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« Reply #540 on: September 06, 2013, 01:38:08 PM »

http://www.insuranceinsight.com/insurance-insight/analysis/2292710/europe-the-cost-of-concordia
Europe: The cost of Concordia
September 5, 2013

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« Reply #541 on: September 06, 2013, 01:40:02 PM »

http://world.time.com/2013/09/06/italy-gives-ok-to-right-capsized-costa-concordia/
Italy Gives OK to Right Capsized Costa Concordia
September 6, 2013

(ROME) — Italy has given the go-ahead for an ambitious attempt to set upright the Costa Concordia cruise liner, which went aground near an Italian island in 2012, killing 32 people.

The national Civil Protection agency said Friday the operation will be carried out later this month, once final safety certificates are issued. The exact date depends on calm seas near Giglio Island.

If engineers and crews succeed in righting the Concordia, the vessel will be eventually towed to a port for dismantling.

The manslaughter trial of the Concordia’s captain, Francesco Schettino, resumes on Sept. 23.
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« Reply #542 on: September 06, 2013, 01:42:12 PM »

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Engineers gear up to right the wreck of Costa Concordia (2:28)
September 6, 2013


Sept. 6 - A salvage team tasked with removing the wreck of the Costa Concordia from its resting place of the coast off Giglio, Italy, are preparing to rotate the ship into an upright position after more than a year of preparation. As Jim Drury reports, the team will be using a technique known as parbuckling, never attempted on a vessel of this size before. ( Transcript )
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« Reply #543 on: September 10, 2013, 09:20:11 PM »

http://www.marinelink.com/news/parbuckling-concordia358419.aspx
Costa Concordia Parbuckling to Get Green Light Soon
September 10, 2013

The salvage operation (known as the 'parbuckling project') to upright the wreck of the partially sunken 'Costa Concordia' has been given provisional approval by the Italian government's Civil Protection Department and is expected ot take place at a convenient date in September.
The meeting convened in Rome was at the headquarters of the Civil Protection Department and was attended by the Emergency Commissioner Franco Gabrielli, as well as representatives from the Advisory Committee, the Observatory, the Micoperi-Titan Consortium and the cruise line Costa Crociere.
Final authorization to proceed with the operation to rotate the wreck is subject to submission of all the test certificates following inspection of all the finished structures and completion of the preliminary activities required before the actual parbuckling can begin. All of this should take place by the end of next week; at any time thereafter, as soon as the sea and weather conditions are favorable, the operation torotate the wreck into an upright position can begin.
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« Reply #544 on: September 12, 2013, 03:15:30 PM »

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/travel/travel-news/operation-to-set-costa-concordia-upright-to-start-next-week/story-fni0bieo-1226717292801
Operation to set Costa Concordia upright to start next week
September 12, 2013

 
National Civil Protection agency chief Franco Gabrielli told islanders on Giglio island that crews could try to right the ship as soon as September 16. He stressed that the exact date for the operation will only be known the day before, since the final OK depends upon weather and sea conditions.
 

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« Reply #545 on: September 12, 2013, 03:20:01 PM »

http://www.nbcnews.com/travel/italys-wrecked-costa-concordia-cruise-ship-be-raised-8C11137988
Italy's wrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship to be raised
September 12, 2013

The wrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship could be upright again next week, nearly two years after the liner capsized and killed at least 30 people off the Italian coast.
 
Workers will look for the bodies of two people, an Italian and an Indian unaccounted for since the disaster, as machines haul the 114,000-tonne ship upright and underwater cameras comb the seabed.

The exact day of the Concordia's rotation - known as parbuckling - has yet to be set, but on Wednesday Civil Protection Commissioner Franco Gabrielli said Monday was likely.

 
Divers have pumped 18,000 metric tons of cement into bags below the ship to support it and prevent it from breaking up in an operation which is expected to last 8-10 hours and is part of a salvage operation estimated to cost at least $300 million.

A buoyancy device acting "like a neck brace for an injured patient" will hold together the ship's bow, and fishing nets will catch debris as it rises from beneath the ship, said Nicholas Sloane, senior salvage master at Titan Salvage.

The salvage team will go through the ship cabin by cabin and had over items found on board to the Italian state prosecutor, and the vessel will be towed away to be dismantled.
 
