend the satellite control for safety of the routes and in order to fight the sversamenti in sea". "They are also - it has concluded Rossi - the president of Isola del Giglio. I will be therefore content when it will be freed by this monster. If the property left at death one will go to Piombino we will have obtained something in more. In any case this port will be ready for all the activities to which we are equipping it. A serious country does not get angry on a ship, than among other things it guards still the bodies of two of the victims, but it is engaged to equip itself for an activity as that of the destruction that Europe has regulated and that it interests hundred of hulls per year. We had understood it for first in far-sighted way".