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Readers of our website are not unfamiliar with the subject of the wreck of the modern cruise liner Costa Concordia, which in dramatic circumstances went down off the coast of Tuscany. On our pages we have repeatedly published materials describing the course of events related to the wreck and the investigation of its sinking. Today, we have another exceptional material straight from Italy.
The Telegraph.co.uk has published on its youtube channel a very interesting video recording, made during a dive on the wreck of the Concordia. During this peculiar “trip” in which the camera operator takes us, we can see in what condition the wreck remains. This is not first film recorded during the of diving at this sitebut certainly due to the duration it shows a more complete picture of the wreck.
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As the next seconds of the recording pass, it is hard to resist the impression that the beautiful liner has turned into a time capsule with a clearly recorded record of dramatic events. Time stopped on the ferry on Friday evening, 13 January 2012. Books, cushions, blankets and other small objects scattered around the decks create an eerie mixture with a tangle of damaged metal parts of the structure and tears in the hull plating.
Usually when diving on wrecks, we do not have the opportunity to encounter such vivid and tangible traces of the last passengers and the fate that befell them. Most of them are obliterated by time and new inhabitants in the form of local fauna and flora. Perhaps it is for the better? The wreck of the Costa Concordia makes a very bleak impression and personally I would not want such feelings to always accompany me during a wreck dive.
More than 2.5 years have passed since the shipwreck. Unfortunately, it was not the end of unpleasant events. Traces of thieves were discovered several times on the wreck. Their victims were, among others jewellery shop with expensive watches. However, the real scandal turned out to be theft of a ship’s bell. The matter was all the more painful for those whose lives were intertwined on the Concordia, as it was to be part of a monument dedicated to the victims of the disaster and to those who rushed to help a moment after the accident.
The Italian authorities’ decision to raise the wreck was therefore not surprising. For this to happen, however, it was necessary to bring together specialists from all over the world and join their forces in a joint project. It was an unprecedented excavation operation, divided into many stages. Today, this story comes to an end. On 20 July 2014. The date has been set for the last voyage of the Costa Concordia, whose destination is Genoa, where the liner will be dismantled and scrapped.
Source: telegraph.co.uk, heavyliftnews.com
Photo: EU Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection
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