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« Reply #546 on: September 14, 2013, 09:44:01 AM »

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/09/13/3625339/massive-operation-to-right-shipwreck.html
Massive operation to right Costa Concordia shipwreck scheduled for Monday
September 13, 2013

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In an unprecedented feat of engineering that could make history or fail catastrophically, teams will begin Monday morning to hoist the wrecked Costa Concordia, which has been resting on its side atop two rocks near an ocean cliff for the last 20 months. The project’s anticipated price tag: nearly $800 million dollars.

Called “parbuckling,” the job involves a complicated system of 56 enormous cables, 58 pulling machines, 11 multistory flotation tanks, six undersea platforms and 1,180 grout bags full of cement. Weather permitting, the process is scheduled to begin at first light on Monday in Italy, or roughly 1 a.m., Miami time — 16 months after the initial work at the site began, and 20 months after the shipwreck in which 32 people died.

“If it doesn’t work, then I don’t think anybody can say it’s because we did this wrong or that wrong,” said Mark Hoddinott, general manager of the London-based International Salvage Union. “They’ve done everything right. Now they’re going into this area where this has never been done with a ship this size before.”
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« Reply #547 on: September 14, 2013, 09:46:28 AM »

http://abcnews.go.com/International/slideshow/12-dramatic-images-costa-concordia-cruise-ship-20248415
12 Most Dramatic Images of the Costa Concordia Cruise Ship
Salvage operation for wreck off Italian coast poised to happen.




An aerial view taken from an Italian navy helicopter shows the Costa Concordia as it lies on its side next to Giglio Island, Italy, Aug. 26, 2013. The wrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship could be upright again by mid-September 2013, nearly two years after the liner capsized and killed 32 people off the Italian coast. (Reuters)

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« Reply #548 on: September 14, 2013, 11:17:32 AM »

http://www.maritime-executive.com/article/Update-Engineers-Insurers-On-Edge-as-Costa-Concordia-Salvage-Nears-2013-09-13/

 September 13, 2013
Costa Concordia: Twenty-One Months of Salvage and Counting, Insurers On Edge

By MarEx

Salvors have confrmed that the parbuckling operation to lift the wreck of the Costa Concordia upright will begin on Monday, September 16th, weather permitting. The cruise ship, christened in July 2006, is 952 feet long with a beam of 116.6 feet wide, and is 114,137 gross tons. It is owned by the Carnival Corporation and its subsidiary Costa Crociere.

On January 13, 2012, under the command of Captain Francesco Schettino, the huge cruise ship grounded with about 3,229 passenger and about 1,000 crewmembers at 9:45 p.m. in calm seas. Thirty people were killed and two passengers are still missing and presumed dead.

The parbuckling lift operation will use an integrated engineering design of cables and hydraulics to upright the ship after more than 21 months of laying starboard in the shallow waters beside Giglio Island near Tuscany.

Raising the Costa Concordia is estimated to be about a 15-20 hour operation including more than 500 salvors and engineers. They have already pumped about 18,000 tons of concrete into bags below the sideways superstructure. A massive underwater platform has been built to allow the ship to come to rest on it after the jacks and cables pull the vessel upright.

When salvage teams begin hauling the wrecked Costa Concordia liner upright next week, the financial stakes for insurers will be almost as enormous as the awe-inspiring feat of engineering. According to reinsurer Munich Re, the overall insurance loss from the accident could surpass $1.1 billion. As much as half of that may be swallowed up by the cost of the salvage operation.

The cost of the salvage operation, which a senior official from the ship's owner Costa Cruises this week estimated at $800 million "and rising", is already expected to be greater than the value of the vessel itself.

 
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« Reply #549 on: September 15, 2013, 10:18:39 AM »

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/09/15/costa-concordia-salvage-operation-to-go-ahead-monday/
Costa Concordia salvage operation to go ahead Monday
September 15, 2013

 
Salvage workers could be seen fixing the giant metal chains and cables that will hoist up the 290-metre (951-foot) wreck, which is roughly the length of three football fields.

The civil protection agency, which is overseeing the project, gave its final go-ahead on Sunday, saying the weather forecast looked favourable.

The biggest rotation of a passenger ship ever attempted is set to begin shortly after 6:00 am (0400 GMT) on Monday and could last up to 12 hours.

"Parbuckling operations of the Costa Concordia will begin tomorrow," the agency said, using the technical term for rolling a ship upright.


Once the Costa Concordia is upright, the plan is to stabilise it, refloat it and then tow it away for scrapping in a shipyard early next year.

