13 January 2014

The Costa Concordia today

Rico says his friend Kelley forwards this Reuters article by Max Rossi via Yahoo:
The cruise liner Costa Concordia is pictured (above) during the "parbuckling" operation outside Giglio harbor on 12 January 2014.
On 13 January 2012, the Costa Concordia cruise ship hit a rock by the Isola del Giglio off the coast of Tuscany. The ship began to take on water, eventually falling onto its side. There were 3,229 passengers and 1,023 crew members on board, and in the chaotic scenes that followed as the boat collapsed into the sea, 32 people never made it off.
To mark the two-year anniversary, the Associated Press reports, survivors and locals alike held mass in the local church that welcomed in survivors after the disaster.
The enormous, sixty-thousand-ton ship has been a grim reminder of the tragedy for the past two years, and even a morbid tourism spot. The hope is that 2014 will be the year that the ship is gone; in September, a grueling sixteen-hour "parbuckling" process moved the ship back into an upright state, and the current plan is to tow the boat away in summer for dismantling. 
Flowers released by a relative of a victim float on the sea next to the Costa Concordia cruise liner (above), following a ceremony to mark the second anniversary of the tragedy, outside Giglio harbor on 13 January 2014. 

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