JULY 14, 2014– It might be reduced in the water and also sustained by sponsons, however the Costa Concordia is afloat once more.
The very first day of the refloating job was efficiently wrapped up greater than 2 and also a fifty percent years after the cruise liner ran marooned off Italy’s Giglio Island with greater than 4,200 individuals aboard, in a misfortune that took 32 lives.
By 8.00 p.m. regional time, according to specialist’s estimates, the accident was drifting with the assistance of sponsons some 2.2 meters off the incorrect sea bed on which it had actually relaxed given that being righted and also it had actually been lugged for regarding 30 meters eastwards.
The accident is currently safely anchored, wrapping up very first stage of the refloating procedures, although procedures have actually proceeded around and also under the accident to link some chains and also cords to the sponsons.