The head of the operation, Nick Sloane, has warned it is now or never for the Costa Concordia because the hull is gradually weakening and might not survive another winter
 
Using giant cement sacks and a custom-made metal platform, salvagers have so far secured the rusting hulk, which was threatening to slip from its resting place into deeper waters.

The plan is to drag it up using cables and pulleys -- a complex operation that environmentalists warn could spill thousands of tons of toxic waste into the pristine waters.

The hull could bend as it is being hoisted but the civil protection agency, which is overseeing the salvage, has ruled out the possibility of the ship splitting in two.

All maritime traffic will be blocked in the area, one of Europe's biggest marine sanctuaries, until the parbuckling is completed.
 
Sloane, the South African who will be at the controls, said the ship will initially be dragged up for four or five hours before gravity takes over and it begins to right itself on its own.

Giant metal tanks the size of 11-storey buildings have been fixed onto the side of the ship currently exposed, designed to act as brakes to prevent it from flipping over too far.

Once the rollover is completed, workers will weld more tanks or "sponsons" onto the side of the ship that is currently under water.

These will act as giant flotation devices to allow the vessel to be towed away to be dismantled, probably early next year.

The salvage operation has been delayed repeatedly, mainly due to the difficulties of drilling into the granite seabed to install a metal structure to support the ship.

The project is being financed by the insurers of the ship's owner Costa Crociere, which is Europe's biggest cruise operator and part of the leading company in the sector, the US-based Carnival.
 
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« Reply #550 on: September 15, 2013, 10:25:08 AM »

http://www.islandpacket.com/2013/09/15/2685268/italy-ok-to-right-shipwrecked.html
Italy: OK to right shipwrecked Costa Concordia
September 15, 2013



Workers inspect the Costa Concordia ship as it lies on its side near the Tuscan Island of Giglio, Italy, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2013. An international team of engineers is expected on Monday, Sept. 16 a to try a never-before attempted strategy to right the luxury liner, which capsized after striking a reef in 2012 killing 32 people.
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The operation involves dozens of crank-like pulleys slowly rotating the ship upright at a rate of about 3 meters (yards) per hour, using chains that have been looped around the ship's hull. Tanks filled with water on the exposed side of the vessel will also help rotate it upward, using gravity to pull the exposed side down.

Once upright, those tanks — and an equal number that will be fixed on the opposite side — eventually will be filled with air, rather than water, to help float the ship up off the reef so it can be towed away.
Last week, the head of Italy's Civil Protection agency, Franco Gabrielli, said there was no "Plan B" if the rotation failed since there would be no other way to try it again. But Nick Sloane, the South African who is senior salvage master, said he was confident the ship would withstand the stress of the rotation

Mayor Sergio Ortelli has asked for patience from the island's 1,400 residents during Monday's operation, which he expected would last about 10-12 hours. Ferries linking Giglio to mainland Tuscany stop running at dawn Monday, meaning teachers for Giglio's two schools were arriving Sunday night for classes.

Since the shipwreck, no major pollution has been found in the waters near the ship. But should the Concordia break apart during the rotation — a possibility authorities describe as remote — absorbent barriers were being set in place to catch any leaks. Fuel was siphoned out early in the salvage operation, but food and human waste are still inside the partially submerged vessel and might leak out.

As a precaution, Ortelli told islanders last week that water tanks on the island would be topped up in case the water supply becomes contaminated.

Other inconveniences were expected. The island that lives off fishing and tourism sends its compacted garbage every Monday to the mainland by boat. That sanitation service will have to be re-scheduled when the port shuts down for the rotation operation, known in nautical parlance as "parbuckling."

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« Reply #551 on: September 15, 2013, 10:27:04 AM »

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« Reply #552 on: September 15, 2013, 02:14:24 PM »

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/costa-concordia-salvage-project-what-s-at-stake-1.1854630
Costa Concordia salvage project: what's at stake?
Posted: Sep 14, 2013 1:06 PM ET Last Updated: Sep 15, 2013 1:13 PM ET

 
What has been done so far?

In April 2012, Florida-based Titan Salvage and Italian firm Micoperi were awarded the contract to remove the ship from Italy’s Giglio Island. Work got underway the following month.
The first task was to anchor and stabilize the wreck in order to keep it from slipping further into the sea, making it less dangerous to work on. Workers attached the Costa Concordia to the coastline using four “submarine anchor blocks.”

