The parbuckling operation has been successfully completed
around 4:00 a.m yesterday morning. Now the 950-foot long Costa Concordia
wreck, with its gross tonnage of 114,500 GT, is upright and resting
safely on the specially built artificial sea bed, at a depth of
approximately 30 meters.The operation started on Monday at around 9.00 a.m., almost three
hours later than expected, due to overnight bad weather conditions on
the Giglio island. Around 7:00 p.m. the salvage officials reported that
the strandjack operation had been temporarily suspended for an hour due
to maintenance work. It was in fact necessary to intervene with a
dedicated team to avoid slack cables from interfering with the tensioned cables.The parbuckling of the Costa Concordia has been completed after 19 hours.Now the salvage teams will spend a month stabilising the wreck and
preparing for the re-floating before it is towed away for scrap.This project is the most expensive and most sophisticated maritime
wreck recovery ever performed and it has been estimated to be worth more than 600 million euros ($795 million).
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17 September 2013 - 21:38
Costa Concordia Wreck Pulled Upright
The parbuckling operation has been successfully completed around 4:00 a.m yesterday morning.
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17 September 2013 - 21:38
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