Other work included building a “false bottom,” or underwater platform, on the seabed below the wreck, which it will sit on once it has been righted. Fifteen steel containers called “caissons” were also installed on the side of the ship that is above water to right the ship.

To cushion the more delicate bow of the ship, crews have cradled it in protective material, a measure likened to putting a protective neck brace around an accident victim before being moved.

Canada will also have its role in the salvage operation. Waterloo-based 2G Robotics is set to deploy its underwater laser scanner next week to provide a detailed picture of the submerged section of the ship.
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« Reply #553 on: September 16, 2013, 08:33:15 AM »

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/09/16/operation-to-raise-capsized-cruise-ship-underway/2819185/
Attempt to right Costa Concordia cruise ship begins
September 16, 2013

GIGLIO ISLAND, Italy (AP) — A complex system of pulleys and counterweights on Monday began pulling upright the Costa Concordia cruise ship from its side on a Tuscan reef where it capsized in 2012, an anxiously awaited operation of a kind that has never been attempted on such a huge liner.

Engineer Sergio Girotto said the operation began at about 9 a.m. local time on Monday, three hours late.

By midday, Girotto said they have succeeded in wresting the hull of the shipwrecked Concordia from the reef and that cameras did not immediately reveal any sign of two bodies that were never recovered from the 32 who died during the disaster.

The delay was due to an early morning storm that pushed back a floating command room center from its position close to the wreckage. There, engineers using remote controls were guiding a synchronized leverage system of pulleys, counterweights and huge chains looped under the Concordia's carcass to delicately nudge the ship free from its rocky seabed perch just outside Giglio Island's harbor.

The goal is to raise it from its side by 65 degrees to vertical, as a ship would normally be, for eventual towing.
 
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« Reply #554 on: September 16, 2013, 08:36:09 AM »

http://www.channel4.com/news/costa-concordia-italy-salvage-operation-live-video
Watch live: Costa Concordia salvage operation - video
September 16, 2013


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After a three-hour delay, caused by an overnight storm which interrupted final preparations, salvage crews start the all-day operation.

11.30
Engineers succeed in wresting the hull of the shipwrecked Concordia from an Italian reef where it has been embedded since it capsized.
Engineer Sergio Girotto said "we saw the detachment" using undersea cameras.

He said the cameras did not immediately reveal any sign of two bodies that were never recovered from the 32 who died during the disaster.

The head of the civil protection agency said: "Finding the two bodies is our priority but we can only start looking for them once the ship has been stabilised."



Raising the wreck of the Concordia

The ten-hour operation, known as parbuckling, will have to right the ship before it can be removed.

By sliding the 300m-long ship down a ledge on to a platform erected below the ship, the American firm Titan Salvage hopes to set it upright, before attaching flotation aides to the side that will allow it to be lifted to the surface and floated out of the harbour.

Braces will hold together the ship's bow while it is being moved, and fishing nets will catch debris as it rises from beneath the ship.

As a first priority of the salvage operation, the 200,000 tonnes of fuel on the ship were removed, the tank threatened an ecological disaster.

The project has involved the design and manufacture of 30,000 tonnes of steel structures over 14 months.

A bed of cement has to be made for the ship to rest on when the cables are tightened.
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« Reply #555 on: September 16, 2013, 08:39:20 AM »

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/10312073/Costa-Concordia-latest-epic-recovery-attempt-under-way-after-three-hour-delay.html
Costa Concordia latest: epic recovery attempt under way after three hour delay
The epic attempt to raise the Costa Concordia cruise ship has got under way after a three-hour delay caused by bad weather.

September 16, 2013

Giglio, the Italian island where the cruise liner capsized 20 months ago with the loss of 32 lives, was hit by a violent thunderstorm overnight.
Divers who were working underwater on the hull of the ship had to be pulled out of the water, leading to a delay in preparations.
But the salvage effort finally got under way at 9am local time (8am UK). The operation is expected to take up to 12 hours. Engineers have now successfully detatched the capsized shif from the reef - no bodies have been seen.
 
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« Reply #556 on: September 16, 2013, 08:45:51 AM »

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57603046/costa-concordia-freed-from-reef-engineers-say/
Costa Concordia freed from reef, engineers say
September 16, 2013

Last Updated 8:19 a.m. ET

 

Engineers told reporters they'd succeeded in detaching the 952-foot-long vessel from the reef on which it was resting, and the operation was continuing. No bodies had been spotted, they said.

Engineer Sergio Girotto said it began at about 9 a.m., three hours late.

The crippled vessel wouldn't budge for some three hours after the operation to right it began, Girotto told reporters. But after 6,000 tons of force were applied, "we saw the detachment" of the ship from the reef using undersea cameras, Girotto said.

The delay in the operation was due to an early morning storm that pushed back a floating command room center from its position close to the wreckage.

The goal is to raise it from its side by 65 degrees to vertical, as a ship would normally be, for eventual towing.
 
Rolling the ship off the seabed and onto huge underwater platforms was expected to take eight to ten hours.
 
Nick Sloane, the South African senior salvage master of the operation and project leader for contractors Titan Salvage, said the Concordia would suffer an extreme amount of force of compression in the first moments of the maneuver. But he expressed confidence that the huge cruise ship will survive the stress. And it did.
 
As the operation continued, twelve experts were in the control room positioned at the bow of the ship, anxiously staring at their computer screens and listening for every noise the wreck made.

At a rate of three meters per hours, dozens of crank-like pulleys were to start slowly rotating the ship. Steel chains weighing 17,000 tons have been looped under the vessel to help hold it together and pull it upright. Also, tanks, known as sponsons, will be filled with water on the port (exposed) side to help rotate it upward.

A massive grouting mattress has been created on the seabed between the two outcrops of rock to provide greater stability to the ship.

"The objective is to get her to move very slowly and gently," Sloane said.

Once the ship moves upward about 25 degrees, "at that point gravity takes over, and there is no going back.
Once the ship is pulled upright, an in-depth survey will be carried out to establish the extent of the damage on the starboard side.

The re-floating of the Concordia is not expected before the spring of 2014. Then, it will need to be towed to the mainland. But its final port of destination -- where it will be cut up for scrap -- is still to be decided.

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« Reply #557 on: September 16, 2013, 12:37:12 PM »

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/09/16/operation-to-pull-costa-concordia-upright-underway/%20?intcmp=latestnews
Costa Concordia ship's hull pulled off Italian reef
September 16, 2013



 
Images transmitted by robotic diving vehicles indicated that the submerged side of the hull had suffered "great deformation" from all its time on the granite seabed, battered by waves and compressed under the weight of the ship's 115,000 tons, Girotto said.

The initial operation to lift the Concordia from the reef moved the ship just 3 degrees toward vertical, leaving the vessel some 62 degrees shy of being pulled upright. While a seemingly small shift, the movement was significant enough to be visible: A few feet of slime-covered hull that had been underwater became visible above the waterline.

Engineers were waiting for the operation's completion before declaring success: The entire rotation was expected to last as long as 12 hours, with crews prepared to work into the night if need be.

So far, "rotation has gone according to predictions," and no appreciable pollution from inside the ship has spewed out, said Franco Gabrielli, chief of Italy's Civil Protection agency, which is overseeing the operation.
 
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« Reply #558 on: September 16, 2013, 01:21:12 PM »

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/costa-concordia-salvage-underway-after-delay-due-to-lightning-storm/article14332383/
Costa Concordia rotation under way as salvage operation continues
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GIGLIO, Italy — The Globe and Mail
Published Monday, Sep. 16 2013, 3:55 AM EDT
Last updated Monday, Sep. 16 2013, 11:59 AM EDT

  the Costa Concordia is grinding its way to vertical position in a delicate operation that has so far tilted the ship by 10 degrees and has met with no significant technical glitches.

In the late afternoon, local time, the Italian salvage officials said the first phase of the so-called parbuckling effort is half done. It will need to rotate another 10 degree before the start of the next phase, which will see the massive tanks attached to the starboard side of the hull reach sea level and fill with water.
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« Reply #559 on: September 16, 2013, 06:58:23 PM »

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/costa-concordia-salvage-underway-after-delay-due-to-lightning-storm/article14332383/
Costa Concordia salvage operation enters final phase
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GIGLIO, ITALY — The Globe and Mail
Published Monday, Sep. 16 2013, 3:55 AM EDT
Last updated Monday, Sep. 16 2013, 6:45 PM EDT

...the Costa Concordia is grinding its way to vertical position in a delicate operation that has so far tilted the ship by 25 degrees but met with a technical glitch that has slowed the progress..
 
The ship is now past its tipping point, meaning that gravity has taken over, allowing the ship to be lowered onto its subsea platform using the massive buoyancy tanks fitted to its starboard side.
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